How We Eat: Celebrating Food & Feeding Tools - Hardcover

by Shuli de la Fuente-Lau (Author)

Celebrate all the different ways we eat! Featuring 40+ vibrant photos of real kids and families at mealtime, HOW WE EAT: Celebrating Food & Feeding Tools inspires meaningful conversations about culture, ability, and inclusion on every page.

• Inclusive mealtime experiences Photographs show kids using bottles, adaptive spoons, syringes, supplemental nursing systems, chopsticks, G-tubes, forks, NG tubes, EpiPens, cups, and their hands to eat.
• Detailed explanations Each feeding tool and culture dish pictured is accompanied by descriptions that help parents and educators answer questions and spark discussions about nursing, pumping, limb differences, spoon-feeding, baby-led weaning, and checking ingredient lists for allergens.
• Age-appropriate discussion questions The back matter guides parents and educators in starting conversations about body and food differences with young children.
• Fun rhyming text: Designed to captivate babies, toddlers, and beginning readers.
• Cultural diversity Learn about foods like sushi, dosas, dumplings, and arepas, sparking curiosity about food from all cultures, backgrounds, and celebrations!

Originally published as a board book and named one of Kirkus' Best Books of 2022, this expanded 32-page, large-size picture book edition was created due to popular demand from schools and libraries eager to share HOW WE EAT with readers of all ages.

Author Biography

Shuli de la Fuente-Lau (she/her) is a mama, educator, and lover of noodles. She's taught a variety of elementary grades in urban classrooms in California and internationally. She is passionate about the intersection of picture books, identity, and important conversations and is the content creator of the Instagram @AsianLitForKids.