Recipe

(Hardback)

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Step aside, Mother it's Kristen's turn to pick the recipe and make the dinner! There's just one teensy problem: Kristen's imagination is far more developed than her cooking skills. With ingredients ranging from 400 hot dogs and 20 bags of marshmallows to a sweatshirt and a water pistol, Recipe is the laugh-out-loud chronicle of just about everything that can go wrong in a kitchen. The recipe may not end up as delicious, or even as edible, as Kristen hopes, but that's okay: the journey is often more fun than the destination. And there's a hungry raccoon in the backyard who'll eat just about anything.

Reviews

"Recipe is the kind of hilarious, high-energy, exciting, joyful, unpredictable, wonderful book that will delight anyone who is a child, was a child, or hopes to become a child." --Elliott Kalan, comic genius and host of The Flophouse Podcast "The Petrella sisters are the Brontes of horsemeat-substitute-themed picture books." --Mac Barnett, New York Times best-selling author of books for children "McSweeney's McMullens releases another wonderfully original and engaging book for kids." --Pop Candy "This is one of those just delightfully anarchic picture books, a delight up and down and through and through. ... It's a great story of kid-power, grown-ups as co-pilots in discovery, creativity, and unfettered gross-out weirdness." --Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing "The recipe was getting very thick. It needed water! I filled my squirt gun full of water and took aim. I am very good at squirt guns. 'MOM, ARE YOU WATCHING'" - from the book

Author Bio

Angela and Michaelanne Petrella are sisters from Ohio who enjoy creating many horrible recipes together. Angela works at Pixar in the Story department, and Michaelanne is a writer. Mike Bertino and Erin Althea live in Los Angeles, CA with their twin four-year old daughters, Juniper and Scarlett. Most days are spent drawing, painting, wiping boogers, kissing boo-boos and concocting merely edible meals for each other. They eat a lot of Sriracha and honey (but not usually together).