Picture Books with Recipes

Get cooking with these stories that include a recipie.

Updated November 6, 2023
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Empanadas for everyone
Azúa Kramer, Jackie
Paper Book
In the vein of Thank You, Omu! and Bilal Cooks Daal comes a lyrical and nourishing tale about the importance of food to a community--and value of community to the experience of cooking--as told through the eyes of a young girl helping her tía. Every Saturday, Carina...
Sari-sari summers
Bontigao, Lynnor
Paper Book
In this love letter to the Philippines (and to grandmothers), a young girl comes up with a brilliantly delicious way to attract customers after a heat wave leaves her lola's store empty. Nora loves spending summers with Lola at her sari-sari store, a treasure trove filled with...
Every night is pizza night
Lo?pez-Alt, J. Kenji
Paper Book
New York Times Bestseller Best-selling author J. Kenji López-Alt introduces Pipo, a girl on a quest to prove that pizza is the best food in the world. Pipo thinks that pizza is the best. No, Pipo knows that pizza is the best. It is scientific fact. But when...
Fry bread : a Native American family story
Maillard, Kevin Noble
Paper Book
Winner of the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal An American Indian Youth Literature Picture Book Honor Winner "A wonderful and sweet book . . . Lovely stuff." --The New York Times Book Review Told in lively and powerful verse by...
The little bitty bakery
Muir, Leslie.
Paper Book
"At the Little Bitty Bakery, the pastry chef was beat-from her powdered sugar nose, to her flour dusted feet." When a pastry chef works straight through her birthday with no time to celebrate, some industrious mice decide to cook her up a scrumptious birthday surprise. It's a happy day, indeed,...
Saturday sancocho
Torres, Leyla
Paper Book
This is the enchanting story of a young girl, her grandmother, and their quest for the ingredients they need to prepare their favorite meal, sancocho. This lovely book is illustrated with bold and vibrant watercolors that evoke the bustling atmosphere of the village markets of Central and South...

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