Batter up Kids Sensational Snacks [Spiral-bound]

Barbara Beery (Author), Marty Snortum (Photographer)

Book Description

New from the premier children's cooking school, it's Batter Up Kids: Sensational Snacks! Barbara Beery is an expert when it comes to getting kids interested in cooking and food, and with today's epidemic of overweight and obese children, what could be better than twenty-five fun and easy recipes that get kids in the kitchen and teach them that eating healthy food in can still be fun!
Fruits, vegetables, and whole grains take center stage in these recipes. From Star Shine Strawberry Muffins to Chop-Chop Salsa, there are treats to please every palate! Who can resist Tutti Fruity Popcorn Balls or Pocket Pizza? These snacks are designed to be easy enough for kids to make (with help from Mom and Dad when needed, of course), and tempting enough to get kids to eat healthy. Toss out the processed, salty, preservative-packed stuff, and get kids active in their own eating with Batter Up Kids: Sensational Snacks.
With full-color illustrations and step-by-step instructions throughout, Batter Up Kids: Sensational Snacks will show kids that healthy food can taste great--and be fun to make!
Barbara Beery is the founder and owner of Batter Up Kids, a premier children's cooking school based in Austin, Texas. She teaches cooking classes, hosts birthday parties, and helps children get hands-on with good, healthy food. Barbara received her bachelor's degree in elementary education from the University of Texas. She is also the author of Batter Up Kids: Delicious Desserts.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 4-7–While the bold color photos add great visual appeal to this collection of easy recipes for healthy snacks, gaps and gaffes in the cooking instructions raise warning flags. Stovetop safety tips include advice to lightly touch the top of a lid on your pot to test if you can remove it safely without a hot pad. Young cooks are told to use a whisk to blend ingredients, but no picture of the tool is provided, nor are instructions given for its effective use. While the recipes offer a good variety of snacks, the one for Totem Pole Tortellini Sticks calls for 8 ounces cheese tortellini, cooked and drained, without telling how to cook it. Eight recipes include a note referring readers to the list of Cooking School Secrets found in the back matter. Four of the Secrets refer the cook to a video on the Web site for a childrens cooking school in Austin, TX, owned by the author. A Food Color Wheel helps kids get the five-a-day idea for fruits and vegetables, and the chart of appropriate serving sizes is imaginative. However, youngsters will be better served by Angela Wilkess The Childrens Step-by-Step Cookbook (DK, 2001), which includes bright color photos of all ingredients, utensils, and finished dishes as well as step-by-step picture instructions.–Joyce Adams Burner, Hillcrest Library, Prairie Village, KS
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From the Back Cover

Batter Up Kids: Sensational Snacks
Step up to the plate with this great new cookbook from the Batter Up Kids cooking school. Author Barbara Beery shows it's a snap to create healthy snacks that are as fun to make as they are to eat. From Fresh Fruit Stir-Fry to Fiesta Corn Tortilla Cups and Chicken Pot Pies to Polar Bear Pickles, these creative recipes feature fresh fruits and veggies that are just what your child needs to stay healthy and satisfied. The book has easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs on every page. It even includes your very own cloth chef's hat! It's everything you need for great cooking and loads of fun!
Cloth chef's apron included!

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Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 64 pages
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith (September 2, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1586857983
• ISBN-13: 978-1586857981
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,602,376 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Over the past 20 years Barbara has taught thousands of children through year-round classes, cooking birthday parties and summer cooking camps.

The momentum behind Batter Up Kids, Inc. has led to many other successful ventures including the launch of an innovative website just for kids cooking products called,
http://www.kidscookingshop.com.

Barbara is the author of 11 children's cookbooks including three best-selling cookbooks which have sold over 500,000 copies! Her titles include Pink Princess Cookbook, Mermaids Cookbook, Pink Princess Cookbook, The Texas Longhorns Cookbook, Pink Princess Spa Cookbook, Green Princess Cookbook and Pink Ponies Cookbook.

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally a kids cookbook that I can use, January 25, 2008

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Julie Klein (Findlay) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Batter up Kids Sensational Snacks (Spiral-bound)

I've been going to the library and getting all kinds of children's cookbooks to test before I buy, because I have four little "helpers" that always want to be in the kitchen. This is the first book I've come accross with great pictures AND great, unique, yet kid-friendly recipes. For example, there are mini bagel balls, which were great and very hands-on for the kids (although the recipe calls for putting the balls in very hot tap water, I did put them in boiling water)--very tasty. Today we made the granola bars, and they're some of the best homemade granola bars I've ever had. There's also a Thai noodle recipe that we'll make next, and many others. I highly recommend this book.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Annoyed..., November 26, 2008

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This review is from: Batter up Kids Sensational Snacks (Spiral-bound)

I am waiting on a call from the founder to see if she can fix this problem for me, but I wanted to write this review to let others know about a problem in the book. The recipes in this book are cute and certainly appeal to my child; however, about 1/3 of the recipes call for watching a "cooking school secret" video in order to learn how to replicate the photos in the book. The link in the cookbook is not valid, so we can't watch these helpful cooking secrets. To be fair, most adults can prepare the recipes without the video tutorial, but my daughter wanted to cook something for Thanksgiving all by herself. She would have benefitted from the video and was deeply disappointed that she couldn't watch it. I don't understand why they needed to post a website to show these videos instead of just putting the info in the cookbook.