Product Description

Making Minestrone is a cookbook with a difference. A simple verse scheme leads children first to the vegetable garden, then to the kitchen, where the cooking begins. Once everything is bubbling in the pot, it's time to set the table and prepare for a delicious al fresco meal in the summer sunshine. A step-by-step recipe at the back of the book offers further help for young cooks. With a clear garden-to-table narrative, and with charming illustrations by best-selling artist Nan Brooks, this book deserves a place in every family kitchen

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1556865 in Books
• Published on: 2000-09-30
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 32 pages

Review
'Beautifully rendered in watercolor, ink, and pencil.... Each page is bordered in a varied vegetable pattern, and friendly sheep and cows gambol near the children.... It all ends in a lovely outdoor tableau of Homegrown, home cooked, magic minestrone!- Kirkus --Kirkus

About the Author
On good days, Stella Blackstone lives east of the sun and west of the moon. On less good days, she lives at the bottom of a well. She finds ideas in all of these places and turns them into songs, poems and rhymes. She has read and written poetry for as long as she can remember, and her favourite books include Louis Untermeyer?s A Child's Treasury of Poetry, which was a constant companion throughout her childhood, Paolo Coelho's The Alchemist, everything by T.S. Eliot, and William Buck's translation of The Ramayana. She lives in southwest England, and enjoys walking and working in her garden as well as doing nothing whenever she has the chance. Nan Brooks originally trained in advertising design before turning to her current career as a freelance illustrator. She has had over 30 children's books published, as well as illustrating for school books. Highlights of her work include: Brian and the Long, Long Scarf (Carol Rhoda Press, 1976), which won a Chicago Book Clinic Award, My Little Promise Bible (Zondervan, 1994) and The Princess and the Pea (A Little Golden Book, 1994), which has sold over 400,000 copies to date.