Who Wants Pizza?
The Kids' Guide to the History, Science & Culture of Food
by Jan Thornhill
- Short-listed, Alberta Children's Choice Awards, Rocky Mountain Book Award
- Short-listed, Ontario Library Association, Silver Birch Award for Non-fiction
- Commended, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Best Books for Kids and Teens Selection
Often, food is something that kids take for granted. For many, it simply shows up for them every day — thanks to their parents. But there is so much to know and understand about food. Why do we need to eat? Where does our food come from? Is there enough food for everyone? Award-winning author Jan Thornhill answers all these questions and more in Who Wants Pizza? Using one of the most common foods that kids eat — pizza — as a jumping off point, and, using a bold, graphic approach, Thornhill take an extraordinary and comprehensive look at some of the following topics: Why we eat and why we eat what we eat, how we moved from eating the raw flesh of animals to becoming sophisticated consumers of food, how food is produced for an ever-growing population, and more. It may seem like a lot to swallow, but the text is delivered in bite-sized bursts and complemented by tons of interesting facts, photos, and illustrations to ensure kids are captivated by the information. Plus, no book about food would be complete without touching on things like burbling stomachs and human waste — the gross stuff that kids love to learn about. Comprehensive, eye-opening, engaging, and fun, Who Wants Pizza? will be a book that kids will want to digest again and again — figuratively, of course.
close this panelCovering many topics, [Who Wants Pizza?] could serve as an outline for a teaching unit about food, a jumping-off point for individual or group research, or just as interesting reading for kids who want to know more about what they put in their mouths.
No child - nor uninformed adult, for that matter - should be able to read Who Wants Pizza? without rethinking their relationship with food.
...a great way to provide your kids with some educational 'health food.'
...encourages students to take responsibility for the choices they make about what they eat and teaches them to be smart consumers.
Parents who want their children to grow up mindful of their eating habits might find this a perfectly pitched book to start their kids thinking.
To truly understand the significance of what we eat, take a look at this book…Vivid colors, bold images and eye-popping photography engage readers and raise interesting questions that the text then helps answer. Readers will leave the book hungry for more of this topic. Nutrition for the mind, a treat for the intellect.
Jan Thornhill has another hit with Who Wants Pizza?, a bright and appealing book...[that] will get kids thinking about the food they eat and where it comes from.
No doubt even adult readers will learn something from this engaging book.
