Bon Appetit! The Delicious Life of Julia Child
In a starred review, Publishers Weekly raves, "Chef and TV personality Julia Child likely would have delighted in and hooted over this wide-ranging picture-book biography.... Readers young and old will devour this fete pour les yeux."Follow Julia Child—chef, author, and television...
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In a starred review, Publishers Weekly raves, "Chef and TV personality Julia Child likely would have delighted in and hooted over this wide-ranging picture-book biography.... Readers young and old will devour this fete pour les yeux."Follow Julia Child—chef, author, and television personality—from her childhood in Pasadena, California, to her life as a spy in WWII, to the cooking classes she took in Paris, to the publication of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, to the funny moments of being a chef on TV. This is a comprehensive and enchanting picture book biography, told in many panels and jam-packed with lively, humorous, and child-friendly details. Young chefs and Julia Child fans will exclaim, "ooooh la la," about this book, which is as energetic and eccentric as the chef herself.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780375869440 (0375869441)
ASIN: 375869441
Publish date: May 22nd 2012
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
Pages no: 48
Edition language: English
Category:
Childrens,
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Juvenile,
Biography Memoir,
Picture Books,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Cooking
Julia Child is a wonder to us in America. She somehow managed to break every cultural norm for women of her time (she worked and lived independently for many years before marrying, she married yet never had children, and she created a fabulous career for herself as a chef and a tv personality) and s...
This lively, fun introduction to Julia Child would be more enjoyable with a better design. The pages are too cluttered!