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Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes: A Cookbook for Preschoolers & 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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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 t...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 t...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. Thi...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. Thi...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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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...more
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...more
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 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!
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...more
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!
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
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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.
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.
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.
All four of my children have started their independent cooking with this book, and absolutely love it. They tell me they'll use it with their kids. It's a wonderful children's cookbook.
Great recipes for 3-5 year olds to make "for themselves" with only a little help from mom or dad. The recipes in this book are more basic than those in Salad People.
Great recipes and the format (recipe written for "adult helpers" first, then in picture form for the kids to read follows) is genius.
This book is so creative and easy to follow that my preschooler can follow and make these recipes.
Tasty, easy to make recipes with clear directions. Kids can definitely master these.
A wonderful cookbook for kids or cooking challenged grown-ups!!!
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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 h...more
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