9 Titles for National Potato Day
I love potatoes, in fact, I might dare to say they’re my favorite food. Partially because you can do so many things with potatoes – chips, fries, mashed, smashed, baked, roasted – and they’re all amazing! Seriously, I love potatoes in all forms. And as today is National Potato Day, I had to share some potato-themed books on my blog. Because, why not?
I’m going to choose to blame my love of potatoes on my family’s Irish roots, but if you know anything about potatoes, you know that they didn’t originate in Ireland. They actually were first harvested by the Incan in Peru and other areas of South American including Colombia and Chile around 8000 BCE. IThey weren’t even brought to Europe until the 1500s. Most people equate potatoes to Ireland because of the Great Hunger, or Irish Potato Famine that lasted between 1845-1849.
Check out these fun facts about potato-loving people in the U.S. on National Today. Like, almost 1 in 4 people choose curly fries as their favorite! Nearly half the people surveyed, prefer Lay’s as their potato chip of choice.
9 Titles for National Potato Day
- Chip and Curly: The Great Potato Race by Cathy Breisacher, illustrated by Joshua Heinsz
- The Couch Potato by Jory John, illustrated by Pete Oswald
- The Enormous Potato by Aubrey Davis, illustrated by Dušan Petričić
- I’m Bored by Michael Ian Black, illustrated by Debbie Ridpath Ohi
- Mr. Crum’s Potato Predicament by Anne Renaud, illustrated by Felicita Sala
- My Life As a Potato by Arianne Costner
- Nory Ryan’s Song by Patricia Reilly Giff
- Potato Pants! by Laurie Keller
- Rot, the Cutest in the World! by Ben Clanton
