Great Parties for Kids

Rose Hammick and Charlotte Packer present fail-safe schemes for fabulous parties for kids aged from one to ten. They show that, with a little ingenuity and imagination, you can throw a memorable children's party without breaking the bank...or having a nervous breakdown! The book starts with an in-depth look at a variety of age-appropriate party themes, with ideas for decorations and costumes. There is a party plan for each age group, listing all you need to be confident that your event will go well. Following this are chapters focusing on party games, goody bags, and invitations. Great Parties for Kids concludes with chapter of 40 delicious recipes by Caroline Marson.

Fit Kids

Helping parents understand the principles of fitness and good nutrition, thus enabling them to make healthy choices for their families, Fit Kids addresses the 21st Century challenges of sedentary lifestyles of both children and their parents. Features delicious meal plans and easy-to-follow recipes for every age Includes realistic advice for parents caring for overweight children Lists nutritional guides, parent-to-parent tips, and Q&A panels

Cooking in a Can

Cooking in a Can is the perfect activity book for kids who love to camp and cook! The newest book in our successful children’s activities series introduces dozens of techniques for cooking outside. Author Kate White shows kids the beauty of cooking over a campfire, with dozens of delicious and easy recipes like Hot Rock Chicken and Wilderness Wonder Chocolate Cake. From cooking in a can to cooking in a paper bag to cooking on a rock, this activity book produces scrumptious results that kids of all ages will enjoy. Also included are dozens of related activities to keep kids busy, such as making a family banner to identify your camp, planning menus, and organizing cooking supplies and groceries. There are also tips on natural refrigeration, food storage, and camp clean up. Chapters include topics such as: Cooking over a campfire The Outdoor Kitchen No pot cooking Hot Rock Cooking Pit cooking Make-Your-Own Oven Cooking Spit Cooking Dutch Oven Cooking

Your Child's Weight

As much about parenting as feeding, this latest release from renowned childhood feeding expert Ellyn Satter considers the overweight child issue in a new way. Combining scientific research with inspiring anecdotes from her decades of clinical practice, Satter challenges the conventional belief that parents must get overweight children to eat less and exercise more. In the long run, she says, making them go hungry and forcing them to be active makes children preoccupied with food, prone to overeating, turned off to activity, and likely to gain too much weight. Trust is a central theme here: children must be able to trust parents to provide as much food as they need to satisfy their appetites; parents must trust children to eat only as much as they need. Satter provides compelling evidence that, if parents do their jobs with respect to feeding, children are remarkably capable of knowing how much to eat.

Fanny At Chez Panisse

A whole new audience of parents and children is ready to be enchanted by renowned cook and cookbook author Alice Waters' charming book of stories and recipes told from the viewpoint of a little girl whose mother runs a restaurant.

Alphabet Cooking

For little chefs-to-be & parents alike: fun, kid-tested recipes, from A to Z, & nifty ideas for Alphabet Lunchboxes & Parties. Nutrition counts.

Kids Make Pizza

From Mini Moon Pizza to Garden Grub Pizza to Rolly Stromboli and Veggie Wedgies, recipes for kids with pizza facts and folklore.

First Meals, Revised

Completely revised, First Meals bursts with dozens of new color photographs and more than 200 recipes to entice even the fussiest baby or toddler. This classic cookbook covers the essentials--from flavorful first purees, winning lunchbox combos and easy-to-make family meals to finger-licking picnic and party noshes--while delighting the eye and providing hardworking information on nutrition, preparation and cooking times, freezing instructions, and tips on how to handle food allergies, additives, and tricky eaters.

Bake-A-Cake Book

Delightful kids' first baking book. Beat the eggs, measure the flour —come and bake with the cake-bakers!

Retro Kids Cooking

Go ahead, play with your food! Take your taste buds on a trip down memory lane--with or without your children--with Retro Kids Cooking: Timeless Recipes for Cooks of All Ages. Kids love food, and now they can share the fun of cooking with easy-to-prepare, kid-tested recipes from generations of parents and classic cookbooks. From pigs in a blanket to peanut butter finger foods to grilled cheese, it’s all about creativity in the kitchen. Fabulous vintage illustrations of kids in the kitchen and classic products combine with 100 recipes, tips, and ideas to bring out the chef in everyone—no matter what age. Mix one part dad, grandma, or big sis with one part little helper, and you have a delicious recipe for great food and great memories.

Vegetarian Manifesto

Adolescents and older teenagers are the fastest growing group of vegetarians, but until now, no book has been written and edited entirely for people aged 12 to 20 who are passionate about eliminating meat and fish from their diets. Here is a complete handbook for the new generation of vegetarians, using data from teen web chat groups, interviews, and focus groups, which provides positive, constructive information. It's also priced affordably for the target market. Chapters include nutrition basics, dealing with carnivorous parents and friends, and ethical and moral considerations, getting enough protein to maintain high-level activities and maintaing ideal weight.

Eat Right for Your Baby

New in Paper!! It's what we've all been waiting for. Four blood types, four diets, four plans for overcoming obstacles to having a healthy pregnancy and child. Eat Right 4 (for) Your Baby provides blood-type specific diet, exercise, and supplement prescriptions for fertility, prenatal care, pregnancy, nursing, postpartum, and the vital first year of a child's life. This is a complete, easy-to-use guide that every health-conscious parent-to-be should have.

487 Really Cool Tips for Kids with Diabetes

Kids living with diabetes face a world of challenges, and yet, there are few things they can't do. This book is packed full of tips that kids have sent to Spike and Bo, authors of Getting a Grip on Diabetes for Kids. Tips cover everything from playing sports to accidents to hormones. Plus, there's an entire section on insulin pumps and what it's like to go on one.

Gross-Out Cakes

Tease kids' taste buds and tickle their imaginations with the 20 dreadfully wonderful recipes in this unique cookbook. Deceptively tasty confections, such as the Open Wound Cake and the Toenail Torte, are broken down into steps kids can do themselves and those grown-ups should supervise and each cake is rated on a one-to-five worm scale degrees of difficulty. These appalling concoctions are accompanied by full-color photographs and thorough instructions for creating a hideously delicious centerpiece for birthdays, holidays, school parties, and other occasions.

Packing up a Picnic

Pack a basket; we’re going on a picnic! But picnics can be more than just a summertime event, and can definitely be more than the same old fried chicken and potato salad. Authors Rick Walton and Jennifer Adams present dozens of new ideas for picnics any time of year, with interesting new recipes and lots of fun games and activities to do while picnicking. Somehow, food tastes better when it's eaten outside. With Packing up a Picnic, kids can grab their favorite foods, head to a park, spread out the blanket, and chow down! Packing up a Picnic offers ideas for new and unusual picnics with themes that encourage fun, learning, and creativity. Each picnic includes an introduction, a list of supplies and items to bring, a menu with recipes and hints on making and packing the food. The authors also include some general picnic requirements and things the planner should know, such as the best picnic container, what to put your picnic on, what to eat your picnic with, and other items to remember such as mosquito repellent, sunscreen, and moist towlettes for easy cleanup. Plus, the authors discuss germs, food storage and handling and how to avoid getting sick by handling food in the right way. Including these unique picnic themes: Breakfast Picnic Bicycle Picnic Haunted Picnic Snow Picnic Mystery Picnic

Top 100 Baby Purees

Making your own baby food is not only more economical than buying commercial brands-you can be sure your child has only the freshest, top-quality ingredients. This essential collection of Annabel's best-ever purees features 100 quick and easy recipes that will make for a healthy and happy baby. From first tastes and weaning right through meals for older babies, all the recipes are suitable for children aged 6 months and above. And with all those fruity favorites, vegetable goodness, and innovative fish, meat, and pasta purees, the dishes are so tasty you will want to eat them yourself!