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What the World Eats by Faith D'Aluisio (2008, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Children's Books
ISBN-101582462461
ISBN-139781582462462
eBay Product ID (ePID)63178421
Product Key Features
Book TitleWhat the World Eats
Number of Pages160 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
TopicCooking & Food, General, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), Diet & Nutrition / General, Biography & Autobiography / Cultural Heritage
IllustratorYes
GenreCooking, Social Science, Health & Fitness, Juvenile Nonfiction
AuthorFaith D'aluisio
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight37.7 Oz
Item Length11.4 in
Item Width9.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience
LCCN2007-041439
Dewey Edition22
Reviews2008 IRA Notable Book for a Global Society 2009 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, NCSS-CBC Editors' Choice, Booklist 2008 Best Book of the Year, School Library Journal 2008 Best Book of the Year, Children's Nonfiction, Publishers Weekly Review,Publishers Weekly: "Brilliantly executed. . . . Engrossing and certain to stimulate." Review,School Library Journal: "A fascinating volume for browsing. . . . Visually stunning." Review,Booklist: "[This] is a fascinating, sobering, and instructive look at daily life around the world, and it will draw readers of a wide range to its beautifully composed pages." Review,Book Links: "Best new book for the classroom." Review,Kirkus Reviews: "The plentiful photos are fascinating, offering both intimate glimpses of family life and panoramic views of other lands. Whether used for research or received as a gift from socially conscious adults, this [book] offers children plenty to chew over.", "A fascinating volume for browsing, What the World Eats will be useful for students in classes ranging from world cul-tures to economics to math to geography to current events."--STARRED, SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL. "Stunning color photographs of mealtimes and daily activities illustrate the warm, informative, anecdotal narratives about each family. New to this volume are the many pages of statistics, displayed in eye-catching graphics that compare various countries' rates of obesity, access to safe water, daily caloric intake, and other food-related issues. Like the adult edition, this is a fascinating, sobering, and instructive look at daily life around the world, and it will draw readers of a wide age range to its beautifully composed pages." STARRED, BOOKLIST A top 10 best environmental youth book BOOKLIST Compare the spread of packaged, processed food eaten by a California family each week with the meager rations for refugees from Chad. This sweeping photo study showcases more than 20 families worldwide and provides food for though on issues of equity, obesity, quantity, and quality.-THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE "American kids may be surprised that children in other countries are often expected to work to help feed their families, out of necessity, but also because of rigid gender roles. In Mali, for example, girls and women do the bulk of the work - not just domestic labor, but the grain-selling that supports the family. Of course, readers may simply be enraptured by the ingenuity of hungry people everywhere, who can make meals of starfish, live scorpions, chicken feet and deep-friend silkworm pupae. Highlights include the Filipino street food dugo, described as "curdled and congealed pig blood, cut into chunks, skewered and then grilled." A colorful primer on the global marketplace and cultural change, "What the World Eats" sparks an intellectual appetite that no amount of narwhal skin can fill." -THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "The plentiful photos are fascinating, offering both intimate glimpses of family life and panoramic views of other lands. Whether used for research or received as a gift from socially conscious adults, this version offers children plenty to chew over…"-KIRKUS, 2008 IRA Notable Book for a Global Society 2009 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, NCSS-CBC Editors' Choice,Booklist 2008 Best Book of the Year,School Library Journal 2008 Best Book of the Year, Children's Nonfiction,Publishers Weekly "Brilliantly executed. . . . Engrossing and certain to stimulate."--Publishers Weekly "A fascinating volume for browsing. . . . Visually stunning."--School Library Journal "[This] is a fascinating, sobering, and instructive look at daily life around the world, and it will draw readers of a wide range to its beautifully composed pages."--Booklist "Best new book for the classroom."--Book Links "The plentiful photos are fascinating, offering both intimate glimpses of family life and panoramic views of other lands. Whether used for research or received as a gift from socially conscious adults, this [book] offers children plenty to chew over." -Kirkus Reviews, 2008 IRA Notable Book for a Global Society 2009 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, NCSS-CBC Editors' Choice,Booklist 2008 Best Book of the Year,School Library Journal 2008 Best Book of the Year, Children's Nonfiction,Publishers Weekly Review, Publishers Weekly : "Brilliantly executed. . . . Engrossing and certain to stimulate." Review, School Library Journal : "A fascinating volume for browsing. . . . Visually stunning." Review, Booklist : "[This] is a fascinating, sobering, and instructive look at daily life around the world, and it will draw readers of a wide range to its beautifully composed pages." Review, Book Links : "Best new book for the classroom." Review, Kirkus Reviews : "The plentiful photos are fascinating, offering both intimate glimpses of family life and panoramic views of other lands. Whether used for research or received as a gift from socially conscious adults, this [book] offers children plenty to chew over."
Grade FromFirst Grade
Photographed byMenzel, Peter
Dewey Decimal641.30022/2
Grade ToFourth Grade
SynopsisSitting down to a daily family meal has long been a tradition for billions of people. But in every corner of the world this age-old custom is rapidly changing. From increased trade between countries to the expansion of global food corporations like Kraft and Nestle, current events are having a tremendous impact on our eating habits. Chances are your supermarket is stocking a variety of international foods, and American fast food chains like McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken are popping up all over the planet. For the first time in history, more people are overfed than underfed. And while some people still have barely enough to eat, others overeat to the point of illness. To find out how mealtime is changing in real homes, authors Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio visited families around the world to observe and photograph what they eat during the course of one week. They joined parents while they shopped at mega grocery stores and outdoor markets, and participated in a feast where a single goat was shared among many families. They watched moms making dinner in kitchens and over cooking fires, and they sat down to eat with twenty-five families in twenty-one countries--if you're keeping track, that's about 525 meals! The foods dished up ranged from hunted seal and spit-roasted guinea pig to U.N.-rationed grains and gallons of Coca-Cola. As Peter and Faith ate and talked with families, they learned firsthand about food consumption around the world and its corresponding causes and effects. The resulting family portraits offer a fascinating glimpse into the cultural similarities and differences served on dinner plates around the globe. This book has been selected as a Common Core State Standards Text Exemplar (Grades 2-3, Read-Aloud Informational Texts) in Appendix B., Sitting down to a daily family meal has long been a tradition for billions of people. But in every corner of the world this age-old custom is rapidly changing. From increased trade between countries to the expansion of global food corporations like Kraft and Nestl , current events are having a tremendous impact on our eating habits. Chances are your supermarket is stocking a variety of international foods, and American fast food chains like McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken are popping up all over the planet. For the first time in history, more people are overfed than underfed. And while some people still have barely enough to eat, others overeat to the point of illness. To find out how mealtime is changing in real homes, authors Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio visited families around the world to observe and photograph what they eat during the course of one week. They joined parents while they shopped at mega grocery stores and outdoor markets, and participated in a feast where a single goat was shared among many families. They watched moms making dinner in kitchens and over cooking fires, and they sat down to eat with twenty-five families in twenty-one countries--if you're keeping track, that's about 525 meals The foods dished up ranged from hunted seal and spit-roasted guinea pig to U.N.-rationed grains and gallons of Coca-Cola. As Peter and Faith ate and talked with families, they learned firsthand about food consumption around the world and its corresponding causes and effects. The resulting family portraits offer a fascinating glimpse into the cultural similarities and differences served on dinner plates around the globe. This book has been selected as a Common Core State Standards Text Exemplar (Grades 2-3, Read-Aloud Informational Texts) in Appendix B.
LC Classification NumberTX353.M438 2008
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