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Must-Read Books to Get Kids Excited About Eating Healthier Foods

Supplement your health curriculum with these books on nutrition and healthy eating.

Must-Read Books to Get Kids Excited About Eating Healthier Foods

March is National Nutrition Month, but you can engage your students year-round in lessons on healthy eating with fun and informative books. These fiction and nonfiction titles promote balanced diets, healthy foods, and present interesting facts about nutrition, food cultivation, organic foods, urban farming, and more.

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Bilingual. The farmers market is fascinating all throughout the year! Discover which fruits and vegetables you can find in winter, spring, summer, and fall.

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Munch, Crunch, Snacks and Lunch

Grades Pre-K
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Preparing a healthy lunch has never been so much fun in this riddle-based book aimed to engage kids in this all important meal.

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Bilingual. While on the hunt for the perfect vegetable, the protagonist of this tale runs into his friends who suggest different delicious and healthy foods.

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This bilingual picture book features colorful photographs of engaging "food faces" made from fruits, vegetables, grains, dairy, and soy products.

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Eating the Alphabet

Grades Pre-K - 1
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From apricots and avocados to yams and zucchini, all kinds of delicious and healthy foods are introduced to children.

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How Does Your Salad Grow?

Grades Pre-K - 1
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Young readers will enjoy this entertaining and informative look at salad.

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Soup Day

Grades Pre-K - 1
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This book celebrates the importance of making a nutritious meal and sharing in the process.

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Bread Bread Bread

Grades Pre-K - 1
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Lively prose and compelling photographs reveal the myriad of meanings, traditions, and uses for bread around the world in this sensitive and original book.

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Full-color photographs and text follow the life cycle of a pumpkin, from germination to flower to fully developed squash.

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Eat Your Colors

Grades K
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This wonderful book of colors features a wide variety of healthy and delicious fruits and vegetables to demonstrate each rich color.

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Fruit Salad

Grades K - 1
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Perfect early reader which teaches healthy eating. Shows children how to make their own fruit salad.

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Fruit Market

Grades K - 1
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This introduction to fruit in a market features leveled text and color photographs.

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Good Enough to Eat

Grades 1
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This book offers all of the basics found in an adult nutrition guide in a format designed specifically for kids.

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My First Reader: Good Food

Grades 1 - 2
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A boy grocery shops for nutritious food with his father, and together they cook dinner for the family.

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Amazing Wheat

Grades 1 - 2
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Readers will find out how wheat is turned into bread.

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Fruit Trees

Grades 1 - 2
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A variety of fruit-bearing trees are mentioned, along with the yummy fruits they produce.

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This fun and informative procedural text shows how to make healthy snacks with fruits and vegetables.

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The Ugly Vegetables

Grades 1 - 3
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It's easy to appreciate a garden exploding with colorful flowers and fragrances, but what do you do with a patch of ugly vegetables?

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Farmers

Grades 1 - 3
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Color photographs of diverse people growing different foods with different machines are paired with level-appropriate text.

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It's Our Garden

Grades 1 - 3
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Photographs and text show how students, volunteers, teachers, and community members join together to create a flourishing school-and-community garden.

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The Life and Times of the Peanut

Grades 2
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This fascinating picture book offers a spirited introduction to the life cycle, many uses, and historical influences of the peanut.

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A Cool Drink of Water

Grades 2 - 4
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Barbara Kerley teams with the National Geographic Society to create a bright, colorful look at how people around the world collect, chill, and drink water.

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Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table

Grades 2 - 5
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The story of former basketball star and current urban farmer and activist, Will Allen, whose vision of gardening from abandoned urban sites led to a grassroots feeding craze.

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Food for Thought

Grades 3 - 7
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Where were apples first grown? Why do some people think mushrooms are magical? This book reveals the unusual stories behind ordinary fruits and vegetables.

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This young readers' adaptation of Pollan's famous food-chain exploration encourages kids to consider the personal and global health implications of their food choices.

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