{"id":37171,"date":"2021-10-08T21:25:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T01:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=37171"},"modified":"2021-10-08T21:25:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T01:25:23","slug":"review-of-popcorn-country-by-cris-peterson-photographs-by-david-r-lundquist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=37171","title":{"rendered":"Review of Popcorn Country, by Cris Peterson, photographs by David R. Lundquist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/popcorn_country_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/popcorn_country_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-40194\" \/><\/a><em>Popcorn Country<\/p>\n<p>The Story of America\u2019s Favorite Snack<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Cris Peterson<br \/>\nphotographs by David R. Lundquist<\/p>\n<p>Boyds Mills Press (Highlights), 2019.  32 pages.<br \/>\nReview written February 8, 2020, from a library book<\/p>\n<p>Fair warning:  This book will make you hungry for popcorn.  I\u2019m a big fan of popcorn, so I couldn\u2019t resist learning about it in this picture book.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t realize that popcorn is a special kind of corn grown specifically to pop.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are four kinds of corn grown in the United States: dent corn, also called field corn, sweet corn, flint corn, and popcorn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We see those other examples, then we learn how popcorn is grown, harvested, and processed, with photographs all along the way.<\/p>\n<p>There are some interesting spreads when it tells how samples are tested for pop-ability.  And then the popcorn is loaded on trucks and ships.  I hadn\u2019t realized that the United States produces nearly all the world\u2019s popcorn.<\/p>\n<p>There are more interesting facts at the back.  The main body of the book itself is a lovely way to tell young elementary school kids where there favorite snack comes from.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crispeterson.com\/\">crispeterson.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/boydsmillsandkane.com\/\">boydsmillspress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1629798924\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/popcorn_country.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/popcorn_country.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popcorn Country The Story of America\u2019s Favorite Snack by Cris Peterson photographs by David R. Lundquist Boyds Mills Press (Highlights), 2019. 32 pages. Review written February 8, 2020, from a library book Fair warning: This book will make you hungry for popcorn. I\u2019m a big fan of popcorn, so I couldn\u2019t resist learning about it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-nonfiction-review","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37171"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40292,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37171\/revisions\/40292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}