Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes - by Mollie Katzen & Ann Henderson Hardcover

About the Book

Pretend Soup lets young children put on the chef's hat with a grown-up there to help and guide. Together with an early childhood educator, Mollie Katzen combines her renowned cooking talents and her whimsical artistry in a recipe collection that is sure to excite budding young chefs--and teach them a thing or two along the way.

Book Synopsis

Celebrating 25 years of vegetarian recipes and called "the gold standard for chidren's cookbooks" by the New York Times, Pretend Soup, by celebrated Moosewood chef Mollie Katzen, offers children and families easy recipes for healthy, fun, and delicious food.

Mollie Katzen, renowned author of The Moosewood Cookbook, and educator Ann Henderson bring the grown-up world of real cooking to a child's level. Children as young as three years old and as old as eight become head chef while an adult serves as guide and helper. Extensively classroom- and home-tested, these recipes are designed to inspire an early appreciation for creative, wholesome food. Whimsical watercolor critters and pictorial versions of each recipe will help the young cook understand and delight in the process. Just consider all that can be explored in the kitchen: counting, reading readiness, science awareness, self-confidence, patience, and, importantly, food literacy. Pizza, after all, does not come "from a telephone."

You and your child can have great fun finding this out!

Review Quotes

"Mollie Katzen's cookbooks for preschoolers, Pretend Soup and Salad People, are works of child-friendly genius. . ."
--Slate.com

"Play Points: 5 (out of 5). ­­A delectable starter!"
--Nick Jr. Magazine

"This is the best book to date on cooking with preschoolers."
--Scholastic Parent & Child

"A winner!"
--School Library Journal

"You can toss a coin whether to give this charming cookbook, for preschoolers and up, to your favorite kid or to a food-loving adult who deals with children."
--San Francisco Chronicle

About the Author

ANN HENDERSON is a credentialed early childhood education specialist and is co-director of the Child Education Center in Berkeley, California.

MOLLIE KATZEN is a cookbook author and artist who has profoundly shaped the way America eats. Mollie is a consultant and cocreator of Harvard's groundbreaking Food Literacy Project. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.