Whats Your Favorite Food?, Eric Carle
Whats Your Favorite Food?, Eric Carle
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What's Your Favorite Food?

Author: Eric Carle

Series: Eric Carle and Friends' What's Your Favorite #4

Narrator: Fred Berman, Melinda Sewak

Unabridged: 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/17/2025

Synopsis

A new title in the Eric Carle and Friends What's Your Favorite audiobook series, in which Eric Carle and thirteen other beloved children's book artists share their favorite foods and explain why they love them. What's Your Favorite Food? features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun!

Everybody has a favorite food. Some enjoy sweet treats like rich honey or ripe, juicy berries. Others prefer the savory comforts of warming matzo ball soup or creamy chicken Alfredo. Through charming personal stories, fourteen children's book artists share their favorite foods and why they love them. Artists include: Aki, Isabelle Arsenault, Brigette Barrager, Matthew Cordell, Benji Davies, Karen Katz, Laurie Keller, Juliet Menendez, Greg Pizzoli, Misa Saburi, Felicita Sala, Dan Santat, Shannon Wright.

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.

About Eric Carle

Eric Carle (1929-2021) was one of America’s leading children’s book illustrators and authors. Author of more than seventy books, his picture book career started when Bill Martin Jr invited him to create the illustrations for Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? That book went on to sell millions of copies worldwide and Eric soon began writing and illustrating his own books, eventually creating the bestselling classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Born in the United States, Eric also spent many of his early years in Germany where he studied typography and graphic art at the Academy of Applied Art in Stuttgart.Carle was the recipient of many honors including the American Library Association’s Children’s Literature Legacy Award and the Original Art Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Illustrators. In addition to writing and illustrating books of his own, he also collaborated on several others, including Bill Martin Jr's Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?, Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Why Noah Chose the Dove, and the Eric Carle and Friends’ What’s Your Favorite picture book series. The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, which Carle and his wife Bobbie founded, opened in Amherst, Massachusetts in 2002.

About Fred Berman

Fred Berman is a five-time winner of the AudioFile Earphone Award for Audiobook Narration and the recipient of the 2013 Audie Award for narration in Spy the Lie. He has read a number of audiobooks for young listeners, including Judy Blume’s Soupy Saturdays with The Pain & The Great One and Andrew Clements’s The Last Holiday Concert. He has also narrated the audiobooks for Robert Kirkman’s popular series, The Walking Dead.Berman is an accomplished actor of both the stage and screen as well, performing on Broadway as Timon in The Lion King and off-Broadway in Hamlet, Twelfth Night, and King Lear. On television, Berman has had roles on NBC’s hit series Smash as well as All My Children and Law and Order. He lives in New York City.

About Melinda Sewak

Melinda Sewak (she/her/hers) is an Emmy-nominated story chaser, whose rich, lyrical, and welcoming voice brings life to an ever-growing cast of characters. Her facility with language is deeply immersive and has added dimension to 25+ audiobooks, ranging from children’s fiction to YA to romantic comedy to fantasy. Melinda has been fine-tuning her ability to convey the truth and the comedy in every story by drawing on her own diverse life experiences as a Black, queer creator – having grown up as a first-generation Haitian-American, graduated with a BA in Theater Studies from Yale University, toured as a jazz a cappella singer, worked as a firefighter and rescuer, conducted and published critical care and emergency medicine research, attended medical school, coached as a certified personal trainer, served as a Shakespeare teaching artist, worked in IT as a data and business analyst – and professionally acting on stage and screen. While varied, the through-line has always been a love for people and storytelling – and an always-present desire, evident in the rhythm and curiosity that exude from her voice, to discover, to share, and to connect with story and listener alike.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Peacegal on June 02, 2021

In this unique book, a variety of children's authors and illustrators create an ode to their favorite food. Some write a poem; some just a few lines--but all illustrate their fave meals in their own signature style. And it's not all super-familiar stuff--there are foods from a variety of cultures on......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on August 09, 2019

Thirteen illustrators join noted artist Eric Carle in identifying their favorite foods and then offering an explanation for why they love those foods so much. Some of the creative expressions and tributes will surprise readers while others will most likely be the same foods they might have chosen. F......more

Goodreads review by Kylie2018 on November 02, 2019

Different Illustrators have been invited to write a little about their favourite food and do a two page illustration. While it is interesting and helpful to have an example of different illustrators and styles in one place, the book does not expand on any food related concepts and so the experience......more

Goodreads review by Becky on December 08, 2019

Eric Carle and 13 other illustrators share their favorite foods. Each illustrator gets a 2 page spread in which they share their favorite food. The format of the text varies from poems to short paragraphs, to just a sentence or two. Each page spread is illustrated by the person talking about their f......more

Quotes

"A book certain to engross and enthrall." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review, on What's Your Favorite Color?

"A creative collection to savor one-on-one or to spark classroom art and writing exercises." —School Library Journal, starred review, on What's Your Favorite Color?

"A varied and engaging omnibus that offers real insight into the lives and personalities of these artists." —Publishers Weekly, starred review, on What's Your Favorite Animal?

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