Popcorn! (Charlesbridge) by Elaine Landau and Brian Lies is an informative fun book for children with lots of popcorn fantasies and facts. All you have to do is just pull up a chair and dig in!

This book is chock-full of tidbits about one of America's favorite snack foods. This is indeed an informative book where you learn what makes popcorn pop, how Native Americans liked their popcorn, and how television almost wiped out popcorn's future.

Students will use this attractive and informative book as both a resource for reports and as a fun read. This will be useful for classroom projects and report writers as well as entertaining reading for popcorn munchers, who will appreciate the popping and serving suggestions Landau includes.

Elaine Landau's clever, "Popcorn!” Written with wit, interesting on almost every page, and illustrated with flair, the book is a fine addition to any library (public or personal) that needs some honest-to-goodness interesting non-fiction topics to fill the shelves.

Pros: attractive for young readers