Customer Rating:  
Summary: Cute book
Comment: I bought this for my niece. It's great! Good illistration, simple instructions, and durable! Only complaint is I didn't receive the measuring spoons with the book?
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Summary: Great recipes / cute illustrations / clear instructions / lots of humor
Comment: This cookbook is THE BEST of a number of kids' cookbooks I've looked at.
Why?
1. The clear instructions: Each and every recipe includes an illustration showing ALL of the ingredients and tools you'll need to make the recipe -- down to the cup of water, the fork, the zip-loc bag (for crushing cornflakes), the cutting board, and for many recipes, the "grown-up assistant with knife". (Applesauce, for some reason, requires an assistant with a "sharp knife", a more stringent requirement than the other recipes.) No more "oops I don't have that" halfway through the recipe. The instructions are very clear, showing how to do things -- how to use the spatula, how to roll up the dough, how to spoon muffin batter into the muffin tins. The instructions teach. Instead of saying "melt butter" one recipe tells you to melt the butter on low, explaining that butter is easy to burn. A soup recipe advises to add a little bit of water if the soup seems too thick. (Many cookbooks would assume one knows these things.) The book doesn't pander, but it doesn't take much for granted.
2. The Rules: The book starts out with Kitchen Rules. It talks about how the kitchen is a "very special room" and lays out ground rules -- Be careful, be clean, Be ready & Measuring. The discussion on why it is important to clean as you go is great --
3. The Kid Focus: Language is really directed to children; it puts the kid in charge by saying things like "Your grown-up assistant and you shoud talk about every recipe before you start it" and "Stoves are hot places . . . always a good place to use some grown-up help." The accompanying picture is of grown man wearing a "Helper" apron and holding a knife, reacy to help.
4. The Recipes: Nice variety, with breakfast items (Buried Treasure Muffins, Four Ways to Cook Eggs) Lunches (Personal Pizza, Happle Bagle Sandwich), Dinners (Alphabetter Soup, Ready Spaghetti, Tuna Wiggle), Desserts (Frozen Bananoids, Disgustingly Rich Brownies), and even bonus recipes for play dough, face paint, soap bubbles, and dog biscuits. These aren't nutritional powerhouses, just basic good food.
5. Illustrations: Very cute. Lots of animals doing things; great facial expressions, particularly on the various grown-up assistants.
6. The format: The book is spiral-bound, so it lies flat. The pages are cardboard and can be wiped clean. That alone makes this a stand-out among kids' cookbooks.
Initially, I was a little hesitant to buy this book because many of the reviews seemed to be written by folks who had this book as a kid. I was comcerned that the book might not seem current. I bought one anyway, for a gift (along with a Molly Katzen cookbook for kids) and have since purchased several more. Nostalgia aside, this book really has withstood the test of time. For a book copyrighted more than 20 years ago, it seems completely up-to-date in 2008.
Highly recommended -- don't think you'll go wrong.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Klutz Kids Cooking Cookbook
Comment: My sister received this cookbook when she was little and it has the best chocolate chip cookie recipe in it. When my sister moved, she took the book with her and I wanted to get a copy for myself. When I received the book, I made a batch of cookies and the memories of when I was younger came flooding back to me. I highly recommend this book for people of all ages. Also, the playdough recipe is easy and fun too.
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Summary: We Both Love It!
Comment: I love to cook, and for years my little boy has wanted to help me out in the kitchen. Unfortunately, most of my recipes exist only in my brain so it was very hard for him to lend a hand.
This book, which I purchased only hoping to find one or two recipes we'd like, has turned him into an independent little chef in his own right. The instructions are very well-written, the safety precautions are clear and the foods themselves are all kid-pleasers. Well, let me rephrase that: they are all family-pleasers. We've made every one in the book and they've all been big hits.
He's quite proud of owning his own measuring spoon set, too. My only complaint is that the gold-colored paint used to label each spoon's measurements wore off quickly. That was easily solved by going over the raised letters with a permanent marker, though.
Fantastic book: a great gift for any kid!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Easy and fun
Comment: My son (6 years old) and I love this easy and fun cook book. We have been trying for the recipes every weekend.
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