Food Groups Fiction

I just finished teaching a Food Group unit to my first graders. It took me over an hour at the library to come up with some fiction books about foods, so I thought I would share them here in case someone else could use the help. Please share any other food books you have!

Grains
Strega Nona by Tomie de Paola
Sun Bread by Elisa Kleven
Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie de Paola
The Little Red Hen

Vegetables
Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert
Pumpkin Pumpkin by Jeanne Titherington
Pumpkin Shivaree by Rick Agran
Carrot Soup by John Segal
Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens
The Enormous Carrot by Vladimir Vasilevich Vagin

Fruits
An Orange in January by Dianna Hutts Aston
Once Upon a Banana by Jennifer Armstrong
Anansi and the Talking Melon by Eric A. Kimmel

Milk
Count Milkula by Woodrow Phoenix
It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw

Meats and Beans
The Runaway Dinner by Allan Ahlberg
Don't Forget the Bacon! by Pat Hutchins

Other
On Top of Spaghetti by Paul Brett Johnson
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
Pickles to Pittsburgh by Judi Barrett
To Dinner, For Dinner by Tololwa M. Mollel
Fox Makes Friends by Adam Relf
Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert
Lunch at the Zoo by Brenda Cartee Lee
Stone Soup
Today is Monday by Eric Carle
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
The Funny Thing by Wanda Gag
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie by Lucille Colandro

I can't believe you don't have this one:
Stone Soup by...a bazillion different authors. It's a classic tale so it's been done a bunch of times.

That's the first that came to my head. There's also
Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie Depaola

Though, this is a wordless book but it makes a great "you write the words" activity

Stone Soup! It's one of my favorites too.

Thanks!

Today Is Wednesday by Eric Carle (the old song -- children eat a different food each day of the week) includes meat, spaghetti, soup and dessert

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
The Funny Thing by Wanda Gag
The Little Red Hen

How did I forget The Very Hungry Caterpillar?!

Thanks aviddiva!

You're very welcome! If you want to include dining etiquette with your food groups, Table Manners by Chris Raschka and Vladimir Radzunsky (sp?) is very funny and well loved at our house.

I also just found There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie by Lucille Colandro, a new version of the old song where the old lady eats a Thanksgiving dinner piece by piece -- it has turkey, bread, cider, salad, and of course, pie.