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Reading and cooking with kids

Spring into reading and baking!

2/25/2020

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     Spring begins with March, National Reading Month and as we’ve stated before, all baking and cooking involves reading so spend the month making some yummy dishes with your children.  Since March 2nd is also Dr. Seuss‘s birthday why not get creative with cooking and read a Seuss classic like Green Eggs and Ham or The Butter Battle Book? Math can also be included this month along with a slice of pie that you have made with your children on the 14th, Pi Day. Consider reading Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi by Cindy Neuschwander and perhaps make a pizza pie or meat pie for dinner. To include some history and cultural cooking, cook up some traditional Irish fare on St. Patrick‘s Day and include either a fiction or non-fiction story about the day.
March
National Flour, Frozen Food, Noodle, Nutrition, Peanut, & Reading Month
National Reading Month
     -Read whatever is at hand, anywhere you can and as much as you can!
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The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce
     **Check out our book lists for recommended titles, particularly our list of Stories about Books, Reading & Libraries or browse your local library or bookstore for ideas.**
National Noodle Month
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Everybody Brings Noodles by Norah Dooley
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Dragons Eat Noodles on Tuesdays by Jon Stahl
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Tony Baroni Loves Macaroni by Marilyn Sadler
National Peanut Month
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Let's Go Nuts: Seeds We Eat by April Pulley Sayre
**Think outside the box and choose some recipes (and read some comics) from The Peanuts Family Cookbook: Delicious Dishes for Kids to Make with Their Favorite Grown-ups by Weldon Owen.**
2nd: Dr. Seuss‘ Birthday (Read Across America Day)
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Green Eggs and Ham
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The Butter Battle Book
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I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
**Take a look at the article from Cook‘n & Eat‘n that offers some simple ideas for
combining books and food: Read (and Eat!) Across America.**
4th: National Pound Cake Day
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Let's Bake a Cake! by Anne-Sophie Baumann
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Five Little Monkeys Bake a Birthday Cake by Eileen Christelow
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The Magic School Bus Gets Baked in a Cake by Joanna Cole
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Jake Baked the Cake by B. G. Hennessy
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Froggy Bakes a Cake by Jonathan London
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Marigold Bakes a Cake by Mike Malbrough
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Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
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The Fairytale Cake by Mark Sperring
6th: National Oreo Cookie Day
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The Oreo Cookie Counting Book by Catherine Lucas
7th: IHOP Pancake Day
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Pancakes, Pancakes! by Eric Carle
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Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie dePaola
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Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast by Josh Funk
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If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff
14th: Pi Day (3.14)
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Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi by Cindy Neuschwander
17th: St. Patrick‘s Day and National Corned Beef & Cabbage Day
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Jamie O‘Rourke and the Big Potato by Tomie dePaola
20th: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Day
     The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle calls to mind snacks such as celery stuffed with peanut butter or soft cheese topped with fresh or dried fruits and/or nuts or apple slices (with the skin) or grapes laid out to create an edible caterpillar.
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20th: National Ravioli Day
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The Ravioli Kid: An Original Spaghetti Western by Michelle Freedman
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Roly-Poly Ravioli and other Italian Dishes by Nick Fauchald
23rd: Fannie Farmer’s Birthday
Farmer’s cookbook The Boston Cooking School Cook Book (1896) was the first to utilize standard measuring cups and spoons thus creating the first recipes to feature standardized, precise measurements.
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Fannie in the Kitchen: The Whole Story from Soup to Nuts of How Fannie Farmer Invented Recipes with Precise Measurements by Deborah Hopkinson
23rd: National Chip & Dip Day
3rd week: American Chocolate Week
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Lily's Chocolate Heart by Kevin Henkes
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No Monkeys, No Chocolate by Melissa Stewart and Allen Young
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Curious George Goes to a Chocolate Factory by H. A. Rey and Margret Rey
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If You Give a Mouse a Brownie by Laura Numeroff
26th: National Spinach Day
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Sylvia‘s Spinach by Katherine Pryor
Happy reading and baking!

-Kate @ BTBL

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We are three generations that seek a way to get back to basics. It’s not that we eschew technology, but sometimes simpler is better, especially in raising our children. Mom was a reading teacher, Amanda is an early childhood educator and Kate a children’s literature specialist and former school librarian along with the latest additions, a daughter (now 4) for Kate, and two sons (now 1 and a newborn) for Amanda. We advocate reading aloud, the simple toys that use imagination and encourage creativity and learning in the kitchen, which can be a fun mess but also teaches life skills. Join us in raising healthy, happy, inquisitive and intelligent children.

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    We are mom Sandra and daughters Amanda and Kate, all with backgrounds in literacy and education, who want to share our philosophy of taking the basics of life; books, simple toys that encourage play, imagination and creativity, and using cooking and baking to teach math and real life skills to raise happy, inquisitive children. Join us in exploring the old and the new and sifting through the myriad of research to consider what is best for our children.

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