Be The Noodle

Be the Noodle is based on the author's four-month odyssey helping her headstrong mother, Bette, live at home while dying.

Noodle is an active old pug, but one day when his favorite human lifts him up Noodle just flops over like he as no bones and Jonathan soon learns that not every day can be a Bones Day, and sometimes a No Bones Day is exactly what you need to get through the week.

One day the dog fairy arrives to grant Noodle a wish: "What size and shape do you want to be?" Noodle asks all the animals at the zoo what he should wish for, only to discover he might just be perfect - exactly the way he is. Originally published in 1937, Noodle is a classic with a quiet wisdom that continues to hold true today. "Readers young and old will flock to the classic tale of the lovable Dachshund." - Publishers Weekly

"When Noodle visits the farm, he pets all of the farm animals and learns their noises - Moo! And you can, too, with this touch-and-feel book"--Page 2 of cover.

Famous for her pasta parties, Noodlephant is shocked when the law-loving kangaroos decide noodles are only for them! Noodlephant won’t let this stand—Noodlephants can’t survive on sticks and branches, after all. Determined to do something to push back against an unjust law, she and her friends invent a machine that transforms pens into penne, pillows into ravioli, and radiators into radiatori. With that, the pasta parties are back! But that very night, the kangaroos come bounding through the door... ready to enforce their unjust laws. A zany tale full of pasta puns, friendship, and one Phantastic Noodler, Noodlephant, written by Jacob Kramer and illustrated by K-Fai Steele, explores a community’s response to injustice.

A food writer travels the Silk Road, immersing herself in a moveable feast of foods and cultures and discovering some surprising truths about commitment, independence, and love. As a newlywed traveling in Italy, Jen Lin-Liu was struck by culinary echoes of the delicacies she ate and cooked back in China, where she’d lived for more than a decade. Who really invented the noodle? she wondered, like many before her. But also: How had food and culture moved along the Silk Road, the ancient trade route linking Asia to Europe—and what could still be felt of those long-ago migrations? With her new husband’s blessing, she set out to discover the connections, both historical and personal, eating a path through western China and on into Central Asia, Iran, Turkey, and across the Mediterranean. The journey takes Lin-Liu into the private kitchens where the headscarves come off and women not only knead and simmer but also confess and confide. The thin rounds of dough stuffed with meat that are dumplings in Beijing evolve into manti in Turkey—their tiny size the measure of a bride’s worth—and end as tortellini in Italy. And as she stirs and samples, listening to the women talk about their lives and longings, Lin-Liu gains a new appreciation of her own marriage, learning to savor the sweetness of love freely chosen.

Bear loves noodles. Fat noodles, thin noodles, flat noodles, crispy noodles - he'll eat them all! But will getting all the noodles he could ever dream of make him happy? Bear is hungry. Hungry for noodles! Bear's friends suggest alternatives (Acorns? Sticks? Grass? No, thank you!). With no noodles to be found in the forest, Bear must journey to the big city. There he gets all the noodles he could ever want as a contestant on the noodle eating game show "Noodle Knockout". It brings fame, fortune and, of course, noodles. But all the noodles in the world can't replace the home and friends that he loves.

Noodle has a fun-filled day at the zoo with his father, in a book with engaging touch-and-feel accents.