Mud Pies and Other Recipes: A Cookbook for Dolls - Softcover

Winslow, Marjorie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802774873 ISBN 13: 9780802774873

Publisher: Walker & Co, 1996

Synopsis

Any doll chef will tell you that no supermarket is as well-stocked as a forest, a sand dune, or your own backyard; and everyone knows that dolls love mud, when properly prepared.

For forty years, Mud Pies and Other Recipes has been the consummate cookbook for dolls, using only the finest ingredients found outside. All of the perennial doll favorites are here, including Dandelion SoufflÈ, Wood Chip Dip, and, of course, Mud Pies.

This special 40th anniversary hardcover edition now includes a Tea Party in the menu section, so that dolls with discriminating palates will be prepared for every social occasion. Erik Blegvad's classically fetching illustrations provide the perfect dressing for Marjorie Winslow's outdoor cookbook for dolls.

About this title

Review:

Designed for five-year-olds this will, I suspect, appeal to the little girl within us all. Not a cookbook as such but a charming beautifully illustrated handbook for doll's tea-parties and fairy picnics. A great stocking filler. Make sure you wrap it in pink tissue. (Bookseller)

"Mud Pies" delights because, like the very best children's books, it gives young folks their due. Winslow's recipes appeal to the considerable wit, sophistication and imaginary prowess of many young children. Unlike the oft-tiresome 21st-century whimsy of, say, Pixar films, it also does so without winking insisently at parents... Winslow's book is a gem. If the humour and brio of "Mud Pies" feels somewhat dated, well, that only shows what a shame it is that such offerings are now so few and far between. (Economist)

Charming. (Daily Telegraph)

Any child who has access to a garden or a seashore, will still find hours of amusement among the pages of this cleverly thought out culinary extravaganza. (Carousel)

About the Author:

Marjorie Winslow divides her time between Mesa, Arizona, and Duxbury, Massachusetts.

Erik Blegvad is the distinguished illustrator of over 100 books for children. Born in Denmark, he currently resides in Vermont, London, and the South of France.

About this edition

• Publisher: Walker & Co
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0802774873
• ISBN 13: 9780802774873
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Blegvad Erik