Cookbook's Based on Children's Books

The majority of children love to eat so reading cookbooks inspired by their favorite stories is a great way to get children thinking creatively. Many fairy tales and stories share one commonality, the presence of food. Pat-a-Cake, Pease Porridge Hot, This Little Pig Went to Market, Little Miss Muffet, Little Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, and Goldilocks and the Three Bears all revolve around food in one form or another. Food in children's stories is often used to emphasize the time or place in which that story is set. One of the books we are reading in class, Where the Wild Things Are, opens with Max in a wolf suit. He is sent to his room without any supper because he has been such a wild thing all day. While he is in his room, Max sails off in his imagination to the land of the wild things who threaten "We'll eat you up-we love you so!" However, Max is able to tame the wild beasts and returns to his room "where he found his supper waiting for him-and it was still hot."

The following cookbooks are related to children’s stories:

Addy's Cook Book: A Peek at Dining in the Past with Meals You Can Cook Today. The American Girls Collection. Middleton, WI: Pleasant Company, 1994.

The American Girls Cookbook: A Peek at Dining in the Past with Meals You Can Cook Today. Middleton, WI: Pleasant Company, 1990.

Anderson, Gretchen, Comp. The Louisa May Alcott Cookbook. Illus. by Karen Milone. Boston, MA: Little Brown, 1985.

Bayley, Monica. The Wonderful World of Oz Cookbook. New York: Macmillan, 1981.

Bjork, Christina. Elliot's Extraordinary Cookbook. Illus. by Lena Anderson. New York: R7S Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990.

Blain, Diane. The Boxcar Children Cookbook. Illus. by L. Kate Deal and Eileen Mueller Neill. Morton Grove, IL: Whitman, 1991.

Bond, Michael. The Great Big Paddington Book. Cleveland, OH: Collins/World, 1977.

Boxer, Arabella, Lady. The Wind in the Willows Country Cookbook. Illus. by Ernest Shepard. London: Methuen, 1983.

Cauley, Lorinda Bryan. Pease Porridge Hot: A Mother Goose Cookbook. New York: Putnam, 1977.

Cotler, Amy. The Secret Garden Cookbook: Recipes Inspired by Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden. New York: HarperCollins, 1999.

Dobrini, Arnold. Peter Rabbit's Natural Foods Cookbook. New York: Warne, 1977.

Ellison, Virginia H. The Pooh Cook Book. Illus. by Ernest H. Shepard. New York: Dutton, 1969.

Emerson, Anne, Comp. Peter Rabbit's Cookery Book. London: Warne, 1987.

Fison, Josie and Felicity Dahl, Comp.Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes. Illus. by Quentin Blake. New York: Viking, 1994.

Glovach, Linda. The Little Witch's Black Magic Cookbook. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1972.

Greene, Ellin, comp. Midsummer Magic: A Garland of Stories, Charms and Recipes. Illus. by Barbara Cooney. New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1977.

Greene, Ellin, comp. Clever Cooks: A Concoction of Stories, Recipes and Riddles. Illus. by Trina Schart Hyman. New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1973.

Greene, Karen. Once Upon a Time. New Hope, PA: New Hope Press, 1987.

Hazelton, Niki. Raggedy Ann & Andy's Cookbook.Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1975.

Keene, Carolyn. The Nancy Drew Cookbook: Clues to Good Cooking. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1973.

Lane, Margaret. The Beatrix Potter Country Cookery Book. New York: Warne, 1981.

Macdonald, Kate. The Anne of Green Gables Cookbook. Illus. by Barbara DiLella. Toronto, Canada: Oxford University Press, 1985.

MacGregor, Carol. The Storybook Cookbook. New York: Doubleday, 1967.

MacGregor, Carol. The Fairy Tale Cookbook. New York: Macmillan, 1982.

Mayer, Marianna. The Mother Goose Cookbook: Rhymes and Recipes for the Very Young. New York: Morrow, 1998.

Moore, Sandre. The Fairy Tale Cookbook. Nashville, TN: Cumberland, 2000.

Penner, Lucille Recht. The Little Women Book: Games, Recipes, Crafts, and Other Homemade Pleasures. Illus. by Diane de Groat. New York: RandomHouse, 1995.

Sobel, Donald J. and Glenn Andrews. Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Cake!: A Cook and Case Book. New York: Four Winds Press, 1983.

Stallworth, Lyn. Wond'rous Fare. Illus by Jim Bennett, Dennis Dittrick, John Hayes, and Jim Robinson. Chicago, IL: Calico Book, 1988.

Stanton, Cynthia. The Frog and Miss Mouse's Wedding. Illus. by Jill Mackley Hall. London: RHS Publications, 1973.

Travers, P.L. and Maurice Moore-Betty. Mary Poppins in the Kitchen: A Cookery Book with a Story. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1975.

Walker, Barbara M. The Little House Cookbook: Frontier Foods from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Classic Stories. Illus. by Garth Williams. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.

Walt Disney Productions. Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Cookbook. New York: Golden Press, 1975.

Winnie-the-Pooh’s Picnic Cookbook. Illus. by Ernest H. Shepard. New York: Dutton, 1997.

Winnie-the-Pooh's Teatime Cookbook. Illus. by Ernest H. Shepard. New York: Dutton, 1993.

Wilder, Laura Ingalls, Comp. The Laura Ingalls Wilder Country Cookbook. Commentary by William Anderson. Photos by Leslie A. Kelly. New York: HarperCollins, 1995.

Source:

Vandergrift, Kay E. "Cookbooks Based on Children's Books." 6 Feb. 1996. 18 Mar. 2008 .