Re: ID non-fiction picture books - bread factory & dairy farm

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Narnia Fan) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Do any of you remember an illustrated book about dairies that 
> explained where milk and ice cream come from and how they are 
> made?

Probably not, but possibly:

Lenski, Lois. MY FRIEND THE COW illustrated by Lenski. National Dairy
Council. 1946, 1947. about 34 pages, paper, very sweet
Also Ice Cream is Good, also published by the National Dairy Council
As it happens, somebody (not me or anybody I know) is selling a copy
of My Friend the Cow on e-bay right now, so you can look at the
pictures and see if that's your book:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3640891279&category=818
That seller includes lots of pictures of the inside of the booklet,
too.
Ice Cream is also up on e-bay right now, again, not by anybody I know,
and there's a pic of the cover.

Ali Mitgutsch did a series of "From Start to Finish" books for
Carolrhoda publishing.  They have titles like From milk to ice cream;
>From Grass to Butter; From grain to Bread.  Mine are hardbacks, but
they are small picture boks, and they may have once been published in
paperback.

You know, your descriptions sound vaguely like a picture book I
remember from a Sunday School class many years ago.  It was something
about thanking God for the food we eat, and then the story of how we
get from grain to bread.  The illustrations were Eloise Wilkins-like,
if not done by EW herself.  But I can't remember anything about the
title.  I must have been about 4, so we're talking over 35 years ago,
and I don't think the book was new then. Hmm.

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful,

Kanga

> It may have featured happy kids visiting the farm or maybe it 
> was just happy kids getting ice cream from the ice cream truck.  
> There may have been a picture of a milk truck.  There may have 
> been a scene wherein a kitten gets a squirt of milk straight 
> from the udder.  Then again, that may have just been a kitten 
> watching the process.
> 
> ---
> 
> Do any of you remember an illustrated book about bakeries 
> that explained where commercial quantity bread comes from 
> and how it is made?  I can picture one page showing a giant 
> rectangular loaf of dough rising in a huge rectangular metal 
> pan.  This image in my mind was of a color page.  Maybe it 
> was two such giant loaves, side by side.
> 
> ---
> 
> They were flimsy volumes, perhaps 10 to 20 pages long, probably
> softbound.  They may have been given out to young students on
> a tour of the factory or dairy.  For instance, Weber's Bread
> factory or Wonder Bread Factory may have printed the bakery
> one.
> 
> They must have been published before 1974, and may have been 
> published before 1969.
> 
> Can any of you remember any more details about this book?
> 
> NarniaFan