“What are the best Children’s books about Eating?” We looked at 283 of the top Kids Healthy Eating books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!

The top 19 titles, all appearing on 3 or more “Best Kids Eating” book lists, are ranked below by how many lists they appear on. The remaining 250+ titles, as well as the lists we used are in alphabetical order at the bottom of the page.

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Top 19 Children’s Books About Healthy Eating And Food

19 .) Bee-bim Bop! written by Linda Sue Park, Ho Baek Lee (Illustrator)

Lists It Appears On:

• Dessert For Two
• Fatherly
• Pragmatic Mom

A child, eager for a favorite meal, helps with the shopping, food preparation, and table setting.

18 .) Can I Eat That? written by Joshua David Stein, Julia Rothman (Illustrator)

Lists It Appears On:

• Fatherly
• Food And Wine
• On My Kids Plate

This humorous, stylized and entirely unexpected set of food facts will engage both good eaters and resisters alike. With questions both practical

17 .) Pancakes, Pancakes! written by Eric Carle

Lists It Appears On:

• Dessert For Two
• Kitchen Concoctions
• Read Brightly

By cutting and grinding the wheat for flour, Jack starts from scratch to help make his breakfast pancake.

16 .) Strega Nona written by Tomie dePaola

Lists It Appears On:

• Good Parenting Brighter Children
• Kitchen Concoctions
• Village Voice

When Strega Nona leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, Big Anthony is determined to show the townspeople how it works.

15 .) The Ugly Vegetables written by Grace Lin

Lists It Appears On:

• Book Riot
• Pragmatic Mom
• Read Brightly

A little girl thinks her mother’s garden is the ugliest in the neighborhood until she discovers that flowers might look and smell pretty but Chinese vegetable soup smells best of all. Includes a recipe.

14 .) To Market, To Market written by Anne Miranda

Lists It Appears On:

• Fatherly
• Goodreads
• We Are Teachers

Starting with the nursery rhyme about buying a fat pig at market, this tale goes on to describe a series of unruly animals that run amok, evading capture and preventing the narrator from cooking lunch.

13 .) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory written by Roald Dahl

Lists It Appears On:

• Food And Wine
• Good Parenting Brighter Children
• Kitchen Concoctions
• Village Voice

Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka’s mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way.

12 .) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs written by Judi Barrett

Lists It Appears On:

• Food And Wine
• Kitchen Concoctions
• Taste Of Home
• Village Voice

Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers–until the weather takes a turn for the worse.

11 .) Good Enough to Eat: A Kid’s Guide to Food and Nutrition written by Lizzy Rockwell

Lists It Appears On:

• Family Education
• Kinder Care
• Kitchen Concoctions
• Your Kids Table

Describes the six categories of nutrients needed for good health, how they work in the body, and what foods provide each.

10 .) James and the Giant Peach written by Roald Dahl

Lists It Appears On:

• Book Riot
• Food And Wine
• Good Parenting Brighter Children
• Kitchen Concoctions

A young boy escapes from two wicked aunts and embarks on a series of adventures with six giant insects he meets inside a giant peach.

9 .) Linus the Vegetarian T. Rex written by Robert Neubecker

Lists It Appears On:

• Choose Veg
• Goodreads
• Live Kindly
• Rawrasoi

Ruth Ann MacKenzie, who loves natural history, eagerly enters a new museum exhibit called Cretaceous Surprises where she meets a most unusual Tyrannosaurus rex.

8 .) Bread and Jam for Frances written by Russell Hoban

Lists It Appears On:

• Family Education
• Food And Wine
• Kitchen Concoctions
• On My Kids Plate
• Read Brightly

Frances decides she likes to eat only bread and jam at every meal–until to her surprise–her parents grant her wish.

7 .) Blueberries for Sal written by Robert McCloskey

Lists It Appears On:

• Dessert For Two
• Food And Wine
• Good Parenting Brighter Children
• Kitchen Concoctions
• Read Brightly
• Village Voice

Little Sal and Little Bear both lose their mothers while eating blueberries and almost end up with the other’s mother.

6 .) Eating the Alphabet: Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z written by Lois Ehlert

Lists It Appears On:

• Eminence Kids Foundation
• Family Education
• Goodreads
• Kitchen Concoctions
• Rawrasoi
• Your Kids Table

An alphabetical tour of the world of fruits and vegetables, from apricot and artichoke to yam and zucchini.

5 .) Gregory the Terrible Eater written by Mitchell Sharmat

Lists It Appears On:

• Eminence Kids Foundation
• Family Education
• Good Parenting Brighter Children
• Kinder Care
• Kitchen Concoctions
• We Are Teachers

A very picky eater, Gregory the goat refuses the usual goat diet staples of shoes and tin cans in favor of fruits, vegetables, eggs, and orange juice.

4 .) Dragons Love Tacos written by Adam Rubin

Lists It Appears On:

• Dessert For Two
• Family Education
• Fatherly
• Kitchen Concoctions
• On My Kids Plate
• Read Brightly
• Taste Of Home

Explores the love dragons have for tacos, and the dangers of feeding them them anything with spicy salsa.

3 .) The Very Hungry Caterpillar written by Eric Carle

Lists It Appears On:

• Dessert For Two
• Food And Wine
• Kitchen Concoctions
• Little Parachutes
• Rawrasoi
• Taste Of Home
• Village Voice

2 .) I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato written by Lauren Child

Lists It Appears On:

• Book Riot
• Kinder Care
• Kitchen Concoctions
• Little Parachutes
• On My Kids Plate
• Read Brightly
• We Are Teachers
• Your Kids Table

A fussy eater decides to sample the carrots after her brother convinces her that they are really orange twiglets from Jupiter.

1 .) Green Eggs and Ham written by Dr. Seuss

Lists It Appears On:

• Family Education
• Food And Wine
• Kitchen Concoctions
• On My Kids Plate
• Read Brightly
• Taste Of Home
• Village Voice
• We Are Teachers
• Your Kids Table

In verse, Sam-I-am tells of the virtues of green eggs and ham.

The 250+ Additional Best Kids Books About Eating

24 Best Children’s Food And Eating Book Sources/Lists