Forthcoming
Author: Linda Weintraub
Illustrator: Phillip McCulloch Downs and Linda
WHO DO YOU EAT? is a non-fiction text that utilizes storytelling, rhyming verse, humor, and illustrations to demonstrate how the collective need to eat reveals the interdependence that unites all the Earth’s species. Animals from whales to nematodes explain how and what they eat to survive. Rhyming verse distinguishes this interactive, read-aloud educational text for 6 – 11-year-olds. Each poem is the length of a bedtime story. Together, they reveal that the foods ever eaten to live and grow also ate food to live and grow.
- A 35-page Activity Book includes opportunities for children to compare and contrast the animals/plants included in the poetry book, as well as actions tailored to individual species represented. The activities include puppetry, games, puzzles, and art projects that activate touch, smell, movement, and sound. Preparation, cost, and equipment are minimized to maximize ease of adoption.
- An audio version of the text incorporates oral recitations of each poem accompanied by original musical compositions. Seventeen Ithaca College theater majors are the narrators. Robin Sherman, a talented Los Angeles musician, is composing the score.
