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Children's Cookbooks

Even small children will enjoy some of these illustrated cooksbooks and older children will enjoy learning to cook healthy snacks, meals, and desserts.
Kids in the Holiday Kitchen
As the subtitle indicates, Kids in the Holiday Kitchen emphasizes making, baking, and giving. Kids in the Holiday Kitchen is a children’s cookbook that features recipes for meals, snacks, and desserts, as well as directions for a variety of holiday crafts. This cookbook for children includes treats for Christmas and Hanukkah.
Simply in Season Children's Cookbook
Fight childhood obesity with Simply in Season Children's Cookbook. Simply in Season Children's Cookbook stresses "Fun with food from garden to table." Use it to encourage your children to eat healthy foods and fight childhood obesity.
Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook: Inspired by Dr. Seuss
If you are looking for a family gift, I recommend the Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook: Inspired by Dr. Seuss. Each recipe is named after, and based on a quotation from a Dr. Seuss book. The Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook: Inspired by Dr. Seuss includes a wide variety of tasty and zany recipes.
Children's Picture Book - “Cook-A-Doodle-Doo!” A One-Recipe Children's Cookbook and A Children's Picture Book
"Cook-A-Doodle-Doo!" is both a funny children's picture book and a one-recipe children's cookbook. The picture book story is about the Little Red Hen's great-grandson who wants to learn to cook and the children's cookbook recipe is for Great-Granny’s Magnificent Strawberry Shortcake.
Children's Cookbooks Based on Favorite Children's Books - Children's Cookbooks That Feature Recipes Based on Children's Books
Encourage your children to cook by giving them children’s cookbooks with recipes based on foods in their favorite children’s books. The children’s books and stories highlighted in these children’s cookbooks include books by Roald Dahl, the Little House series, the Boxcar Children mysteries, The Chronicles of Narnia, favorite fairy tales, and others.
Children's Books - Cookbooks for Children
A good cookbook for kids can give your children a head start in learning to cook. If you are looking for a cookbook for your child, I recommend these children's cookbooks.
Cookbooks Based on Children's Books
Here's an excellent bibliography of children's cookbooks based on children's books, from Kay E. Vandergrift's Children's Literature page. Entries range from "The Fairy Tale Cookbook" to "Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes." Enjoy!
Recommended Children's Cookbooks
These brief reviews of recommended cookbooks are categorized by age level and provide the information you need to select a book for your child.
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