Bertrand. The Empanadas that Abuela Made

The Empanadas that Abuela Made is a children's book by Diane Gonzales Bertrand, with art by Alex Pardo DeLange, published in 2003. It is available at the Internet Archive, and it is a bilingual book: Las empanadas que hacía la abuela. 

Here is a YouTube read-along (the reading is just in English), and here is a Spanish YouTube reading:

The story starts with the empanadas, and then the ingredients: the pumpkin, the dough that folds over the pumpkin, the rolling pin that rolls out the dough, etc. It is told cumulatively with short lines in both English and Spanish (no rhyming in either language). Then the grandchildren who push the rolling pin, and the grandfather who hugs them, the dog who follows grandfather, the cousins who chase the dog, then the family who comes with the cousins, and finally the grandmother who feeds everybody with empanadas, and milk to drink, with happy faces all around. It ends with "This is Abuela who dreams of happy faces..."

Plus there is a recipe in the back for pumpkin empanadas. Yum! The recipe is given in both English and Spanish.

This is a beautiful book, and a perfect model for a simple chain story based on food and family. 

Baldwin. This is the Sea that Feeds Us

This is the Sea that Feeds Us is a children's book by Robert Baldwin, with art by Don Dyen, published in 1998. It is available at the Internet Archive.

Here is a YouTube read-along:

The story starts with the sea that feeds us, then the sun, then plankton making food from the light of the sun. The style is rhyming couplets, all long lines after we move on from the sun:

A nice feature of the book are informational notes next to the illustrations, set off from the story by using a different typeface, as you can see above.

Then comes a girl, then some wind which thrilled the girl, with her mother teaching her to fish on the shore, using a shrimp as bait, and the story becomes not so much a chain tale, as a story in verse, as you can see here:

Then at the very end, it returns to the food chain theme:

There is then some information at the end about sea ecology and how it provides food.

It's a nice book, but the chain tale dimension of it is not very strong; hence the 2-star rating.

Robart. The Cake that Mack Ate

The Cake that Mack Ate is a children's book by Rose Robart, with art by Maryann Kovalski, published in 1991. It is available at the Internet Archive.

This works backward from the cake to the egg to the chicken to the corn, to the seed, the farmer, the farmer's wife, and candles, very short lines (told cumulatively), but no rhyme:

...and then we learn: this is Mack!

And he was not supposed to eat that cake, ha ha.

It's not much of a story, but it is very simple and sweet, and I think young readers would probably enjoy it! It could also be an inspiration for a chain tale about some other pet misadventure. Everybody who has pets has pet misadventures like the cake that Mack ate.