Children's Cookbook Research 2

Was being sneaky in Waterstones today and managed to get some photos of existing children's cookbooks covers. Didn't want to push my luck and start taking photos of the insides but did manage to get a varied selection styles out there already....

Pretty simple. No illustration throughout, only photographs. Larger size means you could have bigger font and more room for illustrations.

Cookbook from a kid's TV show. Again all photography but helpful step by step images to make it easier to understand. I really like the way the "I can cook" title has been produced. This is along the same lines as my idea of using ingredient spillage as backgrounds.

All illustrated cookbook/story book. Really lovely soft colours and friendly illustrations. Feel that this one is a little more focused on the stories rather than helping kids to understand how to cook. Love the font used for the title.

Very simple and easy to understand with step by step photos. No illustrations and simplistic use of writing throughout. Wasn't that impressed by this one, it's practical but not fun to look through.

Love this one! Photography used mainly but done in more of a collage style. This is how I want the photos to be in my own book. Love all the tiny words wiggling around the cakes on the cover... Might actually go back and buy this one!

Something I have learnt from this little outing is that books published by Usborne definitely seem to be on the same wave length as me. The book I discussed in a previous blog post was also an Usborne book. I will need to look at more examples of their books to help with producing my own successful piece of work.