Week 45 of my Picture Book Preschool curriculum is all about food and feasting. November is a time for feasting with friends and family, and the list for this week in Picture Book Preschool will prepare you and your children for time of joy, fellowship, and thanksgiving. From A Medieval Feast (Aliki, 1987) to Stone Soup (Marcia Brown, 1947), these books get your taste buds and your gratitude going.

One of the books on this list for this week is The Popcorn Book by Tomie dePaola. In this book according to the book jacket blurb, Mr. dePaola, “who eats a lot of popcorn, shares what he knows about it with humor and imagination.” Do you know why it’s best to store popcorn kernels in the refrigerator? Have you ever heard of popcorn soup? What are the top popcorn-eating cities in the U.S.? What are two terrific way to pop popcorn? And finally, what do you do with an over-abundance of popcorn?

All these questions are answered in The Popcorn Book, in a kid-friendly text embedded in a story about twins making, of course, popcorn. The illustrations are classic dePaola, and the text is informative, but not dry. The 40th anniversary edition (2018), which is the one I have, has undated some Native Merican facts and terms while keeping the charm and humor of the original 1978 edition.

When you decide to make popcorn this fall or winter or anytime really, The Popcorn Book is a great accompaniment. You could even have a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving with popcorn as the main course.

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