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.
Part of the ‘Here We Are’ series: the identity-affirming picture book series created to help families and educators discuss diversity and promote inclusion through everyday topics.