Cooking With Kids

Great New and Used Children's Cookbooks

Cookbooks for children are some of the most popular books lately. ThriftBooks has a huge selection of children’s cookbooks, including best sellers, new releases, and deals.

Is It a Good Idea to Teach Kids How to Prep Their Own Meals?

Experts agree that there are many excellent reasons to teach cooking skills to children. Cookbooks for children are written with simple instructions and contain lots of fun, easy ideas that introduce the culinary arts to eager young chefs.

Some of the benefits of teaching children to cook include:

• Preparing meals boosts their confidence
• Cooking expands children's palates
• Following recipes teaches math
• Understanding recipes hone reading comprehension skills
• Cooking teaches children where food comes from
• Learning new recipes increases cultural awareness

Above all else, using the best cookbooks for kids as they create dishes from recipes imparts a basic—but essential—life skill!

The Best Cookbooks for Kids

There are hundreds of cookbooks with easy-to-follow recipes for children. The most popular choices are illustrated, exciting, and straightforward cookbooks. Whether your child has a particular type of food or theme they would like to focus on or not, the possibilities are endless, thanks to a huge variety of cookbooks for children out there.

Some of the best books for children who love to cook include many of our best sellers, such as:

• Science Experiments You Can Eat by Vicki Cobb
• Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes by Mollie Katzen and Ann Henderson
• The Children's Step-by-Step Cookbook by Angela Wilkes

All of these cookbooks, as well as the other cookbooks for children on our best sellers list, are full of illustrations, funny quips, clear instructions, and more. They all provide an excellent introduction to cooking without demanding overly advanced cooking skills.

The Most Popular Themed Cookbooks for Children

Many cookbooks are based on a particular theme. It might be a movie, TV series, or character that is popular with children. At ThriftBooks, we have a wide variety of these books available, some of which include:

• Wookiee Cookies: A Star Wars Cookbook by Robin Davis
• Mickey's Gourmet Cookbook by the Walt Disney Company
• The Pooh Cookbook by Virginia H. Ellison
• The Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook by Georgeanne Brennan and Frankie Frankeny

When children learn cooking from a cookbook that is connected to their favorite characters or shows, it can give them a sense of belonging within that community. This is important in developing a child's social skills in addition to the other skills they sharpen while cooking.

Most Popular Cookbooks for Kids, According to Top Chefs

Some famous chefs have published their own cookbooks for children, many of which have become some of the most popular cookbooks ever. Some of these include:

• Paula Deen's My First Cookbook by Paula Deen
• Emeril's There's a Chef in My Soup! By Emeril Lagasse
• Rick & Lanie's Excellent Kitchen Adventures by Rick Bayless and Lanie Bayless

The best children's cookbooks are available at ThriftBooks, which means you can broaden your child's collection of culinary recipes and teach them the art of cooking while bonding with them as everyone has fun!

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