Kids Around the World: What's Cooking?
A Ready-To-Read Level Two book
by Patty Michaels
Illustrated by Clarice Elliott
Simon Spotlight
An imprint of Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing Division
2024
32 pages
ISBN: 9781665963435
The Ready-To-Read series allows young readers to connect with the text by using short, simple chapters and new vocabulary words (with the pronunciation in parenthesis for children to sound out unfamiliar aand sometimes foreign words. An example is kimchi which finds its origins in Korea.
Many countries eat the same types of foods. Rice is found in many cuisines and is a diet staple. Pasta and noodles are similar yet different. Noodles can be used in soups and stews and even deep-fried or stir fried where pasta is usually only boiled. Dumplings are another type of food that many countries have their own take on. Originally made in Georgia (the country, not the state) dumplings are also part of the Chinese culture and are popular in the United States (chicken and dumplings) and in South America where their dumplings are known as enpanadas which are like a stuffed meat hand pie.
Bread truly is the staff of life. Countless countries bake with different types of flour: white flour, corn flour, rice flour or buckwheat flour. Cakes are used for special celebrations like the king cake found in Louisiana during Mardi Gras or mooncakes eaten in China in celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Complete with a handy glossary--in the front of the book--and a table of contents teach readers to use these tools as a guide to understand the story. Adult readers who should always read to children should point out these two "extras" and explain how to use them. This may be the first time a young reader encounters these two things in a book.
Diverse and multi-cultural characters are prevalent in the illustratons and on the cover.
Highly recommended pre-school-grade 5.
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