Best Teen & Young Adult Cookbooks
Cooking for teens, like finding the perfect gift for teen boys and girls, is almost impossible. MEGAN CARLE and JILL CARLE are both graduate students at Arizona State University.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"She was so excited because it said ‘Teens’ in the title and that makes her feel so grown up."
"Christmas gift for granddaughter, age 11."
"Easy to follow directions and healthy recipes."
"Item is exactly as described."
"good cookbook, but arrived wit a waterstains and was dirty."
"Bought for teenage Grandson who likes to cook."
"I would not buy this book for a teenager unless they have expressed an interest in learning to make more complicated recipes then simple teenage favorites."
"Not very healthy, recipes unimaginative and really quite bland."
The only full-color dessert cookbook written by and for teenagers, TEENS COOK DESSERT offers foolproof guidance for teens to bake their way to kitchen independence. MEGAN CARLE and JILL CARLE are both graduate students at Arizona State University.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This was a Christmas present for our grandson, who is learning to cook."
"Very pleased with this cookbook that was a Christmas present for my tween granddaughter."
"A gift for my Granddaughter."
"Bought it as a gift for my nephew."
"Sent to granddaughter for Xmas as she loves to cook."
"It has many things that are easy enough for her now and a few things fo her to learn."
"For my 11 year old aspiring chef, this is a great cookbook!"
"My grandson was very happy with it."
Calling all kid chefs! Rachael Ray is host of the Food Network shows. 30 Minute Meals. , Rachael Ray’s Kids Cook-Off. , Worst Cooks in America. , and. Week in a Day. .
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I am using it as part of a weekly cooking show I do for nieces and nephews who live far from me (auntliztv.wordpress.com) and it's full of tasty recipes."
"Was a gift for my grandchild."
"It's a fun book. and has recipes that are simple, well-illustrated and fun to make good things to eat."
"Got this for the Granddaughter."
"My grandaughters loved the book."
"It has some great recipes in it."
Best Teen & Young Adult Crafts
Fans of sci-fi movies and action-packed TV shows will flip for this top-rated drawing guide by bestselling author and self-proclaimed fanboy Aaron Sauter. He enjoys learning and working on a wide range of subjects from pirates and robots to dragons, sports, and magic tricks.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"He has shown an interest in drawing and asked for art supplies for Christmas."
"Great, great gift for boys who love warrior and anime type characters."
"This was a Christmas gift for my stepson and he has really enjoyed it!"
"So fun to watch my son use this -- little advanced for an 8 year old, but great options."
"My son thought that it was "cool"."
"I would recommend this for any boy who is into drawing!"
"This is not for a beginner and my 11 yo son found it discouraging till he just gave up and started tracing the pictures."
"Great delivery and product!"
Best Teen & Young Adult Travel
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*. About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, children's books, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places where they travel. TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2012 and 2013 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.'.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"With this book, the whole family learned about each site and looked forward to getting inside."
"I gave this book to an eleven year old as a gift before she went to Paris with her grandmother."
"I personally poured over it and found it adorable, but, at 30+, I'm slightly out of the age demographic..."
"She is now constantly filling me in on fun facts about her favorite city."
"my 7 year old daughter loves it!"
"I was a little concerned that these books would be too juvenile for them, but for the price thought it was worth a shot, because there's no way I'm going to get them to sit down with a guide book to start giving me ideas and opinions on what they might be interested in seeing! So I sat down to lunch with them, and while they read their books, I started reading the London book, and occasionally shared something funny or weird. Then 14 year old picked up the London book to keep reading when I went to get my drink, and 12 year old slipped away with the Paris book a few minutes later."
"I bought this book for my grandchildren, ages 9 and 11, to take on their trip."
"A fun, thorough introduction to Paris, for kids (and adults!)."
Best Teen & Young Adult Games & Activities
From the creator of the worldwide bestsellers Secret Garden and Enchanted Forest , a beautiful new adult coloring book that takes you on a magical journey beneath the waves With. this coloring book for adults, Johanna Basford invites color-inners of all ages to discover an enchanting underwater world hidden in the depths of the sea. Her intricate, hand-drawn illustrations are loved the world over by those who have colored in (sometimes more than once) her bestselling books Johanna's Christmas , Magical Jungle , Lost Ocean , Secret Garden , and Enchanted Forest .
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Find Best Price at Amazon"With her newest book, “Lost Ocean”, she builds upon the stunningly beautiful and extremely intricate designs that I have come to expect from her. There are so many designs, including: sailing ships, mermaids, fish, sea mammals, jellyfish, and shipwrecks and more flora of the deep than I can count, each page is a wonderful experience in coloring. Recent versions of “Secret Garden” had improved paper – so much so, that this note is now included at the top of the page in all italics and with caps “Good news for all SECRET GARDEN fans! As I know that I love to use my markers, I have already purchased a second copy of the book so I don't have to choose a medium based on what happens to the backside of my page. I design needlework for my “day job” but that contains a lot of stress (deadlines, trying to perfect the pattern, etc.)."
"Although the thickness is nice and my markers do not leak through, if I blend too much, the paper starts to disintegrate."
"Some reviews say it's thin compared to the other two books but I have not experienced any bleeding through ANY of my pages and I'm using the same staedtler pens/markers that many others are using. Everything on this book is a coloring page including the front and back covers."
"There are some differences in the paper color being more white in this book vs the other two being more of a natural recycled color. Even the Prismacolor Verithin pencils that can maintain a sharper tip with an excellent sharpener will be a bit of a challenge to show up and stay in the lines in numerous water bubbles through out the book. So my experience in the different challenges staying in the lines and pressing hard enough to try to get the colors to show up isn't a difference for me. The Crazy Art Deep Plum colored in the sea horses eye was meant to color just the outer circle of the eye and, granted the tip isn't perfectly sharp, but it colored the whole eye and it looks brown not deep plum. There isn't enough of an area for the color to show up much with this cheaper/lower quality pencil. I tried a Colbalt Green Polychromo pencil (looks more turquoise green) in the bottom left corner of the picture on a few dots and lines and while these tips aren't the sharpest, it still managed to show up and color the tiny bubbles. Other reviewers have previously said that the TRIPLUS Fineliners didn't bleed through, but I just used pencils and gel pens coloring in my book, so I can't say for sure. The Violet Prismacolor Verithin in the stripes in the tail of the fish show up well and stayed in the lines, but the curvy grass and the bubbles colored in with the Bleu Violet Prismacolor Verithin didn't stay in the lines as well. If you don't mind coloring larger sections of details within the picture all the same colors to make things easier and more realistic for staying within the lines for the pens or pencils you are using, you might be happy. BEWARE: If you want to be able to immediately start coloring when you get this book using the same materials you used in the last books... you might find out that the details are harder than you think, to either get to show up or stay inside the lines due to the actual picture size differences. The 4th picture shows part of a picture from one of the older books versus this new size of detail."