Bon Appetit! The Delicious Life of Julia Child
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4.0 • 4 Ratings
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Chef and TV personality Julia Child likely would have delighted in and hooted over this wide-ranging picture-book biography. Hartland's (How the Dinosaur Got to the Museum) trademark na ve-styled cartoons fill each panel and page with activity, their liveliness nodding to Child's own energy. A color palette limited to sage and sea greens, gray-blues, reds, and browns keeps the myriad vignettes from overwhelming. Humorous touches such as her singed eyebrows while making cr pes suzette set an effervescent tone. One doesn't expect biographies of this length to be exhaustive, but Hartland's is remarkably so, covering Child's early years in Pasadena, her stint with a spy agency in WWII, her world travels, and cooking adventures. The narrative is done in handwritten typeface, an informal combination of cursive and printing that winds around the illustrations and down the pages and includes numerous French phrases with translations. One spread even outlines step-by-step directions (in 37 numbered panels) for making chicken galantine. Readers young and old will devour this f te pour les yeux, which concludes with a short epilogue, bibliography, and, of course, a cr pe recipe. All ages.
