Tacos!: An Interactive Recipe Book

Cook in a Book

by Lotta Nieminen (Artist)

For kids who cook in a play kitchen or a real kitchen, this interactive recipe book invites readers to chop the vegetables, mash the avocado, warm the tortillas, and more - all inside the book! Step Cut the chicken into cubes and toss it in a bowl with the spices.
Step Warm oil on a skillet on the stove, then add the chicken.
Step While the chicken cooks, chop the scallions, slice the radishes, shred the cabbage, mince the cilantro. Simple yet accurate recipe text takes readers through the steps of cooking tacos, while the interactive novelty features such as pull tabs, sliders, wheels, and pop-out pieces invite them to participate in the process. Perfect for kids who love to help in the kitchen, or any child who prefers to "do it myself." This is the third title in the COOK IN A BOOK series. Ages 2-4

Genres: Picture Books, Food, Childrens, Cooking, Cookbooks, Nonfiction

16 pages, Board Book

Published October 30, 2017

About the author

Lotta Nieminen is a designer and illustrator from Helsinki. She studied at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki and the Rhode Island School of Design before winning the Art Directors Club Young Guns 8 award in 2010.

Reviews

[Becca · Rating 5 out of 5]

Now this. This is the one. All my fav components from Spaghetti and Pancakes and then some. This review reads like I am having a stroke.

[Halley Todd · Rating 5 out of 5]

Got this for my nephew for Christmas. Even though he may be a little young for some of the cut out pieces he really loves all the colors and playing with the parts of the book.

[Laura McLoughlin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Who doesn't like tacos? These books are a lot of fun! We got a copy from the library and a couple of the pieces were missing but the kids are still enjoying it.

[Serena Kolocin · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Tacos!: An Interactive Recipe Book" by Lotta Nieminen is a nonfiction work. Unfortunately, this book has not won any awards and was written with the intention of two to four-year-olds reading and interacting with it. The book's title is an exact depiction of what this book is about- children being able to make fake tacos while whoever is reading it to them is telling them what to do. I love this book. Letting a kid explore being in the kitchen without using any natural ingredients or something that could harm them is pretty cool. I would have LOVED to have something like this as a kid. This book is perfect for the child who wants to help their parents cook in the kitchen but are too young. It teaches them the responsibilities of following directions (aka a recipe), new ingredients that would encourage them to try new foods, and is generally really fun. The illustrations of the food are accurate to what they would look like in real life, and the colors of this book are really bright, adding to the effect and enjoyment of making your own tacos. The reason I rated this book four stars instead of five is that once the pieces to make the taco come out of the book, you can not put them back in. This book would only be good for home use, where the adult can put the pieces in a safe place and be able to reuse them again (maybe taking it out when you are having a taco night-say taco Tuesday?); children would love this. If this book were available in a library or a classroom, the pieces would for sure go missing, so I wish that there would have been a better way to keep them in the book, like using a pouch or pocket at the end of it.

[Nicole · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just like Pizza!: An Interactive Recipe Book and Pancakes!: An Interactive Recipe Book, Tacos!: An Interactive Recipe Book is equal parts interactive book, colorful visuals of food, and real recipe.

Both my daughters love this book for the interactive part. I love it because it teaches them real cooking skills. Even if younger kids aren't ready for cooking in a real kitchen, they're still learning about ingredients and what various kitchen terms mean. That's pretty invaluable to me!

[Cindy Mitchell *Kiss the Book* · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nieminen, Lotta Cook in a Book Tacos!: An Interactive Recipe Book. BOARD BOOK. Phaidon, 2017. $15. 9780714875057

The title says it all: cook in a book tacos. Cook your chicken until it’s no longer pink. Dice those vegetables. Make guacamole (my favorite). An array of topping and get ready to plate it.

The concept and the construction of the book is so very fun. Pages turn, pictures slide, and you can punch out pieces to play with (including a paper knife). But the fact that there are pieces that aren’t attached to the book make this a difficult item for a library. Highly recommend for home use, though.

Pre-K – OPTIONAL. Samantha Hastings, MA, MLS.
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[Freddie D · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not as perfect as Pancakes!: An Interactive Recipe Book, but still completely wonderful. It's so much fun to work through each of the pages 'cooking' the tacos. My favourite page is Step 3, which includes a pop-out knife and a clever slide effect allowing the reader to 'chop' the ingredients as they prepare the tacos. The only downside is that you might feel hungry once you've finished reading.

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like this book because yummy tummy tacos. Ingredients: there's a flap avocado (awesome!) and you shuck the corn and you get to pull the corn cob, and you get to see the corn where the black spots were and it's shaped like corn. Awesome, right?

[Mel Schuit · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5

[Brindi Michele · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is excellent!!! and I learned about the avocado pit! yay :)

[Justine Ridder · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute book, but with all the pieces that go into...it would not be good in a library collection.

[Sue Mosher · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked the pizza one better, but this book was fun, too. Kids can prepare pretend tacos, even folding them up at the end.

[Jennie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is such a cute children's "cookbook," even if it does make mention of consuming cilantro, the devil's herb.

[kim · Rating 3 out of 5]

yum! fun to play with

[Margaret · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love the step by step instructions and movable and removable parts but will patrons respect the title and keep everything together? We will see.

[Lily · Rating 4 out of 5]

Saving this one for my future 8 children

[DiAnne Warfield · Rating 5 out of 5]

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