Farm Anatomy: The Curious Parts & Pieces of Country Life

Absolutely lovely book. Love the fact that you can even find instructions of how to milk a cow. Illustrations are adorable and page layout is effective too. Wouldn't say that this cookbook is aimed for children as the typography is quite complicated, and you can find quite a lot of text. Book cover seems to tell that this book is going to be based on traditional meals. Love that it's kind of a diary style: on one page you can see illustrations and then on the next page are instructions. Overall really appealing book. 

Picture Cook. See.Make.Eat

Love the idea of separating all of the ingridients as showed in the lasagna recipe. Recipes look appealing and eye catching, but i don't know working only with illustrations works that good. Although illustrations are lovely i would like more colors maybe. But overall it looks good, and looks like the entire book was screenprinted because of the limited color pallet. 

The Illustrated Student Cookbook

 

I find this book really appealing. Love the way illustrations are combined with photography. Also there is a smart thinking of using certain colours in certain recipes. The layout looks neat and well considered. Overall the recipe book looks very eye-catching and appealing. Although it is aimed for students but i think it would suit older children between 7-11 years, because of the complexity of illustrations and that there isn't any characters that would keep younger children interacted. 

The Silver Spoon for Children

I thought that the design and layout is very smart. Also as an illustration student i really appreciate cute hand drawn illustrations. This cookbook is aimed for children so the illustrations are very simple and clear but at the same time they work perfect. You are not bored after couple of pages too. Typography looks playful and cute. I love he fact that not everything is illustrated but that there are photographs as well as illustrations. 

Alice in Wonderland pop up book

Alice in Wonderland Pop-up book by Maria Popova

This book looks really engaging and paper engineering looks astonishing and clever considering the fact that even text boxes are pop ups and pull outs. Reader gets interacted throughout the book while reading it. Characters look friendly too. 

Roughs for Children Book

My chosen recipe - Eggless sponge

A little bit of research about egg collecting during WWI:

• The National Egg Collection for the wounded was started in August 1915.
• People were collecting eggs to send to wounded soldiers and sailors overseas.
• There were over 2000 egg collection points in the UK.
• Half a million eggs were wanted weekly!
• Eggs were sent in special boxes and any that were broken during the transition were redistributed to hospitals in the UK. 
• Children were encouraged to write their names and addresses on eggs. 

One wounded soldier sent this poem by way of thanks:

“We thank you here, kind lady
For the nice eggs you have sent,
Our appetite they did restore
And we pray God you send more.
We all wish you may prosper, 
And live the allotted span, 
That is the prayer you have, 
From many a wounded man.” 
J Gibbs, 8th Gordon Highlanders, 18th general hospital, France

And my roughs - a little bit of character design and 2 layouts :

Eggless sponge recipe!