Batter up Kids Sensational Snacks (Spiral-bound)

by Barbara Beery (Author), Marty Snortum (Photographer) "Get ready!..." (more)
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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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Product 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 25 fun and easy recipes that get kids in the kitchen and teach them that eating healthy food in can still be fun!


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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9-12
  
• 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 (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #780,470 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Julie Klein (Findlay) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

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

By	Kara Roche - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.