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Slurp, munch, crunch! Little hands will be turning the page to find out the real meals of animals! Would an armadillo order spaghetti with meatballs if she went to a restaurant? No way! Through a series of humorous questions and answers, young readers learn about animals, where they live, and what they eat.

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This engaging picture book offers nine different animals the choice of human food before identifying what their preferred meal would be. ... The illustrations are lively and humorous, and there is even a small menu on the last page from which human readers can choose their favorite items for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. This short text would be a great introduction to a unit on the preferred nutrition of various animals. - Reading Today Online If An Armadillo Went to a Restaurant offers children a funny yet factual taste of the culinary interests of some of our natural world's most iconic animals. ...From catchy phrasing to kid-cool illustrations, this is a book that will add smiles to faces and fascinating conversations to meal time. -- Glenn Dobrogosz, Executive Director, Greensboro Science Center, Zoo and Aquarium Yummy and yucky--the perfect formula for young readers to discover what animals eat. Ellen Fischer's imaginative and informative picture book encourages readers to make mealtime connections between humans and a delightful assortment of creatures craving their favorite foods. A masterful menu of humor, fun, and facts! -- Betty Hicks, author of The Worm Whisperer As a classroom teacher for over 30 years I am delighted to recommend this book with its endless possibilities for vocabulary development and use of descriptive language in addition to the factual knowledge presented. The clever ending offers a springboard for oral language development as well as writing. -- Ricki Gray, Classroom teacher, Guilford County, NC

If An Armadillo Went to a Restaurant offers children a funny yet factual taste of the culinary interests of some of our natural world's most iconic animals. ...From catchy phrasing to kid-cool illustrations, this is a book that will add smiles to faces and fascinating conversations to meal time. -- Glenn Dobrogosz, Executive Director, Greensboro Science Center, Zoo and Aquarium Yummy and yucky--the perfect formula for young readers to discover what animals eat. Ellen Fischer's imaginative and informative picture book encourages readers to make mealtime connections between humans and a delightful assortment of creatures craving their favorite foods. A masterful menu of humor, fun, and facts! -- Betty Hicks, author of The Worm Whisperer As a classroom teacher for over 30 years I am delighted to recommend this book with its endless possibilities for vocabulary development and use of descriptive language in addition to the factual knowledge presented. The clever ending offers a springboard for oral language development as well as writing. -- Ricki Gray, Classroom teacher, Guilford County, NC

Subtly revealing where animals live, what they eat, and various unusual, fun facts, this book is sure to be a favorite. Each page presents a hilarious scenario of a rattlesnake, hedgehog, ostrich, or octopus (among others) eyeing a human menu, their preferences relayed with singsong questions and colorful, inventive pictures. ... Factual and funny, it's a recipe for reading again and again. - ForeWord Reviews This engaging picture book offers nine different animals the choice of human food before identifying what their preferred meal would be. ... The illustrations are lively and humorous, and there is even a small menu on the last page from which human readers can choose their favorite items for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. This short text would be a great introduction to a unit on the preferred nutrition of various animals. -- Reading Today Online Beginning with the spaghetti-twirling armadillo on the cover, Wood's quirky creatures add to the humor, which might well spur listeners to make up some menus of their own. -- Kirkus Reviews If An Armadillo Went to a Restaurant offers children a funny yet factual taste of the culinary interests of some of our natural world's most iconic animals. ...From catchy phrasing to kid-cool illustrations, this is a book that will add smiles to faces and fascinating conversations to meal time. -- Glenn Dobrogosz, Executive Director, Greensboro Science Center, Zoo and Aquarium Yummy and yucky--the perfect formula for young readers to discover what animals eat. Ellen Fischer's imaginative and informative picture book encourages readers to make mealtime connections between humans and a delightful assortment of creatures craving their favorite foods. A masterful menu of humor, fun, and facts! -- Betty Hicks, author of The Worm Whisperer As a classroom teacher for over 30 years I am delighted to recommend this book with its endless possibilities for vocabulary development and use of descriptive language in addition to the factual knowledge presented. The clever ending offers a springboard for oral language development as well as writing. -- Ricki Gray, Classroom teacher, Guilford County, NC

"A Foreword Reviews' 2014 IndieFab Award Finalist for Picture Books Featured in BuzzFeed, recommended alongside Disney Junior's TV show Go, Diego, Go! Featured in Pregnancy & Newborn Magazine's ""15 terrific titles to add to your little one's library"" ""Whet your kiddo's appetite for reading with a silly story about the persnickety palates of out-to-eat animals.""--Pregnancy & Newborn Magazine ""My kids loved the book. It was the go-to nighttime story. It was on the couch when I got home, which would tell me that they read it again last night.""--Gavin Kaysen, Chef & Owner of Spoon and Stable restaurant, guest judge on Bravo TV's Top Chef, and competitor on the Food Network's The Next Iron Chef ""If [your kids] love Go, Diego, Go!, you should read them If an Armadillo Went to a Restaurant by Ellen Fischer and Laura Wood.""--BuzzFeed ""Beginning with the spaghetti-twirling armadillo on the cover, Wood's quirky creatures add to the humor, which might well spur listeners to make up some menus of their own."" -- Kirkus Reviews ""Subtly revealing where animals live, what they eat, and various unusual, fun facts, this book is sure to be a favorite. Each page presents a hilarious scenario of a rattlesnake, hedgehog, ostrich, or octopus (among others) eyeing a human menu, their preferences relayed with singsong questions and colorful, inventive pictures. ... Factual and funny, it's a recipe for reading again and again."" -- Foreword Reviews ""This engaging picture book offers nine different animals the choice of human food before identifying what their preferred meal would be. ... The illustrations are lively and humorous, and there is even a small menu on the last page from which human readers can choose their favorite items for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. This short text would be a great introduction to a unit on the preferred nutrition of various animals."" -- Reading Today Online ""If An Armadillo Went to a Restaurant offers children a funny yet factual ""taste"" of the culinary interests of some of our natural world's most iconic animals. ...From catchy phrasing to ""kid-cool"" illustrations, this is a book that will add smiles to faces and fascinating conversations to meal time."" -- Glenn Dobrogosz, Executive Director, Greensboro Science Center, Zoo and Aquarium ""Yummy and yucky--the perfect formula for young readers to discover what animals eat. Ellen Fischer's imaginative and informative picture book encourages readers to make mealtime connections between humans and a delightful assortment of creatures craving their favorite foods. A masterful menu of humor, fun, and facts!"" -- Betty Hicks, author of The Worm Whisperer ""As a classroom teacher for over 30 years I am delighted to recommend this book with its endless possibilities for vocabulary development and use of descriptive language in addition to the factual knowledge presented. The clever ending offers a springboard for oral language development as well as writing."" -- Ricki Gray, Classroom teacher, Guilford County, NC"

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Ellen Fischer grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, but has been a North Carolina Tar Heel for over thirty years. She has taught elementary age children for over twenty years and is the mother of three. She is also the author of If an Elephant Went to School, Latke, the Lucky Dog, and several Sesame Street books, including Grover and Big Bird's Passover Celebration, It's a Mitzvah, Grover!, and The Count's Hanukkah Countdown. Laura Wood is a freelance illustrator currently living in England. She was born and raised in Italy and received a Bachelor of Cinema and Multimedia. She likes to combine both digital and traditional dry media to create childlike pictures with a sunny style and a folksy feeling. Laura Wood is also the illustrator for If an Elephant Went to a Restaurant, Lucy in the City, and The Cow Tripped Over the Moon.

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