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Zak's Lunch

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As I read this book aloud to a visiting 4 year old at my house, the adults within hearing distance kept cracking up. I bought this with my niece in mind who loves to eat (and LOVED Piggie Pie!) and I can't wait to read it to her. The rhymes and the pictures of all the food will really set her off!

The book Zak's Lunch is about a kid and his lunch. Zak hears his mom say, "Zak, time for lunch." Zak runs down the stairs and goes into the kitchen. He looks at his lunch and says..., "Yuck ham and cheese sandwich!" His mom does not like his attitude, and then his mom gives him grief. Zak dreams about his own restaurant where he can have his own food any time he wants. His mom wakes Zak up and says, "I want that sandwich gone and when I say gone, I mean gone!"
My favorite part of the story is Zak's dream, though I don't believe it will ever come true. You can find out exactly what Zak dreams if you read this humorous book. I recommend it for people who like funny stories.
- Chris, ten years old.

I picked this up at a yard sale without really looking at it, and ended up finding it just unpleasant (although it kept my two-year-old's attention). The book's attitude toward food is pretty gross. I believe in giving kids a wide variety of healthy food, with treats in moderation, and letting them decide what and how much to eat. This book, with the grouchy mom nagging the kid to eat everything on his plate, and the kid dreaming about gorging on junk food, feels disrespectful to kids, mean, and dated in an unpleasant way. I'm not usually particularly puritanical about food, or kids' books, or kids' humor, but this book just struck me as crass and obnoxious.

This is the best children's book. The illustrations are exciting, colorful, wonderful. Great book to read out loud in the classroom.

Good buy, for sure! I bought this book to coincide with an Art lesson I teach to my elementary age students...the book arrived as expected! Thanks!!!

Taking 3rd and fourth graders to new writing vocabulary for description is easy using this book. Its irresistable- mom forces them to eat ___________ for lunch and they slip off into a fantasy! You can use sentences to frame and prompt the writing for younger writers, or let me create their own restaurant project. Blueprints, menus, order books, business logos, staff directory (usually includes a grandma or famous person), etc. Dream Big!

I am especially fond of his mom-like waitress and her 40's diner voice.

Not exactly a book to encourage a nutrition project, though.