Our Food Grows

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Pub Date 1 Apr 2025 | Archive Date 31 Mar 2025

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Description

When you’re a kid, it’s hard to know where food comes from—it usually just shows up! In this tasty, educational seed-to-table journey, kids will explore how favorite foods like strawberries, tomatoes, asparagus, and corn grow.

With vibrant illustrations and simple explanations, Our Food Grows shows how fruits, vegetables, and grains make their way from the farm to our plates. Perfect for curious kids and budding gardeners, this engaging introduction to where our food comes from reveals the magic of growing your own garden.

Whether you're teaching children about healthy eating or inspiring them to get their hands dirty in the garden, this book is a delightful way to spark their interest in the natural world and the food they eat.

• An Early Food Education—Simple, easy-to-understand explanations of how food grows and gets to the table.

• Connect with the Environment—Bright, collage-based illustrations help children understand and respect the natural world around them.

• Develop Healthy Eating for Life—Create positive attitudes towards food at an early age to establish lifelong healthy eating habits.

Help kids explore the roots of their favorite foods with this gentle, beautifully illustrated book about how food grows and the pleasures of healthy eating.
When you’re a kid, it’s hard to know where food comes from—it usually just shows up! In this tasty, educational seed-to-table journey, kids will explore how favorite foods like strawberries...

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ISBN 9781685557775
PRICE US$16.95 (USD)
PAGES 32

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I thought that this book was great!

I really liked the idea behind this book and it gives over some great information to young children. It is a fun read and I can definitely see this being a book that should be in each Primary School. It has a wide variety of food for the limited number of pages (it is a kids book after all) I was pleased to see less commonly eaten food also covered.

The book was well laid out, had some brilliant images and it was nice, bright and attractive - perfect for the age range. It is 5 stars from me for this one - an excellent book - very highly recommended!

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The illustrations in this one were delicious! Quirky, fun, playful, great contrast for the little ones. And it's a book that will spark a lot of conversations around where our foods come from. Really really nice. I wanted a few more veggies and fruit, but alas, it's a starter.

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Our Food Grows is a picture book to showcase the various places our food comes from and how it ends up on the shelves of the grocery store. Pages include little text and various illustrations to demonstrate the page content.

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This is such a great book!! I love gardening and my kids love to help me plant our seeds and harvest, so I especially enjoyed this. It is beautifully and vibrantly illustrated, with concise information to keep little one's attention. Children can learn about how strawberries, tomatoes, corn, and more starts as a seed and grows! I think it would be best suited for 3 and under, but my 7- and 5-year-olds enjoyed looking at it with their 3-year-old brother!

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Our Food Grows by Sarah M. White is a short but effective picture book to get children interested in where food comes from. It teaches its readers about a variety of fruits and vegetables, and how they grow. The illustrations are, in my opinion, adorable, and this book is perfect to read to young children and engage in discussions with them.

I recommend it to anyone who works with children or has children of their own.

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It's a cute little book about how some of our favorite fruits and vegetables grow. Great for preschool-age children. The writing is simple and easy for little ones to follow. The words and pictures work together to show children how their foods grow. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. I believe this would be a good book for young children. The story doesn’t get into the science of growing, it just talks about where the foods grow. Opening the door for their curious minds to think, ask questions, and talk about where their favorite foods come from. I also enjoyed seeing some fruits and vegetables I rarely see in books. The illustrations remind me a lot of the toy food children play with at daycare. The images aren’t real photos, but they are still fun and easy to identify. I would buy this to read with my baby.

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Easy to absorb for young readers with vibrant illustrations that are uncomplicated. A book they can recite from easily.

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Our Food Grows does an effective job teaching kids the basics of where their food comes from in a very straightforward, easy to understand way. Specific foods are highlighted for their unique features and the ones chosen are widely accessible so the teaching goal will for sure be achieved. Its approach will have kids verbally responding as they recognize their favorites on the pages. The illustrations are vibrant and eye catching for children (as well as adults!).

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