Geared toward teenagers and adults newly diagnosed, Food Allergy Survivors Together Handbook takes the reader on a journey through learning to make food fun again, read labels, shop, deal with others, and much more. Not a recipe book or cookbook, this upbeat guide offers practical tips for living with food allergies. Even if diagnosed years ago or handling a child's allergies, you will nevertheless likely benefit from many of the topics covered. This title has been reviewed with four out of four stars!
This book is available from traditional bookstores. Just let them know this information:
ISBN: 0-595-24128-X
Title: Food Allergy Survivors Together Handbook
Author: Melissa Taylor
With participation from nearly two-dozen individuals, this incredibly innovative book contains a little bit of everything (it has to, at 350 pages!). You'll find articles, cooking tips, extracurricular activity suggestions, humor, jokes and cartoons, photographs, profiles of people with allergies, over 30 recipes, stories and a play for children, traveling tips, and much more. The information in the book is new and unique. Best of all, the Journal is informal and uplifting, not heavy and weighty as health literature can tend to be. The information within is geared toward (and contributed by) everyone touched by food allergies, including children with allergies, adults with allergies, caretakers, and friends. You will refer to this book again and again. Our group strongly suggests you get more than one--you will want to share this with your friends, family, and local library.
Opening up this book is like opening a virtual treasure chest containing:
* Profiles on nearly 10 people impacted by food allergies
* 20 drawings
* More than 30 recipes
* More than 30 articles/chapters
* Nearly 40 jokes
* Over 50 photos
* 350 pages!
TRIVIA: Did you know that the founder of FAST was once a cartoonist for a well-known pet magazine? The following books are NOT about food allergies, but are loads of fun as gifts for children and adults who like guinea pigs.
New Series!
You have never seen guinea pig storybooks like these before! Begin a beloved. tradition today.
Each enchanting book features approximately 100 (yes, 100!) charming guinea pig illustrations by Melissa J. Taylor, accompanied by 10 stories/chapters of adventures during that season. Each volume is suitable as a bedtime storybook, but adults (especially cavy enthusiasts or fans of innovative and clean juvenile fiction) will also love the humorous and adorable adventures.
The Guinea Pigs' Summer Storybook takes the reader on 10 adventures occuring during the warmest months of the year. Object lessons are sensitively introduced, such as listening, playing fair, and helping with younger siblings (but the lessons are never preachy, and kids won't even notice they're there!).
Adventures include a picnic, playing at the local park, visiting the zoo, and summer camp.
This is destined to be your favorite cavy book; the contents are as cute and funny as a real guinea pig.
Over 200 pages, this book contains approximately 100 drawings accompanying 10 stories.
The Guinea Pigs' Fall Storybook
$18.00
Paperback: 221 pages
Perfect bound
Typed text; B&W illustrations
The bumbling and loveable cavies are back! In The Guinea Pigs' Fall Storybook, Percival and Violet are off to help out at Aunt Puffy and Uncle Fubsy's farm in one of the 10 adventures taking place during the fall season. Other activities include choosing Halloween costumes and the first day of school. In one story, Percival receives the news that "mammoth alterations" are taking place at home, and his friends tell him that it is likely a wooly mammoth will soon be moving in. Sure, mammoths are supposedly extinct. But Percival's dad is a scientist!
At over 200 pages, this book contains approximately 100 drawings accompanying 10 stories.
Join the guinea pig friends for their winter adventures, including Hanukkah and Christmas celebrations. In one story, Violet's mother Mrs. Butterscotch is overcome by the "winter blahs" and decides to spruce things up by swapping the furniture around. The only problem? She has Violet for a daughter! Violet's only problem? She has Chloe for a friend. (And, just so you know, Chloe's problem is that she likes to tell tall tales.)
At over 200 pages, this book contains approximately 100 drawings accompanying 10 stories.
$9.95
Paperback: 32 pages
Wire-bound, for ease of use when cooking.
Quaint, handwritten text; B&W illustrations
Description: Over twenty-five treat recipes, tested and approved by a panel of guinea pig taste-testers. Wire binding provides ease of use when baking. Illustrated throughout.
Cooking for My Cavy: Recipes for Guinea Pigs is a wonderful collection of over twenty-five recipes for cavies, using wholesome ingredients commonly found in kitchens. You will find instructions for such delights as Cavy Kabobs, Piggy Pizza, Piggy Popcorn, Couch-cavy Cookies, Oatmeal Cookies, and over twenty more! The recipes are accompanied with Melissa J. Taylor's enchanting black and white hand-drawn guinea pigs on every page. A must for any guinea pig aficionado, this book also makes a charming gift.
The birthday cake is one of my favorites, because it's simple to make for my guinea pigs' birthdays--I bake a few every year. The recipe even includes instructions for etable frosting and candles, too! This one recipe alone makes it worth owning the book.
Geared toward teenagers and adults newly diagnosed, Food Allergy Survivors Together Handbook takes the reader on a journey through learning to make food fun again, read labels, shop, deal with others, and much more. Not a recipe book or cookbook, this upbeat guide offers practical tips for living with food allergies. Even if diagnosed years ago or handling a child's allergies, you will nevertheless likely benefit from many of the topics covered. This title has been reviewed with four out of four stars!
With participation from nearly two-dozen individuals, this incredibly innovative book contains a little bit of everything (it has to, at 350 pages!). You'll find articles, cooking tips, extracurricular activity suggestions, humor, jokes and cartoons, photographs, profiles of people with allergies, over 30 recipes, stories and a play for children, traveling tips, and much more. The information in the book is new and unique. Best of all, the Journal is informal and uplifting, not heavy and weighty as health literature can tend to be. The information within is geared toward (and contributed by) everyone touched by food allergies, including children with allergies, adults with allergies, caretakers, and friends. You will refer to this book again and again. Our group strongly suggests you get more than one--you will want to share this with your friends, family, and local library.
The Guinea Pigs' Summer Storybook
Cooking for My Cavy: Recipes for Guinea Pigs