What's more appealing to a young reader, than a book filled with weird food. It is GROSS and kids LOVE the book.

This 32 page, colorfully illustrated book is filled with examples of VERY gross food from around the world. This goes back in history, as well, covering things like Mithradates inuring himself to poison by eating small quantities of it, and discussing how a more modern herpetologist survived by exposing himself to snake venom. Any odd part of an animal (feet, especially) that is eaten is discussed in nose wrinkling detail, with rather nauseatingly full color pictures. The e book version of this loads rather slowly, so it is hard to flip back through to look at the contents.
Strengths: Definitely gross, well formatted, and covers a wide variety of cultures in the world, as well as points in time.
Weaknesses: Definitely gross. I would buy this if it were AR, because the most reluctant readers would love this one.