--- product_id: 1693598 title: "Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes: A Cookbook for Preschoolers and Up" price: "82.31 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/1693598-pretend-soup-and-other-real-recipes-a-cookbook-for-preschoolers store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # Whimsical watercolor illustrations 25 years of trusted recipes Kid-friendly step-by-step cooking Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes: A Cookbook for Preschoolers and Up **Price:** 82.31 DT **Availability:** βœ… In Stock ## Summary > πŸ‘©β€πŸ³ Turn your little one into a kitchen star with every page! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes: A Cookbook for Preschoolers and Up - **How much does it cost?** 82.31 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/1693598-pretend-soup-and-other-real-recipes-a-cookbook-for-preschoolers) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **Award-Winning Legacy:** Celebrating 25 years as the gold standard in children’s vegetarian cookbooks. - β€’ **Visual & Educational:** Step-by-step pictorial recipes make cooking intuitive and fun for young learners. - β€’ **Nurture Future Foodies:** Empowers kids 3-8 to become confident little chefs with easy, healthy recipes. - β€’ **Parent-Child Bonding Time:** Designed for guided cooking sessions that strengthen family connections. - β€’ **Creative Culinary Learning:** Combines cooking with early skills like counting, reading, and science awareness. ## Overview Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes is a celebrated, 25-year-old vegetarian cookbook by Mollie Katzen, designed to introduce children ages 3 to 8 to cooking through easy, healthy recipes paired with whimsical illustrations. It fosters early learning skills like counting and reading, encourages creativity, and promotes family bonding through guided cooking experiences. ## Description Celebrating 25 years of vegetarian recipes and called "the gold standard for chidren's cookbooks" by the New York Times , Pretend Soup , by celebrated Moosewood chef Mollie Katzen, offers children and families easy recipes for healthy, fun, and delicious food. Mollie Katzen, renowned author of The Moosewood Cookbook , and educator Ann Henderson bring the grown-up world of real cooking to a child’s level. Children as young as three years old and as old as eight become head chef while an adult serves as guide and helper. Extensively classroom- and home-tested, these recipes are designed to inspire an early appreciation for creative, wholesome food. Whimsical watercolor critters and pictorial versions of each recipe will help the young cook understand and delight in the process. Just consider all that can be explored in the kitchen: counting, reading readiness, science awareness, self-confidence, patience, and, importantly, food literacy. Pizza, after all, does not come β€œfrom a telephone.” You and your child can have great fun finding this out! Review: hands-down a "must" for little cooks - My daughter, who is not quite 6 yet, loves to help and cook in the kitchen. She asked for her own cooking instruments for Christmas and that's what Santa brought her. She loves rushing in to put on her apron, pull out her ladybug silicon spatula, rubber spoon, matryoshka doll measuring cups (from a MoMa collaborative available at JC Penney's), and colored measuring spoons. All she needed was a good cookbook. I thought this would be a daunting task since the ones I had picked up to look at at Williams-Sonoma were not simple enough for her. My friend told me about this series of cookbooks for children so I checked out "Salad People" from the library and bought this one, "Pretend Soup". We haven't cooked from them yet so I can't compare how the recipes from the two books are similar or different. but, I can tell you that I sat down with my daughter to show her the book and she is over the moon. She loves the drawings of each step with simplified instructions (like "1 cup" and it shows pouring milk into the bowl, etc.) She is so excited. And, more importantly, all of the recipes in this book are things that she will eat. We're not over-the-top health nuts in our home but I am very careful to expose my children to a wide variety of ingredients and ethnic foods. Maybe my children won't be a fan of using zucchini for the pizza faces, but that's an easy substitution. The bulk of everything is very appealing to them and healthy. Yes, I will have to help with much of it and there are parts where the instructions call for a dough that mom or dad made before hand, but I think that's reasonable. If I want my child to learn to cook, then I will have to be setting that example first. We love it and I love the diet and recipes in the cookbook. I love how easy it is for her to follow. And I love that it sets a clear layout for how we will be interacting when we cook together (I make the dough, she pats it out and puts toppings on, etc.) Review: My four-year-old thinks she's a chef - I've had both this book and Salad People since my daughter was about 6 months old (I'm an avid cookbook collector and hoped she'd want to join in as she got older). She's been helping me in the kitchen since she was old enough to stand and dump things into a bowl (I even bought her a plastic lettuce knife so she can chop vegetables for me). I didn't actually present these cookbooks to her, though, I just put them on my cookbook shelves and let her discover them on her own. Last week, she started leafing through them. I got home from work one day and Pretend Soup was open to the popover recipe. We talked about them, and she asked if she could make them. I said of course, and we made them for breakfast Saturday morning. they were so easy and a big hit! I love the way this book is laid out. At the beginning of each recipe, there's a page or two of text for the adults about how the recipe should go. Then, the following two pages have numbered step by step illustrations of how the recipe should be put together. This makes it both easy and educational - kids learn sequencing (step one comes before step two, etc), counting, measuring, etc. They aren't actual photographs, but the pictures, while simple, are detailed enough that for the most part, my daughter can tell what they are. There are also words at the bottom of each step for clarification. We've tried three recipes so far - popovers, green spaghetti, and pretend soup. We didn't have the right fruit for the pretend soup (it calls for bananas and raspberries), so we talked about how a cook can substitute ingredients if you don't like something or don't have it in the kitchen. We ended up substituting blueberries and sliced strawberries, and it was perfect! She can't wait to make more - every day she asks if she can make this recipe or that one. I told her by the time she's five, she'll probably have dinner waiting for us on the table when I get home every night! ## Features - Great product! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #39,128 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #27 in Children's Diet & Nutrition Books (Books) #51 in Children's Cookbooks #274 in Children's Reference Books (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 381 Reviews | ## Images ![Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes: A Cookbook for Preschoolers and Up - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91-hPsG6dVL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ hands-down a "must" for little cooks *by G***R on January 27, 2012* My daughter, who is not quite 6 yet, loves to help and cook in the kitchen. She asked for her own cooking instruments for Christmas and that's what Santa brought her. She loves rushing in to put on her apron, pull out her ladybug silicon spatula, rubber spoon, matryoshka doll measuring cups (from a MoMa collaborative available at JC Penney's), and colored measuring spoons. All she needed was a good cookbook. I thought this would be a daunting task since the ones I had picked up to look at at Williams-Sonoma were not simple enough for her. My friend told me about this series of cookbooks for children so I checked out "Salad People" from the library and bought this one, "Pretend Soup". We haven't cooked from them yet so I can't compare how the recipes from the two books are similar or different. but, I can tell you that I sat down with my daughter to show her the book and she is over the moon. She loves the drawings of each step with simplified instructions (like "1 cup" and it shows pouring milk into the bowl, etc.) She is so excited. And, more importantly, all of the recipes in this book are things that she will eat. We're not over-the-top health nuts in our home but I am very careful to expose my children to a wide variety of ingredients and ethnic foods. Maybe my children won't be a fan of using zucchini for the pizza faces, but that's an easy substitution. The bulk of everything is very appealing to them and healthy. Yes, I will have to help with much of it and there are parts where the instructions call for a dough that mom or dad made before hand, but I think that's reasonable. If I want my child to learn to cook, then I will have to be setting that example first. We love it and I love the diet and recipes in the cookbook. I love how easy it is for her to follow. And I love that it sets a clear layout for how we will be interacting when we cook together (I make the dough, she pats it out and puts toppings on, etc.) ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ My four-year-old thinks she's a chef *by J***E on March 13, 2013* I've had both this book and Salad People since my daughter was about 6 months old (I'm an avid cookbook collector and hoped she'd want to join in as she got older). She's been helping me in the kitchen since she was old enough to stand and dump things into a bowl (I even bought her a plastic lettuce knife so she can chop vegetables for me). I didn't actually present these cookbooks to her, though, I just put them on my cookbook shelves and let her discover them on her own. Last week, she started leafing through them. I got home from work one day and Pretend Soup was open to the popover recipe. We talked about them, and she asked if she could make them. I said of course, and we made them for breakfast Saturday morning. they were so easy and a big hit! I love the way this book is laid out. At the beginning of each recipe, there's a page or two of text for the adults about how the recipe should go. Then, the following two pages have numbered step by step illustrations of how the recipe should be put together. This makes it both easy and educational - kids learn sequencing (step one comes before step two, etc), counting, measuring, etc. They aren't actual photographs, but the pictures, while simple, are detailed enough that for the most part, my daughter can tell what they are. There are also words at the bottom of each step for clarification. We've tried three recipes so far - popovers, green spaghetti, and pretend soup. We didn't have the right fruit for the pretend soup (it calls for bananas and raspberries), so we talked about how a cook can substitute ingredients if you don't like something or don't have it in the kitchen. We ended up substituting blueberries and sliced strawberries, and it was perfect! She can't wait to make more - every day she asks if she can make this recipe or that one. I told her by the time she's five, she'll probably have dinner waiting for us on the table when I get home every night! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Love this book but… *by A***S on March 5, 2026* I truly love this book. I have several copies. Planning to give this as a gift. Shipper really delayed. And I will walk into party empty handed. ## Frequently Bought Together - Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes: A Cookbook for Preschoolers and Up - Salad People and More Real Recipes: A New Cookbook for Preschoolers and Up - Honest Pretzels: And 64 Other Amazing Recipes for Kids --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - πŸ›’ **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** β€” Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** β€” Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - πŸ’° **No Hidden Fees** β€” All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - πŸ”„ **15-Day Free Returns** β€” Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - πŸ”’ **Secure Payments** β€” Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** β€” Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tn/products/1693598-pretend-soup-and-other-real-recipes-a-cookbook-for-preschoolers](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/1693598-pretend-soup-and-other-real-recipes-a-cookbook-for-preschoolers) --- *Product available on Desertcart Tunisia* *Store origin: TN* *Last updated: 2026-10-10*