This bright and engaging book is a delightful blend of education and hands on creativity. Cooking with Fruit stands out immediately for its vibrant, colorful pages that draw readers in and make the learning experience feel fun and inviting from the very beginning.
Rose Miles does a wonderful job connecting simple, approachable recipes with educational themes, making this more than just a cookbook. Each recipe feels thoughtfully paired with learning opportunities, helping readers understand not only how to prepare the food, but also why it matters. It is especially effective for younger readers or families who want to bring learning into everyday activities in a natural, enjoyable way.

The recipes themselves are practical and easy to follow, making them accessible for beginners while still being interesting enough to hold attention. The focus on fruit adds a fresh, healthy element, and the variety keeps things from feeling repetitive. It is easy to imagine using this book in a homeschool setting, classroom, or even just for fun weekend cooking with kids.

What truly makes this book shine is the balance between education and enjoyment. It never feels overly instructional or dry. Instead, it encourages curiosity, creativity, and confidence in the kitchen while reinforcing useful knowledge.

Overall, Cooking with Fruit is a cheerful, well-designed resource that successfully blends learning and cooking into one enjoyable experience. It is a wonderful addition for anyone looking to make education more interactive and delicious.

Cooking with Fruit provides plenty of juicy fruit facts along with a handful of basic recipes for children to make with their families. This is a great book for anyone searching for basic fruit information.

This book is full of colorful pictures with just the right amount of education to go along with the different fruit recipes. Food tastes better when it looks good and everything here looks amazing, but also easy to prepare. This is a fantastic cookbook for kids.
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A great introductory cookbook for kids! It contained great information about fruits as well as a handful of easy recipes. The pictures used are also very vibrant so I think that would appeal to many children.

Another name for this slender cookbook aimed at very young children could be My First Cookbook. Only two recipes require baking, so it’s useful for even the youngest kids. The cookbook has lots of fun facts about fruit and their nutritional value, an additional bonus. The problem comes in that, at a mere 24 pages, there’s five recipes total. This is a book to check out of the library rather than to buy. Four stars, but only if it’s borrowed from the library.

In the interest of full disclosure, I received this book from NetGalley, Rosen Publishing Group and Enslow Publishing in exchange for an honest review.

Cute book for budding chefs. Quick super easy recipes that need minimal adult supervision. Colorful pictures and little facts make it a fun book to read even if I'm not the main audience

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for giving me this e-ARC to review.

This is a decent first book to give a young person who wants to start making things with fruit. It will also potentially make it more fun for them, especially if they have a few issues with fruits as this may help them feel more in control with them actively making it themselves. There are only five recipes which is disappointing but there are pages that explain superfoods and vitamins. The book is colourful so it does making it engaging and more visually pleasing for a younger audience.

Cooking with Fruit

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Cooking with Fruit is a colorful children’s cookbook designed to make cooking with fruit feel fun and approachable for young chefs. The book introduces a variety of fruit-based recipes while encouraging kids to build confidence in the kitchen. The intended audience feels appropriate for second through fourth graders, and the overall message is that cooking can be an accessible and enjoyable skill to learn.

One of the book’s strengths is its presentation. The photographs and illustrations are bright, appealing, and help showcase the finished recipes. The instructions are generally easy to follow, and I appreciated the inclusion of food allergy warnings and kitchen safety reminders. Everything is organized in a way that feels inviting for children who are curious about cooking and trying new foods.

Where I struggled was with the complexity of some of the recipes. While the book is clearly written for kids, several recipes felt more suited to cooking alongside an adult than independently. I expected more simple, beginner-friendly options and found myself surprised by some of the advanced choices. The moment I reached the apple pie recipe, I found myself questioning who exactly this book was written for. A child interested in cooking? Absolutely. A child making an apple pie independently? I’m considerably less convinced. Because of that disconnect between the intended audience and the skill level required for some recipes, this landed at 3⭐ for me.

Who Should Read This?
Children interested in cooking, families looking for kitchen activities to do together, homeschool programs, classrooms, and libraries seeking engaging nonfiction books about food and cooking.

"An apple a day keeps.the doctor away."

It is an age old adage you've probably heard before, and it's one you may find the validity of in this children's cookbook.

Cooking with Fruit (Kid Chefs) is an educational book for young cooks in your life. It features simple recipes that, with some help, littles can follow easily. However, the book doesn't stop there. The author made this an educational experience as well. Rose Miles ensure this is filled with information that is beneficial, not just for children to know, but the adults in their lives. It makes this cookbook an experience they will learn from.

It has vibrant colors on the pages and, for the most part, it has simple vocabulary that most littles are going to understand. While there is some complex language, there's a glossary at the end of the book to help them know most what the bigger words mean. Although, there were some words that could have benefited from being on the list as well. It would've been nice to have more pictures of different fruit too. There was some sure, but as this is a book dedicated to fruit, it would have been nice to see more than there was.

All in all, it is a decent book, but to could benefit from a few tweaks to make it even better. I still think littles and the adults in their lives will enjoy this book, so it does do what it sets out to do there.

What an interesting concept and as I do love my fruit I was very interested in seeing what new ways I cold use fruit in my cooking. And although it is a great cookbook for kids, as adult I enjoyed it as well. The colours in the book and the photography is great, the recipes are fun and the information is written so that all ages can understand it.

A great, easy and fun cookbook to be enjoyed by and with the whole family.

Thank you NetGalley and Rosen Publishing Group | Enslow Publishing for giving me the opportunity to read adn review this book.

This book was super cute and accessible for young children wanting to learn more about cooking basics with fruit.

Informative cookbook for kids about fruits and a lil quiz at the end for them. This is more of a starter book I feel and
is more educational than an actual cookbook since there are only a few recipes included. Kids should have supervision when doing these.

There are pictures of the recipes, ingredients and directions easy to follow.

-For younger audience.

This is a starter book for young cooks. My sons are 5 and 7 and are looking forward to trying out some of the recipes. There are not many. We learned a lot about fruit from the book including that frozen fruit is just as nutritious and it really depends on the recipe for whether fresh or frozen is best. The recipes are easy to follow along but the book is heavily text based and informational making it so an adult definitely is there reading the book to younger kids.