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Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes: A Cookbook for Preschoolers and Up
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,...more
Hardcover, 96 pages
Published
April 1st 1994
by Tricycle Press
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Jun 04, 2010
KidsNonFiction Teton County Library
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This book is great for preschoolers, parents, and teachers. There are easy step by step instructions in pictures to make the recipes. As a preschool teacher, I have made copies of each picture in a recipe before, and made them into individual cards to hand to each child. Then we look at the recipe together, and sequence the cards and children. This is developmentally appropriate for this age group because sequencing is involved, and each child knows when it is their turn to help...more
This book is great for preschoolers, parents, and teachers. There are easy step by step instructions in pictures to make the recipes. As a preschool teacher, I have made copies of each picture in a recipe before, and made them into individual cards to hand to each child. Then we look at the recipe together, and sequence the cards and children. This is developmentally appropriate for this age group because sequencing is involved, and each child knows when it is their turn to help...more
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This book is great for preschoolers, parents, and teachers. There are easy step by step instructions in pictures to make the recipes. As a preschool teacher, I have made copies of each picture in a recipe before, and made them into individual cards to hand to each child. Then we look at the recipe together, and sequence the cards and children. This is developmentally appropriate for this age group because sequencing is involved, and each child knows when it is their turn to help. This makes the...more
This book is great for preschoolers, parents, and teachers. There are easy step by step instructions in pictures to make the recipes. As a preschool teacher, I have made copies of each picture in a recipe before, and made them into individual cards to hand to each child. Then we look at the recipe together, and sequence the cards and children. This is developmentally appropriate for this age group because sequencing is involved, and each child knows when it is their turn to help. This makes the...more
I bought this for my four-year-old and three-year-old to use. Today the 4yo made a recipe from it (Pink Fruit Dip), and I could swear that she grew about five inches while putting everything together. By the time she was done and serving the dip to all of us, she was beaming from ear to ear. This is a fantastic book for letting little ones start to learn about reading recipes and following directions, as well as engaging them in the kitchen. And the pride they get from making something all by th...more
This book is a must for any kid interested in cooking. The recipes are illustrated, so even non-readers can follow along. And all the recipes we've tried have been yummy. Thank you Mollie Katzen!
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Let's be clear - this is, as advertised, a cookbook for preschoolers, and has to be evaluated in that context. My five-year-old daughter loves it with the sort of passion that only small children loves things. She will "read" it on her own. She wants to make something different out of it every day. I'm never going to make a recipe from this book without her.
Ann's run into some occasional discrepancies between the adult and kid recipes. There's the occasional vague iconography and inconsistent s...more
Ann's run into some occasional discrepancies between the adult and kid recipes. There's the occasional vague iconography and inconsistent s...more
Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes: A Cookbook for Preschoolers and Up, by Mollie Katzen is in the genre of Informational Texts and recommended for children aged 3 years and older. In the book there are recipes like Counting Soup, Chewy Energy Circles, and Polka Dot Rice. I feel this book would be good to use in a variety of subjects like writing and science. The recipes in the boom are healthy and it's excellent for parents to do together with their children. What I love about this book is tha...more
Pretend Soup by Mollie Katzen
Various recipes for kids to make. Not only are these healhy
but they are visually stimulating and they are not hard to
kids to do the making themselves. Reminds me of the time I
helped my mother in law who was in charge of the local Head
Start Nutrition for all the kids put together a recipe book
for kids to make the food. The drawings and colors and food
used is a big help. Recipes for Fruit drinks in the blender
and other foods kids will eat are included.
Various recipes for kids to make. Not only are these healhy
but they are visually stimulating and they are not hard to
kids to do the making themselves. Reminds me of the time I
helped my mother in law who was in charge of the local Head
Start Nutrition for all the kids put together a recipe book
for kids to make the food. The drawings and colors and food
used is a big help. Recipes for Fruit drinks in the blender
and other foods kids will eat are included.
Loved this! I had a cherished cookbook as a young child, so I got this (and Salad People) for my son, and he was thrilled. He loves to cook, and the pictures are a big help. He's only 3.5, so he can't read, but he'll say "Ok Mommy, now we throw in the strawberries'- so, ok, they are supposed to be cherry tomatoes, who cares! The best part is that they are 100% vegetarian, so all the fun, without the stress of eliminating ingredients that we don't eat.
This is one of those books I wish I could give two ratings. The clarity of recipe instructions is wonderful and they could easily be followed by a preschooler if read aloud. However there were maybe 3 recipes in the entire book that my family could use due to our lactose- and gluten-free requirements. So while I would recommend this book to friends with budding young chefs, it's not a cookbook we'll be using.
My mother gave this to Beetle. We have cooked several things from it over the years. Mom taught the Little One how to make French Toast from this cookbook. She still loves it!
The illustrations on how to proceed through recipes is unique and awesome!
The illustrations on how to proceed through recipes is unique and awesome!
My kids LOVE this book!!!! Arwin wants to cook something from it every day!
So I am thinking about buying "Salad People" too so we will have some more variety of recipes! Also they will eat what they make and it is healthy too!
So I am thinking about buying "Salad People" too so we will have some more variety of recipes! Also they will eat what they make and it is healthy too!
Given to me by my son in 1994 and is inscribed by him.
Packing away now as we declutter the house, preparing to put it on the market.
Packing away now as we declutter the house, preparing to put it on the market.
Great book with mostly healthy, fun recipes for the younger kids. Provides the traditional recipe format along with the picture version.
I like the concept of this book: A cookbook for kids . . . REALLY for kids . . . I mean, with pictorial instructions and simple words that even a preschooler truly could follow. My biggest complaint (which almost earned the book 2 stars) is simply that many of the recipes sound, well, icky (i.e., noodle pudding and oatmeal surprise--I'd be worried about any food with the word "surprise" in it). Ultimately, the recipes that DO sound good are so standard (french toast, blueberry pancakes, fruit sa...more
I love all of Molly Katzen's cookbooks for children- Pretend Soup, Honest Pretzels and Salad People. They make great gifts.
this has gotten my daughter super-excited about cooking. she's regularly contributing to dinner and the snack bin now.
Very cute - love the pictures for the recipes! We did make a few of the "recipes" like bagel faces and salad bar. Fun!
My daughter loved using this book to cook just like Mom. We shared lots of quality time in the kitchen with this book.
I heart this book! The girls and I have already cooked up Pretend Soup, Hide-and-Seek Muffins, and Blueberry Pancakes. And, many more great recipes to come! They love being mini chefs, and the best part of their day is presenting their culinary creations to Daddy. A great feature of this book is the step-by-step instructions in pictures and simple words that even young children can easily decipher. I love that each week we can pick out a recipe or two, go shopping for the ingredients, make it, a...more
My 3 year old adores this book.
cooking with preschoolers
this is my favorite cookbook
This is a really great cookbook for children. Each recipe appears twice, first in a regular format for the adults to read and then in a kid friendly picture format for the child to follow. It's designed in a way for the child to do most of the work with the adults as their "partner" so it's really neat. The pictures are clear and easy to follow and the recipes themselves are pretty basic but fun and yummy sounding. All of the recipes are vegetarian.
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What a great idea! This book isn't written for kids to help their parents, it's for parents to help their kids. Each recipe is written for parents first, then you turn the page for pictorial instructions that a child can follow. We haven't actually tried any of the recipes yet, but I'm inspired now to give my four-year-old son a bigger role in preparing our meals.
I purchased this book awhile back and I absolutely love it. Audrey has so much fun learning how to cook with it...she can't wait until she can make something else! So fun. I would highly recommend it if you have a child that seems interested in cooking!
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21 months - you like everything "cooking" so although we didn't cook any of these recipes we talked about them and discussed the great step by step instructions. We will borrow this book again and make some pretend soup! I love the idea of using photocopies cut up for sequencing exercises before making the recipe.
Jan 04, 2008
Susan
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
little cooks and their helpers
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I must confess to not using this book a lot (not the book's fault, I really don't cook) but it's a lovely read - and it was sent to me by the author after I interviewed her. She was such a decent, nice, warm person to interview when so many were not - and she inscribed it to my kids. Very cool.
We now have several aprons for Alex thanks to these cookbooks, which got him into cooking at an early age, even before "Ratatouille" was released. we read these at bedtime and *not* in the kitchen. Although I did try some of the recipes with him as a separate activity.
The recipes are followed with step-by-step drawings for the kids to follow. Each recipe is preceded by a handful of quotes by very young children that seem to have been made during the cooking process or after tasting the result. These are quite amusing.
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Educated at the Eastman School of Music, Cornell University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. Although her formal training was as an artist and musician, she exhibited natural cooking inclinations from a very early age, and cooked professionally - in restaurants and as a caterer - for ten years. In 1973 she was one of the founders of the Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca, New York, and during her...more
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