ok, this has been bugging me. Can anyone help?

[Scoopons]

Its this children's book that I used to read when I was in Elementary. I think it had some award for illustration. Newberry Honor award? Anyways, i *think* the story goes like this:

this little child, either a boy or a girl has a bunch of brothers and sisters that don't want to play with her. One day all of them get kidnapped by some old man . He turns them into food. And the youngest one has to figure out who they are by the type of food they were.

It really isn't as gross and morbid as it sounds. The lady at barnes and nobles thought I was crazy nuts.

 

[anarkust]

So do I.

Gabriel

 

[Nerelda]

hmmmm...I don't think I've ever read that one...

 

[druvans]

silence of the lambs maybe

 

[Rockstar]

LOL LOL LOL I can't stop laughing! LOL LOL LOL Druvans and Anarkust crack me up! LOL LOL LOL

 

[penpen]

Its this children's book that I used to read when I was in Elementary. I think it had some award for illustration. Newberry Honor award? Anyways, i *think* the story goes like this:

this little child, either a boy or a girl has a bunch of brothers and sisters that don't want to play with her. One day all of them get kidnapped by some old man . He turns them into food. And the youngest one has to figure out who they are by the type of food they were.

OK, I'm haven't heard of anything like this, but in searching for something like what you're describing, I stumbled across something that sounds similar to the story you're describing, but not exactly. Is this the story you had in mind?

link

Heckedy Peg
by Audrey Wood, Don Wood (Illustrator)
From Publishers Weekly
Although text and art in this picture book match as hand and glove, it is really the ornate illustrations that carry it aloft to the dimension of classic fairytale. The mother of seven children (who are named for each day of the week) leaves for the market with a list of things for thembutter, knife, pitcher, honey, salt, crackers and egg pudding. The witch Heckedy Peg who "lost her leg" drops in on the kids and turns them into foodbread, pie, milk, porridge, fish, cheese and roast rib. The mother finds her children and saves them by matching each food item on her list, as in bread and butter, cheese and crackers, etc. The story has essential elements of playfulness and eeriness; also evident is a poetic license that effects a looseness in structure. The realistic figures of the happy inhabitants of the cottage are bathed in bursts of light, in contrast to the shadowy, ghastly hideout of Heckedy Peg. Ages 4-8.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

 

[Scoopons]

.. penPen... you are amazing!... I would never think to look for a book called heckedy Peg... but this is it! Awesome! Thank you so much! How did you find it?

 

[penpen]

.. penPen... you are amazing!... I would never think to look for a book called heckedy Peg... but this is it! Awesome! Thank you so much! How did you find it?

first i tried google using search the terms - man turns children into food, and there were a lot of *ahem* "interesting" results but nothing I could find about your story. so then i used vivisimo.com - it's awesome how they cluster search results.
http://vivisimo.com/search?tb=homepage&query=man+turns+children+into+food+&v:sources=Web
there was one category for "books", so i figured it would be there. the short blurb from the third result "Wood, Audrey E. HECKEDY PEG A witch turns seven children into food!" sounded a lot like your story, so I guessed that might be it.

 

[phpprincess]

penpen is amazing isn't she?!