I Ate Sunshine for Breakfast


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Let's Eat in the Funny Zone


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This fully illustrated book is jam-packed with over 100 food-themed jokes, tongue twisters, and "Daffynitions". Includes creative writing information and exercises written by literacy consultant Shannon Cannon which encourage readers to write jokes of their own.




Photosynthesis


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Explains photosynthesis, the process responsible for providing the material and energy for all living things, and discusses such related issues as respiration, the carbon cycle, acid rain, and the greenhouse effect.




Know Your Numbers: Food


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Teach kids to count and read at the same time! Know Your Numbers: Food introduces early readers to numbers by paring them with simple sentences about food. Beautiful photos and graphics tie the written, numeral, and visual forms of each number together. For instance, one page has a picture of 12 muffins, a sentence about them, and four different ways to see the number twelve. Help early learners gain reading practice and counting skills while building an interest in numbers. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.




Plant Secrets


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Learn the secrets of plant lifecycles, using four common (but very different) plants. Simple text and colorful illustrations show the major phases of plant growth: seed, plant, flower, and fruit. Back matter offers more information on each plant, as well as on each stage of growth.




Yum! MmMm! Que Rico!


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Chocolate, papaya, corn, and potatoes - these are only a taste of the many delicious foods native to the Americas and celebrated in this delightful collection. Imaginative, evocative poems and exuberant illustrations introduce 14 different indigenous foods, along with a descriptive paragraph of information for each.




Fun and Fruit


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Winner at the 2015 International Latino Book Awards. Charlotte and Claire, two sisters who will discover the wonders of eating fruit by playing and laughing, while talking about family, friendship, peace or diversity. In a little town in the south of Spain, next to the sea, lived two little girls named Charlotte and Claire. It was a lovely place, surrounded by magical trees which grew wonderful fruits with thousands of different colors and aromas. The two sisters decided to play a game: every day of the week they would choose a color, think of a fruit in the same color, make up a short story about it, and then eat it for their afternoon snack. The first years of a child’s life are essential when it comes to developing healthy eating habits. As we all know, fruit is an essential part of their diet, but can it be fun too? Fun and Fruit is a truly delicious tale, full of bright colors to help parents and educators show children how to enjoy a type of food that’s full of energy and poetry.




I Eat a Rainbow


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Describes how people eat foods that are all of the colors of the rainbow, including red cherries, yellow bananas, and blue blueberries.




I See Seeds


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I See Seeds introduces emergent readers to the life cycle of a seed while providing them with a supportive first nonfiction reading experience. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, making sure they arent facing too many challenges at once.




Healthy Eating Choices


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Introduces the MyPlate guidelines and discusses how to read food labels.