Your picks for the best cookbooks for kids

I never knew there was such an array of kids' cookbooks out there! Thank you for sharing your favorites, along with some great stories and memories of your own childhood cooking experiences. I also appreciated that several of you forgo cookbooks altogether...your kids will probably be the most natural cooks of all!

Here's the list, with stars next to the books and authors that got more than one vote:

• What Shall I Cook?
• Science Experiments You Can Eat
• Crafts You Can Eat
• Look and Cook: A Cookbook for Children
• Emeril's There's a Chef in My Family
• Betty Crocker for Kids
• **Better Homes and Gardens Junior Cookbook
• Kids Cook Microwave
• Super Baby Food
• Kids are Natural Cooks
• The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook
• The Children's Quick and Easy Cookbook
• Disney Kids cookbook
• **Cooking Rocks! (Rachael Ray)
• **Williams-Sonoma "The Kid's Cookbook"
• Teddy Bears' Picnic Cookbook
• Simple 1-2-3 Cooking for Kids
• Clever Cooks
• America's Test Kitchen Family cookbook
• **Simply in Season Children's Cookbook! (Mennonite Central Committee)
• For Good Measure, a cookbook for children
• The Petit Appetit Cookbook
• **Pretend Soup (Mollie Katzen)
• Feed Me I'm Yours
• Let children fall in love with vegetables
• Kitchen Wizard Cookbook
• First Meals
• Children's Step-by-Step Cookbook
• Kosher by Design: Kids in the Kitchen
• Star Wars cookbook (we have this, too!)
• Kitchen For Kids: 100 Amazing Recipes Your Children Can Really Make

...and a Little Partners Learning Tower to help your little one reach the counter.

I haven't forgotten our prizewinner! Heather, you're the lucky recipient of Georgeanne Brennan's Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook. Email me your mailing address, and I'll get it out to you right away!

Tags: Cookbooks, Feeding kids, Parenting

Comments

[adrienne]

I just made a Mango Lahssi out of

"The Baby Bistro Cookbook" by Joohee Muromcew.

It's fabulous book for babies and toddlers, and I feel bad that I didn't submit it earlier so it would be on the list.