Hocus-Pocus Magical Cookbooks [Hardcover]

Donna Boundy (Author), Julia Gran (Illustrator)

Book Description

Grade Level: 1 and up

With a pinch of this and a dash of that, kids will become cooking wizards when they use this one-of-a-kind cookbook. More than 50 healthy recipes for breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and desserts will give mealtime a magical twist. Each recipe comes with a positive wizard purpose, such as doing well in school or having a good hair day. The book also comes with a glittering magic wand and a cool conversion wheel. Turn the wheel and find the secret ingredient, say the magic words, and wave the wand to put the purpose in the potion. Exciting experiments and fun facts will bring science, math, health, and history into the kitchen.

Comes with liquid-filled magic wand with sparkling glitter.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Riding high on the Harry Potter boy-wizard wave, innovative KIDS introduces the Hocus-Pocus Magical Cookbook by Donna Boundy, illus. by Julia Gran. Complete with a magic, sparkly cooking wand, this book cooks up simple projects under magical titles of larger-than-life proportions, such as "To Keep Friends Forever: Dipped Cheese Sandwich" and "To Make Dreams Come True: Palm Readers' Pita Pockets" plus special names for ordinary ingredients ("fizzeroo" for club soda). Additionally, each recipe includes a box of information about nutrition, food facts or math and science brainteasers. The watercolor illustrations play up the flights of fancy.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 72 pages
• Publisher: Innovative Kids (March 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584760605
• ISBN-13: 978-1584760603
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 9.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,590,833 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hocus-Pocus Magical CookBook, May 20, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Hocus-Pocus Magical Cookbooks (Hardcover)

I bought this book at the school book fair as a birthday gift. When I got home My kids would not hear of it. We have been making magical meals out of it ever since. They had the hocus pocus pancakes one morning and swore that they felt silly all day. I then took it to work to show to my clients and I had to go back to the book fair and order nine more! My kids are 9 and 7 they believe in magic! This book should be advertised so more people would see it.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Original, June 22, 2001

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"sbradski" (Santa Rosa, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hocus-Pocus Magical Cookbooks (Hardcover)

I would highly recommend this book and anything else published by "Innovative Kids" My five year old daughter loves it and so does my nine year old son. The recipes are easy and fun with secret ingredients and magical "spells" that the kids can say as they wave the magic wand (provided) over the recipe they just made. The graphics are whimsical. This book is just really well thought out and original.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun and useful!, November 29, 2003

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Sokste "KtS" (Minneapolis, MN U.S.A.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hocus-Pocus Magical Cookbooks (Hardcover)

This book is just great! Recipes that actually produce yummy food, presented in a kid-oriented way that engages them.

The rest of us might tire a little of some of the extra efforts involved, but it's not directed to us! For the curious, let me explain:

On the inside of the front cover is a "wizard wheel". This wheel contains foods on the outside, measurements on the inside. The foods on the outside of the wheel are the magical words for the foods and their english equivalent. Each recipe contains atleast one magical word-identified food, and you use the wheel (matching up an indicator to the magical word you need identified, and reading across) to translate (but many times you can figure it out: kristalshayks is salt, for instance).
Alternative "magic" terms are also used for measurements, like beaker is 1 cup. Those are explained on page 4, and are not on the Wizard Wheel anywhere.

If you are the type of person who likes to jump right in to something and figure things out as you go, this could cause problems for you! You should really translate your entire recipe before you get started!

That said, there is plenty of silliness and wit for those looking for such things. It's a delight visually, and the overall tone is very warm and enticing.

Creative and engaging!