9th February World Pizza Day

February 9th has been the official World Pizza Day since 2000 and people all around the globe celebrate with this cheesy dish!

When my children were small going out for pizza was a treat. Sometimes we made them at home, but pizzas were associated with birthday parties. Now the children I teach are very quick to tell me pizza is their favourite food and they could eat it every night!  

Nevertheless if you want to read about pizza parties there are several books to choose from: 

Then these four are fun too!

Still hungry? Explore the history of pizza...

or make a young beginning reader love you with a gift of a Pizza and Taco book or two!

4th October Taco Day

 Meet this amazing Jelly Cat toy...yes it's a taco!

I was so tempted when I saw it in a book shop to buy it, but it is so expensive once the Australian dollar exchange was applied. Nevertheless, it was so tempting as part of a book display on tacos. I have written about Taco Day before here, but there's been a few new books to add to your stock of taco books.

• A Wild Taco Tuesday  by Sarah M Hall 

and the latest in the Pizza an Taco series

• Pizza and Taco: Dare to be Scared! by Stephen Shaskan

• Dragons Love Taco Tuesdays  by O M Wolf

• Taco Truck Snack and Find by Rubie Crowe and Josh Cleland (Look, find, and laugh as you follow a taco-obsessed mole character to the beach, the city marathon, a tailgate party, and other busy places loaded with silly food trucks. Does he ever get his prized taco? 

Jelly Cat has a slice of pizza too, just

perfect for Pizza and Taco book fans!

P.S. Look what I just read about. A new book by Frank Asch.

Please be in paperback and cheaper soon!

October Pizza Month

October is Pizza Month in the USA. The children I teach love pizza, so much so that if I want to reward them for finishing something like the Premier's Reading Challenge we have a pizza party in the library. The students love the thought of eating in the library even if the reality isn't what they think it will be! We read Adam Rubin's Secret Pizza Party and everyone is sworn to secrecy so that the students who weren't there have to keep wondering what it was like.

My students will be back at school next week after two week's holiday when they probably ate plenty of pizza, but nevertheless I have put out a table full of these resources (all the pizza books in the library) to celebrate Pizza Month. I will also add some cook books which have pizza making.