Look and Cook Breakfast: A First Book of Recipes in Pictures

by Valorie Fisher

Overview

A Good Housekeeping Best Kids’ Book of 2024! In this companion title to Look and Cook Snacks, these easy-to-follow and engaging visual recipes will have kids ages 4–8 making their favorite breakfast dishes for the whole family to enjoy!

Designed for children who can’t yet read, Look and Cook Breakfast: A First Book of Recipes in Pictures is a must-have introduction to cooking for kids. Following the same easy-to-read visual layout of Look and Cook Snacks, this cookbook features delicious sweet and savory breakfast recipes for the whole family to enjoy—homemade granola, zucchini muffins, and more! Key features for kids include:

• Step-by-step visual instructions: Let kids who can’t yet read and visual learners guide their own cooking journey.
• A guide to kitchen basics: Learn skills like mixing and measuring, and proper handling of safe-to-use kitchen equipment.
• Family-friendly recipes: Delicious, easy, and healthy breakfast dishes for the entire family to enjoy making and eating together!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781662620683
Publisher:	Astra Publishing House
Publication date:	11/05/2024
Series:	Look and Cook
Pages:	56
Product dimensions:	8.88(w) x 11.31(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Valorie Fisher is the author of numerous books for kids, which have earned multiple starred reviews and have been named best books of the year by Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Parenting, and Child, among others.

Editorial Reviews

A Good Housekeeping Best Kids’ Book of 2024.

"Five-Star Cookbook. Wannabe chefs who don’t know how to read (or who are just learning) can follow recipes from this innovative visually driven cookbook.” - Good Housekeeping

“Perfect for non-readers who really want to follow a recipe and create in the kitchen.” - Growing Book by Book

"Perfect for the smallest kitchen helper, ages 5 to 8." - The Bookworm Sez syndicated column

“Picture perfect breakfasts. Novice chefs ready to prepare luscious breakfasts will appreciate this handsomely designed photographic cookbook featuring 20 nutritious morning repasts… The captivating images consist of photos of dollhouse ‘miniature sets’ with racially diverse doll-size human figures. Endpapers highlight labeled photos of scrumptious fruits. Ambitious young cooks will eat this up.” – Kirkus Reviews


“A thoroughly ‘kid friendly’ introduction to cooking. Fun and unreservedly recommended.” - Midwest Book Review

"A wonderful introduction to cooking for young readers… this will be a fun read for families to enjoy morning after morning." - Youth Services Book Review, starred review

From the Publisher

2024-08-03
Picture-perfect breakfasts.

Novice chefs ready to prepare luscious breakfasts will appreciate this handsomely designed photographic cookbook featuring 20 nutritious morning repasts. The table of contents notes that the book uses symbols designating the number of servings that each recipes makes, the time needed to carry out a step or to prepare a dish, and, crucially, when a step requires adult supervision or intervention. A minimally worded, three-part introduction lists kitchen tools such as tablespoons and cutting boards, explains pre-cooking basics such as washing hands and gathering essentials beforehand, and offers instruction on using tools and measuring and preparing ingredients. The recipes follow; children will appreciate names such as “Bear Poop” (mixed berries with granola and yogurt), “Cinnamon Snail” (muffins with swirls of cinnamon), and “Choco Pillow” (a simplified pain au chocolat–esque creation). Recipes begin with captioned pictures of equipment and quantities of ingredients, followed by numbered, wordless, step-by-step instructions, generally including visuals of final products. The directions are mostly comprehensible, though cooks may have to refer to ingredient and tool lists. As needed, variations and substitute ingredients are provided; for some dishes, Fisher suggests recipes elsewhere in the book that will go well together. The captivating images consist of photos of dollhouse “miniature sets” with racially diverse doll-size human figures. Endpapers highlight labeled photos of scrumptious fruits.

Ambitious young cooks will eat this up.(Informational picture book. 5-9)

Kirkus Reviews