PB&J Hooray!: Your Sandwich's Amazing Journey from Farm to Table

by Janet Nolan, Julia Patton (Illustrator)

Overview

From peanut, grape, and wheat seeds to sandwich, PB & J Hooray! is all about how peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are made. The story begins with the kitchen and works backward to the shopping, delivery, production, harvesting, farming, and planting processes! In fun, rhythmic language, readers discover how peanuts become peanut butter, grapes are made into jelly, and wheat turns into bread.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807563977
Publisher:	Whitman, Albert & Company
Publication date:	09/01/2014
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	661,428
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.30(d)
Lexile:	AD620L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Janet Nolan is the award-winning author of numerous fiction and nonfiction picture books. Janet lives in Oak Park, Illinois. She has a B.A. from The Evergreen State College and a master’s degree in urban planning and policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI).
 

Julia Patton has illustrated more than a dozen books for children in the UK. She lives in England where she "scribbles away in a little wood shed in the wilds of Northumberland."

Read an Excerpt

PB&J Hooray!

Your Sandwich's Amazing Journey from Farm to Table

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By Janet Nolan, Julia Patton

ALBERT WHITMAN & Company

Copyright © 2014 Janet Nolan
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-8075-6397-7

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CHAPTER 1

Peanut butter, jelly, bread

Easy to make, yummy to eat.

But where does the food come from?

THE GROCERY STORE.

Bread in the bread aisle, peanut butter stacked on shelves, jars of jelly lined up in a row.

Put in a shopping cart, pay on the way out.

Carry into kitchens where sandwiches are made. PB&J hooray!

But where does the grocery store get the food?

DELIVERY TRUCKS.

Truck drivers pull up to the loading dock at the grocery store.

Bread in the bread aisle, peanut butter stacked on shelves, jars of jelly lined up in a row.

Put in a shopping cart, pay on the way out.

Carry into kitchens where sandwiches are made. PB&J hooray!

(Continues...)

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Editorial Reviews

09/08/2014
This deconstruction of the sourcing of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich opens in a kitchen, where a boy slathers bread with the key ingredients. The question, "But where does the food come from?" (the grocery store) leads to another: "But where does the grocery store get the food?" Nolan (A Father's Day Thank You) moves further and further back in time, introducing readers to the trucks that deliver the goods to the store; the bakeries and factories where the ingredients are made; the places wheat, peanuts, and grapes grow; and the planting of seeds for these crops. The cumulative narrative repeats each step of the process with every new sequence, which makes for somewhat clunky reading, especially since the text wavers between full sentences and clipped phrases: "Bread in the bread aisle, peanut butter stacked on shelves, jars of jelly lined up in a row. Put in a shopping cart, pay on the way out." Patton's spindly-limbed, wide-eyed characters have a lively energy, offsetting the repetitiveness of the text. Ages 4–7. Author's agent: Steven Chudney, the Chudney Agency. Illustrator's agency: the Bright Agency. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

"Wide-eyed characters add a touch of whimsy to this informative overview. This engaging book gives a delicious inside look into this sandwich staple."—School Library Journal

"Short, cropped sentences inform readers, and colorful, intricately detailed artwork will appeal to children and hold their attention as the origination of a favorite sandwich is elucidated."—Booklist Online

"Patton's spindly-limbed, wide-eyed characters have a lively energy."—Publishers Weekly Online

From the Publisher

08/01/2014
PreS-Gr 2—One of children's favorite lunches undergoes a complex process before its ingredients become a reality. Working backwards from the completed sandwich, families are shown purchasing the ingredients in the grocery store, the food being delivered to the store by trucks, made in factories, picked in fields, and grown from seeds. Each step is briefly reviewed through bright, angular illustrations, painting a colorful picture of this journey from seed to table. This cheerful overview summarizes the steps required in order to make this tasty food. "Bread in the bread aisle,/peanut butter stacked on shelves,/jars of jelly lined up in a row./Put in a shopping cart/pay on the way out. Carry into kitchens where sandwiches are made…./PB&J HOORAY!" Questions in bold font ask children to think about this process: "But where do the bakeries and factories get the ingredients to make the food?" Wide-eyed characters add a touch of whimsy to this informative overview. This engaging book gives a delicious inside look into this sandwich staple.—Meg Smith, Cumberland County Public Library, Fayetteville, NC

School Library Journal