Book List: Hey Onion, You’re Making Me Cry!
by Melissa Iwai (0-7)
On a sunny, summer day, a young boy and his father assemble the ingredients for a homemade pizza. From gathering fresh garden herbs to rolling out the dough for a crust to spreading on sauce and cheese, this picture book leads young chefs step-by-step through the process of making a favorite meal. A pizza recipe completes Melissa Iwai’s appealing preschool offering, Pizza Day.
10 Hungry Rabbits: Counting & Color Concepts (Board Book) by Anita Lobel (0-4)
One by one, 10 very hungry rabbits find 10 very yummy vegetables for Mama Rabbit’s soup pot. Caldecott Honor Book artist Anita Lobel combines learning to count with color concepts in this mouth-watering celebration of good things to eat.
Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and Eric-Shabazz Larkin (4-10)
Will Allen is no ordinary farmer. A former basketball star, he’s as tall as his truck, and he can hold a cabbage, or a basketball, in one hand. But what is most special about Farmer Will is that he can see what others can’t see.
Stef Soto, Taco Queen by Jennifer Torres (10+)
Estefania “Stef” Soto is itching to shake off the onion-and-cilantro embrace of Tia Perla, her family’s taco truck. She wants nothing more than for her dad to get a normal job and for Tia Perla to be put out to pasture. It’s no fun being known as the