Cooking with Bear
A Story and Recipes from the Forest
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
This springtime companion to Bear’s Winter Party combines fifteen kid-friendly recipes with a sweet story about friendship and food.
When Bear wakes up after a long, cold winter, he makes a special spring lunch and invites Fox to join him. The food is delicious, and Fox asks Bear to teach him how to cook.
They walk through the forest collecting honey, nuts and other wild ingredients, and they greet their friends along the way. With an armload of tasty foods, Bear and Fox return to Bear’s den and cook up a feast to share.
Afterwards, Bear writes down his recipes so that Fox (and you!) can enjoy many marvelous meals. His cookbook — Best of Bear — offers a selection of kid-friendly, forest-themed recipes, including nut burgers, wild greens pita pizza, hazelnut–chocolate chip cookies and a wild strawberry smoothie.
Readers can revisit the animal friends from Bear’s Winter Party and try out fifteen fun recipes in this playful story/cookbook from award-winning author Deborah Hodge, featuring exuberant art by Lisa Cinar.
Key Text Features
author’s note
recipes
index
Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.5
Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"Forest food" might bring to mind grubs and leaves, but readers are in for a pleasant surprise in this follow-up to Bear's Winter Party. After hibernating, hungry Bear wonders whether Fox and other friends all rendered in thick, markerlike outlines and colored with light splashes of paint have eaten. He searches for ingredients in his forest glen, visits his pals, and prepares a feast. Readers can try each of Bear's 15 recipes, which are intermingled with the story and feature herbs, fruits, greens, nuts, and seeds (along with some store-bought items). The recipes include a salad with greens and honey vinaigrette, blueberry muffins, and chocolate chip cookies with hazelnuts. While urging readers to seek adult help when cooking (and perhaps while foraging for ingredients), Hodge promotes cooking with fresh foods and gently urges readers to, like Fox, "try something new." Ages 4 7.
