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Michigan Team Nutrition Booklist - State of Michigan

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Title TN Message Rating F/N<br />

Peanut Butter and Jelly<br />

Westcott, Nadine Bernard 1 3 F<br />

Trumpet Club, 1987<br />

How do you make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? This variation on a popular play rhyme engages children in<br />

clapping and hand motions while chanting verses that describe making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Whimsical<br />

illustrations help make this book a favorite <strong>of</strong> young children. Beginning readers will enjoy reading independently and<br />

children can create more verses to this rhyme.<br />

Peanut Butter Party<br />

Charlip, Remy 1 2 N<br />

Tricycle Press, 1999<br />

This delightful book is full <strong>of</strong> creative, practical ideas for peanut butter including parties, games, jokes, riddles, plays,<br />

decorations, and songs. Simple recipes, such as peanut butter play dough, and directions for activities that can be done<br />

with minimal adult supervision are included. Pages contain clever quotes from kids about peanut butter and could serve<br />

as a springboard for activities and creative writing.<br />

Peanut Butter, Apple Butter, Cinnamon Toast:<br />

Food Riddles for You to Guess<br />

Palacios, Argentina 1 2 F<br />

Steck-Vaughn Company, 1992<br />

From the Ready, Set, Read series, this picture book presents food riddles with easy text and appealing illustrations.<br />

Children will enjoy guessing the riddles. This book can be used as a read-aloud or as independent reading for beginning<br />

readers. It can also serve as a model for children to write their own food riddles.<br />

Pick, Pull, Snap!<br />

Schaefer, Lola M. 2 2 N<br />

Greenwillow Books, 2003<br />

Lyrical language and gigantic, pastel paintings on foldout pages describe how plants flower, create seeds and bear fruit.<br />

The last two pages provide additional information on how pears, raspberries, corn, peaches, peanuts and pumpkins<br />

grow from flower to fruit.<br />

Picking Apples & Pumpkins<br />

Hutchings, Amy and Richard 2 2 F<br />

Scholastic Inc., 1994<br />

Kristy and her friends and family go to an orchard to pick apples and choose pumpkins. This book uses photos <strong>of</strong> an<br />

actual family to convey the fun and warmth involved in doing things together as a family. They also learn about the<br />

delicious things that can be made from apples. When they return home, they help Grandma make an apple pie and help<br />

Dad carve their pumpkins.<br />

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