YOUTH Spotlight on Food
Bake, Make, and Learn to Cook: Fun and Healthy Recipes for Young Cooks.
By David Atherton. Illus. by Rachel Stubbs.
Nov. 2021. 88p. illus. Candlewick, $17.99 (9781536219364). Gr. 2–5. 641.
Atherton, winner of the Great British Bake Off in 2019, offers a cookbook with straightforward, easily adaptable recipes geared toward children. The dishes range from breakfast treats to desserts, and they’re accompanied by pleasant illustrations of families happily cooking, baking, and eating together. Many of the dishes are fairly wholesome, with most featuring a vegetable, fruit, or whole grain. Banana Bear Pancakes, for instance, have spinach pureed into the batter to give them a green hue, and the Super Sweet Brownies contain mashed sweet potato. Others, though (like Octopizza and Heart-Stopper Scones), are classic treats. The…