23rd January New School Year Display 1: The International Year of Fruit and Vegetables

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, QU Dongyu, launched the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables on the 15th of December 2020, with an appeal to improve healthy and sustainable food production through innovation and technology and to reduce food loss and waste. 

At the beginning of the year we often use whatever year the UN designates as our first display of books. This is an easy topic for Prep school aged students as there is a large number of books in our library on the topic of fruit and vegetables. It is also a popular topic now for fiction as well as nonfiction. In fact the picture book series about Supertato by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet is one of the most borrowed set of books in the library. If you haven't seen them, rush out and get some to try with your under sixes. They love how Evil Pea is always causing trouble for Supertato. There are now six books:

1. Supertato

2. Superato Veggies Assemble                                       

3. Supertato Run,Veggies, Run!

4. Supertato: Evil Pea Rules!

5. Supertato Veggies in the Valley of Doom

6. Supertato Carnival Catasto-Pea!

Other fun stories you might have:

* Fruit in Suits by Jared Chapman

* Vegetables in Underwear by Jared Chapman    

* Oliver's Vegetables by Vivian French

* Oliver's Fruit Salad by Vivian French

* Handa's Surprise by Eileen Browne

* How Are You Peeling?  by Saxton Freymann                             

*  Fruit Bowl by Mark Hoffman   

*  The Runaway Pea by Kjartan Poskitt (this is Bk 1 of 4)

* Veg Patch Party by Clare Foges

* Runaway Tomato  by Kim Cooley Reeder

                

If you have these non fiction books they do a wonderful job of introducing young children to the abundance of choice there is when selecting fruit and vegetables.

* Fruit  by Woody Brambles

* Fruit  by Pascale de Bourgoing 

* Veggies by Woody Brambles

* Vegetables by Gilbert Houbre

* I Eat Fruit  by Hannah Tofts

* I Eat Vegetables  by Hannah Tofts

* Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert 

* Rah, Rah, Radishes! by April Pulley Sayre

* Go, Go, Grapes!  by April Pulley Sayre

* Eat Your Greens, Reds,  Yellows and Purples , A Rainbow Cookbook for Australian Children  is the version we have. It has a different cover.

If your school has a garden, teachers find these books helpful:

* Eddie's Garden by Sarah Garland

* Grow it, Eat It 

* How Does My Fruit Grow? by Gerda Muller                
* A Patch From Scratch  by Megan Forward

* Grow Your Own  by Esther Hall

* Anywhere Farm  by Phyllis Root

For more fruit and vegetable books for a display look at the library's Pinterest page here.

Lastly if you are game enough to do some fruit and vegetable art or printing :

* Hello Fruit Face  by Claudia Strand

* Arcimboldo's Portraits by Claude Delafosse

* What is Still Life?  by Ruth Thompson                     

* One Potato by Diana Pomeroy