What’s Cooking: Children’s Cookbooks

Looking to warm up a cold afternoon? Try cooking up a new snack with your child! Having your child help in the kitchen is not only a fun activity, but also encourages math skills with measuring and counting, creativity, builds self confidence and develops small motor control.

Try some of these tasty cookbooks for you and your child:

Cool Cakes and Cupcakes


Cool Meals to Start Your Wheels


Easy Cut-Up Cakes for Kids


Ghoulish Goodies: A Frightful Cookbook


The Greatest Cookies Ever


Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook


Indoor S’mores and Other Tasty Treats for Special Occasions


Mermaid Cookbook


Peanut Butter and Jelly Sushi and Other Party Recipes


Pink Princess Cupcakes


Pink Princess Party Cookbook


Sensational Snacks

Cooking in the Kitchen for Baby!

Think you don't have time to create a nutritious, homemade meal for your baby or toddler or just want to try something different? Check out some of these books in our parenting collection that include quick and easy ideas that can even save you money! All you need is a blender or food processor and a saucepan and remember to have fun!

Here are some book suggestions to get you started...

The Baby Bistro: child approved recipes and expert nutrition advice for the first year
Baby Bites
Baby Love: healthy, easy, delicious meals for your baby or toddler
Better Baby Food
The Toddler Cafe: fast, healthy and fun ways to feed even the pickiest eater
The Well Fed Baby

Marshmallow Peepsicles

On Friday, March 20 children in grades 3-5 made sweet treats to brighten up the rainy Spring we have been having. We dunked marshmallow peeps, Oreo cookies and pretzel rods into melted chocolate and decorated them with extra sweets like graham crackers, Fruity Pebbles, cocoa nut and sprinkles. Be sure to check out our flickr page to see more of our delicious creations!

Looking for books to help you make your own goodies? Schedule a kitchen play date with a friend or a family bake night using these books as a guide.

Kitchen Playdates by Lauren Bank Deen

Easy Cut-Up cakes for Kids by Melissa Barlow

Batter Up Kids: Sensational Snacks by Barbara Beery

Pink Princess Cupcakes by Barbara Beery

Paula Deen’s My First Cookbook by Paula Deen

C is for Cooking Recipes from the Street by Susan McQuillan, RD

Cool Cakes and Cupcakes Easy Recipes for Kids to Bake by Pam Price

Hello, Cupcake Irresistibly Playful Creations Anyone Can Make by Karen Tack and Alan Richardson

Fairy Tale Feasts A Literary Cookbook for Young Readers and Eaters by Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple