cover image Hocus-Pocus Magical Cookbook: More Than 50 Delicious Recipes with Secret Ingredients for Wizards & Kids [With Liquid Filled Magic Wand]

Hocus-Pocus Magical Cookbook: More Than 50 Delicious Recipes with Secret Ingredients for Wizards & Kids [With Liquid Filled Magic Wand]

Donna Boundy. innovative KIDS, $16.99 (72pp) ISBN 978-1-58476-060-3

Riding high on the Harry Potter boy-wizard wave, innovative KIDS introduces the Hocus-Pocus Magical Cookbook by Donna Boundy, illus. by Julia Gran. Complete with a magic, sparkly cooking wand, this book cooks up simple projects under magical titles of larger-than-life proportions, such as ""To Keep Friends Forever: Dipped Cheese Sandwich"" and ""To Make Dreams Come True: Palm Readers' Pita Pockets"" plus special names for ordinary ingredients (""fizzeroo"" for club soda). Additionally, each recipe includes a box of information about nutrition, food facts or math and science brainteasers. The watercolor illustrations play up the flights of fancy. ( Apr.)