How Did That Get In My Lunchbox?: The Story of Food
9 best books like How Did That Get In My Lunchbox?: The Story of Food (Chris Butterworth): Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature, The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos, Attack of the Ninja Frogs, Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya, A Nest Is Noisy: (Nature Books for Kids, Children's Books Ages 3-5, Award Winning Children's Books), Just Grace, Star on Stage, Young Cam Jansen and the Dinosaur Game, The Wildest Race Ever: The Story of the 1904 Olympic Marathon
| Author | Mac Barnett |
| ISBN | 0763662291 |
With perfect pacing, the multi-award-winning, New York Times best-selling team of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen dig down for a deadpan tale full of visual humor.
Sam and Dave are on a mission. A mission to find something spectacular. So they dig a hole. And they keep digging. And they find . . . nothing....
Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature
Gorgeous and eye catching illustrations.
Fascinating scientific information about how spirals are so prevalent in nature. This goes for individual animals (and animal parts and postures), individual plants, ocean waves, clouds, and entire galaxies.
I love how this can be read...
The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos
| Author | Deborah Heiligman |
| ISBN | 1596433078 |
Most people think of mathematicians as solitary, working away in isolation. And, it's true, many of them do. But Paul Erdos never followed the usual path. At the age of four, he could ask you when you were born and then calculate the number of seconds you had been alive in his head. But he didn't learn...
Attack of the Ninja Frogs
| Author | Ursula Vernon |
| ISBN | 0803733658 |
Danny Dragonbreath knew girls were trouble. But the new foreign exchange student, Suki the Salamander, is beyond trouble. Not only has she reduced his best friend, Wendell, to a blithering, lovesick tadpole, but she?s apparently the object of an elaborate ninja frog kidnapping plot. Danny is never...
Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya
| Author | Donna Jo Napoli |
| ISBN | 1416935053 |
“Nelson’s pictures, a jaw-dropping union of African textiles collaged with oil paintings, brilliantly capture the villagers’ clothing and the greening landscape…This is, in a word, stunning.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Nelson’s (We Are the Ship) breathtaking...
| Author | Dianna Hutts Aston |
| ISBN | 1452127131 |
From the award-winning creators of An Egg Is Quiet, A Seed Is Sleepy, A Butterfly Is Patient, and A Rock Is Lively comes this gorgeous and informative look at the fascinating world of nests. From tiny bee hummingbird nests to orangutan nests high in the rainforest canopy, an incredible variety of nests...
| Author | Charise Mericle Harper |
| ISBN | 0547634129 |
In a starred review, Booklist called the Just Grace series “hilarious” and said, “Give this to . . . anyone looking for a funny book.” Grace is a curious and well-meaning third-grader who occasionally gets into a little bit of trouble. This time, her class is putting on a play, and Grace is determined...
| Author | David A. Adler |
| ISBN | 0140377794 |
Adler was born in New York City, New York. He graduated from Queens College in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics and education. For the next nine years, he worked as a mathematics teacher for the New York City Board of Education, while taking classes towards a master's degree in marketing, a degree...
| Author | Meghan Mccarthy |
| ISBN | 1481406396 |
It was 1904 and St. Louis was proud to host the World’s Fair and America’s First Olympics. Hundreds of thousands of people came by car, by train, by boat. Part of the Olympics was a wild, wacky marathon. Forty-two racers registered, thirty-two showed up, and of the three racers vying for the finish...
