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Beatrix Potter wrote many Peter Rabbit books at her Hill Top Cottage. Her reflections at Lake District were inspired by nature and her characters were brought to life from that captured affection.
By now, you know I collect cookbooks. It is sometimes difficult to find children's books that blend imagination and cooking. I don't have a copy of Peter Rabbit's Natural Foods Cookbookby Arnold Dobrin but I have had the pleasure of seeing it, touching it and smelling it. It is illustrated by Beatrix Potter and chock full of delights that children will hunger to create. It frightens me to believe that children might lose interest in cooking. It frightens me more to believe adults won't have enough time or need. My feeling is, if you combine the ingredients of reading, mix them well with heaps of fascination, and serve when pickin's are ripe, success or maw wallop, success! Mrs. Jacqueline Olson a teacher in Jeffersonville, Indiana encourages her students with lessons from Peter Rabbit. Whether it be from the gardens of Peter Rabbit or the tables of Emerald City, we too can light the dreams of those close to our hearts?
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies
Some Favorites
A Apple Pieby Kate Greenway.
The Wind in the Willows was written and published in 1908 by Kenneth Grahame (my library has a copy of The Wind in The Willows Cookbook)
"The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes,
but the odor of cooking goes on forever"
E. B. White born July 11, 1899 author of Charlotte's Web
Hiccupby Mercer Mayer.
This is a wonderful book for small children. Mr. Hippopotamus helps cure his friend's hiccups.
What Whiskers Didby Lewis Carroll, was one of the first wordless book ever published.
"Sipping once
sipping twice
sipping chicken soup
with rice"
Chicken Soup with Riceby Maurice Sendak
Blueberries for Salby Robert McCloskey
A picture storybook with clear illustrations a child can decipher for themselves as they watch Sal and her mother go berry picking.
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