Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes: A Cookbook for Preschoolers and Up by Mollie Katzen, Ann L. Henderson, Ann L. Henderson
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- Age Range: 3 to 8
- Pub. Date: March 2004
- 96pp
- Sales Rank: 17,437
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: March 2004
- Publisher: Ten Speed Press
- Format: Hardcover, 96pp
- Sales Rank: 17,437
- Age Range: 3 to 8
- ISBN-13: 9781883672065
- ISBN: 1883672066
Synopsis
In this sequel to her classic Pretend Soup--considered by many to be the gold standard of children’s cookbooks--award-winning author/illustrator Mollie Katzen works her magic with 20 new, child-tested recipes including such delicacies as Counting Soup, Chewy Energy Circles, and Polka Dot Rice. Each illustrated recipe offers the child chef the opportunity to count, measure, mix, assemble, and most important, have fun. Designed as do-together projects--with the child as chef and the adult as assistant--these kitchen adventures will give children confidence in their cooking skills and inspire a life-long healthy relationship with food. With Salad People and a little time in the kitchen, budding chefs will cheer: “I like it because I made it myself!”
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Pretend Soup lets young children put on the chef's hat with a grown-up there to help and guide. Together with an early childhood educator, Mollie Katzen combines her renowned cooking talents and her whimsical artistry in a recipe collection that is sure to excite budding young chefs--and teach them a thing or two along the way.
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The celebrated author of The Moosewood cookbooks offers deliciously healthy recipes for young chefs in this attractive and kid-friendly cookbook. Each recipe (there are nineteen plus a few extra ideas) has three parts: an adult preparation section, a printed version of the recipe, and a two-page comic-like sequence showing the steps from "Beginning" to "Eat!" Along the way chef Katzen and preschool teacher Henderson share their wisdom about kids in the kitchen, kids being safe, and kids' relationship with food. Try it all-the food-the kitchen tips-the advice-it's all delicious-even if it isn't all as easy as it looks.
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ANN HENDERSON is a credentialed early childhood education specialist and is co-director of the Child Education Center in Berkeley, California.
MOLLIE KATZEN is a cookbook author and artist who has profoundly shaped the way America eats. Mollie is a consultant and cocreator of Harvard's groundbreaking Food Literacy Project. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes: A Cookbook for Preschoolers and Upby Anonymous
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September 05, 2006: This cookbook is a wonderful way to get children involved with Family meals, and by doing so, open their minds and palates to healthier ways of eating. I am a Mother to a 3 year old girl who is an adventurous eater, and a 4.5 year old boy who is quite the opposite of his sister. We're vegetarians and encourage our kids to eat plenty of fruits and veggies (as any family should, regardless of diet). The kids have a few standbys that we can fall back on, but it's important to me to add variety for their diet. It's tough with a picky eater, and even my adventuresome daughter turn's her nose up at certain things. However, all of this has changed with the introduction of 'Pretend Soup'. My kids help with the menu selection for the week and choose a recipe from the book to make. 'Green Spaghetti' was a big hit, with both kids asking for second helpings, though they would touch pesto a week before. Not only were they enthusiastic about the dish they helped to prepare, but they were more open to the other dishes at the meal, and both kids also happily ate beets for the first time! The book is laid out with a set of written instructions with helpful tips for parents, but the following pages contain simple pictoral directions that even my toddlers can follow. It helps the kids have more ownership of their food to be able to not only help prepare it, but be able to follow along and tell Mom what has to happen next. Katzen includes tips on how to make each recipe age appropriate for both younger and older children, so this cookbook can work for families with kids of any age. I highly reccomend Katzen's kids cookbooks to any family who wants to cultivate healthy eating and a love of food and cooking.
Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes: A Cookbook for Preschoolers and Upby Anonymous
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October 18, 2000: Being a professional and working with special needs kids, I have found the layout of this book to be fantastic for those who need a lot of visual information to learn. Excellent!
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