Monarch Award: Illinois'  K-3 Children's Choice Award

Read and Fly with Me  

Information and Activities on the Books, Authors and Illustrators on the 2005 Master List

Monarch Award Nominee

Lauren Child's book I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato won the Kate Greenaway Medal, Britain's most prestigious award for children's book illustration.

Read About the Book

I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato; illus. by author. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2000. 1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly color ill. ; 29 cm. 

 A fussy eater decides to sample the carrots after her brother convinces her that they are really orange twiglets from Jupiter.

1 v. (unpaged): chiefly color ill. ; 29 cm. ISBN: 0763611883 (alk. paper); 0-7636-2180-3 (PB); LCCN: 99-57573. Picture Book: Dewey: [E] / RL: 2.6 (Follett), 2.7 (AR).

Read Aloud and Read Along

For Teachers and Librarians

Try this book for a story hour at the start of a food unit.  Combine food stories with a math graphing exercise. 

• Choose a number of food stories to read over the length of the unit.  Make a graph with chart paper that includes all of the food groups (don't forget to include an "other" category). 
• For each story read, ask children to place the names (or pictures) of the foods mentioned in the story in the right category on the graph.
• With two different colored stickers or crayons, ask each children to mark on the graph whether they like that food or not.  (See chart at right.)
• At the end of the unit, find a simple way to serve several favorite foods of the group.

Pairing Possibilities: A Few From a Wide Menu

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett

Eat Your Peas by Nick Sharratt

The Greedy Python by Eric Carle

How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman

Lunch by Denise Fleming

Mrs. Pig's Bulk Buy by Mary Rayner

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Lauren Child (Click to Read a Biographical Sketch)

Lauren Child

Lauren Child lives in London.  She is a "manic collector of Barbie Doll mermaids and Starwars memorabilia.."       -Candlewick Press Biographical Notes

 Read Alone

• Read other books by this author. For instance:

Beware of the Storybook Wolves by Lauren Child

For Students

Now here is a book to read alone! Want to know what happened to Herb one night? Two wolves escaped from his fairy tale book and threatened to eat him. What could Herb do? He turned to his book and asked for the help of Cinderella's fairy godmother. What would you do?

• Write your own story of a "lost" fairytale character.
• On separate pieces of paper write down a list of all the fairy tale characters you can think of. Fold the papers and put them in a small container.  Draw three from the container and make up a story using these three characters.
• Illustrate your story.

Chart for the Food Unit

Veggies	Fruits	Dairy	Meat & Fish	Grains & Bread	Oils  & Sweets	Other
Peas						Leaves
Yes ....						Ketchup?
No ....
Carrots
Yes ...
No...