Notes, Menus, & Lists

Notes & Lists

• • I Wrote You a Note. Liz Boyd, Chronicle Books, 2017

  • Nate the Great and the Musical Note. Majorie Weinman Sharmut & Craig Sharmut. Illustrated by Marc Simont. Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2013. Detective Nate and his dog Sludge must solve the mystery of strange musical note.

  • Underneath My Bed: List Poems. Brian Cleary. illustrated by Richard Watson. Millbrook Press, 2016

  • Create a Noticing Wall for Your Kid - A Noticing Wall is a place for family members to write notes and post communications to each other

  • Wallace's Lists. Barbara Bottner & Gerald Kruglik. Illustrated by Olaf Landstrom. Katherine Tegen Books, 2004. Wallace the Mouse creates lists and makes a new friend which leads to amazing adventures.

Menus and Food

Books and Resources about Menus and Food

• • Samson: The Piranha Who Went to Dinner. Tag Bentley. Balzer-Bray, 2017

  • Dragons Love Tacos. Adam Rubin. Illustrated by Daniel Salmieri. Dial Books, 2012

  • Hot Dog! Eleanor Roosevelt Throws a Picnic. Leslie Kimmelman. Illustrated by Victor Juhasz. Sleeping Bear Press, 2014. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt meets King George VI and Queen Elizabeth during their 1939 visit to the United States.

  • Julia, Child. Kyo Maclear. Illustrated by Julie Morstad. Tundra Books, 2014. Julia and her friend Simca create a cookbook together

  • Bellyache: A Delicious Tale. Crystal Marcos. Cat Marcus Publishing, 2011

Summer Eats! National Writing Project

• • • Ideas for eating, writing, and creating by families during the COVID-19 pandemic

World Hunger and the Global Seed Bank

• • World Hunger and Poverty

  • Svalbard Global Seed Bank and the Doomsday Vault

Native American Food Contributions to the World

Potatoes, beans, corn, peanuts, pumpkins, tomatoes, squash, peppers, nuts, melons, and sunflower seeds are among the foods contributed to the world by the peoples who lived in the Americas.

• • The Sioux Chef Reviving Native American Cuisine. The Atlantic (November 1, 2016)

  • Native American Farming: The Three Sisters . . .and That Fourth Sister No One Really Talks About

  • The Boy Who Flew with Eagles. Ben Woodard. Illustrated by Laura Leikona. Miller-Martin, 2011

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