'Cooking' sells parents two different things, and buying the wrong one shows within a day. Four of these are picture books about food — nobody cooks, and your child can love them from the sofa without ever going near a pan. Two are real cookbooks: knives, a hot oven, a shopping list, and an adult standing there for months. One is a novel about a chocolate factory with no cooking in it at all, only wanting. So under each title I've said plainly what it asks of your kitchen.
A few things I'd want to know first. The age on the two cookbooks is a real floor, not a suggestion. Eight to twelve, and the eight matters: they teach a knife grip, a chopping board, a hot pan and an oven, because a child using them does all four. Don't expect an eight-year-old to work through either alone at first. Sit near them. The cookbooks are also two separate books, easy to buy the same one twice. The Complete Cookbook (2018) is savory; the Complete Baking Book (2019) is bread, pizza, cookies and cakes. Which fits depends on your child: you can taste and adjust as you cook, but baking gives no second chance, so a child who likes getting things exactly right is happier baking. And Bee-bim Bop and Bilal Cooks Daal both end in a real family recipe, Korean and Pakistani, written by women who grew up eating that food. Your child can spend a Saturday making the actual dinner of a home that isn't theirs. You don't have to make a lesson of it. Just cook it together.