Product Description

It is Grandad's birthday and Eddie is helping Mum make a birthday tea - with Lily's help, of course! Baked apples from their apple tree, eggs from their chickens - soon the table is filled with yummy birthday treats. But what did Lily do with all the carrots? The book includes recipes for making delicious and nutritious treats for all budding young chefs.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #70072 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 40 pages

Review
For finicky eaters, I prescribe 'Eddie's Kitchen'. (Independent on Sunday )

The perfect way to introduce a five or six year old to helping make a few simple but satisfying dishes. (Spectator )

Eddie's Garden was a great favourite and here comes another story-cum-how-to book that is even better. A rattling good narrative runs hand in hand with receipes. The illustrations, showing us a normal chaotic family kitchen rather than a sanatised version, ooze affection. (School Librarian )

This delightful book deserves to have a huge following, in families as well as in the classroom. (Books for Keeps )

About the Author
Sarah Garland is a much-loved author/illustrator who has published more than 40 books. The daughter of a publisher and illustrator, she trained as a typographer at the London College of Printing. She has written many books for children, and also books for adults on herbs and their uses. During her childhood in the New Forest and in recent years she has concentrated on growing a very wide variety of herbs to use in her kitchen, and to treat minor ailments. She lives in Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

Customer Reviews

Wonderful!!!
This is such a lovely, warm-hearted book about a family - reminds me of the Shirley Hughes Alfie books. It's the story of a hectic day in a family kitchen when mum realises she's forgotten grandad's birthday and spends the afternoon cooking some lovely food for his party with Eddie, who looks around 5, and Lily, who looks around 2.

If you don't enjoy cooking with your children, don't buy this book as it's all about what a lovely activity this is and will raise your children's expectations of joining in with everything in the kitchen, and it even has recipes at the end, but if you do enjoy cooking together (or would like to try), you'll love this book. I also like the fact that it assumes children will eat and enjoy good home-cooked food.

I don't want to make it sound like it portrays an over-idyllic, unrealistic version of life as this is definitely a normal family - they get messy & stressed, the phone and doorbell ring at the wrong time, they run out of ingredients and they just look like normal people. It's not clear if it's about a single parent - could be read either way, which is nice.

My children love it and find it funny and I enjoy reading it to them.