Customer Reviews

Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Cake!

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I think everybody should give this book Encyclopedia brown takes the cake 5 stars beacuse this is a good book and it teaches you how to cook and learn about food and how to slove mysteries like the case of the missing garlic bread .and the case of the fourth of July artist the case of the oven mitt the case of the overstuffed pinata and the case of the missing watchgoos and the case of the secret recipe and finely the case the chinese restaurant.

Starr (...)

Encyclopedia Brown is a detective, not a chef. But, in Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Cake, the mysteries are followed by an recipe, which I presume the case is surrounded by. This is not one of Sobol's best books, in my opinion. My main problems are that the children's book doesn't have the humor & fun that most of the other books in the Idaville series has, plus,I didn't like that fact that some of the solutions are quasi-found by turning to the cookbook-part of the section. I would have liked to have the recipes in its own section instead following each and every case. (In fact, there's one recipe that didn't have a case attached to it.) However the Boy Detective still has his mental stuff and the cases are still very readable

I used this when I was in 6th grade and my family hasn't forgotten the meal to this day. Somewhere along the line the book disappeared and I have been missing it since. You can't beat those Lemon Buttered Green Beans!!!

Encyclopedia Brown is everybody's favorite cook, in this case the food he cooks is a mystery. There is a mystery at the end of each chapter. He knows lots of recipes. One of the mysteries is the cake. Read the book to find out who takes the cake.

I recommend this book to people who like to read cooking books as well as a mystery story. If you get hungry as you read a cooking book, I recommend that you should not read it. It has lots of good recipes.

I liked this book, but there were TOO MANY RECIPES!!!!!!!!!!!! I almost died from reading all the recipies. DO NOT READ THIS BOOK UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES IF YOU DON'T LIKE RECIPES!!!!! After reading this book you will have died in four different dimensions!! I do not recommend this for anyone who does not like recipes!!

This book is mainly about a boy named Leroy who solves lots of
cases and learns to be a good cook. Many of the cases are very
exciting, but the recipes -- not so much. If you can solve
the cases as well as he can, you could probably start your own
detective agency like he did. He has his own business where
people walk up to it and pay him 25 cents to have him solve
cases for them. Leroy's nick name is Encyclopedia because he's
so smart he's like an encyclopedia with feet walking around,
ready to solve any case.

Without the recipes, I would give this book five stars since
the cases are so exciting.

I remember reading these when I was a kid and was glad to see Encyclopedia back with some new stories.

They are great because they make you(and your child) CONCENTRATE on the stories to find the clues to solve the mysteries. My son and I take turns, each reading a page aloud, until we get to the end of the story then we discuss what we think happened and why. Sometimes we are right and sometimes we are wrong. It's alot of fun and it helps him learn to "find the details" in the stories.

If you have a grade/middle school child, I'd highly recommend any of these books.

This is my fourth-grade son's favorite book. He loves cooking and this book is fun with great recipes.

I read this one in two days and I usually don't read that much

I like it because it had a lot of reiceps that I can write down so I can cook for my family like Tostadas. My family loves Mexican food we eat at toco bell.

Starr 4th grade A.E