Chato's Kitchen by Gary Soto, illustrated by Susan Guevara, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, NY, 1995
When Chato, the Los Angeles barrio cat invites six mice to his Mexican feast, hoping to make them the main course to go with the tortillas, beans, salsa, guacamole and fajitas he is cooking in his kitchen, he assumes,"No problema", that their friend will be just another mouse.
Saturday Sancocho by Leyla Torres, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, NY, 1995
Maria Lili's grandmother finds a way to to barter just one dozen eggs for all the ingredients of a hearty chicken stew by careful bargaining in the village marketplace.
The Mash and Smash Cookbook; Fun and Yummy Recipes Every kid Can Make! by Marian Buck-Murray, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1998
Detailed step by step illustrated directions for making 50 easy, healthy recipes with little or no dangerous equipment starting with a "Wake Up Shake-up," with "Tom's Teriaki Chicken" in the "Suppper Stuff" section and ending with "Thumbprint Cookies.
Pioneer Farm Cooking; Exploring History Through Simple Recipes by Mary Gunderson, Blue Earth Books, Capstone Press, Mankato, MN, 2000
A discussion of the cooking methods and common foods of the pioneers who setled in the Midwest in the late 1800s and early 1900s. it includes recipes, references and some internet sites with related material.
Roses Sing on New Snow; A Delicious Tale by Paul Yee, illustrated by Harvey Chan, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, NY 1991
Maylin cooks in her father's restaurant in Chinatown in the "New World' but her lazy brothers get the credit until the governor from the Old World finds that they can't cook and then gets a lesson in cooking from her.
Eating Fractions by Bruce McMillan, Scholastic Inc., New York, NY 1991
You can learn about simple fractions by looking at the photos of these four recipes before they are divided and after they have been cut into slices for serving.
Jam Day by Barbara M. Joosse, illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, NY 1987
Ben and his mother are just two but at his grandparents house he is part of a big family that all help to pick berries and make jam.
The Healthy Body Cookbook; Over Fifty Fun Activities and Delicious Recipes for Kids by Joan D'Amico and Karen Eich Drummond, illustrated by Tina Cash-Walsh, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1999
This cookbook teaches cooking skills and relates the recipe ingredients to the nutrients required by various parts of the body. An appendix gives the nutrient content per serving for each recipe.
The Princess and the Pizza by Mary Jane and Herm Auch, Holiday House, New York, NY 2002
The hilarious story of an out of work princess who applies to become the bride of Prince Drupert but has to pass several standard fairy tale princess tests, like the pea under the matresses, first and a final cooking contest.
The Pizza That We Made by Joan Holub, illustrated by Lynne Cravath, Viking Books, Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, New York, NY, 2001
In this easy to read book, in rhyme except for the recipe at the end, three young cooks have fun making their own pizza, then cleaning up the mess and eating the hot slices.
A Song for Lena by Hilary Horder Hippely, ilustrated by Leslie Baker, Simon and Schuster Books For Young Readers, New York, NY, 1996
The story of a song that Lena's grandmother, who remembers it from her own childhood in Hungary, sings whenever she bakes strudel.
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