Before We Eat: From Farm to Table

Brisson, Pat

ISBN 10: 0884483525 / ISBN 13: 9780884483526

Published by Tilbury House Publishers, ME, 2014

About this Item

1st ed, 4th prt. Book has won numerous awards. TERRIFIC ART BY MARY AZARIAN. * MOONBEAM GOLD AWARD * GROWING GOOD KIDS AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY AND NATIONAL MASTER JUNIOR GARDENER PROGRAM *. "Milk doesn't just appear in your refrigerator, nor do apples grow in the bowl on the kitchen counter. Before we eat, many people must work very hard?planting grain, catching fish, tending animals, and filling crates. In this book, vibrantly illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Mary Azarian, readers find out what must happen before food can get to our table to nourish our bodies and spirits." A delightful picture book.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Before We Eat: From Farm to Table
• Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers, ME
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0884483525
• ISBN 13: 9780884483526
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Azarian, Mary
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 4th Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New

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Synopsis

* MOONBEAM GOLD AWARD *
* GROWING GOOD KIDS AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY AND NATIONAL MASTER JUNIOR GARDENER PROGRAM *
Milk doesn't just appear in your refrigerator, nor do apples grow in the bowl on the kitchen counter.

Before we eat, many people must work very hard―planting grain, catching fish, tending animals, and filling crates. In this book, vibrantly illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Mary Azarian, readers find out what must happen before food can get to our table to nourish our bodies and spirits.

 

Fountas & Pinnell Level L

Color Woodcuts

About the Authors

Pat Brisson is the author of 20 books for young readers, including The Summer My Father Was Ten and Sometimes We Were Brave, Tummy Time Friends, and Common Critters. A graduate of Rutgers University, she is a former elementary school teacher, school librarian, and public-library reference librarian. Pat lives in New Jersey with her husband.

Artist Mary Azarian is the Caldecott-Medal winning illustrator of Snowflake Bentley, written by Jacqueline Briggs Martin (1999, Houghton Mifflin). She created the pictures for Before We Eat by first carving the pictures in wood (in reverse!) and then printing them with ink onto paper before adding the color with watercolor paints. She lives and creates her art on a hilltop farm in Vermont.