These children’s cookbooks feature recipes based on foods in favorite children’s books and stories. The children’s books featured in these children’s cookbooks include the Boxcar Children mysteries, books by Roald Dahl, the Little House series, Green Eggs and Ham and other Dr. Seuss books.
1. Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook
If you are looking for a cookbook for adults and children to enjoy together, I recommend the Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook, with recipes inspired by children's books by Dr. Seuss. Each recipe is named after, and based on, a Dr. Seuss children's book. The Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook includes a wide variety of tasty and zany recipes inspired by Dr. Seuss. The cookbook is divided into six sections, with five to nine recipes in each. There are recipes for breakfast, beverages, lunch, snacks, dinner, and dessert. (Random House, 2006. ISBN: 9780679884408)
2. Roald Dahl's Even More Revolting Recipes
This cookbook for kids, the second in a series based on the books of Roald Dahl, is delightfully nutty. Each of the recipes is loosely based on a quotation about food from one of Roald Dahl's books, including James and the Giant Peach, BFG, and Charlie and the Cholcolate Factory. Quentin Blake's light-hearted pen and watercolor sketches, combined with photos of the prepared dish, add to the book's zany appeal. The recipes are creative, fun, and tasty. (Viking, 2001. ISBN: 0670035157)
3. The Storybook Cookbook
Each of the 22 recipes in this children’s cookbook by Carol MacGregor is based on food enjoyed by a storybook character. Each recipe is accompanied by a pen and ink sketch by artist Ray Cruz, a summary of the story and a quotation from the book that relates to the recipe. The children’s books include Heidi, The Adventures of Pinocchio, Swiss Family Robinson, The Wizard of Oz, Little Women, and Little House on the Prairie. (Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1979. ISBN: 0138508429)4. The Little House Cookbook
This cookbook by Barbara M. Walker provides a wealth of information about pioneer foods, kitchens, and cooking as well as a number of pioneer recipes. Quotations and Garth Williams’s illustrations from the Little House series enhance the reader's enjoyment. Foods are categorized by where the ingredients can be found, including foods from the woods, from tilled fields, from gardens and orchards, and from the barnyard. (HarperTrophy; 3rd edition, 1989. ISBN: 0064460908)5. The Boxcar Children Cookbook
If your children enjoy the Boxcar Children mysteries, they will enjoy cooking and eating many of the dishes enjoyed by the children in the series. There are recipes for beverages, breads, breakfast, sandwiches, main dishes, soups and stews, campfire cooking, salads, vegetables, plus cookies, cakes, and other desserts. The 70+ recipes are easy to follow. The book’s red and black on white design and silhouette illustrations add to its appeal. (Albert Whitman & Co., 1991. ISBN: 0807508594)