So much more than your typical kids’ cookbook!
McCluskey’s cookbook offers kid-friendly recipes while providing a glimpse into the Inuit way of life.
Inspired by a kids’ after-school class the author leads in Apex, Nunavut, this cookbook is suited for use at home or in a group environment. While the direct audience is Inuit communities, any child who loves pizza or meatballs will enjoy learning and cooking from it. Each recipe aims to teach basic kitchen skills such as measuring ingredients, cracking eggs, and dicing vegetables, and little cooks will find the simple recipes easy to follow. Sugar cookies require only seven ingredients and are ready in nine easy steps. Certain recipes highlight Indigenous ingredients like caribou, musk ox, and seal meat. Readers below the Arctic regions need not worry—there are always store-bought substitutions. Palaugos—hot dogs or sausages wrapped in traditional Inuit palaugaaq (bannock)—is one recipe children will devour. Additionally, many recipes offer examples on community involvement. Cookies and muffins can be served at school events; the mini-quiche recipe can be timed with egg-gathering season in Nunavut or World Egg Day. Full-page photographs and a well-organized layout make the cookbook fun and easy to use. Backmatter offers practical steps to setting up a cooking club, from finding funding to developing a weekly schedule and community involvement, plus a glossary of Inuktitut terms.
So much more than your typical kids’ cookbook! (Nonfiction. 4-8)Pub Date: April 28, 2020
ISBN: 978-1-77227-255-0
Page Count: 60
Publisher: Inhabit Media
Review Posted Online: Feb. 29, 2020
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 15, 2020
A rendition more poignant than patriotic with, at least in the rhymed portions, the cadence of a lullaby.
An illustrated version of the ever popular Scottish “Skye Boat Song,” with added lyrics and historical background.
Written in the 19th century (and set to a folk melody), the verses commemorate the flight of Bonnie Prince Charlie, then in his mid-20s, from the 1746 battle of Culloden. They begin after a prose introduction that sets the scene and follows the fugitive until—disguised (according to legend) as resourceful cottager Flora MacDonald’s maidservant—he escapes in a boat to the Isle of Skye. Along with a closing note, the anonymous modern co-author also adds a near ambush by British troops to the storyline in the lyrics and tones down the martial closing lines to a milder “Rightfully king! True hearts will stay / Faithful for evermore!” There is no visible blood or explicit violence in Belli’s depictions of the battle and its aftermath, but in the clean-lined watercolor scenes he fashions evocatively rough seas and stormy skies until landfall brings a final calm. The British soldiers’ red coats and the bright tartans in which the handsome, downcast prince and other male Scots in the all-white cast are outfitted shine against the muted backgrounds.
A rendition more poignant than patriotic with, at least in the rhymed portions, the cadence of a lullaby. (map) (Picture book. 6-8)Pub Date: July 15, 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78250-367-5
Page Count: 24
Publisher: Floris
Review Posted Online: March 28, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 15, 2017
A handsome and satisfying companion to Market Maze (2015).
Looking for a fresh and inviting introduction to academic painting genres such as still life, portrait, or landscape? Why not bring readers inside an artist’s studio (perhaps author/illustrator Munro’s own?) and actually show them the process?
Munro begins with preparations to paint: stretching and gessoing canvas, selecting the right tubes of colors, choosing brushes, palette knives, and solvents, setting up a palette for painting, and so on. It’s lots of work…but the really hard part about painting is deciding just what to paint. In demonstrating her decision-making process, Munro uses 37 iconic and inspiring examples of fine art, each illustrating a genre for consideration, all drawn from the open-access collection of the National Gallery of Art and all representing an energizing variety of European and American artists, eras, media, and styles. She cleverly brings all these images together in a detailed, ambitious, culminating ink-and-acrylic cityscape. This signature image of an art-bedecked, lively metropolis also works as an art scavenger hunt. As readers discover the art embedded in a landscape, they can refer to the smart, concise, marvelously amplifying backmatter.
A handsome and satisfying companion to Market Maze (2015). (Informational picture book. 4-8)Pub Date: Aug. 15, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8234-3699-6
Page Count: 32
Publisher: Holiday House
Review Posted Online: June 18, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 2017
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