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Leedy, Loreen

The Edible Pyramid: Good Eating Every Day

32 pp. | Holiday | May, 2007 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8234-2074-2 $17.95 | Paper ISBN 978-0-8234-2075-9 $6.95
New ed. (1994)

(4) K-3 At the grand opening of the Edible Pyramid restaurant, a cat maître d' goes over the menu--the Department of Agriculture's Food Guide Pyramid--with the other animals. Though the text is a bit dry, the clear, amusing illustrations do their best to explain the government's recently revised recommendations on how many servings from each class of foods to eat each day.

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