Illustrations and brief text explore some of the food names that people use as terms of endearment.

With encouragement from her supportive lunchbox, a young girl ignores a classmate's teasing and heartily enjoys bao buns, stinky tofu, and other tasty lunches prepared by her Taiwanese grandmother.

A child describes his first birthday party.

Sitting quietly in his garden, a little boy observes the eating habits of birds, bugs, butterflies, and other small animals. Includes instructions on how to make your own garden and a detailed illustration of plants typically found in a garden.

The new lunch lady at Ella Mentry School, Ms. LaGrange, writes secret messages in the mashed potatoes and tries her best to get A.J. and the other students to eat healthy foods.

The letters of the alphabet are represented by an assortment of ogres devouring all sorts of foods.

On Halloween night all the ghoulish creatures gather for a party of their own, which include a unique array of "goodies."

Sly uses her detective skills to help her friends solve the case of something fishy, something cooking, and something seedy.

Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow, where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers--until the weather takes a turn for the worse.

"Gigi tries natto, a traditional Japanese food. But will she like it as much as peanut butter?"--Back cover.