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This work encourages future cooks and story tellers to make up their own versions of the classics. From the earliest days of stories, when hunters told of their exploits around the campfire, to the era of kings in castles listening to the storyteller at the royal feast, to the time of TV dinners, stories and eating have been close companions. So it is not unusual that folk stories are often about food: Jack's milk cow traded for beans, Snow White given a poisoned apple, Hansel and Gretel lured by the gingerbread house. Exquisitely illustrated by Philippe Beha, Fairy Tale Feasts is more than a collection of stories and recipes. In it, Caldecott-winning author Jane Yolen and her daughter, Heidi Stemple, imagine their readers as co-conspirators, cooks and tellers of tales themselves and share fun facts and anecdotes about the creation of the stories and the history of foods. All the tales have been retold from older versions by the amazingly prolific Jane Yolen, who has been dubbed North America's Hans Christian Andersen .

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For a really nice idea wonderfully fulfilled, Yolen retells very familiar tales in versions lively, brief and energetic: Little Red Riding Hood, The Little Mermaid, Cinderella and a number of others. Her daughter, Stemple, adds recipes to each tale, sometimes with tenuous connection but always with humor. These are great recipes for French toast, carrot soup, lemon chicken, mashed turnips that are straightforward, relatively easy to make with adult and child working together and good to eat. Measurements are given in American and British amounts and possible substitutions are noted and suggested. The colorful, whimsical illustrations hit just the right note both in full-page versions and smaller vignettes; for instance, The Magic Pot of Porridge shows a small house with a roof tilted crazily due to porridge pressure. Notes on the stories and on the recipes fill sidebars, and these are clear, accurate and engaging to both young and older readers. (Fairytales/cookbook. 8-14) (Kirkus Reviews)

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Jane Yolen is the author of over 20 books, including The Sea King (with Shulamith Oppenheim), available from Turnaround. Heidi Stemple, Jane's daughter, is the author of many children's books, including Amelia Earhart's Last Flight. Philippe Beha has illustrated more than 100 books for kids.

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