Dinosaur Soup
Yesterday I received an email from Martin at Bob's Your Uncle and I just had to share. They are looking for recipe submissions written by children to be featured in an illustrated book — to be published this year. Here are some charming sample pages from the book:
Want to have your children submit something? Here’s the brief as I received it from Martin:
This should be a project without any parental help or referring to cook books, the more instinctive the recipe, the better. The child should not be corrected or advised about any aspect of the recipe, even if measurements, temperature or timing is way off (that’s what we are looking for!).
It's ok for an adult to write down the recipe as dictated, it does not need to be an illustrated page or presented in an artistic style, as we will design and layout the finished product.
Please send submissions by e mail to: recipes@bobsyouruncle.com
Too fun! I hope you send something in. I'm definitely going to see if my kids want to write one.
Labels: children's lit, kids
7 Comments:
Hello! i love reading your blog and this entry reminded me of a project we did when i was in 1st grade. Our teacher had everyone bring in a recipe from home and we looked at it for a couple minutes during class and then had to put the recipe away and write it down how we thought the recipe went. Needless to say, this resulted in a hilarious "cook book" that she compiled from all our recipes. I believe I brought in a chocolate chip cookie recipe and the main thing I remember from it was to bake the cookies at 100 degrees for 5 hours. :)
I just thought I'd share that with you since those memories make me smile.
Wow, that's is a great idea!
I wish I had an older child to do it with, but my daughter is only 6 months :(
Well, maybe next time!
Now I have to go and ask my girls for some recipes. This is a great idea. My Margo wants to be a chef princess, so she would probably have something to share. Could be hilarious!
I bought the original recipe place mats years before I became a mom. I framed "dinosaur soup" and a few others and hung them up in my kitchen. They're still there and all our guests get the biggest kick out of them. Really looking forward to a book, to boot!
Great children's recipes. And I LOVE the illustrations. DMc
Oh wow! My daughter will be ALL OVER this! Thanks!
How fun! Is there a submit by date?
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