Read this over a few nights with my 7yo. They thought some of the recipes sounded OK but were mostly turned off by the stories deviating so much from the traditional tellings. (That's probably just my kid though; they're in a weird pedantry-ridden age right now.)

A lot of the recipes call for things we don't or can't eat. There's also a lot of pre-packaged ingredients and/or things we don't have access to in my country (crescent roll dough in a can, I'm looking at you). That being said, if you knew what you were doing (and had the energy) it wouldn't be terribly hard to modify the recipes around this. ( )

I hope to have this book one day in my personal library. This would be a great book for your kids to practice their literature skills at home with their parents because they get to use the table of contents to find exactly what page recipe they are looking for is located in the book. A way I could see myself using this in a classroom is a fun, light way to introduce expository texts (to show this is what a table of contents is used for and how it can help you). ( )