Annabel Karmel Books

Annabel Karmel is known and trusted by millions of parents for her unrivalled advice on feeding babies and children. In association with Great Ormond Street Hospital, she puts her wide expertise and knowledge to use in a broader parenting arena, providing a comprehensive planner for you and your baby. Divided into clear, easy-to-find sections for pregnancy, 0-3 months, 4-6 months, 7-9 months and 10-12 months, Complete First Year Planner provides your optimum diet for pregnancy and ensures a healthy, happy, stress-free first year for you and your baby. With clear charts and tip boxes throughout, this is the book no parent can be without; packed with essential, at-a-glance planners, indispensable advice on feeding and superb recipes, crucial information on the practicalities, effective techniques to deal with crying and sleeping and easy methods to encourage your child's development.

Annabel Karmel has been writing best-selling cookbooks for 10 years and now she is handing the kitchen over to the kids! From sweet treats to simple family meals, young children will love trying out the exciting range of tasty and healthy recipes.With step-by-step instructions Children's First Cookbook is the perfect starting point for any budding young chef. "She's a miracle woman" Jools Oliver.

For the last 10 years the New Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner has been helping mums everywhere feed their babies and young children the right foods to give them the best possible start in life. Annabel, the leading authority on children's food, has now revised her international bestseller to help ensure that your child gets the very best start in life. Her innovative collection of mouth-watering recipes, time saving tips and reassuring menu charts is based on her own practical experience of feeding a young family. Thoroughly revised and updated to include fresh recipe ideas and the latest advice on nutrition, the New Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner is now even better than before.

A fully illustrated non-fiction picture book that lets readers discover how their favourite foods are grown and made - with exclusive recipes from Annabel Karmel for each one.

Comprehensive and illustrated guide to feeding the very young inspiring confidence in all who care for children. Advice from weaning babies to devising tempting meals for fussy toddlers and dietary needs at key developmental stages is invaluable. Over 150 recipes.

Covering the entire period from weaning to nursery school age, this updated edition of the classic baby and toddler food planner features more easy shortcuts, up-to-date preparation techniques, new serving suggestions and foodstuffs. It also carries advice on nutrition and allergies.

Filled with fun, tasty recipes that will help parents inspire young children with a love of cooking, food and healthy eating.

And for those children with food intolerances, there is a whole chapter of recipes covering dairy-free sauces, gluten-free pizzas and a wheat-free birthday cake.

In this indispensable book Annabel tackles the daily task of packing your child's lunchbox. Day in, day out, the contents of the box have to be tailored to suit your child's taste, create a balanced diet and ensure the food can be eaten in the limited amount of time that is made available. Having catered for her three children over the past 10 years, Annabel has packed more than 5000 boxes and so is ideally placed for passing on recipes as well as valuable hints and tips for easing your morning routine. Within this book there Ideas for quick, nutritious and attractive packages; Sandwiches, savoury specialities (which includes soups and salads); sweet surprises (cakes and cookies); fruity delights; dairy diversions and drinks. Recipes that assume there is only a limited amount of time for preparation and, where possible, show how they can be made in advance and then kept in the fridge or freezer. With additional yummy extras such as break-time extras and bite-sized foods, how will any child be able to resist the contents of their lunchbox from now on?

For most kids, mums and dads, pasta is the best food in the world! With separate sections on pasta for babies (it's a good way of introducing texture), toddlers (pasta makes a fantastic standby supper) and families with older children, the book features fuss-free meal ideas to make your life easier.