By Nadiya Hussain
Fifteen fairy tales, each one followed by the thing they were eating in it.
It alternates. A story, then a recipe, then a story, then a recipe, all the way through. The tales are familiar ones bent around food — Jack climbs a beanstalk grown from a bean pattie, Goldilocks finds very berry muffins, the elves turn up overnight and make choux. Turn the page after each story and there's the real recipe for the food you just heard about, photographed with Nadiya Hussain and her own three children making it in a real kitchen. You get a book to read at bedtime and a book to cook from on the weekend, in one binding.
It works on a child who won't sit still because the story pays off in something you can eat. Most stories just end. This one ends with a muffin, so sitting through it feels like it was for something. It runs the other direction too: a child who only came for the cooking will listen to the whole story to reach the page with flour on it. Nadiya Hussain won The Great British Bake Off, and this was her first children's book. She's a British Muslim woman, and her own three children appear in the photographs, cooking alongside her.