Cooking & Food - Kids Fiction

When Alexis develops a crush on Emma's brother, she decides to approach this new feeling in her usual organized manner by conducting research and developing a plan.Author: Coco SimonISBN-10: 1665933224ISBN-13: 9781665933223Publisher: Simon SpotlightLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/27/2023Pages: 160Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d

Look, find, and laugh as you follow a taco-obsessed mole character to the beach, the city marathon, a tailgate party, and other busy places loaded with silly food trucks. Does he ever get his prized taco? You'll have to find out yourself! Hours of...

My First Book of Veggies is a large, colorful board book exploring 10 wonderful vegetables, from Parisian carrots to Pablo beets, in rich colors and bold shapes. Each veggie has a simple fact that educates and delights.Author: Fred WolterISBN-10: 1914912403ISBN-13: 9781914912405Publisher: Boxer BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

In this funny and zany picture book, villagers make a giant jam sandwich to trap the wasps that have invaded their town.It's a dark day for Itching Down. Four million wasps have just descended on the town, and the pests are relentless! What can...

Mix together a used food truck, a road trip that doesn't exactly go as planned, and a lot of pie, and you have the recipe for this sweet middle grade series starter brimming with humor, heart, and a family you'll fall in love with....

My First Book of Fruit explores favorite fruits, presenting them in a new light, showing the inside and out. Your child might learn a few surprising facts.Author: Fred WolterISBN-10: 191491242XISBN-13: 9781914912429Publisher: Boxer BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/28/2023Pages: 20Format: Board BookWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 7.95h x 7.80w x 0.55d

In the ultimate seasonal showdown, Apple and Pumpkin take turns making the case for which of them is the the favorite fall treat.Author: Jeffrey BurtonISBN-10: 1665936320ISBN-13: 9781665936323Publisher: Little SimonLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/18/2023Pages: 22Format: Board BookWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 6.40h x 6.40w x 0.50dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 07/31/2023

What's Wrong With Trying to Help?Gertie is disappointed when Grandma Trudy doesn't volunteer to help in the new school garden. So since she's the only one there who knows EVERYTHING about growing vegetables, Gertie tries to help instead. Soon everyone is calling her a...

Growing up in the Kitchen Witch Diner, twelve-year-old Millie Radford is close to the farmers, growers, and producers of Coal Hollow, Virginia that help supply her family's diner with ingredients. They are life-long friends and cherished neighbors.But, when a big peanut company starts industrializing...

Third-grader Aven Green has been baking for a really long time . . . since last week! Now Aven is ready to shake things up by entering the exciting world of competitive baking with her friends Kayla, Sujata, and Emily. Aven knows she's an...

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection - Fall 2020 Kids Indie Next List - Featured in Today Show's AAPI Heritage Month list - Amazon Best Books November Selection - Cybils Awards Finalist - An NBC AAPI Selection - Featured in Parents Magazine Book...

Tomie dePaola's classic wordless picture book is just as fun as a serving of pancakes for breakfast!Missing ingredients and mischievous pets create one humorous complication after another for a little old lady determined to make pancakes for breakfast.Fans of such favorites as Strega Nona...

During a busy restaurant rush, the orders get all mixed up. Can the food get sorted out so that "Yuks" change to "Yums"? Fully decodable text features high-frequency words, and words with the short u sound combined with selected consonant letters. Downloadable Teacher Notes...

Joining the Feelings & First series: a young child helps his Mum and Mama cook a green vegetable soup, but then emphatically refuses to eat it. After carefully watching his parents enjoying the meal, the child finally agrees to taste it and discovers that...

Abuelas love visitas! Especially from those they love the most! Don't be surprised if they feed you or send you home with something that is special to them. Author: Silvia Salas S疣chezISBN-10: 8822911083ISBN-13: 9798822911086Publisher: Palmetto PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/11/2023Pages: 36Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w...

During a busy restaurant rush, the orders get all mixed up. Can the food get sorted out so that "Yuks" change to "Yums"? Fully decodable text features high-frequency words, and words with the short u sound combined with selected consonant letters. Downloadable Teacher Notes...

A young girl who has a dream of being a baker. Even though she may not have the encouragement she needs from a young age. She does not give up on her dream.Author: Cecilia AguirreISBN-10: 1665578831ISBN-13: 9781665578837Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/30/2022Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 8.50h...

Alexandria Giardinoand Felicita Sala's poetic, beautifully illustrated picture book is inspired by Ode to the Onion by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973). A Junior Library Guild Selection Pablo has a lunch date with his friend Matilde, who shows the moody poet her garden. Where...

A story about Darreus, a sweet, kind and funny guy. He is having a family member visit. He doesn't know what to do about a problem he's having. He goes to his friends for help. What starts out as a problem, becomes a lesson...

Becca refuses to try any news foods, until her family persuades her that Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is a time to try something new. While dad suggests shaving off his mustache for a new look, and mom thinks she'll take up knitting...

Abuelas love visitas! Especially from those they love the most! Don't be surprised if they feed you or send you home with something that is special to them. Author: Silvia Salas S疣chezISBN-13: 9798822911079Publisher: Palmetto PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/11/2023Pages: 36Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x...

Emma loves spending time with her Grandma. And it's even more fun when it includes cooking! Emma is finally old enough to help make a birthday meal for her dad. But will everything turn out? Emma is Deaf and often uses sign language to...

Newbery Honoree Rajani LaRocca, author of I'll Go and Come Back, turns her focus to a careful, deliberate grandfather and his impatient grandson in a cozy family story featuring a recipe for spiced chai. Aarav loves his grandfather very much, but they're as different...

5 year old Zora is a big helper around the house. One day an act of kindness with helping in the kitchen turns into a messy disaster. However, this girl doesn‛t let anything get in her way. Even though things didn‛t go as planned...

A little girl's love of dim sum spills over into her dreams, taking her on a fantastical food-filled adventure, in this picture book love letter to Maurice Sendak's In the Night Kitchen. Beautifully illustrated with a gold foil cover, this is the perfect gift...

Octavia loves mac and cheese. She loves it so much that she doesn't want to eat anything else. In fact, she refuses to eat anything but mac and cheese, including a delicious beef stew that her mother prepared for dinner one night. When Octavia...

How many times do we as adults say, "Do as I say, not as a I do?" When asked by colleagues to write a children's book with a healthy eating message the author recalled a time when her son (then aged five) craved the...

In Kohkum's kitchen the family is large, the stove is warm, and the stew is oh so good. But just what makes this special stew so delicious? Is it Kohkum's recipes and knowledge, or Mushum's traditionally hunted moose meat? The grandchildren all think that...

With more than 12 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading In this twelfth book in the My Weirdest School series, there's a new lunch lady at Ella Mentry Ms. Hall is obsessed with healthy food, and she makes...

Fans of Fancy Nancy will delight in this festive fall adventure story from the beloved New York Times bestselling author-illustrator team Jane O'Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser. Join Fancy Nancy on the perfect fall field trip--to the apple orchard. Fall is an extra-fancy season....

Sophie always lets her imagination get the best of her, especially when it comes to food. She dreads eating meals prepared by Tante Annette, who is notorious for making dishes with long, funny names. All of this changes when Sophie realizes that the meals...

Sing and clap along to Patty-Cake! Children will delight in this die-cut board book that pairs charming artwork with the traditional song about patting, rolling, and baking a cake.Author: Constanza BasaluzzoISBN-10: 1684467780ISBN-13: 9781684467785Publisher: Capstone EditionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2023Pages: 10Format: Board BookWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 5.40h x 5.00w...

In a garden outside a Kenyan schoolhouse, teachers and students are gathering their vegetables for soup. But all Kioni brought today were her troublesome goats. How can they contribute? In a garden outside a Kenyan schoolhouse children are working together to harvest the vegetables...

Angelo Montanari was born with a hoagie in his mouth. Not literally, of course, but as the son of the owners of the most popular hoagie shop in town, oil and vinegar run in his veins. When a flashy rival business comes to town,...

Leela and Liam want to visit their favorite spots at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on their class trip, but when their teacher and tour guide have different plans, they realize new discoveries can be just as sweet as old traditions. Aligned to Common...

Leela has one day to show her cousin Isabelle around the city, and she worries Isabelle's trip will be ruined if she doesn't get to see the Statue of Liberty. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Calico Kid is an...

A big snowstorm threatens to wreck Leela and Liam's International Night at school, but they learn how to make the event the best it can be with limited supplies and resources. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Calico Kid is...

Lily Lou and The Great Apple Shortage is a story about friendship. When Lily Lou's best friend Jill loses her grandpa, she comes up with a plan to cheer her up. The plan? To bake her an apple pie. The only problem is she...

Looking for a way to introduce more fruits and vegetables to your child? Look no further! In Let's go shopping, a mom and her child complete all the necessary steps to go grocery shopping, which serves to remind your child on what she/he needs...

String beans, spaghetti, ZOOOOP, roast beef, fresh fish, chicken and ice cream are the delicious fare during the week in this popular children's song. Until Sunday. Then, all the world's children are invited to come together and share in the meal. Celebrated artist Eric...

Feather, Flap, and Spike are on the hunt for the perfect pumpkin to decorate in this sweet story about autumn fun.Spike thinks all the pumpkins they find are perfect, indeed: for juggling, leaping over, and bowling But what will they do when Spike accidentally...

Honeysuckle the little bunny bakes the cakes for all the parties. She searched and scoured for the perfect flavor, the taste that was best for her friends to savor. Honeysuckle tries and tries to find the best flavor, but just can't quite figure it...

Allie, Tamiko, and Sierra plan for their upcoming school dances in this fourth delicious book in the Sprinkle Sundays series from the author of the Cupcake Diaries series Tamiko and Sierra can't stop talking about the dance coming up at their school. There's a...

A Kirkus Best Book of 2019!An Indies Introduce Selection for 2019!An Indie Next Pick for Summer 2019! "A delectable treat for food and literary connoisseurs alike." Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW"What a wonderful, intriguing, and magical book. And wow, did it ever get my tastebuds...

From the experts at America's Test Kitchen comes a new twist on a holiday tradition. The perfect Christmas gift or stocking stuffer for kids who love to bake! The Kringle family cookbook has gone missing, and Santa can't remember the recipe for the special...

Katie finds the courage to face off with a former friend in this addition to Spotlight's sweet treat of a tween series. Katie and Callie used to be best friends--until Callie ditched Katie so she could join the Popular Girls Club. And even though...

The barnyard rooster crows to tell Jack it's time to get up. It's very early in the morning -- and Jack is so hungry that what he really wants is a large pancake for breakfast. But first, Jack's mother needs flour from the mill,...

"A scrumptious gem of a story "--Jennifer A. Nielsen, New York Times bestselling author of The False Prince Meet Gladys Gatsby: New York's toughest restaurant critic. (Just don't tell anyone that she's in sixth grade.) Gladys Gatsby has been cooking gourmet dishes since the...

Bake a special treat with Donkey Hodie in this pull-the-tab board book based on an episode of the hit preschool show from Fred Rogers Productions Donkey Hodie! Donkey Hodie wants to bake a batch of flying flapjacks for Grampy, but she just can't get...

The fourth book in Spotlight's fun and delicious tween series is told from the perspective of Alexis, the most organized member of the Cupcake Club. Alexis likes everything to be exact and logical, but she's finding that when it comes to love, there's no...