Everybody Cooks Rice

by Norah Dooley

Book Overview

"Nifty neighborhood. Nifty book"--The New York Times Book Review In this multicultural picture book, Carrie goes from one neighbor's house to the next looking for her brother, who is late for dinner.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876144121
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Lerner Pub Group
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Great condition and FAST shipping!!

The book was in the condition I had hoped for and was shipped right away!

Its True!

This book shows children that we may all be from different cultures, but in the simplest ways we are very much the same. It is a good first day of school book, or good multicultural education book!

Want Your Kids to Eat Rice?

Read this story to them. Then photocopy the recipe pages. Eating and preparing international rice recipes then become playacting, for this book is all about how, in a multicultural neighborhood, in one delightful evening, all of the households prepare special, spicy and indigenous dishes with this one simple staple. It is a story of our differences. It is a story of our similaries. Moreover, it is a celebration of how rice is the canvas upon which we paint our works of culinary imagination.

Hey, there are recipes!

"Go call your brother to dinner!" So starts an adventure that bridges cultural diversity as the older sister goes from house to house in her neighborhood trying to find her little brother. In each house we meet lovable neighbors, each from different parts of the world, and as the title explains, each family is preparing dinner with - - - RICE! Can you imagine why little brother is not really very hungry when he gets home? My sons and I enjoy the colorful pictures, the contrasts in each home, and have actually used the recipes to prepare meals that we share.

Great for the multi-cultural classroom

Tihs book is a great tool to use in a multi-cultural classroom. The book teaches that although people all look different, they are also the same. When the child is sent through the neighborhood, she discovers that everybody eats rice, just in different ways. So really, everyone is the same. I read it to my class, and they loved it! :-)