Taken in the Cold by Roger Stelljes Blog Tour for Booktoure

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Taken in the Cold by Roger Stelljes Synopsis: "Make sure you wrap up warm for school, honey. A blizzard is on the way." Ten-year-old Teddy rolls his eyes at his mother. But then he hears a bang... By the time police arrive, Teddy's mother is dead. His open school backpack is strewn across the hallway. And Teddy is nowhere to be found.   When gunshots ring out from an exclusive family home on the edge of Northern Pine Lake,  Agent Tori Hunter  races through the gathering snowstorm to discover that  ten-year-old Teddy Marist has disappeared . His mother and her new boyfriend are dead in the family kitchen, breakfast still cooking on the stove. And racing to track down Teddy's father,  Tori finds he is missing too.   Local police are certain this is a simple case of a jealous ex-husband turned violent over his recent divorce. But interviewing everyone she can about Teddy's father, Tori's gut has her questioning if he would really kidnap his own child?  An...
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Kids Cook Dinner 23 Healthy, Budget-Friendly Meals from the Best-Selling Cooking Class Series by Deanna F. Cook

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Title: Kids Cook Dinner
Author: Deanna F. Cook
Genre: Cookbook
Format: Kindle
No. of Pages: 64 pages
Date of Publication: August 30, 2022


Description: It's kids' cooking night—and they’re in charge of making dinner! This selection of 25 easy, budget-friendly dinner recipes from the best-selling Cooking Class series teaches kids how to make tasty, healthy meals with easy-to-follow step-by-step photos. The recipes feature a range of kid favorites, including Popcorn Chicken, Easy Cheesy Quesadillas, Pasta with Tomatoes & Fresh Mozzarella, Black Beans & Rice, Pizza, Meatballs with Creamy Sauce, Super Sliders, and Supper Salad have been specially selected for their budget-friendliness (averaging $2 a serving) and use of easy-to-find pantry staples, as well as their nutritional value. With instructions on basic cooking skills, like chopping vegetables and stir-frying, grocery shopping, and kitchen safety, Kids Cook Dinner offers aspiring chefs ages 8 to 12 everything they need to know to successfully—and proudly—put a healthy, homecooked meal on the table that the whole family will love. 
My Thoughts: I have been trying to include my 2 year old son in cooking our meals because I find that he is more willing to eat the meal if he helps. He really seems to enjoy it, so I loved the name of Deanna F. Cook's new cookbook, Kids Cook Dinner, and I had to request it from Netgalley.

There are so many things that I like about the cookbook. I am a huge sucker for pictures. I really think that we eat with our eyes first and it always surprises me when cookbooks don't include pictures for each dish. This cookbook not only includes a picture of each completed dish, but includes step by step pictures of a child preparing it. There were a few dishes where the final picture did not look very appetizing to me though. There were also a few random picture drawings where I was confused by what purpose they served.

The book pushes healthy meals and I appreciate that it shows serving size for each recipe but I wish it showed the nutritional information as well. "Healthy" is a word that I feel that can get thrown around a lot so being able to even see the number of calories per a serving is helpful.

There are many recipes in this book that I plan on making with my son. The formatting is weird on my kindle and I recognize that it is because it's an unpublished copy of the book, so I am planning on purchasing this book for us to use.

Rating: 3 out of 5 because I wish it had nutritional information especially since its calling itself "healthy" recipes. Also because some of the pictures were not very appeasing and/or did not seem necessary to the cookbook.

About the Author: Deanna F. Cook is the award-winning author of cookbooks for kids, including the best-selling Cooking Class, Baking Class,and Cooking Class Global Feast! She served as the creative development director at FamilyFun magazine and has been an editor at Scholastic, Disney, and Kidstir.com. She lives in western Massachusetts and can be found online at deannafcook.com.

Many thanks to Storey Publishing and Netgalley for this review copy. This is my honest opinion.

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