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Storybook Stew: Cooking With Books Kids Love
Storybook Stew Cooking With Books Kids Love Author:Suzanne I. Barchers, Peter J. Rauen, Darcie Clark Frohardt (Illustrator) Combine good food with a good book, stir in an intriguing activity and you'll have cooked up an irresistible combination. The authors have highlighted more than 40 children's books that feature food as a primary story element with 50 mouth-watering recipes. Each book summary is followed by an art project, science experiment, or language ... more »activity and a list of related books.
Appetizers and accompaniments:
Bread and jam for Frances / Russell Hoban
Pickle things / Marc Brown
Story of Johnny Appleseed / Aliki
Tiger soup; an Anansi story from Jamaica / Frances Temple
Eggbert; the slightly cracked egg / Tom Ross
Beverages:
Berenstain Bears and too much junk food / Stan Berenstain and Jan Berenstain
Conversation club / Diane Stanley
Hamlet and the enormous Chinese dragon kite / Brian Lies
Lemon drop jar / Christine Widman
Desserts:
Chocolate moose for dinner / Fred Gwynne
Heckedy Peg / Audrey Wood
Journey cake, ho! / Ruth Sawyer
Cherries and cherry pits / Vera B. Williams
Fruit and salads:
Applesauce / Shirley Kurtz
Pea patch jig / Thacher Hurd
Tingo tango mango tree / Marcia Vaughan
Grandpa's garden lunch / Judith Caseley
Main dishes:
Medieval feast / Aliki
Potluck / Anne Shelby
Vegetables and rice: Carlos and the squash plant / Jan Romero Stevens