The Disney Christmas Cookbook: 50 Delicious Recipes!

Gr 1-5–This cozy seasonal cookbook is separated into chapters for breakfast, lunch, dinner, sides, snacks, beverages, and sweets. Measuring techniques, food handling, and clean-up are thoroughly addressed at the beginning of the book, and safety is discussed throughout. Any recipe that requires heat is prefaced with a reminder to ask an adult for help. Each recipe is tied to a Disney film and accompanied by an attractive, full-page photograph of the dish. Readers will enjoy the cheerful illustrations depicting their favorite characters celebrating the holiday, and with 50 different recipes there are a lot of characters seen here! A key at the end highlights, chapter by chapter, which recipes are gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free, vegan, and vegetarian, and also notes possible substitutions. A reasonable amount of adult supervision would be required for some of these recipes, particularly those from the dinner chapter. Like most cookbooks, there will be recipes that not every reader can master immediately, but there are plenty of accessible goodies here for beginners to attempt.