Description: A Moonbeam Gold Award winner. With vibrant illustrations by Caldecott Medalist Azarian, this acclaimed book explains what must happen before food gets to readers' tables. This expanded edition includes bonus information about school gardens and the national farm-to-school movement. Full color.
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes: With beguiling illustrations and a lovely spare text, this book will inspire conversations with young children about the origins of their food and start them on the path to being careful stewards of the environment.--Anne K. Fishel, Ph.D., Co-founder, The Family Dinner Project, Associate Clinical Professor, Harvard Medical School