cover image Cook Me a Rhyme: In the Kitchen with Mother Goose

Cook Me a Rhyme: In the Kitchen with Mother Goose

Bryan Kozlowski, illus. by Laura Wood. Walter Foster Jr., $16.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-63322-218-2

This spiral-bound cooking primer, a companion to Kozlowski’s Cook Me a Story, presents 17 simple recipes based on nursery rhymes. In the brunch section, readers can prepare Blueberry Haystack Muffins à la “Little Boy Blue” and a breakfast cake marked with an icing B. Lunch recipes include Cockle Shell Pasta Salad (based on “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary”) and a “Hickory BBQ Pizza Clock,” inspired by “Hickory Dickory Dock,” followed by sections devoted to treats and sweets. Kozlowski uses the text of the rhymes to inform the recipes, which are framed by Wood’s friendly cartoons of nursery rhyme characters and animals. Cooking and classic rhymes: a tasty combination. Ages 5–11. (Apr.)