Cherished nursery rhymes are retold with cook-along recipes for families to enjoy together.

For beginners and green-thumbed foodies, this unusually all-inclusive garden-to-kitchen cookbook is part lesson in gardening and part collection of healthy, delicious, kid-friendly recipes. With vibrant photo-illustrations and clearly organized sections, discover how to plant seeds in patio containers, window boxes, or on an allotment; harvest fruits and vegetables; determine which plant parts are edible; spot pests in the garden; and use home-grown crops to cook everything from bean and bacon spaghetti to polenta chips to tomato, feta, and basil pizza. "This effort offers budding young gardeners (and their adults) a comprehensive, hands-on guide to gardening and cooking" — Kirkus Reviews STARRED REVIEW

Delicious Dishes from Around the World Kids get cooking in this interactive cookbook. Step-by-step photos guide beginning chefs to make international snacks, meals and treats. Children of all ethnicities show off their creations and encourage readers to join them in getting creative in the kitchen.

Bring the magic of poetry to life with R is for Rhyme: A Poetry Alphabet. From acrostics and ballads to meter and metaphor, author and poet Judy Young has written a delightful collection of poems to illustrate poetic tools, terms and techniques. Each term or technique is demonstrated in an accompanying poem so readers can see the method at work. Whether haiku or rap, sonnets or cinquain, budding writers of all ages will be inspired to put their imaginations to work crafting their own poems.Judy Young remembers showing one of her poems to her grandmother when she was about 10 years old, and she has been in love with writing poetry ever since. Judy is the author of another Sleeping Bear Press book, S is for Show Me: A Missouri Alphabet. Judy lives with her family near Springfield, Missouri. Victor Juhasz's humorous illustrations and caricatures have been commissioned by such clients as Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times. He is also the illustrator of the popular D is for Democracy: A Citizen's Alphabet. Victor lives and works in Stephentown, New York.

Cooking with Mother Goose is a one-of-a-kind storybook cookbook that invites parents and their children to discover delicious foods and the beloved nursery rhymes that inspire them? though this book offers so much more. You'll find beautifully illustrated nursery rhymes and tasty, nutritious recipes with photos. Expect to make precious memories, lots of little messes, and build a positive relationship between your little ones, cooking, and food.Cooking with Mother Goose isn't a cookbook simply for parents to help them prepare healthy meals for kids. Nor is it an instructional manual for parents to help teach their children to cook. Instead, it's an adventure in reading classic nursery rhymes through a new lens and bringing them to life by cooking and connecting as a family. Just as reading books aloud together brings a sense of closeness with our children, so does cooking-and playing-with food in the kitchen. Cooking together can strengthen your emotional bond while you read, talk, measure, and make messes over creating a dish. And that teaches important life lessons about food, mealtime, and nourishment of the body and of the family. Not to mention, it creates memories.

Easy-to-read text with full-color illustrations present a collection of perennial Mother Goose favorites.

Combine the magic of storytelling with the fun of cooking for a truly unique mashup of cookbook and storybook. Welcome to the enchanted world of Cook Me a Story, where the most beloved fairy tales are retold with deliciously clever recipes for families to create and enjoy together. From breakfast adventures to evening stories, anytime is a perfect time for fairy tales and food. Join the fun as children learn to cook with familiar kitchen-time tales such as Goldilocks and the Three Pears, Cinnarella, Plumbelina, and more. Cook Me a Story combines the magic of storytelling with the fun of cooking for a truly unique fairy-tale experience that begins "once upon a kitchen..."