Book Giveaway: Our School Garden
CONTEST CLOSED. Thank you to everyone.
In honor of our recent Cookus Interruptus endeavor where we made a video about the new guidelines for school lunch, we decided to giveaway (thanks to Philip Lee at Readers to Eaters) this lovely new CHILDREN’S BOOK - Our School Garden.
Here’s the description of the book:
“New city. New school. Michael is feeling all alone—until he discovers the school garden! There’s so many ways to learn, and so much work to do. Taste a leaf? Mmm, nice and tangy hot. Dig for bugs? “Roly-poly!” he yells. But the garden is much more than activities outdoors: making school garden stone soup, writing Found Poems and solving garden riddles, getting involved in community projects such as Harvest Day, food bank donations, and spring plant sales. Each season creates a new way to learn, explore, discover and make friends.
School librarian and gardener Rick Swann, in his picture book debut, describes the wonder of connecting with nature and the joy of growing and eating one’s own harvest. Award-winning artist Christy Hale captures the brilliant color of the season and the harvest. This is the perfect book to read alone, as well as share in the classroom or with the entire family.”
One of the many things I find delightful about this book are the activities that are suggested. This makes the book not just edifying for kids, but useful for parents and teachers. Also groovin’ on the illustrations and the layout - colorful and playful.
Here’s how to win the copy we are giving away:
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3. What is your favorite children’s book that involves food? I remember reading Strega Nona to my daughter hundreds of times. If memory serves (and it doesn’t always) the book was about a pasta pot that kept growing and growing and just about enveloped the village. Is that right? Anyone else remember? Okay. Your turn. What was a memorable book for you? Type your answer as a comment to this post.
4. Contest ends at 5pm on August 27th. Check your email on August 28th. The winners will be chosen by random.org. If you don’t respond to your “winner” email within 48 hours, we will choose a new winner (tough love…).
Tags: book giveaway, children's book, contest, giveaway, Our School Garden, Philip Lee, Readers to Eaters, Rick Swann
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Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs! Our favorite family food book.
Comment by DJ — August 23, 2012 @ 8:43 am
I can’t remember a book about food from when I was a kid, but I loved reading Growing Vegetable Soup to my daughter when she was a toddler.
Comment by Carrie @ Rhubarb Sky — August 23, 2012 @ 9:06 am
My favorite children’s book involving food is “If you give a Moose a Muffin.” The funny part is, I actually remember it better from high school geometry class - this was how our teacher introduced proofs! Thank you Mr. C!
Comment by Jessica — August 23, 2012 @ 1:34 pm
I will not ever never eat a tomato! by Lauren child - we love it
Comment by marilyn — August 23, 2012 @ 2:52 pm
Pigs Love Potatoes! The illustrations are great!
Comment by Tami — August 23, 2012 @ 4:58 pm
Maurice Sendak’s, Chicken Soup With Rice - hands down!
Comment by Kiki — August 23, 2012 @ 5:05 pm
I should add that Chicken Soup With Rice was a book each of my children got to memorize in Kindergarten so it, along with Carole King’s song, and Maurice Sendak’s wonderful illustrations - is also a sentimental favorite.
Comment by Kiki — August 23, 2012 @ 5:08 pm
The Bungling Ballerinas. Whereas it sounds like a book that would not be about food, it truly is. Ballet dancers careers are foiled by delicious carrot cafe and crepes that are lighter then air and feel like bricks in the stomach. So funny. I read it to MY kids now!
Comment by Tal — August 23, 2012 @ 5:11 pm
We had an encyclopedia of literature when we were little and my favorite as a child was the volume of fairy tales from all around the world. I wonder where my dad got it, but it was in Spanish since we lived in Mexico.
Comment by Elisa — August 23, 2012 @ 5:25 pm
Pigs love Potatoes!
Plus many, many more!
Comment by Deven — August 23, 2012 @ 6:03 pm
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Comment by galen — August 23, 2012 @ 6:13 pm
Stone Soup
Comment by Suzanne Bussey — August 23, 2012 @ 6:23 pm
I work as a food and garden consultant in a child care center. We love Stone Soup and Chicken Soup with Rice. We celebrate these books by making soup in the classroom.
Comment by Dr. Susan Rubin — August 23, 2012 @ 6:25 pm
Stone Soup! I’ve read so many variations of this one, and I love it every time. I remember it from my childhood, and now read it with my own children.
Comment by Natanya — August 23, 2012 @ 6:37 pm
green eggs & ham!!
Comment by jess — August 23, 2012 @ 6:40 pm
We received this book as a gift and it is a wonderful document to the specific tastes of each individual child and how they come to terms with it as a large family. Lovely and funny book.
The Seven Silly Eaters, by Mary Ann Hoberman
Comment by Wiebke Light — August 23, 2012 @ 6:56 pm
Blueberries for Sal is one of my favorites
Comment by Jaclyn — August 23, 2012 @ 7:08 pm
I have to agree Strega Nona is a favorite in our big Italian family!
Comment by Jessica Montalino — August 23, 2012 @ 7:13 pm
You all remembered such great ones. Blueberries for Sal, Cloudy w/a Chance of Meatballs, Tomi dePaolo’s The Popcorn book, Three Days On a River in A Red Canoe, but tops is Strega Nona (from which I proudly scooped my “grandma” name: Noni; and I’m not even Italian).
Comment by CA McNeil — August 23, 2012 @ 7:57 pm
From my childhood, definitely Tina and the Magic Pot
Currently our family is reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. My boys laugh out loud!
Comment by Stephanie — August 23, 2012 @ 8:53 pm
I’m a subscriber to your delightful blog via e~mail. Thanks so very much for this fabulous give~away! : )
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Comment by Leah — August 23, 2012 @ 8:58 pm
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Comment by Leah — August 23, 2012 @ 8:59 pm
Our favorite children’s book that involves food is “Jamberry” by Bruce Degan. Truly magical!!! : )
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Comment by Leah — August 23, 2012 @ 9:01 pm
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Comment by kinuko — August 23, 2012 @ 9:05 pm
“Bread and Jam for Frances” by Russell Hoban.
Lovely story about a very picky eater
Comment by Eileen — August 23, 2012 @ 9:29 pm
Our family pick would be “In the Night Kitchen” (Maurice Sendak)…
Comment by Nickie — August 23, 2012 @ 9:30 pm
Mine is Peter in Blueberryland, but Elsa Beskow.
Comment by Elisa — August 23, 2012 @ 9:48 pm
One we read our children a lot around here is Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey. Love the canning illustrations!
Comment by Katie — August 23, 2012 @ 10:01 pm
Oodles of Noodles - a laugh out loud kind of book very simple to read with young ones and easy read for beginners. The book is about a boy who is obsessed with noodles and in the end his liking changes to pickles!
Comment by Shobana — August 23, 2012 @ 10:33 pm
Green Eggs and Ham!
Comment by Genevieve — August 23, 2012 @ 11:10 pm
Bread and Jam for Frances by Hoban
Comment by wendy — August 24, 2012 @ 5:06 am
oh for sure - The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
The video is so wonderful. Well done - Cynthia and team!!
Comment by denise — August 24, 2012 @ 6:08 am
I subscribe and I “liked” on Facebook.
I really liked “Yum Yum Dim Sum”. I can’t remember the author, but it was a book about going to have Dim Sum with the family. “Papa says that Dim Sum means a little bit of heart”.
Thank you for talking about school lunches!
Comment by Shannon V. — August 24, 2012 @ 6:44 am
Stone Soup!
Comment by Ines — August 24, 2012 @ 6:54 am
Green Eggs and Ham.
Comment by Tanya — August 24, 2012 @ 7:41 am
Lots of good ones mentioned here that our family enjoys, too. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Green Eggs and Ham, Growing Vegetable Soup, Blueberries for Sal, Stone Soup, If You Give a Moose a Muffin, If you Give a Mouse a Cookie, If You Give a Pig a Pancake…
Comment by Faith — August 24, 2012 @ 8:17 am
Tommy at the Grocery Store, by Bill Grossman. Tommy’s mom loses him at the grocery. People buy him and return him. “He has ears! He must be corn! No, wait, he has eyes; I didn’t want potatoes!” Long out of print, but we get ours from the library.
Comment by Eileen — August 24, 2012 @ 8:28 am
The Hungry Caterpillar, of course!
Comment by Amy G — August 24, 2012 @ 10:19 am
My favorite to read to my grandchildren was Blueberries for Sal - they always loved it. But, my favorite for me was If You Give A Mouse a Cookie. Both are lovely books.
Comment by Marilyn McClellan — August 24, 2012 @ 10:52 am
I loved the Very Hungry Caterpillar! I have it in Japanese too!
Comment by Kara — August 24, 2012 @ 11:40 am
Green Eggs & Ham!
Comment by Christina — August 24, 2012 @ 12:26 pm
A Fish Out of Water - must have read it over a hundred times to the kids when they were little - reading now to the grandkids! It is about a child that feeds his fish too much and it grows way too big.
Comment by Cindy D. — August 24, 2012 @ 2:21 pm
The Very Hungry Caterpillar was my favorite growing up and is now a favorite of my children!
Comment by Melody — August 24, 2012 @ 5:14 pm
James and the Giant Peach!
Comment by tyler — August 24, 2012 @ 8:33 pm
Stone soup and the Very Hungry Caterpillar are often read in this house:)
Our school has a garden! I’m so happy!
Comment by Elizabeth — August 25, 2012 @ 6:42 am
I love A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon. It’s about a girl who loves Lima Beans, but is afraid to eat them because she’s worried about what the kids at school will think. <3
Comment by Tana Aaron — August 25, 2012 @ 9:41 am
Not exactly about food, but I loved the Laura Ingalls Wilder books growing up, and I always got a kick out of the information about how people ate in those times - the hunting and preserving, the sugaring, herbs - it has fueled a life-long interest in whole foods and subsistence farming.
And, of course, I read The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and Growing Vegetable Soup with my son.
Comment by Laura M — August 25, 2012 @ 10:44 am
The Pokey Little Puppy. He is so cute eating all the dessert at the end!
Comment by Natalie Taylor — August 25, 2012 @ 12:22 pm
I always love reading Eric Carle’s “Today is Monday” - I love yelling out “Monday String Beans” to my kids! (especially in a random fashion when we’re just around the house)
Comment by Edward Szymczak — August 26, 2012 @ 9:50 am
Our favorite right now is the Two Little Gardeners by Margaret Wise Brown, a beautiful story of growing and eating their food.
Comment by Tui — August 26, 2012 @ 10:10 am
in the night kitchen!
Comment by pamela — August 26, 2012 @ 12:53 pm
Popcorn by Frank Asch!
Comment by Elisabeth — August 27, 2012 @ 8:03 am
I enjoy your website very much. Thanks for all you do.
Comment by Jo Simpson — August 27, 2012 @ 10:31 am
My favorite kids book (also liked a lot by my kids) is - Cloudy with a chance of meatballs!
Comment by maya — August 27, 2012 @ 3:15 pm
The great bug enourmous turnip was my favourite food book’
Comment by Helen — August 27, 2012 @ 3:46 pm
My two kids, under 3, like “But not the Hippo”!
Comment by Jonathan — October 3, 2012 @ 4:36 am