Here are the top 30 children’s cookbooks books for 12 year olds. Please click Read Review to read book reviews on Amazon. You can also click Find in Library to check book availability at your local library. If the default library is not correct, please follow Change Library to reset it.
1. Charlie Learns To Cook (The Charlie and Nana Cookbook Series 1)
by: Midge Newth Release date: Nov 14, 2014 Number of Pages: 29 Find in Library Read Review |
Children love to help cook. In addition to being a fun story to read to your children, this book includes three easy-to-make recipes that little ones are sure to enjoy making and eating.
2. Charlie Helps Nana Make Christmas Cookies (The Charlie and Nana Cookbook Series 4)
by: Midge Newth Release date: Jan 11, 2015 Number of Pages: 49 Find in Library Read Review |
Nana teaches Charlie how to gather ingredients, make three tasty cookies and learn the basics of cooking.
Children love to help cook. In addition to being a fun story to read to your children, this book includes easy-to-make recipes that little ones are sure to enjoy helping you make and eat!
3. Cooking Around the Country with Kids: USA Regional Recipes and Fun Activities
by: Amy Houts Release date: Nov 25, 2009 Number of Pages: 272 Find in Library Read Review |
4. You’re the Chef: A Cookbook Companion for A Smart Girl’s Guide: Cooking
by: Lisa Cherkasky, Elisa Chavarri Release date: Mar 01, 2016 Number of Pages: 80 Find in Library Read Review |
5. Cool World Cooking: Fun and Tasty Recipes for Kids!
by: Lisa Wagner Release date: Jul 09, 2013 Number of Pages: 160 Find in Library Read Review |
Books include: ingredients and tool lists, visual index of cooking terms, world map with highlighted areas, step-by-step instructions and photos, and allergy and safety information.
6. Greek Revival from the Garden: Growing and Cooking for Life (Young Palmetto Books)
by: Patricia Moore-Pastides Release date: Jun 15, 2013 Number of Pages: 160 Find in Library Read Review |
The growing section provides all the information necessary for those interested in organic gardening to cultivate an exciting array of fruits and vegetables in containers, raised beds, or yard gardens. Topics include preparing the soil, composting to create organic fertilizer, watering, working with basic tools, and dealing with common pests and problems. Color photographs are provided to inspire new gardeners toward more than just tomatoes and cucumbers.
Greek Revival from the Garden then invites the reader into the kitchen. This section assumes little prior cooking knowledge or experience and includes kitchen safety, common equipment and cooking methods, and observations from cooking class participants. The highlight of the cooking section are the recipes themselves: a beautifully photographed sampling of fifty mouth-watering dishes prepared with the harvest of homegrown vegetables as the stars, including garden gazpacho, curried butternut squash and apple soup, and nut crusted creamy almond fruit tart.
Throughout the book, Moore-Pastides inspires healthy habits by introducing simple ways to grow and prepare nutritious dishes, and promotes a long and fulfilling lifetime relationship with food from garden to table.
7. A Smart Girl’s Guide: Cooking: How to Make Food for Your Friends, Your Family & Yourself (Smart Girl’s Guides)
by: Patricia Daniels, Darcie Johnston, Elisa Chavarri Release date: Mar 01, 2016 Number of Pages: 120 Find in Library Read Review |
8. A Trip to the Store: How to Choose and Enjoy Nutritious Foods
by: Florentina Marcu Release date: May 20, 2016 Number of Pages: 38 Find in Library Read Review |
As the girls and their mom make their way around the supermarket and then prepare dinner together, children learn the difference between refined and whole grain; what to look for when checking ingredient labels; and how to avoid having too much sugar, while still enjoying delicious desserts.
Florentina Marcu, an integrative nutrition health coach and mom, believes that Mother Nature knows best when it comes to the foods we eat. Involving children in choosing and preparing nutritious meals and guiding them in creating their own version of a grocery list helps children to grow healthy and strong and empowers them with skills that will serve them throughout their entire lives.
9. Cooking Around the Calendar with Kids: Holiday and Seasonal Food and Fun
by: Amy Houts, Terri Wilson Release date: Apr 14, 2014 Number of Pages: 128 Find in Library Read Review |
10. Cooking Is Cool: Heat-Free Recipes for Kids to Cook
by: Marianne E. Dambra Release date: Jul 05, 2013 Number of Pages: 145 Find in Library Read Review |
Cooking can be a delicious learning experience for children. As children read recipes, measure ingredients, and taste each dish, they build math and literacy skills, practice science process skills, and explore different food groups. Cooking Is Cool makes all of this hands-on learning possible without stepping foot in the kitchen. These classroom-friendly recipes are all heat-free, meaning they can be made without an oven, stove, microwave, or hot plate. With your guidance, budding chefs can follow the easy instructions to transform fresh, simple ingredients into tasty snacks, beverages, entrees, and treats.
This book includes more than 50 heat-free recipes that are fun to make and taste great, an explanation of the learning that occurs as children cook, tips to create your own classroom cooking center, and nutrition information, extension ideas, and interesting food facts.
Marianne E. Dambra, president of Early Childhood Education Network of Rochester, Inc., has presented on heat-free cooking with children at national and regional conferences since 1994.
11. Charlie and Nana Learn About Diabetes: The Charlie and Nana Cookbook Series
by: Midge Newth, Jhoiye Mendoza Release date: May 01, 2016 Number of Pages: 74 Find in Library Read Review |
Charlie and Nana learn that Grandpa has diabetes and need to learn how to cook without the carbohydrates of refined sugars. Dealing with diabetes can be a scary and challenging if it is not controlled.
Charlie and Nana need to learn how to make tasty diabetic desserts that are healthy and taste good. Read and see how Charlie learns how to cook healthy desserts for his Grandpa.
Charlie continues the cooking adventure with his eighth cooking lesson. Follow along as Nana teaches Charlie how to gather ingredients, make three tasty dessert recipes, and learn the basics of cooking.
Children love to help cook. In addition to being a fun story to read to your children, this book includes yummy, easy-to-make recipes that little ones are sure to enjoy helping you make and eat!
12. Food, Faith and Fun: A Faithgirlz! Cookbook
by: Various Authors Release date: Oct 07, 2012 Number of Pages: 160 Find in Library Read Review |
Stir Up Some Food, Fun & Faith in the Kitchen
Grab your apron and a friend or two and cook up some tasty treats and yummy eats. With step-by-step instructions and photos good enough to make your mouth water, this cookbook helps you master simple recipes, impressive main courses, and elegant deserts, including:
Homemade Hot Pretzels
Toffee Tarts
White Chicken Chili
Mango Chicken Quesadillas
Best Friend Cupcakes
Soups, smoothies, holiday recipes, and much more?some contributed from other Faithgirlz just like you. Plus, you’ll also experience cooking as a memory-making, God-honoring, wonderful way to share and serve delicious food with those you love.
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
?1 Corinthians 10:31
13. Christmas Cook It in a Cup!: Meals and Treats Kids Can Cook in Silicone Cups
by: Julia Myall, Greg Lowe Release date: Sep 23, 2014 Number of Pages: 64 Find in Library Read Review |
14. Food, Football, and Fun! (Sports Illustrated Kids)
by: Katrina Jorgensen Release date: Feb 01, 2015 Number of Pages: 144 Find in Library Read Review |
15. American Girl Cooking: Recipes for Delicious Snacks, Meals & More
by: Williams-Sonoma, American Girl Release date: Oct 04, 2016 Number of Pages: 128 Find in Library Read Review |
The second book from Williams-Sonoma and American Girl, American Girl Cooking, is packed with great recipes fit for any occasion! Learn how to whip up tasty treats for movie nights, picnics, fiestas, family dinners, and more! Filled with delicious snacks, soups and salads, main dishes, and side dishes, you’ll be on your way to becoming the best chef in town.
Cook up some fun with American Girl Cooking—the perfect cookbook for the emerging chef (and American Girl fan) in your family. Packed with great, easy-to-follow recipes fit for any occasion, this new title will inspire young cooks to get in the kitchen and create delicious, wholesome dishes and give a great sense of accomplishment.
Being able to cook good food is a skill you’ll enjoy and benefit from your entire life. With this book as your very own cooking coach, learn how to make tasty and nutritious snacks, soups, salads, main dishes, and more to share with your friends and family.
Snacks: From caprese kebabs to lemony hummus to hot cheese dip, these recipes are perfect for sharing and satisfying between-meal cravings.
Soups & Salads: Featuring comforting favorites like chicken noodle soup and creamy tomato soup with cheese toasts and lighter fare like taco and BLT salads, there’s something here for everyone.
Main Dishes: A wide range of impressive-yet-easy dinners, such as rosemary roast chicken, spaghetti and meatballs, and fish tacos with slaw, are both nourishing and delectable.
Side Dishes: Buttery peas with mint, creamiest mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, cheesy garlic bread, and more round out any meal.
American Girl Cooking goes with the exclusive line of cookware products from Williams-Sonoma and American Girl, but these delicious recipes can also be made with the utensils you already have in your home. This companion title to American Girl Baking will be a staple in the kitchen for your little chef.
16. Catnip T and Herb: A Child’s Devotional and Tea Party Cookbook
by: Deanna Stalnaker Release date: Aug 21, 2014 Number of Pages: 32 Find in Library Read Review |
17. Pioneer Farm Cooking (Exploring History Through Food)
by: Mary Gunderson Release date: Aug 01, 2016 Number of Pages: 32 Find in Library Read Review |
18. I Can Cook: Puddings and Desserts: A Children’s Cookbook (My Children’s Cookbooks 2)
by: Marika Germanis Release date: Jul 23, 2014 Number of Pages: 30 Find in Library Read Review |
I Can Cook Puddings and Desserts is the second book in the My Children’s Cookbook series which will provide fun baking activities in the kitchen and something nutritious and scrumptious to eat afterwards!
19. The Lulu Baker Trilogy: 03: Chocolate Wishes (Jinx,The Lulu Baker Trilogy)
by: Fiona Dunbar Release date: Sep 17, 2009 Number of Pages: 256 Find in Library Read Review |
20. Little Cowpokes Cookbook
by: Zac Williams Release date: Jan 09, 2013 Number of Pages: 64 Find in Library Read Review |
Saddle up, ride ’em out and get cookin’—cowpoke style!
Yeehaw! Kids who are ready to live the life of a cowpoke will delight in Zac Williams’ latest children’s cookbook, Little Cowpokes. Range riders will learn to whip up tasty vittles such as Buckin’ Bull Nachos, Get Along Pretzel Doggies, Slow-Cooked Smoky Brisket, Cinnamon Churro Sundae, Pioneer Honey Taffy and more! This here collection of recipes is guaranteed to be just the ticket to delicious cowpoke kiddie cookin’, packed with simple step-by-step recipes and fun photographs as well as style ideas for Wild West parties, chuck wagon cookouts, sagebrush get-togethers, and rodeo roundups.
21. A Recipe for Success: Lizzie Kander and Her Cookbook (Badger Biographies Series)
by: Bob Kann Release date: Mar 18, 2014 Number of Pages: 144 Find in Library Read Review |
22. A Teen Guide to Breakfast on the Go (Teen Cookbooks)
by: Dana Meachen Rau Release date: Jan 01, 2011 Number of Pages: 64 Find in Library Read Review |
23. Who Took the Cookbook? (We Read Phonics: Level 7)
by: Paul Orshoski, Kelly Light Release date: Dec 15, 2012 Number of Pages: 27 Find in Library Read Review |
We Read Phonics makes it easy for parents to help their children improve phonics skills and read a decodable story. Each book combines a fun story with simple games for phonics and sight words. The games are quick and easy to play – and they are all designed to help children read the story and improve their decoding skills. The result is faster reading development and kids who love to read!
24. Cool Kids Cook: Louisiana
by: Kid Eliana, Dianne De Las Casas, Soleil Lisette Release date: Feb 27, 2013 Number of Pages: 64 Find in Library Read Review |
INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARD SECOND PLACE FOR BOOK WRITTEN BY A YOUTH
PARENTS’ CHOICE APPROVED AWARD
For kids who want to cook—Louisiana style! Kid Chef Eliana keeps the good times rolling in this kid-friendly cookbook of Louisiana cuisine. With nearly thirty exciting recipes from meat pies to boudin balls to Mardi Gras king cake, Eliana undertakes a culinary journey exploring unique gastronomic traditions from all regions of the state. With Eliana’s help, your delicious dishes are sure to satisfy the taste buds of all ages!
25. A Dash of Magic (Bliss Bakery Trilogy)
by: Kathryn Littlewood, Erin McGuire Release date: Feb 12, 2013 Number of Pages: 368 Find in Library Read Review |
This second book in the acclaimed Bliss trilogy mixes the down-home heart-punch of Ingrid Law’s Newbery Honor Book Savvy, the always-on-the-edge-of-chaos comedy of Cheaper by the Dozen, and a humorous magic all its own to create a thoroughly original confection to please every reader’s sweet tooth!
The Bliss family’s magical Cookery Booke was stolen by evil Aunt Lily at the end of Bliss, the first novel in the series. Now twelve-year-old Rosemary has a chance to win it back: she challenges her aunt to an Iron Chef-style international baking competition in Paris. But the only way to beat the cheating Aunt Lily is to gather magical ingredients of her own. Together with her brothers and their talking cat and mouse, Rose races across Paris—from the Eiffel Tower to the Cathedral of Notre Dame to the Mona Lisa in the Louvre Museum—to gather what she needs to out-bake—and out-magic—her conniving aunt.
If Rose wins, the cherished Cookery Booke will return to her family where it belongs. If she loses—well, the consequences are too ugly to think about. . . .
26. The Winnie-the-Pooh Cookbook
by: Virginia Ellison, Ernest H. Shepard Release date: Oct 14, 2010 Number of Pages: 112 Find in Library Read Review |
Forty years after its original publication, this updated and beautifully redesigned cookbook features quotes from the original books and Ernest H. Shepard’s beloved drawings, which leap off the pages in full color.
27. Young Chefs: Cooking Skills and Recipes for Kids
by: Christina Dymock Release date: Jun 11, 2013 Number of Pages: 128 Find in Library Read Review |
28. Charlie and Nana Help Celebrate Chanukah (The Charlie and Nana Cookbook Series 3)
by: Midge Newth Release date: Dec 09, 2014 Number of Pages: 41 Find in Library Read Review |
Charlie learns how to gather ingredients, make Matzoh Ball Soup, Potato Latkes and Applesauce..
Children love to help cook. In addition to being a fun story to read to your children, this book includes easy-to-make recipes that little ones are sure to enjoy making and eating.
29. Civil War Cooking: The Confederacy (Exploring History Through Food)
by: Susan Dosier Release date: Aug 01, 2016 Number of Pages: 32 Find in Library Read Review |
30. Honest Pretzels: And 64 Other Amazing Recipes for Cooks Ages 8 & Up
by: Mollie Katzen Release date: Oct 13, 2009 Number of Pages: 192 Find in Library Read Review |
Are you a kid? Then this book was written especially for you. With it, you can become a fantastic cook and amaze your friends with PITA SPIRALS and CREAMY CORN SOUP or CINNAMON SWIRL STICKY BUNS and BEST HOT CHOCOLATE. Or you can fill your lunch bag with a wedge of SPAGHETTI PIE, a serving of MAPLE YOGURT FRUIT DIP, and a handful of HONEST PRETZELS that you made yourself.
Are you a grown-up? Then welcome to another very special cookbook by Mollie Katzen. In these pages she speaks directly to children through 65fully kid-tested, illustrated recipes that require only a little adult assistance. It’s not just a cookbook full of yummy recipes–it also gives young cooks, ages eight and up, a chance to practice reading, math, and logic skills. And think of the sense of accomplishment they will feel as they grow into creative, confident chefs.
Best Selling Books for 12 year olds:
- Action & Adventure
- Activities, Crafts & Games
- Animals
- Biographies
- Classics
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Technology
- Early Learning
- Education & Reference
- Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths
- History
- Holidays & Celebrations
- Humor
- Literature & Fiction
- Mysteries & Detectives
- Religions
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports & Outdoors
- Children’s Cookbooks
Recommended Books for 12 year olds:
- Action & Adventure
- Activities, Crafts & Games
- Animals
- Biographies
- Classics
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Technology
- Early Learning
- Education & Reference
- Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths
- History
- Holidays & Celebrations
- Humor
- Literature & Fiction
- Mysteries & Detectives
- Religions
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports & Outdoors
- Children’s Cookbooks
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