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Sir Chocolate and the Baby Cookie Monster Story and Cookbook
Sir Chocolate and Lady Sweet find a lost baby cookie monster. Join them on an adventure to return the baby to its mother and learn how to make some of their delicious recipes at the same time.
30 pages, Paperback
Published November 1, 2016
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Robbie Cheadle
40 books155 followersSouth African author, photographer, and artist, Robbie Cheadle, has written and illustrated seventeen children’s books, illustrated a further three children's books, written and illustrated four poetry books and written and illustrated one celebration of cake and fondant art book with recipes. Her work has also appeared in poetry and short story anthologies.
Robbie also has two novels and a collection of short stories published under the name of Roberta Eaton Cheadle and has horror, paranormal, and fantasy short stories featured in several anthologies under this name.
You can find Robbie Cheadle's artwork, fondant and cake artwork, and all her books on her website here: https://www.robbiecheadle.co.za/
Robbie also has two novels and a collection of short stories published under the name of Roberta Eaton Cheadle and has horror, paranormal, and fantasy short stories featured in several anthologies under this name.
You can find Robbie Cheadle's artwork, fondant and cake artwork, and all her books on her website here: https://www.robbiecheadle.co.za/
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August 1, 2020
What does one do when their gingerbread gate suddenly has crumbs... it means something has been nibbling. That's a no-no in Chocolate Land, so Sir Chocolate must investigate. And that's when he learns there is a baby cookie monster causing trouble. So... personally, I'm on the baby cookie monster's side in this caper. The poor little creature was hungry. I've been there. It makes total sense. If the books weren't so adorable, I'd deduct a few stars for saying it's bad to steal cookies. I say steal all the cookies and give them to me!
Okay, I'll be serious now. This is a fun series, and I recommend it as one for parents and kids (or friends and kids) to read together. Make a day out of it. Use the wonderful illustrations and words to share a beautiful story with kids. Make up voices for all the recurring characters. Follow the online videos to make your own fondant art together as a family. Robbie and Michael Cheadle, and other members of their family, have pulled together a plethora of afternoon activities to make food, learn lessons, read books, learn new skills, and eat tasty desserts.
There's a poem at the end about a girl at the beach, and a recipe for sausage rolls - another fave of mine. This was another winner, and I am thrilled to share my latest review for the series. I just want to know... how do the Cheadles ever get to write the books when all these beautiful food art is on the table in front of them?!?!?
Okay, I'll be serious now. This is a fun series, and I recommend it as one for parents and kids (or friends and kids) to read together. Make a day out of it. Use the wonderful illustrations and words to share a beautiful story with kids. Make up voices for all the recurring characters. Follow the online videos to make your own fondant art together as a family. Robbie and Michael Cheadle, and other members of their family, have pulled together a plethora of afternoon activities to make food, learn lessons, read books, learn new skills, and eat tasty desserts.
There's a poem at the end about a girl at the beach, and a recipe for sausage rolls - another fave of mine. This was another winner, and I am thrilled to share my latest review for the series. I just want to know... how do the Cheadles ever get to write the books when all these beautiful food art is on the table in front of them?!?!?
May 29, 2017
I found this book to be so delightful. To see the illustrations made from fondant and so well formed at that. The characters are adorable and they have a great series building. I was just taken with the adorable poetry and the cookbook that children will love.
Any child will love this book.
Any child will love this book.
February 13, 2018
Book 2 of Robbie Cheadle’s Sir Chocolate series features Sir Chocolate and Lady Sweet in a hunt to find a lost baby cookie monster. As well as the story, we learn how to make a selection of delicious recipes, including Easy Sausage Rolls and Chocolate Butter Icing.
I bought the paperback version of this charming children’s book mainly because the Kindle format of picture books rarely reproduce the images satisfactorily (though to be fair I didn’t look at the ebook version, so can’t say for sure). The story is in rhyme and tells of the search for the missing Baby Cookie Monster, including a trip in a chocolate cake car and characters such as the Vanilla Fudge Bird.
The pictures of all the edible characters show up well and compliment the story. The recipes too, are delightful and are laid out in a way that makes them easy to understand for young kids.
Robbie Cheadle started writing these books when her son Michael came up with ideas for the characters. Robbie’s website is a great resource for cooks and kids, as it includes videos of some of her other recipes as well as tutorials on fondant art and mouth-watering images of the World of Sir Chocolate. Too yummy indeed!
I bought the paperback version of this charming children’s book mainly because the Kindle format of picture books rarely reproduce the images satisfactorily (though to be fair I didn’t look at the ebook version, so can’t say for sure). The story is in rhyme and tells of the search for the missing Baby Cookie Monster, including a trip in a chocolate cake car and characters such as the Vanilla Fudge Bird.
The pictures of all the edible characters show up well and compliment the story. The recipes too, are delightful and are laid out in a way that makes them easy to understand for young kids.
Robbie Cheadle started writing these books when her son Michael came up with ideas for the characters. Robbie’s website is a great resource for cooks and kids, as it includes videos of some of her other recipes as well as tutorials on fondant art and mouth-watering images of the World of Sir Chocolate. Too yummy indeed!
April 25, 2018
In this installment, Sir Chocolate and Lady Sweet must find the culprit who had caused damage in the town. They set off to in their chocolate cake car to track the baby cookie monster. This book contains more of the innovative fondant icing figurines instead of illustrations which I love and there are some yummy recipes which the young readers can try.
February 14, 2017
The Book
When a baby cookie monster gets lost and eats the fences of houses in his street, Sir Chocolate ventures out to find the baby’s mom. Lady Sweet tags along and before long they’re on a sweet adventure unlike any I’d be able to imagine.
My Thoughts
Thank you to Robbie Cheadle for providing me with an electronic copy of Sir Chocolate and the Baby Cookie Monster to provide an honest review for. This is not my usual ‘type’ of read – it is a kids book AND a recipe book. Now, I’m no kid, no matter how much I may wish I were, and I am useless in the kitchen (we’d starve if it weren’t for my husband). So for this review I dragged my kids into the picture.
I did attempt a Q&A with them after we’d completed it, but they really weren’t interested in answering my questions. Instead they wanted to know more about the book! As we reread it together they threw a comment here, or asked a question there.
My boy, 3 years old, was absolutely obsessed with the little car and the baby cookie monster. He insisted I take him for a ride so that he could give the cookie monster a biscuit. I’ve yet to determine whether he was referring to a ride in my car or the one in the book ;)
My daughter, 6 years old, immediately identified all the recipes – interesting as I don’t really own any recipe books, so how she knew what it was is beyond me, but she pointed at each one asking me what it made and insisting on me telling her when exactly we’d be making them.
When I asked them what they liked the most about the book I was surprised to be met with a resounding “It’s nice, please can we read it tomorrow too”. Usually they don’t agree on anything! Of course I was hoping for a slightly more informative answer, but I wasn’t going to get it – they were figuring out how to scroll through the pages again.
As a parent, I’ve battled to read one story to two kids. They get irritable, their gaze wanders off of the book to more interesting things outside the window. My best is when they both want to read a story, but can’t agree on which one, generally ending in something very close to WW3 in my home. Not this time.
The moment I started to read they calmed down and listened – maybe it had something to do with the colours used in the book. Not your standard white pages, but an alternating gradient of yellow and green. Maybe it was the poetry used to tell the story, instead of the more traditional paragraph after paragraph of words. The rhythm created by the words was wonderful. Illustrations of baked goods complementing the story as it progressed was probably the biggest draw factor, my girl couldn’t believe it when I told her that there are people who can make things out of cake and sweet stuff, she said she wanted to learn how to make a bird, but I’ve managed to scale it down to making coconut ice grass.
Above all else, this book provided me the opportunity to explain to our youngest that there is a thing called “getting lost”. Now I don’t make a habit of turning books read for pleasure into lectures, but when you’re little terror asks if the Mommy was scared, and if the baby cried – well seize the moment I say.
Creative, captivating and absolutely adorable this is a must read for all parents, and an absolute definite for those of us with budding chefs or bakers.
When a baby cookie monster gets lost and eats the fences of houses in his street, Sir Chocolate ventures out to find the baby’s mom. Lady Sweet tags along and before long they’re on a sweet adventure unlike any I’d be able to imagine.
My Thoughts
Thank you to Robbie Cheadle for providing me with an electronic copy of Sir Chocolate and the Baby Cookie Monster to provide an honest review for. This is not my usual ‘type’ of read – it is a kids book AND a recipe book. Now, I’m no kid, no matter how much I may wish I were, and I am useless in the kitchen (we’d starve if it weren’t for my husband). So for this review I dragged my kids into the picture.
I did attempt a Q&A with them after we’d completed it, but they really weren’t interested in answering my questions. Instead they wanted to know more about the book! As we reread it together they threw a comment here, or asked a question there.
My boy, 3 years old, was absolutely obsessed with the little car and the baby cookie monster. He insisted I take him for a ride so that he could give the cookie monster a biscuit. I’ve yet to determine whether he was referring to a ride in my car or the one in the book ;)
My daughter, 6 years old, immediately identified all the recipes – interesting as I don’t really own any recipe books, so how she knew what it was is beyond me, but she pointed at each one asking me what it made and insisting on me telling her when exactly we’d be making them.
When I asked them what they liked the most about the book I was surprised to be met with a resounding “It’s nice, please can we read it tomorrow too”. Usually they don’t agree on anything! Of course I was hoping for a slightly more informative answer, but I wasn’t going to get it – they were figuring out how to scroll through the pages again.
As a parent, I’ve battled to read one story to two kids. They get irritable, their gaze wanders off of the book to more interesting things outside the window. My best is when they both want to read a story, but can’t agree on which one, generally ending in something very close to WW3 in my home. Not this time.
The moment I started to read they calmed down and listened – maybe it had something to do with the colours used in the book. Not your standard white pages, but an alternating gradient of yellow and green. Maybe it was the poetry used to tell the story, instead of the more traditional paragraph after paragraph of words. The rhythm created by the words was wonderful. Illustrations of baked goods complementing the story as it progressed was probably the biggest draw factor, my girl couldn’t believe it when I told her that there are people who can make things out of cake and sweet stuff, she said she wanted to learn how to make a bird, but I’ve managed to scale it down to making coconut ice grass.
Above all else, this book provided me the opportunity to explain to our youngest that there is a thing called “getting lost”. Now I don’t make a habit of turning books read for pleasure into lectures, but when you’re little terror asks if the Mommy was scared, and if the baby cried – well seize the moment I say.
Creative, captivating and absolutely adorable this is a must read for all parents, and an absolute definite for those of us with budding chefs or bakers.
January 9, 2017
A fun book that is beautifully illustrated in a unique manner. See my full review on February 14, 2017 during Mystery Thriller Week on The Page Turner.
January 10, 2017
A unique journey for parents/adults and children to do something fun together in the kitchen. I love this series!
May 1, 2017
I was given a copy of this delightful little book to read and review.
Such fun to be had reading about Sir Chocolate’s adventure with the baby cookie monster roaming free in his village! The rhyming nature of the story makes it easy to read and the inclusion of the handmade characters and scenery makes it eye-catching. I love the inclusion of the simple recipes to enable the reader to bring the characters to life – with or without the help of little hands!
A lovely presentation by Robbie and Michael Cheadle – recommended for younger readers, or those who want to add simple sweet recipes to their collection.
www.tangowithtext.com
Such fun to be had reading about Sir Chocolate’s adventure with the baby cookie monster roaming free in his village! The rhyming nature of the story makes it easy to read and the inclusion of the handmade characters and scenery makes it eye-catching. I love the inclusion of the simple recipes to enable the reader to bring the characters to life – with or without the help of little hands!
A lovely presentation by Robbie and Michael Cheadle – recommended for younger readers, or those who want to add simple sweet recipes to their collection.
www.tangowithtext.com
January 6, 2017
This is such a great read! Love the recipes.
January 6, 2017
Excellent read with very creative illustrations. The baking recipes are great and would work for baking with one child and party groups for added fun.
January 7, 2017
another fantastic books , think the kids like this one even more :)
January 9, 2017
Very good book for children, the recipes are very simple to follow and understand for children.
January 23, 2017
The stories and the recipes keep getting better. A great was to spend time with kids.
January 22, 2020
Robbie and Michael Cheadle love to cook.
I know this for I have watched them in action when I needed a recipe for a Christmas cake. I found an amazing video and watched as Robbie carried me through the most delightful cookery lesson. (and the cake I made was delicious!)
They love to write about the fondant characters they make too, featuring them in a lovely series of children’s books.
This review is for book two of the Sir Chocolate series, and I can’t wait to share the rest of the books with my grandchildren!
I would love to buy the series in paperback to get the full beauty of the illustrations and know I won’t be disappointed.
You should also check out Robbie’s website for more images and recipes from The World of Sir Chocolate… https://robbiesinspiration.wordpress.com
I know this for I have watched them in action when I needed a recipe for a Christmas cake. I found an amazing video and watched as Robbie carried me through the most delightful cookery lesson. (and the cake I made was delicious!)
They love to write about the fondant characters they make too, featuring them in a lovely series of children’s books.
This review is for book two of the Sir Chocolate series, and I can’t wait to share the rest of the books with my grandchildren!
I would love to buy the series in paperback to get the full beauty of the illustrations and know I won’t be disappointed.
You should also check out Robbie’s website for more images and recipes from The World of Sir Chocolate… https://robbiesinspiration.wordpress.com
January 5, 2017
This is an amazing book for young children and it has all the amazing recipes that we as parents can enjoy making with our children - amazing :) Definitely recommend it
January 6, 2017
Lovely children's book and the recipe are such a lovely touch! I would highly recommend this book for children.
August 27, 2018
Full review to come
January 11, 2017
Excellent for adults and children for times of bonding and fun.
January 9, 2017
The Sir Chocolate series is a must read for kids, it is very creative and a lot of fun.
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