Children’s Books for Growing Your Own Gardeners and Cooks
This is a list of children’s books that are about gardening, growing your own, cooking, meal preparation and healthy food choices to get your family flowing food from garden to table in no time.
Related Websites about Projects, Organizations and Community Groups
Growing Chefs! Chefs for Children’s Urban Agriculture – a non-profit society that works with the chef community to get kids excited about good, healthy food. They work with children grade 1-6 to grow & cook. Great for parents, teachers and school systems. www.growingchefs.ca
Gardening & Indoor/Outdoor Projects
Roots, Shoots, Bucket & Boots by Sharon Lovejoy – I love this book and refer to it often! Makes a great gift for new parents.
Sunflower Houses: Inspiration from the Garden – A Book for Children and their Grown-Ups by Sharon Lovejoy
Compost Stew: An A to Z Recipe for the Earth by Mary McKenna Siddals
The Garden Classroom: Hands-on Activities in Math, Science, Literacy and Art by Cathy James
The Book of Gardening Projects for Kids: 101 Ways to Get Kids Outside, Dirty & Having Fun by Whitney Cohen & John Fisher
The Best-Ever Step-by-Step Kid’s First Gardening: Fantastic Gardening Ideas for 5 to 12 year olds by Jenny Hendy
Kids’ Container Gardening: Year Round Projects for Inside & Out by Cindy Krezel
Project Garden: A Month-by-Month Guide to Planting, Growing, and Enjoying All Your Backyard has to Offer by Stacy Tornio
A Kid’s Herb Book: For Children of All Ages by Lesley Tierra
Story Books
My Dinosaur Ate My Broccoli by Stacey Murphy
Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman
Too Many Pumpkins by Linda White
Apples and Pumpkins by Anne Rockwell and Lizzy Rockwell
Biggest Pumpkin Ever by Steven Kroll
Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper
How Many Seeds in A Pumpkin by Margaret McNamara
I Hear a Pickle (and Smell, See, Touch, and Taste It, Too!) by Rachel Isadora
From the Garden: A Counting Book About Growing Food by Michael Dahl
Candy Kid and His Adventures (Start Eating Healthy Food) by Danny Calderon
Yummy Yucky by Leslie Patricelli
More Blueberries! by Susan Musgrave
