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Be a Survivor
These clever books will inspire projects large and small.
After (the same) one-page overview including safety tips, each volume offers directions for outdoorsy or nature-themed activities such as mapmaking, rope tricks, animal tracking, and building snow shelters. A variety of text fonts, jazzy design features, and colorful cartoon illustrations keep things moving. A "Did You Know?" fact page concludes each book. This series will greatly appeal to young outdoor adventurers. Ind. Review covers these Go Wild titles: Be a Survivor, Be a Tracker, Be an Adventurer, and Be an Explorer.
Football Fuel: Recipes for Before, During, and After the Big Game
Great choices.
Fuel presents healthy food for athletes' game-day meals plus
snacks; Party provides ideas for more festive socializing
snacks and nibbles. Clear step-by-step instructions, a glossary of
techniques, ingredient and tool lists, and photos of the final
products make somewhat complex recipes doable. Sidebars give
serving tips and suggest variations. Several recipes require
special equipment not listed in the introductory tools section.
Reading list. Review covers these Sports Illustrated Kids: Football
Cookbooks titles: Football Fuel and Football Party
Recipes.
Origami Explosion: Scorpions, Whales, Boxes, and More!
Wonderful options for novice folders.
A paragraph tells a bit about the art and history of origami and
encourages originality and experimentation. Explanations of basic
materials, terms, and techniques lead to step-by-step illustrated
directions for nine mostly traditional projects, arranged from
simple to complex. Full-color photos of the finished projects
suggest display methods or uses. Reading list. Review covers the
following titles: Origami Palooza and Origami
Papertainment.
Cool Breads & Biscuits: Easy & Fun Comfort Food
Solid additions to cooking collections.
Short sections on fresh foods, basic prep instructions, cooking
terms, equipment, and ingredients introduce eight fairly
challenging recipes. Photos of three prep steps and the final
dishes accompany each recipe. Pictures of very young "chefs" do not
reflect the advanced cooking knowledge required to complete many of
the dishes. Some items call for uncommon ingredients such as
tomatillos and rhubarb. Glos., ind. Review covers the following
Checkerboard Library: Cool Home Cooking titles: Cool Breads
& Biscuits, Cool Dips & Drinks, Cool Main
Dishes, Cool Sides & Salads, Cool Soups &
Stews, and Cool Treats & Sweets.
American Food
Strong additions to cooking collections.
Each book in this series briefly introduces the basics of the
cuisine and culture and highlights three regional specialties.
While the glossy, full-page photographs are enticing, the
information is general to the point of misleading. Three "recipes"
purport to represent typical foods: e.g, pizza (using English
muffins and canned sauce) and couscous (boxed instant). There are
three other spring 2015 books in this series. Reading list,
websites. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Cooking School
titles: Italian Food, Mexican Food, and Middle
Eastern Food.
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