How It Happened! Pizza: The Cool Stories and Facts Behind Every Slice

by Paige Towler, WonderLab Group

Overview

Find out how pizza became the world’s favorite comfort food in this nonfiction book, part of the HOW IT HAPPENED! Series. 

Did you know that every hour, more than one million slices of pizza are eaten in the United States? But this cheesy flatbread had a long journey before becoming a global comfort food. This fact-filled book delivers the deep dish on pizza culture, history, and science. Whether you like thin crust or Sicilian-style, this book is one that pizza lovers won’t want to miss!  

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781454945017
Publisher:	Union Square Kids
Publication date:	11/07/2023
Series:	How It Happened
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	198 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

WonderLab Group is a custom-content-creation and editorial-services firm specializing in publishing, audio, and digital content in the areas of children’s nonfiction and STEM. Their focus is on developing programmatic and 360-degree content to build nonfiction brands and franchises that promote science and inspire curious kids. 

Editorial Reviews

This enticing book uses ever-popular, seemingly omnipresent pizza to reinforce all kinds of curriculum concepts . . . . This current offering serves as a delectable addition for both school and public library collections." —Booklist STARRED Review

“This is a very well-researched text about the origins of this common food, and will be a new favorite of anyone who loves pizza. A thorough and compelling book about a food that everyone loves. Highly recommended.”—School Library Journal STARRED Review
 

From the Publisher

★ 12/01/2023

Gr 3–6—For readers who have bitten into a slice of their favorite pizza and considered how lucky they were to have this sublime food in their lives, here are the cool facts about pizza, the origins of its ingredients, and how it became popular all around the world. Every culture has their own take on a flatbread delicacy, and some countries have even put their own spin on pizza toppings. Towler encourages readers to come up with their own spin on pizza and to create pizza art. This book is incredibly eye-appealing, with its vibrant colors (evocative of the 1990s) and photographs of delicious pizza. A table of contents, glossary, and index are included. There is also a pizza time line showing its evolution. Some pages feature questions to encourage readers to think critically about pizza such as, "Is pizza a sandwich?" Quotations from celebrities about pizza and interesting pizza facts are interspersed within each chapter. This is a very well-researched text about the origins of this common food, and will be a new favorite of anyone who loves pizza. VERDICT A thorough and compelling book about a food that everyone loves. Highly recommended.—Kristin J. Anderson

School Library Journal