Healthy Eating Books
Books are a great way to promote healthy eating and introduce children to foods and ideas about eating. If you have a particular food for the day or week you can incorporate reading the book and serving the food.
Here is an example of books to choose from:
- Maisy Goes Shopping by Lucy Cousins
- Market Day by Lois Ehlert
- From the Garden – A Counting Book About Growing Food by Michael Dahl
- The Little Gardener by Jan Gerardi
- Vegetables, Vegetables! By Fay Robinson
- Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert
- Growing Colors by Bruce McMillan
- Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert
- I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child
- One Cool Watermelon by Hannah Tofts
- Apples, Apples, Apples by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace
- How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman
- Little Apple by Brigitte Weninger and Anne Moller
- Delicious: A Pumpkin Soup Story by Helen Cooper
- The Pumpkin Book by Gail Gibbons
- Lunch by Denise Fleming
- Oliver’s Vegetables by Vivian French and Alison Barlett
- Oliver’s Fruit Salad by Vivian French and Alison Barlett
- Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens
- Ugly Vegetables by Grace Lin
- D.W. The Picky Eater by Marc Talon Brown
- Good Morning, Let’s Eat! By Karin Badt
- Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Suess
- Gregory, The Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat
- Rabbit Food by Susanna Gretz
- Stone Soup by Jon Muth
- The Berenstein Bear Family and Too Much Junk Food by Stan and Jan Berenstein