Bake It and Build It (Kids Can Do It) - Hardcover

MacLeod, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1553377540 ISBN 13: 9781553377542

Publisher: Kids Can Press, 2004

Synopsis

Now kids can do more than just eat cookies with the help of this book in the Kids Can Do It series. They can learn how to bake and build holiday decorations and wreaths, a garden of cookie flowers and candleholders -- all from cookie dough. It's fun and easy, and the best part is you can eat your mistakes! Bake It and Build It includes delicious cookie dough recipes kids can taste-test as they learn how to cut out shapes, "glue" them together and decorate their cookie creations. There are also patterns for an impressive cookie castle and for a Thanksgiving turkey the whole family can gobble up! Clear instructions and step-by-step illustrations make each project easy for kids to build on their own.

About this title

About the Author:

Elizabeth MacLeod has written many children's books, including nine titles in the Snapshots Biography series; numerous titles in the Kids Can Read, Kids Books Of and Kids Can Do It series; Why Do Horses Have Manes?; What Did Dinosaurs Eat?; and Monster Fliers. She lives in Toronto.

From School Library Journal:

Gr 4-6-From a simple gift box to a fancy castle, this book encourages readers to use cookie dough to make a variety of constructions, large and small. Every project is formed from one of five recipes: oatmeal chocolate-chip, gingerbread, sugar, shortbread, or cinnamon applesauce dough (which is inedible but aromatic). Icing and melted chocolate are used as glue. Eleven cookie creations (e.g., flower wreath, candleholder, Thanksgiving turkey) reflect seasons, holidays, and other occasions. Variations are suggested, and youngsters are invited to invent even more possibilities. Each project is described on a double-page spread and has clear, full-color illustrations and step-by-step directions. The finished items are shown in photographs. One of the hazards of this type of construction is the fragility of the pieces. Although the author provides a section on repairing cookies, she does not encourage youngsters to make a project several times, which might be necessary since it takes practice and patience to learn this craft.-Carolyn Jenks, First Parish Unitarian Church, Portland, ME

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About this edition

• Publisher: Kids Can Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1553377540
• ISBN 13: 9781553377542
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Walker Tracy