Yum! ¡Mmmm! ¡Qué Rico! Americas' Sproutings

by Pat Mora

Book Overview

A collection of haiku focusing on fourteen foods native to the Americas, celebrating the fun of the foods as well as their origins.

Smear nutty butter,
then jelly. Gooey party,
my sandwich and me.

Peanuts, blueberries, corn, potatoes, tomatoes, and more -- here is a luscious collection of haiku celebrating foods native to the Americas. Brimming with imagination and fun, these poems capture the tasty essence of foods...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1600608922
• ISBN13: 9781600608926
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Lee & Low Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 6 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 4

Customer Reviews

Rutgers University Project on Economics and Children

Already beginning in Kindergarten, content standards across the nation include economics, and the topic of natural resources is usually one of the first that students learn. What better way to introduce children to natural resources than this delightful book, with its interesting discussions, vivid illustrations, multicultural characters, and illuminating facts. The reader learns how chocolate is made, how to harvest pecans, the importance of potatoes as an international food source, the reason why tomatoes are considered a vegetable, where papayas come from, and why the United States is the world's largest consumer of vanilla. While older children may be more drawn to the fact-filled backgrounds of these food items, readers of all ages will appreciate the accompanying haiku poetry. At first glance this book appears to be about food, but lurking within are valuable economics lessons about natural resources, consumers, producers, and international trade.