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Chew, Chew, Gulp!
Bestselling Little Quack author Lauren Thompson and acclaimed illustrator Jarrett Krosoczka have teamed up to show you just how much fun eating can be. Crunching, munching, gobbling, or guzzling--there are so many different ways to do it! And you can try them all.
This bright, rhythmic book is perfect for the youngest chompers and gulpers. Each page has a big, bold toddler face, minimal rhyming text, and a corresponding label for the food being eaten. So meal time isn't just delicious - it's enlightening too!
This bright, rhythmic book is perfect for the youngest chompers and gulpers. Each page has a big, bold toddler face, minimal rhyming text, and a corresponding label for the food being eaten. So meal time isn't just delicious - it's enlightening too!
32 pages, Hardcover
First published May 24, 2011
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July 17, 2012
This book was a great informational book! Throughout the book kids eat foods in different ways. I personally really liked the book because it is the kids doing the teaching and we can teach preschool students the proper way to eat during snack time or lunch time. We can teach them that eating could be fun and that their are a variety of ways we can eat our food but also using manners. I liked that they showed kids of different ethnicities and not just from one. I would recommend this book to parents and teachers teaching young kids how to eat.I enjoyed the fact that the kids were eating healthy foods and we could also point this out to students. My personal reaction is that I loved the use of words in the book. I felt that so many of these descriptive words would catch a students attention and I was honestly interested myself. The words flowed so well and as a read aloud I believe the kids would have a lot of fun!
Satisfying Statement: Eating is fun. Remember to eat healthy.
Satisfying Statement: Eating is fun. Remember to eat healthy.
January 14, 2017
Simple but entertaining no less for the kids!
December 3, 2021
This book is definitely cute and very easy to read and follow. It would probably work very well for preschoolers and kindergarteners. It teaches kids the different ways to eat foods, but I am n0t sure how useful that really is to kids. In a way it just feels like they are learning vocab about eating different foods. I do think that it is neat that the illustrations include subtitles for everything they are eating and how they eat it.
June 12, 2018
Fun read for elementary ages, low text for a quick read, but all the foods and verbs make for great conversation starters when it comes to everything from nutrition, socialization, manners, etc. Recommended read.
April 9, 2018
Learning to eat. B
May 12, 2018
Excellent read aloud and instructional read for pre k and k. Basically how you eat dirrefent types of food!
October 25, 2021
Sparse text and fun illustrations show kids how to eat with all kinds of different foods and utensils. A good addition to a toddler story time.
March 28, 2025
Great first book for early readers.
July 13, 2025
This would be a great book for babies and toddlers and would make a great board book. foods of different textures are shown on every page along with the sounds they make when children bite into them.
April 19, 2014
3.5 stars - good!
This is a good book for toddlers: simple text and fun illustrations are combined to show young children the many ways to eat and enjoy food. The foods are all labeled, which is good for teaching children the names of things they are likely to see on their plates. :)
As I said earlier, the illustrations are fun: the children are all drawn in such a way that it is clear they are enjoying their food and the various ways to eat the different items.
My only real complaints about this book are that for a couple of the foods that are shown, the way to eat them isn't a way I would want a child to eat. :( For cookies, the instruction is to "crumble it." And for soup it's "slurp, slurp, burp." These behaviors are not to be encouraged in my family/household. I don't imagine any mother anywhere would actually be happy to find crumbled cookie crumbs everywhere, and listening to kids (and later adults) slurp and burp soup? To me, this is a sign of poor manners.
But overall this is a good book, and the above two things could be used as examples of what not to do for the kids in your home. :)
This is a good book for toddlers: simple text and fun illustrations are combined to show young children the many ways to eat and enjoy food. The foods are all labeled, which is good for teaching children the names of things they are likely to see on their plates. :)
As I said earlier, the illustrations are fun: the children are all drawn in such a way that it is clear they are enjoying their food and the various ways to eat the different items.
My only real complaints about this book are that for a couple of the foods that are shown, the way to eat them isn't a way I would want a child to eat. :( For cookies, the instruction is to "crumble it." And for soup it's "slurp, slurp, burp." These behaviors are not to be encouraged in my family/household. I don't imagine any mother anywhere would actually be happy to find crumbled cookie crumbs everywhere, and listening to kids (and later adults) slurp and burp soup? To me, this is a sign of poor manners.
But overall this is a good book, and the above two things could be used as examples of what not to do for the kids in your home. :)
October 25, 2011
In rhyming text, a group of boys and girls shows readers how to eat. (There's a bit of what to eat as well since these children are snacking on green beans, mashed potatoes, bananas, and grapes rather than those empty caloried snacks so many of us love. The text relies on great verbs to make its point: "swirl," "curl," "scoop," "loop," "prod," and "pop" (unpaginated), for instance. Young readers will love imitating the sounds of eating described in the book too. There's a lot of chewing, gulping, slurping and burping going on. Who knew enjoying a meal could be so noisy--or such fun? (A lesson in table manners might be appropriate after finishing this one with its colorful illustrations of happy children engaged in a favorite pastime.
August 11, 2011
A brightly illustrated book featuring children eating foods. "Swirl it. Curl it. Scoop it. Loop it. . . Chew, chew, GULP!"
I initially thought that this is a great book for preschool children. It features a variety of food and children from many ethnicities enjoying their foods. I do think that it could be a great book to use with elementary school children as well. Lauren Thompson uses just the right word to describe eating different foods. A good quick lesson on how powerful word choice can be.
I initially thought that this is a great book for preschool children. It features a variety of food and children from many ethnicities enjoying their foods. I do think that it could be a great book to use with elementary school children as well. Lauren Thompson uses just the right word to describe eating different foods. A good quick lesson on how powerful word choice can be.
October 11, 2011
Can you name all the different ways we approach eating our food? Picking a grape? Stabbing a piece of meat? Lauren Thompson creatively wrote a book for small children about the different ways in which we eat. This would be a fun book to read aloud right before lunch to a group of kindergartners. Then have a class discussion afterward, asking what different approaches each of them took to consuming their own lunches.
January 31, 2013
This book is great for children because they will learn how certain foods are to be eaten. Children learn that some foods need to be scooped and others need to be slurped and so on. this book also helps children understand that their are different categories of food like fruit and grains.
Learning Extension: Have kids try foods that involve the different Technics of eating and the categories of food.
Learning Extension: Have kids try foods that involve the different Technics of eating and the categories of food.
June 18, 2012
Fun read aloud about food. The rhythm of it reminded me of Shout! Shout it Out! by Denise Fleming, but maybe that's just because I know if I were reading either aloud I'd be shouting out the next command/concept. Brightly colored full page illustrations with kids of all colors performing the actions described in text.
June 7, 2011
Eating has never been such fun! Colorful and lively.
June 9, 2011
Great book for laptime.
July 16, 2011
Not that toddlers need instruction on eating--or do they?--this brightly illustrated title rhymes through a number of foods being eaten by really happy children.
August 31, 2011
Cute for food related storytime
September 28, 2011
Preschool - K
December 3, 2011
Nice, bold illustrations. A good choice for Toddler/PreK storytime w/ Food/Eating theme.
March 7, 2012
This would have been a fun one for lunch bunnies
September 16, 2012
Easy read for younger students (Pre-K - primary grades) that talks about the different ways you eat. Great way to show words that can be used for eating.
September 25, 2012
Bright colors, simple rhyming text about eating.
January 28, 2013
Describes all the different ways you can eat your food. Plenty of fun for kids. Would be great for storytimes.
August 17, 2013
This book talks about various verbs associated with eating. And does it in a fun way. Something older kids who are ready to explore more and learn would enjoy.
December 21, 2013
Nothing out of the ordinary, but could be used as a short read for eating or food storytime.
September 25, 2014
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text demonstrate a variety of ways to eat different foods.
October 5, 2014
Very fun descriptions of the different ways to chew, crunch, gulp, etc. food! Great for sensory exploration.
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