Farm to ECE Book List .
Farm to ECE Book List Here is a collection of books to support or inspire your Farm to Early Care and Education (ECE) classroom activities or recommend to families. Each title has tags that point out topics or themes in the books. You can search the document for any of the tags: fruits, vegetables, gardening, farming, growing food, and others. Tags, placed beneath the author
name, also point out books in languages other than English. Books about many cultures, races, and ethnicities are on the list. You can use them to show children their own culture, or introduce them to a new one.
Aani and the Tree Huggers
Alicia’s Fruity Drinks / Las Aguas Frescas de Alicia All Around Us Amelia’s Road Apple Farmer Annie
Jeannine Atkins Lupe Ruiz Flores Xelena Gonzalez Linda Jacob Altman Monica Wellington
English/Spanish, Healthy Eating
Farming Fruits, Farming, Growing Food
The Apple Tree Apple vs. Asparagus
Apples, Cherries, Red Raspberries: What is in the
Fruits Group? Arturo and the
Bienvenido Feast At the Farmers Market /
En El Mercado Sandy Tharp-Thee Tracy Wainwright Brian P. Cleary Anne Broyles Anna W. Bardaus
Fruits, English/Cherokee, Growing Food Vegetables, Fruits Fruits English/Spanish English/Spanish, Fruits,
Vegetables
Auntie Yang’s Great Soybean Picnic
Babies Can’t Eat Kimchee! A Bad Case of Stripes El Barrio
Bear and Bunny Grow Tomatoes
Beth Lo & Ginnie Lo Nancy Patz David Shannon Debbie Chocolate Bruce Koscielniak
Growing Food Healthy Eating English/Spanish Vegetables, Gardening
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Bee-bim Bop! Before We Eat:
From Farm to Table The Berenstain Bears and
Too Much Junk Food Bibim Bap for Dinner / Bibim Bap para cenar The Blackberry Patch
Linda Sue Park Mary Azarian and Pat Brisson
Stan Berenstain and Jan Berenstain Laura E. Williams Gina D'Andrea
Growing Food Healthy Eating English/Spanish Fruits, Growing Food
Block Party Blueberries for Sal Bring Me Some Apples and I’ll Make You a Pie Cabbages and Kings
Call Me Tree / Llámame Árbol
Gwendolyn Hooks Robert McCloskey Robbin Gourley Elizabeth Seabrook Maya Christina
Gonzalez Healthy Eating Fruits, Growing Food Fruits, Growing Food Vegetables, Farming English/Spanish
Can You Eat a Rainbow? / Puedes comer el arco iris?
The Carrot Seed Board Book
The Cazuela that the Farm Maiden Stirred Celebrate My Hopi Corn Chicks and Salsa
Anastasia Suen Ruth Krauss Samantha R. Vamos Anita Poleahla Aaron Reynolds English/Spanish, Healthy Eating Vegetables, Growing Food English/Spanish, Farming English/Hopi
Vegetables, Growing Food Farming
City Green Come and Eat! Cooking With You /
Cocino contigo Cora Cooks Pancit Counting Pumpkins DyAnne
DiSalvo-Ryan George Ancona Ellen Whisenant Dorina Lazo Gilmore Ellen B. Senisi
Gardening, Plant Growth English/Spanish Vegetables
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Cucumber Soup The Curious Garden The Dandelion Seed A Day Without Sugar /
Un día sin azúcar Dim Sum for Everyone Vickie Leigh Krudwig Peter Brown Joseph P. Anthony
and Cris Arbo Diane de Anda Grace Lin
Vegetables, Gardening Gardening Plant Growth English/Spanish, Healthy Eating
Du Iz Tak? D.W. the Picky Eater Eat a Rainbow: Healthy Foods Eating the Alphabet Everybody Bakes Bread
Carson Ellis Marc Brown Susan Temple Kesselring
Lois Ehlert Norah Dooley
Gardening Healthy Eating Healthy Eating Fruits
Everybody Cooks Rice Family Picnic /
Picnic en familia Family Pictures /
Cuadros de familia A Farmer’s Life for Me Fishing Fun /
Pescar es divertido Norah Dooley Gaylia Taylor Carmen Lomas Garza Jan Dobbins Francis McCall and
Paul Richardson English/Spanish English/Spanish Farming English/Spanish
Flip, Float, Fly: Seeds on the Move
Fresh-Picked Poetry: A Day at the Farmers’ Market From Seed to Plant
A Fruit is a Suitcase for Seeds
Fruits: A Caribbean Counting Poem
JoAnne Early Macken Michelle Schaub Allan Fowler Jean Richards Valerie Bloom
Plant Growth Growing Food Plant Growth Fruits, Growing Food Fruits
Go NAPSACC: Tips and Materials. Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2015. Available at www.gonapsacc.org.
© 2017 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Full, Full, Full of Love Fussy Freya Ghosts for Breakfast The Giant Cabbage: An Alaska Folktale
Go Go Gumbo / Rico, rico estofado!
Trish Cooke Katharine Quarmby Stanley Todd Terasaki Cherie Stihler Adjoa J. Burrowes
Healthy Eating Vegetables, Growing Food English/Spanish
The Goat Goes to Town / Una cabra en la ciudad
The Good Garden / Na Roça Aqui Plantando Tudo Dá!
Grandma Lena’s Big Ol’ Turnip Grandpa’s Girls
Green Beans, Potatoes, and Even Tomatoes
Phillis Gershator Katie Smith Milway Denia Lewis Hester Nicola I. Campbell Brian P. Cleary
English/Spanish Gardening, English/Spanish Vegetables, Growing Food Farming Vegetables, Healthy Eating
Green Green: A Community Gardening Story
Green is a Chile Pepper: A Book of Colors Growing Vegetable Soup
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez The Have a Good Day Cafe
Marie Lamba and Baldev Lamba
Roseanne Greenfield Thong Louis Elhert Kathleen Krull
Frances Park and Ginger Park
Gardening Vegetables Vegetables, Growing Food Farming
Hello Flower / ¡Hola, flor! Hot, Hot Roti for Dada-ji How a Seed Grows
How Did That Get in my Lunchbox?: The Story
of Food How Many Seeds in a
Pumpkin? Uma Krishnaswami F Zia Helene J. Jordan Chris Butterworth Margaret McNamara
Gardening, Plant Growth Gardening, Plant Growth Fruits, Growing Food Vegetables
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© 2017 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hungry Johnny I Do Not Eat the Colour
Green! I Heard it from Alice Zucchini
I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato
Ice Cream Money / Dinero para comprar un helado
Cheryl Kay Minnema Lynne Rickards Juanita Havill Lauren Child Anastasia Suen Vegetables Gardening Vegetables, Healthy Eating English/Spanish
Icy Watermelon / Sandia Fria If You Plant a Seed
In My Family / En mi familia In My Garden In the Garden
Mary Sue Galindo Kadir Nelson Carmen Lomas Garza Elena Castro, Barbara M. Flores, and Eddie
Hernández Elizabeth Spurr
Fruits, English/Spanish Growing Food, Plant Growth English/Spanish Gardening Gardening, Plant Growth
In the Garden with Dr. Carver Insects Are My Life Jack's Garden Jonathan and His Mommy The Journey
Susan Grigsby Megan McDonald Henry Cole Irene Smalls Francesca Sanna
Gardening, Plant Growth Gardening Gardening
Juicy Peach / Duranzo Jugoso Kitchen Dance
Lailah’s Lunchbox: A Ramadan Story Lenny Has Lunch Lenny in the Garden
Mary Dixon Lake Maurie J. Manning Reem Faruqi Ken Wilson-Max Ken Wilson-Max
Fruits, Growing Food Gardening, Plant Growth
Go NAPSACC: Tips and Materials. Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2015. Available at www.gonapsacc.org.
© 2017 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Let’s Eat! / A comer!
The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the
Big Hungry Bear Little Seeds
(My Little Planet) The Little Squash Seed Little Yellow Pear
Tomatoes Pat Mora Don Wood Charles Ghigna Gayla Seale Demian Elaine Yumei
English/Spanish Fruits Gardening, Plant Growth Vegetables, Growing Food Vegetables
Lola Plants a Garden
Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees
of Kenya
The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to
Feed Families Mariama: Different But
Just the Same Mealtime (Toddler Tools) Anna McQuinn Donna Jo Napoli Susan L. Roth and
Cindy Trumbore Jerónimo Cornelles Elizabeth Verdick
Gardening, Plant Growth Plant Growth Growing Food Healthy Eating
Meat Pies / Empanadas de carne Mooncakes Mystery Vine No Kimchi For Me! No Mush Today
Celenia Chévere and Patricia M. Herbert Loretta Seto Cathryn Falwell Aram Kim Sally Derby
English/Spanish Growing Food Healthy Eating
Oliver’s Fruit Salad Oliver’s Vegetables On Our Farm /
En nuestra granja On the Farm, at the
Market One Bean Vivian French Vivian French Laura E. Williams G. Brian Karas Anne Rockwell
Fruits, Healthy Eating Vegetables, Healthy Eating, Growing Food English/Spanishl, Farming Farming, Growing Food Growing Food
Go NAPSACC: Tips and Materials. Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2015. Available at www.gonapsacc.org.
© 2017 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
One Watermelon Seed Orange Pear Apple Bear Our Community Garden Over in the Garden Pancho Rabbit and
the Coyote Celia Lottridge Emily Gravett Barbara Pollak Jennifer Ward Duncan Tonatiuh
Fruits, Growing Food Fruits Gardening, Growing Food Gardening Growing Food
Plant a Little Seed Plant the Tiny Seed Planting a Rainbow Planting Seeds Plants Feed Me Bonnie Christensen Christie Matheson Lois Elhert Nancy Elizabeth
Wallace Lizzy Rockwell
Gardening, Growing Food Gardening, Plant Growth Gardening, Plant Growth Growing Food Growing Food
Poesía eres tú: Antología poética Potato Joe
The Princess and the Peas
Rah, Rah, Radishes!: A Vegetable Chant Rainbow Stew
F. Isabel Campoy Keith Baker Caryl Hart April Pulley Sayre Cathryn Falwell
Spanish Vegetables Vegetables, Healthy Eating Vegetables Growing Food
Rice Pudding / Arroz con leche Rosario’s Fig Tree Rose’s Garden
Round is a Tortilla: A Book of Shapes Round the Garden
Jorge Argueta Charis Wahl Peter H. Reynolds Roseanne Thong Omri Glaser
English/Spanish Fruits, Growing Food Gardening Gardening, Growing Food
Go NAPSACC: Tips and Materials. Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2015. Available at www.gonapsacc.org.
© 2017 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Sandwich Swap Scarlette Beane A Season for Mangoes Seed Magic The Seed Song Queen Rania of
Jordan Al Abdullah Karen Wallace Regina Hanson Jane Buchanan Judy Saksie
Growing Food Fruits Gardening, Plant Growth Gardening, Growing Food, Plant Growth
Seeds Go, Seeds Grow Seeds of Change:
Planting a Path to Peace Seeds! Seeds! Seeds! Sip, Slurp, Soup, Soup /
Caldo, Caldo, Caldo Sopa de frijoles /
Bean Soup Mark Weakland Jen Johnson Nancy Elizabeth
Wallace Diane Gonzales
Bertrand Jorge Argueta
Plant Growth Plant Growth Gardening, Plant Growth English/Spanish English/Spanish
Sunflowers / Girasoles Sweet Potato Pie The Tangerine Tree Ten Apples Up On Top! Ten Seeds Gwendolyn Zepeda Kathleen D. Lindsey Regina Hanson Dr. Seuss Ruth Brown
Gardening, Plant Growth Vegetables Fruits, Plant Growth Fruits Plant Growth
That’s Not Fair! Emma Tenayuca’s Struggle For Justice / ¡No Es Justo! La Lucha De Emma Tenayuca
Por La Justicia This Year's Garden Time for Tacos / Vamos a
Hacer Tacos The Tiny Seed To Be Like the Sun Carmen Tafolla and
Sharyll Teneyuca Cynthia Rylant Carla Golembe Eric Carle Susan Marie
Swanson English/Spanish Gardening, Growing Food English/Spanish Gardening, Plant Growth Plant Growth
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© 2017 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Todo es canción: Antología poética Tokyo Digs a Garden
Tomas and the Library Lady Too Many Tamales Tops & Bottoms
Alma Flor Ada Jon-Erik Lappano & Kellen Hatanaka
Pat Mora & Raul Colon Gary Soto Janet Stevens
Spanish Gardening, Plant Growth Farming Growing Food
Two Old Potatoes and Me The Ugly Vegetables Up, Down, and Around The Vegetable Alphabet Book Vera’s Baby Sister
John Coy Grace Lin Katherine Ayres Jerry Pallotta Vera Rosenberry
Vegetables Vegetables Gardening, Growing Food Vegetables, Growing Food Vegetables
The Very Hungry Caterpillar The Wakame Gatherers Water, Weed, and Wait We Eat Food That’s Fresh
We Eat Rice / Comemos Arroz
Eric Carle Holly Thompson Edith Hope Fine and
Angela Halpin Angela Russ-Ayon Min Hong
Fruits Gardening, Growing Food Vegetables English/Spanish
What’s in the Garden? Wiggling Worms at Work Winnie Finn, Worm
Farmer Yum, Apples! / ¡Deliciosas
manzanas! Yum! ¡Mmmm! ¡Qué Rico!
Americas' Sproutings Marianne Berkes Wendy Pfeffer Carol Brendler Tina Athaide Pat Mora
Gardening, Growing Food Gardening Gardening English/Spanish, Fruits English/Spanish
Adapted from: “Multicultural Collection of Farm to ECE Books” by PA Ready, Set, Grow, http://www.pareadysetgrow.org/book-list/ Farm to Preschool Toolkit, by Growing Minds Farm to Childcare Curriculum Package, by Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy