When Cricket decides to start cooking to cure her summer blues, it's not long before Lucas, Julio, and friends -- the stars of Johanna Hurwitz's popular Class Clown books -- get involved and "stir up" the action. Four zesty stories and sixteen easy recipes to dig into for a fiesta of reading, cooking, and eating!
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From School Library Journal
Grade 3-5-During summer vacation, sixth-grader Cricket Kaufman and her friends learn to bake after she decides to find some creative ways to use up her family's extra zucchini. Making special desserts with her classmates becomes a regular activity during the school year. She and her pals create tasty morsels for a variety of occasions-cookies to raise money for a food drive, Valentine's Day goodies, and April Fool's Day treats with mystery ingredients for their teacher's birthday. Recipes are included at the end of each chapter. Dugan's appealing black-and-white illustrations of the bakers and their desserts serve to break up the text. Beginning chapter-book readers will enjoy the antics of the likable characters in these light, funny stories, though the recipes will require adult assistance. Anne Parker, Milton Public Library, MA
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Many events inspire Cricket and her friends to cook: a relentless menu of steamed zucchini when the vegetable is in season, a bake sale to raise money for the homeless, a Valentine holiday full of sweet secrets, and an April Fools' Day party with foods prepared using unexpected ingredients. Each of the book's four chapters ends with four recipes related to its story. The book's title refers to a club formed by boys and girls who decide it would be fun to get together to make (and eat) . . . just desserts. With fairly large type and a selection of simple, appealing recipes, this piece of episodic fiction will appeal to those beginning to cook as well as those who are beginning to read chapter books. Light fare that goes down easy. Carolyn Phelan
Description:
When Cricket decides to start cooking to cure her summer blues, it's not long before Lucas, Julio, and friends -- the stars of Johanna Hurwitz's popular Class Clown books -- get involved and "stir up" the action. Four zesty stories and sixteen easy recipes to dig into for a fiesta of reading, cooking, and eating!
**
From School Library Journal
Grade 3-5-During summer vacation, sixth-grader Cricket Kaufman and her friends learn to bake after she decides to find some creative ways to use up her family's extra zucchini. Making special desserts with her classmates becomes a regular activity during the school year. She and her pals create tasty morsels for a variety of occasions-cookies to raise money for a food drive, Valentine's Day goodies, and April Fool's Day treats with mystery ingredients for their teacher's birthday. Recipes are included at the end of each chapter. Dugan's appealing black-and-white illustrations of the bakers and their desserts serve to break up the text. Beginning chapter-book readers will enjoy the antics of the likable characters in these light, funny stories, though the recipes will require adult assistance.
Anne Parker, Milton Public Library, MA
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Many events inspire Cricket and her friends to cook: a relentless menu of steamed zucchini when the vegetable is in season, a bake sale to raise money for the homeless, a Valentine holiday full of sweet secrets, and an April Fools' Day party with foods prepared using unexpected ingredients. Each of the book's four chapters ends with four recipes related to its story. The book's title refers to a club formed by boys and girls who decide it would be fun to get together to make (and eat) . . . just desserts. With fairly large type and a selection of simple, appealing recipes, this piece of episodic fiction will appeal to those beginning to cook as well as those who are beginning to read chapter books. Light fare that goes down easy. Carolyn Phelan