Food Rules! The Stuff You Munch, Its Crunch, Its Punch, and Why You Sometimes Lose Your Lunch [Paperback]

Bill Haduch (Author), Rick Stromoski (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up

Did you know that the world's favorite snack is popcorn? That what you eat every year could fill about 170 grocery bags? That fewer than half of the world's people use a knife, fork, and spoon? Welcome to the world of "Food Rules!" Cool enough for kids to savor, scientific enough to be an invaluable resource, this is the most comprehensive book on food and nutrition ever created for kids. It's full of mouthwatering stories, jokes, recipes, rumors, and facts, and a supermarket of zany illustrations. Definitely food for thought.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Now You're Cooking with GasTwo new books about food, one devoted to the eating and digestion of food and the other to its preparation, give kids new and colorful ways to think about nutrition. Food Rules! by Bill Haduch, illus. by Rick Stromoski, appeals to the third grader in everyone, with food jokes hidden in the margins and vocabulary such as "gloppy" and "shoveling" as a synonym for eating. Behind this conversational style lies a wealth of information. Concluding with an index and glossary, this book breaks down complicated ideas, such as amino acids and cholesterol, into easy-to-digest pieces.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal

Gr 3-8-Yet another entry in the new and growing discipline of "grossology" that some kids are sure to eat up. Some of the information is quite useful, such as the tips on how to read a nutrition label. The book also contains lots of nauseous factoids. Haduch and Stromoski paint a vivid picture of food breakdown quite unlike anything found in Paul Showers's What Happens to a Hamburger? (HarperCollins, 1985). Unfortunately, the numerous asides-riddles, jokes, and unsubstantiated facts-appear sideways in minuscule type printed in yellow and black ink. Statements such as "a big can of cooked green beans that was picked last year has more vitamins than a bag of raw green beans picked last week" and "Guinea pigs provide about half of the meat eaten in Peru" beg for documentation. Younger readers may be better served by Lizzy Rockwell's Good Enough to Eat (HarperCollins, 1999); older readers will get more information out of Janice VanCleave's Food and Nutrition for Every Kid (Wiley, 1999).

Marilyn Payne Phillips, University City Public Library, MO

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Puffin (March 19, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0141311479
• ISBN-13: 978-0141311470
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.1 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #254,861 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #45 in Books > Children's Books > Science, Nature & How It Works > Health > Diet & Nutrition

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of a Kind!, March 9, 2001

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Caitlin Kelly, Librarian (New York City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Food Rules: The Stuff You Munch, Its Crunch, Its Punch and Why You Someti: Stuff You Munch, Its Crunch, Its Punch, and Why You Sometimes Lose Your Lunch (Hardcover)

This hilarious and well-researched book is, by far, the best children's book on nutrition I've seen. Haduch's well-crafted prose both instructs and entertains; the book is filled with off-beat facts and wacky humor to keep kids laughing while they learn important health information. Every school and public library should have this book!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Science and nutrition made fun for kids., March 22, 2001

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Elizabeth M Zygmunt (Moscow, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Food Rules: The Stuff You Munch, Its Crunch, Its Punch and Why You Someti: Stuff You Munch, Its Crunch, Its Punch, and Why You Sometimes Lose Your Lunch (Hardcover)

Now maybe kids will eat what's good for them!This book is one of the rare kids' books that addresses kids as people to be talked to and entertained....not to be talked down to or preached at. As a mom who has kids interested in science....and off-the-wall humor...I appreciate a book that combines both. Thanks!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great fun for kids, May 21, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Food Rules: The Stuff You Munch, Its Crunch, Its Punch and Why You Someti: Stuff You Munch, Its Crunch, Its Punch, and Why You Sometimes Lose Your Lunch (Hardcover)

What a marvelous book. It explains the functions of digestion in a fun way. It has a couple of "fart" and "poop" jokes which are entirely appropriate to a book about food and nutrition, and allows a kid to hear a little "naughty" joke, but the clean kind of naughtiness that a kid can laugh at, instead of the "dirty" jokes that they are probably being exposed to.