Gadgetology: Kitchen Fun with Your Kids, Using 35 Cooking Gadgets for Simple Recipes, Crafts, Games, and Experiments [Spiral-bound]

Pam Abrams (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up

Kitchen fun for kids: full of recipes, crafts, games, and experiments using kitchen utensils.

Editorial Reviews

Review

In this terrific book, author Pam Abrams unlocks the fun and educational potential in common kitchen gadgets from games to crafts to experiments to cooking. Gadgetology is a wonderful resource for parents, camp directors, teachers, and anyone else looking for fresh ways to have fun with kids in the kitchen. -- Jeff Solomon, Executive Director of the National Camp Association

About the Author

Pam Abrams is a writer and editor with a special interest in kids and food. She is the senior vice president of Downtown Bookworks, a book packaging company in New York City. She received her B.A. from the State University of New York, Purchase College, and began her editorial career as an associate editor at Harper’s magazine. She later worked as executive editor of Parents magazine, editor-in-chief of Child magazine, and vice president and editorial director of eToys.com. Most recently, she was vice president and editor-in-chief of Scholastic’s Parent & Child magazine.  Her articles have appeared in Parents, Scholastic’s Parent & Child, and O magazines, as well as the Chicago Tribune. She is the author of the children’s book Now I Eat My ABC’s. Abrams is a member of the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) and is on the Board of Directors of Consumers Union. She has appeared on many national and local radio and television programs.

An avid cook and self-described “gadget junkie,” Pam has been cooking with her two children since they were in highchairs. She recently began encouraging other kids to engage their curiosity and interest in food and gadgets through teaching cooking classes at home in Brooklyn, New York.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Spiral-bound: 96 pages
• Publisher: Harvard Common Press (March 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558323465
• ISBN-13: 978-1558323469
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 10.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #748,460 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So much fun - for you and your child, April 24, 2007

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J. L. Abrams (Brookline, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gadgetology: Kitchen Fun with Your Kids, Using 35 Cooking Gadgets for Simple Recipes, Crafts, Games, and Experiments (Spiral-bound)

This book is so much fun to use, and is gorgeous to look at. Having projects that you can do with your child by just going to the kitchen and using tools and food you already own is such a fabulous idea. So many project books for kids require items you have to go out and get especially for the project --- not very convenient for spur of the moment fun. This book makes it easy to be spontaneous. And you'll have as much fun as your child! My eight year old and three year old both love it.

I highly recommend this book!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A unique and enthusiastically recommended addition, January 9, 2008

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gadgetology: Kitchen Fun with Your Kids, Using 35 Cooking Gadgets for Simple Recipes, Crafts, Games, and Experiments (Spiral-bound)

Profusely illustrated throughout with the full-color photography of Mellisa Punch, "Gadgetology" is a lively and 'kid friendly' collection of do-it-yourself instructions for recipe, crafts, games, and experimental projects utilizing thirty-five different kitchen implements or 'gadgets' common to any home. Kids can build an edible log cabin with an apple corer, make a strawberry taste like orange juice with a marinade injector, write secret messages in a lemon juice based invisible ink and the use of a citrus squeezer, make a jelly bean nest with a garlic press, and so much more! Fun and informative, "Gadgetology" is a unique and enthusiastically recommended addition to any family or community library children's activities reference collection.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Family Fun, August 3, 2007

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P. Caswell "Mom to Two" (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gadgetology: Kitchen Fun with Your Kids, Using 35 Cooking Gadgets for Simple Recipes, Crafts, Games, and Experiments (Spiral-bound)

This book is full of fun things to do as a family. What a treat.