Bread, Bread, Bread (Foods of the World)

This is a great book for ages 2 on up. It shows, with beautiful photographs, how children and families all over the word eat bread. The text is simple -- about one sentence a page and this book should hold the attention of active two year olds while remaining interesting to the preschool set. An index in the back teaches parents and children about the different places and people represented in the book.

This is a wonderful book to show the diversity of people around the world. This is just one of several Ann Morris books that our preschool has and uses. Ann Morris does a wonderful job with the photography and wording. We love her work.

we read this for our bread unit

This book was great for the classroom theme on food. It shows both good nutrition and multi-cultural aspect. The children view this book when playing house.

Worked well in the classroom to go along with a bread tasting

Great book, great images of culture

My four year old and two year old love this book. It is their favorite! We keep getting it from the library every time they see it. The pictures are amazing. So real. But look about like the 80s, which is fine! So there’s a man smoking in one picture? Well, people smoke. There’s beer in one picture and wine. Many other cultures drink alcohol with dinner, so that’s there with the bread. Kids aren’t going to notice the beer anyway. People drink wine over their Sabbath meal with challah. God forbid. 😂 Excellent book. The favorite page is at the end where they say where each picture is from. They make me flip back and forth after we read the book, every time, to read about where each picture comes from.

Our whole family likes this book. My daughter is not yet two but she loves Ann Morris' entire series of books and likes to identify things in each photograph. We look at the photos and talk about different kinds of bread, different ways of eating, and what different things might taste like. The photos are obviously dated but I don't believe that alters the impact of what the author and photographer are trying to do. There is one photo in particular the the adults enjoy sniggering at (I'll let you guess which one!)We have also started baking the different types of bread in the book together so she can jump right in to the content (what kid doesn't love to have her/his hands in dough?). As she grows, we'll continue to read these books, moving on from identifying simple items to talking about cultures, traditions, environments, geography, and etc. In the final pages of each Ann Morris book there are maps and descriptions of locations/actions for each page that allow readers and children to talk about where places are in relation to one another. I recommend these books for curious children starting at age 18 months and all the way up into the school years.

I absolutely love this book. My 2 year old really likes food, both to eat and to look at, and he had a few giggles with this book. It is clever to choose something as simple and common in a child's daily life as bread to show cross cultural differences and instill a sense of wonder about cultural diversity. I love that it is very simply written (there's only a catchy phrase per page, don't expect an essay on baking around the world!). Even if my children hated it I would keep it for myself!