In this companion title to Look and Cook Snacks, these easy-to-follow and engaging visual recipes will have kids ages 4–7 making their favorite breakfast dishes for the whole family to enjoy!
Kirkus Reviews - Ambitious young cooks will eat this up.
The New York Times Holiday Gift Guide “The step-by-step instructions are so simple even kids who don’t read can follow them, and with catchy names that are mashups of ingredients, nationalities, genres, textures and happy outcomes, the 17 snacks (and two beverages) featured are sure to whet young appetites.”
Booklist “Budding chefs get a boost of independence with this visual cookbook designed to guide pre-readers, step-by-step, through the creation of 19 snack recipes...suggested variations and the clarity of this infographic approach will inspire confidence and should appeal to families that embrace early elementary autonomy. Care for some Yummus, anyone?"
Kirkus Reviews “...accessible and playful...Fun and fundamental food facts.”
Publishers Weekly "Readers will explore the science behind favorite everyday foods... Bold and simply designed graphics present facts about the science of food, where it comes from, and what happens behind the scenes with favorites like pizza, honey, milk, maple syrup, vegetable soup, and more."
Jean Little Library "Verdict: A delightful and fascinating look at the origins of food for curious minds, from kids to grown-ups. This is a great pick for your classroom library or bookshelves at home and kids will love poring over its pages... Recommended."
The Book Report, " These books are seriously awesome. They take things apart visually and make things easier to understand."
A Junior Library Guild Selection
Publishers Weekly “This educational guide introduces the mechanics behind familiar objects, machines, and physical phenomena…Fisher introduces complex concepts concisely while gently suggesting to readers that there is a world of knowledge to be discovered in everyday things.”
School Library Journal “A bright and stimulating introduction to the mechanics and makeup of everyday objects and phenomena… An engaging and visually tempting starting point to prepare kids for more in-depth titles like David Macaulay’s The Way Things Work Now.”
You’re a big kid now, and there are lots of
things you can do all by yourself!
Publishers Weekly, “... upbeat how-to, illustrated with close-up photographs of children and tiny plastic toys... Fisher favors eye-popping colors and buoyant patterns ... From dressing oneself to mastering colors, patterns, and even making the bed, Fisher’s encouraging book balances the known and the new.”
Kirkus Reviews, “visually engaging"
Get ready for kindergarten and beyond,
as easy as 1, 2, 3!
A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Picture Book of 2011
Publishers Weekly, "Fisher gives preschoolers a leg up on need-to-know information in this energetic collection."
The Wall Street Journal, "There's a faint haziness in Ms. Fisher's photographic style that gives her tableaux a sugared quality; you feel vaguely that you ought to be able to pluck the objects off the page and eat them."
School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
Publishers Weekly, “Math made fun? Problem solved.”
School Library Journal, “Anyone who thinks that a math-activity book can’t be fun hasn’t seen this one.”
Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award
Publishers Weekly, “Fisher creates a tongue-in-cheek volume from a baby's eye view in this captivating debut”
School Library Journal, “This ode to the wonders of a boy whose simplest deeds take on heroic proportions in the eyes of a young sibling.”
Vanity Fair, “the most winning and original children’s book in ages”
Kirkus Reviews, “original, playful, realistic, and reassuring”
Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award
Parenting Magazine Best Books of the Year
Association of Booksellers for Children Best Book for Children
School Library Journal, “A visual treat that is perfect for sharing when the new baby comes.”
Kirkus Reviews, "A rebus poem by its very nature begs to be reread, but with ebullient wordplay and a nostalgic tug at the (admittedly adult) heart, this one will be especially hard to let go.”
School Library Journal, “whimsical and inventive”
Publishers Weekly, “Good, old fashioned fun”
Child Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2004
Nick Jr. Best Books of the Year, 2004
Publishers Weekly, “sassy”
Kirkus Reviews, “Impressive and innovative”
School Library Journal, “an alphabet book that calls to mind Walter Wick's “I Spy" pictures crossed with characters from William Joyce's A Day with Wilbur Robinson.”
Daily Candy, “It’s so bright and brilliant your kids will have no idea it’s an educational tool.”
Financial Times, “wildly imaginative and hilarious”
Publishers Weekly, “Full of visual wit and sparkling good humor…Youngsters will be entranced by this perfectly nonsensical and imagined volume.”
Kirkus Reviews, “Fisher’s bright collages of mixed media are a wonderful match for Lear’s whimsical limericks… Cheerfully absurd.”
Parenting, “mouth watering illustrations”
Family Fun, “ Scrumptious. Fisher’s I Spy-ish otherworld grows more fantastic with each visit.”
Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2007
Kirkus Reviews, “Fisher’s snort-inducing ‘documentary’ photographs”
Kirkus Reviews, "Resourceful and resilient, Moxy is a pleasure to meet again."