Review By JENNIFER GANNETT We debated here at Vegbooks headquarters about reviewing this book — after all, it is neither a kids book nor a movie. In the end, we accepted a review copy, and the lucky job of reviewing fell to me! My family and friends didn’t seem to mind. I went into the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Cooking'
The Vegan Slow Cooker
November 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Tags:Best Family Cookbooks·Cookbooks·Cooking·Jennifer Gannett·vegan·Vegan Cookbooks·Vegetarian·Vegetarian Cookbooks
The Jumbo Vegetarian Cookbook
May 12th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Books
Review By JENNIFER GANNETT The Jumbo Vegetarian Cookbook is a handy resource for vegetarian parents who want to involve their children in the kitchen. Vegan families will have to either skip a number of the recipes or arrange for a work-around where dairy products and eggs are called for. The book contains a nice explanation [...]
Tags:Books for Vegetarian Kids·Cookbooks for Kids·Cooking·Early Elementary·Healthy Eating·Healthy Living·Jennifer Gannett·Older Elementary·Raising Vegetarian Kids·Vegetarian·Vegetarian Cookbooks·Vegetarian Cooking
Salad People and More Real Recipes: A New Cookbook for Preschoolers and Up
February 25th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY This cookbook is probably a great find for vegetarian families — since all of the recipes, geared to preschoolers, are vegetarian — but for vegans like us, it was a bit of a disappointment. Mollie Katzen’s recipes look good, but nearly every single one incorporates non-vegan ingredients, including eggs, dairy, and [...]
Tags:Cooking·Early Elementary·Kids Cookbooks·Mollie Katzen·Preschoolers·Recipes·Vegetarian Children·Vegetarian Cookbooks·Vegetarian Cooking
All the World
February 15th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY Liz Garton Scanlon and Marla Frazee teamed up to create All the World, a book so beautiful that it received the Caldecott Honor last year. (The Caldecott Medal went to The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney.) Capturing the magic of everyday moments , this book boasts several scenes that [...]
Tags:Beach·Bedtime·Caldecott Honor·Cooking·Depictions of Dairy in Books·Early Elementary·Family·Garden·Gardening·Honey·Liz Garton Scanlon·Marla Frazee·Nature·Preschoolers·Shore·Summer
Bringing In the New Year
February 9th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Books
Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL This story is a perfect introduction for youngsters to the Lunar New Year. It follows a Chinese family as they prepare and celebrate the coming new year. Simple sentences and colorful, energetic cartoon illustrations depict the cleaning, decorating, cooking, dressing and celebrating along with the reasons for each activity to bring [...]
Tags:Asia·Asian·Chinese New Year·Cleaning·Cooking·Cultural Traditions·Dumplings·Early Elementary·Ethnic Food·Grace Lin·Holidays·Huyen MacMichael·Lunar New Year·Preschoolers
Simple Food for Busy Families: The Whole Life Nutrition Approach
December 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY Whether you’ll like this book depends on the reason that you pick it up. If your family consumes a lot of packaged food, or eats out frequently, and you’re looking for new approaches to eating that incorporate whole foods, you’ll probably find a lot to like in this book by holistic [...]
Tags:Cooking·Healthy Living·Jeannette Bessinger·Nutrition·Parents·Tracee Yablon-Brenner
The Ugly Vegetables
July 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER GANNETT In The Ugly Vegetables, author and illustrator Grace Lin‘s narrator is excited about planting a garden with her mother, but her joy quickly turns to concern as she notices all of the things that her mom is doing differently from their neighbors. Why, she wonders, does it seem that everyone else [...]
Tags:Chinese Vegetables·Cooking·Female Protagonist·Garden·Gardening·Grace Lin·Jennifer Gannett·Preschoolers·Vegetables
Munchie Madness
July 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By JACQUELINE BODNAR Being a big fan of getting kids interested in cooking, I was excited to come across a vegetarian cookbook that is aimed at teens. Munchie Madness: Vegetarian Meals for Teens is a cookbook that goes right to the heart of most teenagers, giving them information on how to make many of [...]
Tags:Bobbie Hinman·Cookbooks for Kids·Cooking·Dorothy R. Bates·Jacqueline Bodnar·Older Elementary·Robert Oser·vegan·Vegetarian Cookbooks·Vegetarian Cooking
Carrot Soup
June 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL Carrot Soup is a tasty little tale about a rabbit who grows an assortment of carrots for his favorite meal: carrot soup. Rabbit does all the familiar farm labor of hoeing, planting, watering, and waiting… and waiting… and waiting… until it is finally harvest time. But when he goes to pull the [...]
Tags:Carrots·Cooking·Huyen MacMichael·Illustration·John Segal·Rabbits·Vegetables
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