dinners and dining

Photographs and simple text introduce young readers to the various ways in which people around the world prepare and share meals.

Explains how students can put their basic math skills to work during dinnertime, presenting simple strategies to help get every family member to the table while sharpening math skills.

A collection of poems about food and eating.

Presents menus and recipes for each day of the year, from January through June, based on meals from various historical occasions or significant events, with the name, date, and location of each.

Presents a collection of poems about food by women writers, including selections from Jane Kenyon, Lucille Clifton, and Anne Sexton among others.

When his friends decline to come over for a beef stew dinner, Nicky feels bad until a surprise visitor shows up.

Each day Antonio's Mam? tries to get everyone to sit down together to eat, but someone is always busy elsewhere, until the family celebrates a new arrival.

When her perfectionist classmate and neighbor plans an elaborate Thanksgiving dinner, Katie begins to wonder if the relaxed day she, her father, and her messy little brother usually enjoy means they are not a "real" family.

Looks at some of the foods favored by different U.S. presidents, and explains who cooks for the residents and guests of the White House.

Dinner at Aunt Connie's is even more special than usual when Melody meets not only her new adopted cousin but twelve inspiring African-American women, who step out of their portraits and join the family for dinner.