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Do you have a budding Julia Child or Jacques Pepin in your kitchen that you?d like to encourage? Or perhaps you want to teach your children that eating and cooking can be fun, yummy, and still healthy? The following cookbooks teach kids some truly delicious recipes while still focusing on health.

Kids? Fun and Healthy Cookbook by Nicola Graimes

With over 100 recipes, the Kid?s Fun and Healthy Cookbook shares a variety of kinds of meals and desserts, as well as an easy explanation of food groups, safety tips, and a helpful glossary of terms. Each recipe features colorful text boxes and text circles with extra tips and facts about the recipes (such as what country the dish is from) as well as pictures of the meals being made. I tried making the nut butter recipe (which was rather strangely listed under breakfast foods), the Pesto Pasta recipe, and the Breakfast Tortilla, and they all turned out well. I would have liked if the book offered suggestions for putting together different recipes (such as which main meal should go with which baked good and dessert to get a good balance). Overall though, the book offered a thorough explanation of healthy and less healthy foods as well as some surprising and yummy recipes that are sure to interest an older child (9+) and preteens.

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One World Kid?s Cookbook: Easy, Healthy, and Affordable Family Meals by Sean Mendez

The One World Kid?s Cookbook will definitely be able to hold the interest of a curious older child. The book not only offers some tasty recipes but also teaches a little geography as well. Each recipe has four pages devoted to it, with facts and anecdotes from the country where the recipe comes from, as well as a map with the country highlighted. This book is a bit more exotic than the Kid?s Fun and Healthy Cookbook, offering unfamiliar recipes from places such as Iran, Mexico, and Australia.

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The Teen?s Vegetarian Cookbook

If your teen has suddenly decided to become vegetarian but you still want him or her to be healthy, a book that offers well-balanced recipes and advice like, The Teen?s Vegetarian Cookbook is probably a good idea. This cookbook offers recipes not only for the usual main dishes, breakfasts, and desserts, but for snacks and sweets, dips and sides as well. The book also includes a nutritional substitution chart (which I consider essential for any alternate-diet cookbook), ideas for holiday meals, as well as helpful designations for the difficulty of some recipes, such as ?insanely easy?. This book is geared towards helping a teen who is the only vegetarian in the family cope, so I wouldn?t recommend it for anyone younger than a fourteen year old, unless they are fairly independent.

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The Mayo Clinic?s Kid?s Cookbook by The Mayo Clinic

The Mayo Clinic Kid?s Cookbook is a great choice for a child who is wary of unfamiliar-sounding recipes. This cookbook offers healthy versions of popular recipes, such as Crispy Chicken Fingers, and so is a great way to ease a child into a healthier diet. Each recipe is accompanied by photos of the dishes as well as nutritional information. This makes it a great book for children over 9 or 6+ with the help of an adult.

Each of these books is a great introduction to a healthier diet, and, depending on your particular child?s needs or interests, would make a great addition to any family?s kitchen!

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Author Bio:?Brian Burton is a children?s book enthusiast and online publisher for?childrensbookstore.com?who writes on the topics of reading and parenting. Check out Brian?s?blog, view his?facebook page, and follow him on twitter?@Booksforchildrn

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