Bibliography for Group 5's CI

Hi, all. Here is our bibliography for our collaborative inquiry.
Inquiry Question: How can our students celebrate culture through researching foods and gardening?
Collaborative Inquiry Amodei, Cook, Kearney, Saxton 3
Additional Readings:
Demi. One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale. NY: Scholastic Press, 1997.
Retelling of this folktale set in India shows the multiplication of food when one is shared.
DiSalvo-Ryan, DyAnne. City Green. NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994.
A young girl explores the development of a community garden. DiSalvo-Ryan used Philadelphia Green as the inspiration for this picture book.
Dooley, Norah. Everybody Bakes Bread. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Press, 1993.
Fleischman, Paul. Seedfolks.Illustrations by Judy Pederson. NY: Harper Collins, 1997.
Slim novel offering vignettes of people from a city neighborhood (Cleveland) who
farm a community garden.
Gelman, Rita Golden. Rice Is Life. Paintings by Yangsook Choi. NY: Henry Holt and Co., 1999.
Shows growth of rice plant in Indonesia. Coupled with poetry.
Hill, Lee Sullivan. Farms Feed the World. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 1997.
Illustrated book describing how foods are grown around the world.
Kindersley, Barnabas and Anabel. Children Just Like Me. NY: DK Publishing, Inc., 1995.
Oversized book featuring brief facts about culture and customs of children around
the world.
Priceman, Marjorie. How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World. NY: Alfred A. Knopf,
1994.
A closed market does not daunt the desire of a girl to bake an apple pie. She travels
the world to obtain the necessary ingredients. Also a Reading Rainbow video/DVD.
Regguinti, Gordon. The Sacred Harvest: Ojibway Wild Rice Gathering. Photographs by
Dale Kakkak. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1992.
Photographs enhance this nonfiction work telling of the history and modern production
of rice among the Ojibway people in the Great Lakes region.
Rendon, Marcie R., and Cheryl Walsh Bellville. Farmer’s Market: Families Working Together.
Photographs by Cheryl Walsh Bellville. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, Inc, 2001.Photographs show how different cultures grow food and sell it at the market.
Rosa-Casanova, Sylvia. Mama Provi and the Pot of Rice. Illustrated by Robert Roh.
NY: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1997.
Main character collects different ingredients for pot of rice from neighbors of different cultures.
Solheim, James. It’s Disgusting and We Ate It!: True Food Facts Around the World and
Throughout History. Illustrated by Eric Brace. NY: Aladdin Paperbacks, 1998.
Illustrated in a cartoonish style, this book takes a breezy, comical approach to
identifying foods we may have in common with other people and times as well as how our culinary tastes may differ.
Zamorano, Ana.Let’s Eat! Illustrated by Julie Vivas.NY: Scholastic Press, 1996.
Expressive illustrations lead the reader through a family’s food preparation.
References to garden as a source of food and Spanish words included.