Children’s Reads By Tamra Headrick, Library Assistant, Youth Services
The Bear Ate Your Sandwich
By Julia Sarcone-Roach
Who stole the sandwich from the picnic table? This funny tale with clever illustrations reveals the answer. (Ages 4-8)
A Boy and a Jaguar
By Alan Robinowitz
This is the inspirational story of a boy who has trouble speaking to people, but can easily communicate with animals. (Ages 4 and up)
National Geographic’s Kids Cookbook: A Year-Round Fun Food Adventure
By Barton Seaver
This book features recipes, crafts and food-focused challenges; you will even learn to plant a kitchen garden and host a dinner party. (Ages 8-12)
Rain Reign
By Ann M. Martin
Rose has obsessions, rules and other things that make her different. No one can understand why she does the things she does. A big storm changes everything. (Ages 9-12)
Adult Reads By Mary Biscuso, Library Assistant, Adult Services
Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir
By Eddie Huang
Born to Taiwanese immigrant parents and raised in Orlando, Eddie Huang doesn’t fit the studious, well-mannered stereotypes. He grew up idolizing Tupac Shakur and football, stealing drugs, and fighting anyone dumb enough to throw racial slurs his way.
A grounding influence was food, whether it was cooking ribs in his father’s steakhouse or learning traditional Thai cuisine. Huang returned again and again to the kitchen and eventually opened East Village restaurant BaoHaus. Fresh Off the Boat is a hilarious memoir that’s now a popular ABC television show.
Delicious!
By Ruth Reichl
Billie Breslin moves from California to New York City to take a job at the premier food magazine Delicious. She’s expecting excitement and new learning opportunities, but the magazine shuts down shortly after she arrives in the Big Apple. Breslin stays behind in the deserted office to continue the “Delicious Guarantee,” a hotline for complaints and recipe inquiries.
Bored, she snoops around the empty offices, where she discovers letters penned by Lulu Swan, a 12-year-old who wrote to famous chef James Beard during World War II.
These letters prove life-changing to Billie, who must confront the painful past she left behind in California.
Thug Kitchen: Eat Like You Give a F***
Edited by Rodale Publishing
The title says it all: spicy, superbly healthful, vegetable-based recipes served up with fabulous color photos and even more colorful language.
Vegan cooking has never been more fun and affordable than with the Thug Kitchen crew. Unsure? Check out its website first, at www.thugkitchen.com.
Food: A Love Story
By Jim Gaffigan
If you loved Gaffigan’s riff on parenthood, Dad Is Fat, get ready for this stand-up comic’s musings on all things food.
Why should you read this book? Gaffigan will tell you that, because he is “a little fat,” he has a certain expertise that will be conveyed to the reader via pithy insights such as “which animal is more delicious: the pig, the cow or the bacon cheeseburger?”
