Natural, Artificial, and Man-Made

Introduce your child to the historical and modern context of food production and distribution in the children’s book Natural, Artificial, and Man-Made.

Where does your food come from, and is it natural or modified? Learn about how ancient trade routes and selective breeding have impacted food production and distribution throughout history.

Book Features:

• This children’s book features a glossary, after-reading questions, and an extension activity to help develop reading comprehension skills.
• 32 pages of vibrant photographs

About Rourke Educational Media:

We proudly publish respectful and relevant nonfiction and fiction titles that represent our diverse readers, and are designed to support reading on a level that has no limits!

| This nonfiction book describes the historical and modern contexts for human intervention in food production and plant distribution—from ancient trade routes for spices to selective breeding of crops to modern genetic modification. | Do you know where the vanilla comes from in your vanilla ice cream? What about the corn in your tortilla? Have you ever seen a chicken in the wild? Or a purple carrot? Journey to Madagascar to hand-pollinate vanilla orchids, to Persia where carrots are selectively bred, or to our own backyard where crops are genetically modified to see how humans shape the foods we eat.