Cooking & Food

Cakes -- especially homemade ones -- make any celebration special! This book is filled with 19 easy-to-do cake designs and decorating tips simple enough for kids to try on their own. Decorating with candies, cookies and other goodies means that no fancy pastry bags or labor-intensive parental supervision is required. The illustrated step-by-step in …

With these fast and simple recipes, kids can ring in the New Year with icy shortbread, wow a dinosaur fan with oatmeal dinos, brighten a summer picnic with mouthwatering watermelon cookies or make wishes come true with delicious magic wands. Special days, special friends or just for fun -- there are lots of reasons to make cookies in this book in t …

Now kids can do more than just eat cookies with the help of this book in the Kids Can Do It series. They can learn how to bake and build holiday decorations and wreaths, a garden of cookie flowers and candleholders -- all from cookie dough. It's fun and easy, and the best part is you can eat your mistakes! Bake It and Build It includes delicious co …

Maize, or corn, was the staple food of many early cultures in South America, Mesoamerica, and the Caribbean. The Biography of Corn will teach young readers how the farming of corn spread to the rest of the world and how corn may be one answer to today’s problem of fossil fuel consumption.