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)

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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.

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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

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• Reading level: Ages 9-12
  
• Hardcover: 112 pages
• Publisher: Dutton Juvenile (March 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0525464190
• ISBN-13: 978-0525464198
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 9.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.4 ounces
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