Feeding Baby: Everyday Recipes for Healthy Infants and Toddlers. Joachim Splichal & Christine Splichal, $16.95

A wonderful collection of healthy, easy-to-prepare, tasty homemade recipes for babies from 6 months to three years. The recipes for toddlers will tempt older children and adults as well!

Feeding Baby Green: the Earth-Friendly Program for Healthy, Safe Nutrition During Pregnancy, Childhood and Beyond. George Bonanno, $19.95

Everything you need to know to raise a child who recognizes and enjoys good food.

Food Chaining: the Proven 6-Step Plan to Stop Picky Eating, Solve Feeding Problems and Expand Your Child’s Diet. Cheryl Fraker, Mark Fishbein, Sibyl Cox & Laura Walbert, $19.95

Initially developed by pediatric speech pathologist and oral feeding specialist Cheri Fraker in the course of treating a child who ate nothing but peanut butter, bread, and milk, Food Chaining is a breakthrough approach for dealing with picky eating and feeding problems at any age. Food Chaining emphasizes the relationship between foods in regard to taste, temperature, and texture. Now, the internationally known feeding team behind this unique method shows how to help your child enjoy new and nutritious foods, no matter what the nature of his picky eating. The guide also includes information on common food allergies, improving eating skills, advice specific to special needs kids.

The Food Cure for Kids: a Nutritional Approach to Your Child’s Wellness. Natalie Geary & Oz Garcia, $19.50

A must-have resource for any parent whose child has chronic ear infections, bronchitis, stomach aches, or skin rashes. Pediatrician Natalie Geary and nutritionist Oz Garcia have teamed up to show parents how many of their child's chronic conditions are directly linked to a nutritional imbalance. This eye-opening book will finally offer parents the results they've been searching for.

Food to Grow On: Give Your Kids a Healthy Lifestyle for Keeps. Susan Mendelson & Rena Mendelson, $19.95

For all those parents who find their plates overloaded with conflicting information on what constitutes a nutritionally sound, good-tasting diet for their children help has arrived. Food to Grow On, first published a decade ago, has now been completely updated, serving up a reassuring, practical nutrition strategy that parents and kids will love. Combining the latest guidelines and research on healthy eating for kids with over 150 recipes, Food to Grow On looks at the dietary needs of growing appetites from preconception to early adolescence. Friendly, creative and easy to follow, this is a book that belongs on every parent's kitchen counter.

Freedom from Allergy Cookbook. Ronald Greenburg & Angela Nori, $19.95

Over 400 recipes free of wheat, yeast, milk and sugar.

Fueling the Teen Machine: What It takes to Make Good Choices for Yourself Every Day. Ellen Shanley & Colleen Thompson, $18.95

Nutrients, exercise and eating healthy. Weight management, sports nutrition and eating disorders. Vegetarianism, fast foods and fads. Parents, friends, teachers, websites and doctors. How do you navigate the world of nutrition and keep your body healthy strong and happy without getting overwhelmed?

Fueling the Teen Machine will give you the information you need to make good personal choices about your nutrition and finding healthy — and tasty — foods. From the basics of nutritional information to recipes to enjoy and impress, this book is a great resource for teens, college students and families.

Full Mouse Empty Mouse: a Tale of Food and Feelings. Dina Zeckhausen, illustrated by Brian Boyd,  $9.95 (Grades 2-5)

What can two little mice do when they are chased by the cat, hounded by the dog, and threatened by the deadly mousetrap? Billy Blue tries eating more food to soothe his distress, and Sally Rose stops eating altogether. But when stuffing and starving themselves don't help, they learn to look for answers in their hearts, and with their family and friends.

Get a Healthy Weight for Your Child: a Parent's Guide to Better Eating and Exercise. Brian McCrindle & James Wengle, the Hospital for Sick Children. $24.95

The Healthy Weight Program helps parents to help their children make the necessary changes in nutrition and lifestyle so they can become physically healthy and fit. The program benefits children who are not at a healthy weight, who are at risk of becoming overweight, or who just eat poorly and are physically unfit, regardless of their age.

Getting Your Kid on a Gluten-Free, Casein-Free Diet.  Susan Lord, $24.95

Gluten-free casein-free diets are widely used to improve cognitive function, speech patterns, behavior, and general well-being in children on the autistic spectrum. Written by a registered dietitian and mother of a child who is thriving on a gluten-free casein-free diet, this practical guide covers everything from how to get your child on the diet, to daily meal plans, recipes and handy shopping lists. Susan Lord offers sound nutritional advice on how to implement the diet correctly, without harming your child by omitting major nutrient groups.

Whether you are a parent or care-giver, this book will make removing gluten and casein from an autistic child's diet simple and stress-free. The easy-to-follow meal plans, complete with delicious recipes and ingredient lists, will guide you with confidence in providing a nutritionally-balanced diet for your child, as well as healthy meals the whole family will enjoy.

Gimme Five! Kid-Friendly Recipes and Tips for Helping Your Child Enjoy Eating Fruits and Vegetables. Nicola Graimes, $20.95

Gimme Five provides an abundance of ingenious and practical suggestions for providing multiple daily servings of fruit and vegetables in your child’s diet. Includes nutrition information along with buying, preparing, cooking and serving tips and a pull-out calendar with stickers so kids can have fun keeping track of their fruit and vegetable intake.

The Good Food Book for Families. Brenda Bradshaw & Cheryl Mutch, $25.00

Every family’s essential cookbook and invaluable reference for eating tasty, healthy meals based on the new Canada’s Food Guide.

Good Food to Go. Brenda Bradshaw & Cheryl Mutch, $23.95

Over 120 recipes for healthy lunches your kids will love — and actually eat!

Good Kids, Bad Habits: the RealAge ® Guide to Raising Healthy Children. Jennifer Trachtenberg, $27.95

Regardless of the problem—from sleeplessness to video-game addiction—Dr. Jen has seen and solved it all, working with parents and kids together. Her insightful tips, preventive steps, and kid smarts, learned from working with thousands of children, make this book invaluable. It will help your kids grow into the healthiest adults they can be—while still allowing them to be kids.

Great Expectations: Best Food for Your Baby & Toddler. Jeanette Bessinger, $19.50

From first foods to meals your child will love, this extensive book helps parents lay the foundation for a lifetime of healthy eating.

Healthy Eating for Preteens and Teens: the Ultimate Guide to Diet, Nutrition and Food. Leslie Beck, $28.00

Healthy Eating for Preteens and Teens is a practical family guide that covers every aspect of essential nutrition to help raise healthy teens. In a super-size-me world, Leslie Beck provides strategies for making healthy food choices and establishing good eating habits for life.

Healthy Eating for Your Baby & Toddler: Delicious Recipes Right from the Start. Renée Elliott, $21.95

Discover the recipes your children will ask for again and again – and feel confident that you are giving them nutritious foods at every stage.

Healthy Mum, Happy Baby — How to Feed Yourself When You're Breastfeeding Your Baby. Annemarie Tempelman-Kluit, $25.00

Healthy Mum, Happy Baby is packed with creative, delicious recipes that don’t require exact measurements and won’t be ruined if they aren’t served immediately (while you deal with the cranky baby), as well as big-batch meals for the freezer, time-saving tips on how to stock your pantry before baby and useful ideas for healthy snacks you can eat one-handed while you nurse … The perfect shower or baby gift, Healthy Mum, Happy Baby is a practical, invaluable resource for every new mother.

How to Get Your Kid to Eat But Not Too Much: from Birth to Adolescence. Ellyn Satter, $18.95

Answering a multitude of questions — such as What should a parent do with a child who wants to snack continuously? How should parents deal with a young teen who has declared herself a vegetarian and refuses to eat any type of meat? Or What can parents do with a child who claims he doesn't like what's been prepared, only to turn around and eat it at his friend's house? — this guide explores the relationship between parents, children, and food in a warm, friendly, and supportive way.

Hungry Monkey: a Food-Loving Father’s Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater. Mathew Amster-Burton, $18.95

Matthew Amster-Burton was a restaurant critic and food writer long before he and his wife had Iris. Now he’s a full-time, stay-at-home Dad and his experience with food has changed …a little.

Hungry Monkey is the story of Amster-Burton’s life as a food-lover — with a child. It’s the story of how he came to realize that kids don’t need puree in a jar or special menus at restaurants and that raising an adventurous eater is about exposure, invention, and patience. Sharing in his culinary capers is little Iris, a budding gourmand and a zippy critic herself, who makes hug sandwiches, gobbles up hot chilies, and even helps around the kitchen sometimes. Hungry Monkey takes food enthusiasts on a new adventure in eating, with dozens of delicious recipes and notes on which can accommodate help from "little fingers."

I’d Really Like to Eat a Child. Sylvanie Donnio, illustrated by Dorothée de Monfreid, $19.95

Achilles is a finicky eater. And he is tired of eating bananas for breakfast! Today, he’d really like to eat a child. But is Achilles as big and fierce as he thinks he is?

The Kid-Friendly ADHD & Autism Cookbook: the Ultimate Guide to the Gluten-Free, Casein-Free Diet. Pamela Compart & Dana Laake, $27.95

The best “kid-friendly” recipes and guide to the gluten-free milk-free diet for ADHD and Autism. What it is. Why it works. How to do it.

Kids Cook! Fabulous Food for the Whole Family. Sarah Williamson & Zachary Williamson, $16.95

From snacks to Sunday brunch, these step-by-step recipes are sure to please and give kids eight and up a chance to start cooking.

Kids Cook 1-2-3: Recipes for Young Chefs Using Only 3 Ingredients. Rozanne Gold, $20.00

With more than 125 recipes for new chefs to discover, Kids Cook 1-2-3 is full of kitchen fun for the whole family. Illustrated just for kids, this cookbook includes how-to tips, kitchen safety information, fun “tricks of the trade” used by professional chefs and much more.

Kids Cooking: a Very Slightly Messy Manual. Klutz Press, $19.99

Frozen Banananoids! Not-so-Sloppy Joes! Buried Treasure Muffins! Tuna Wiggle! Non-Yukky Vegetables! Alphabetter Soup! Disgustingly Rich Brownies!

Walrus Salad??

This is the cookbook for kids and their grown-up assistants that launched a generation of chefs! Kids Cooking is a whole lot of fun in the kitchen for everyone.

Kids’ Kitchen: 40 Fun and Healthy Recipes to Make and Share. Fiona Bird, $22.99

Cook up tasty, healthy food that’s great for the whole family using these recipe cards. Includes information on how to stay safe and healthy in the kitchen.

Love in Spoonfuls: Fast and Easy Ways to Make Nutritious Food for Your Baby. Sarah Putman Clegg, $23.95

From babies to preschoolers, this collection of recipes will keep the hungry hordes satisfied.

Lunch Wars. Amy Kalafa, $21.00

How to start a school food revolution and win the battle for our children's health.

Meals Without Squeals is a great, basic feeing guide for parents and child care providers. Easy to use, with sound nutrition information and tasty recipes, Meals Without Squeals provides opportunities for positive food experiences, good eating habits and age-specific nutritional needs.

More Peas Please. Kate Di Prima & Julie Cichero, $21.99

Solutions for feeding fussy eaters — from first foods to lunchboxes.

My Kid’s Allergic to Everything Dessert Cookbook, 2nd Edition. Mary Harris & Wilma Selzer Nachsin, $18.95

More than 100 recipes for sweets and treats the whole family will enjoy.

My Two Year Old Eats Octopus: Raising Children Who Love to Eat Everything. Nancy Tringali Piho, $18.95

A clever and amusing, yet thoughtful approach to introducing children to delicious healthy foods they can eat and enjoy their whole lives.

The NDD Book. William Sears, $16.25

How Nutrition Deficit Disorder affects your child's learning, behavior and health and what you can do about it – without drugs.

The No-Cry Picky Eater Solution. Elizabeth Pantley, $18.95

Gentle ways to encourage your child to eat —– and eat healthy.

Drawing on scientific studies of children with problems ranging from short attention spans to aggressive behavior, nutrition authorities Patrick Holford and Deborah Colson explain the physiological ways certain nutrients affect the way kids think and act. Parents will learn how to prepare brain-boosting breakfasts, blood sugar-balanced snacks, amino acid-rich lunches, and smart-fat dinners that will help get their children off to the best start in life physically, mentally, and emotionally.

The Picture Cookbook: No-Cook Recipes for the Special Chef. Joyce Dassonville & Ehren McDow, $34.95

The Picture Cookbook offers 51 safe, delicious and easy recipes for individuals with special needs including autism, attention deficit disorder, Down’s syndrome, Alzheimer’s disease, illiteracy, brain trauma or aging.

Instructions for teachers and caregivers on teaching someone to use the cookbook are detailed, as well as discussions of issues that can arise. The picture index allows cooks to easily spot their favourite recipes without the need to read or understand names. The book has lay-flat binding, extensive colour-coding, and beautiful colour photography.

Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes: a Cookbook for Preschoolers & Up. Mollie Katzen, $22.00

From the author of the bestselling MOOSEWOOD COOKBOOK, this beautiful book illustrated with Mollie Katzen's own whimsical watercolours not only teaches young children how to cook, but inspires an early appreciation for creative, wholesome food. Perfect fun that can help encourage counting skills, reading and science knowledge as well as self-confidence, patience and food literacy.

Real Food for Healthy Kids: 200+ Easy, Wholesome Recipes. Tanya Wenman Steel & Tracey Seaman, $31.95

Real Food for Healthy Kids features more than 200 easy-to-make recipes for school days and weekends — including meals, snacks and even parties. Each recipe has been taste-tested by children and analyzed by a nutritionist. Parent-tested and kid-approved, this is a comprehensive, practical resource for wholesome, healthful meals children of all ages will eat — and love.

Real Food for Mother and Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, and Baby's First Foods. Nina Planck, $18.50

Food activist Nina Planck has never been one to blindly accept common wisdom, so when she became pregnant, she decided to look at the nutritional advice recommended for pregnancy. What she found was surprising: advice that is occasionally inaccurate and often impossible. In Real Food for Mother and Baby Nina explains why commonly held ideas about pregnancy and infant nutrition are misguided and how real food is good for growing minds and bodies. The general rules aren't surprising but some of the details might be.

Filled with reassuring advice for parents who want to grow their children on a diet of whole and natural foods, Real Food for Mother and Baby is a must-have.

Salad People and More Real Recipes: a New Cookbook for Preschoolers and Up. Mollie Katzen, $19.99

Mollie Katzen works her magic with 20 new, irresistible, child-approved recipes. Each illustrated recipe helps improve children's "food literacy" and reading readiness while offering the opportunity to count, measure, mix, assemble and most important — have fun!

Simple Foods for Busy Families: the Whole Life Nutrition Approach. Jeanette Bessinger & Tracee Yablon-Brenner, $26.95

This one-stop shopping resource and cookbook provides convenient cooking solutions based on fresh, healthful ingredients and sound nutritional science. Filled with quick tips for preparing wholesome meals on a workaday schedule, Simple Food for Busy Families helps parents nourish and teach their children balanced eating habits for life.

Smart Food for Smart Kids: Easy Recipes to Boost Your Child’s Health and IQ. Patrick Holford & Fiona McDonald Joyce, $24.99

Packed with nutritious recipes that don’t compromise on taste, this book makes it easy to get your kids to eat the healthy foods they need to thrive.

The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids’ Favorite Meals. Missy Chase Lapine, $19.50

Learn how to make the meals your children already love — but with secret sneaky ingredients that pack a healthy punch. Your kids will never suspect that’s there’s blueberries pureed into their brownies or cauliflower in their mac’n’cheese or sweet potatoes in their lasagna — but they’ll love every bite!

The Sneaky Chef to the Rescue: 101 all-new recipes and “sneaky” tricks for creating healthy meals kids will love. Missy Chase Lapine, $23.00

The New York Times bestselling author returns—this time responding directly to her readers’ most pressing concerns. Legions of fans have written to her, asking for more recipes that focus on their specific family challenges. She’s heard them loud and clear, and has crafted meals that are targeted to these special needs, including:

• Sneaky Chef Light: Delicious recipes for kids struggling with their weight: with lower calories, lower fat—and all the taste!
• Sneaky Chef for Food Allergies. For the millions of children who suffer from food allergies, here are recipes that are dairy-free, egg-free, and gluten-free.
• Sneaky Chef Celebrates! Even special days can be healthy, as the Sneaky Chef unveils recipes for birthdays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Chanukah, Valentine’s Day, Passover, Easter, and more!

Sneaky Chef to the Rescue shows that any family can “sneak” good food into their diets, making everybody (both kids and adults) both happier and healthier.

Special Diets for Special Kids. Lisa Lewis, $36.95

Over 200 gluten-free, casein-free recipes are included in this new edition of Special Diets for Special Kids. Combining volumes 1 and 2 into a new and updated edition, this jam-packed resource includes information on the latest research into the effects of diet for children with autism, ADHD, allergies, celiac disease and more. The recipes are easy to make and delicious. Best of all — this new edition comes with a CD-ROM of printable recipes.

Sugar Would Not Eat It. Emily Jenkins & Giselle Potter, $18.99

No matter how much Leo begged or pleased, Sugar would not her chocolate cake!

SuperFoods for Babies and Children. Annabel Karmel, $21.00

SuperFoods is both a cookbook and a reference manual that helps parents recognize the nutritional value in even the simplest foods.

Teens Cook: How to Cook What You Want to Eat. Megan & Jill Carle, with Judi Carle. $26.95

Megan and Jill Carle are teenaged sisters who have been "messing around in the kitchen forever". With the help of their mother, chef and cooking author Judi Carle, they have created a delightful cookbook sure to please the young cooks in your home.

The Toddler Bistro: Child-Approved Recipes and Expert Nutrition Advice for the Toddler Years. Christina Schmidt, $18.95

The Toddler Bistro addresses the challenges of introducing new foods and greater variety to your child. Chef Christina Schmidt gives you all the tools you need to create kid-friendly nutritious meals. The color-coded sections make the book easy to use and a handy kitchen reference.

The Toddler Café: Fast Healthy and Fun Ways to Feed Even the Pickiest Eater. Jennifer Carden, $16.95

Unique, colourful and tasty recipes that will delight and amuse kids and parents alike.

Toddler Menus: a Mix-and-Match Guide to Healthy Eating. Penny Preston, $18.50

With its unique mix-and-match format with split pages, Toddler Menus ensures parents are never at a loss for a healthy, easy-to-prepare meal that even the pickiest eater will enjoy!

Too Pickley! Jean Reidy, $15.00

You’re hungry, hungry, hungry — but what food will satisfy a picky eater?

Top 100 Baby Food Recipes. Christine Bailey, $10.95

Written by a nutritionist, each recipe in this book is quick and easy to make — perfect for busy parents!

Vegan Lunch Box: 130 Amazing, Animal-Free Lunches Kids and Grown-Ups Will Love! Jennifer McCann, $21.00

Vegan Lunch Box Around the World: 125 Easy, International Lunches Kids and Grown-Ups Will Love! Jennifer McCann, $24.00

If you think vegan lunchtime means peanut butter and jelly day after day, think again! Vegan Lunch Box and Vegan Lunch Box around the World offer an amazing array of meat-free, egg-free, and dairy-free meals and snacks. All the recipes are organized into menus to help parents pack quick, nutritious, and irresistible vegan lunches. Ideal for everyday and special occasions, the books feature recipes the entire family will enjoy.

We Like to Help Cook. Marcus Allsop, $13.95

Young children learn by watching and doing. Even toddlers can help out in the kitchen with simple tasks, like the young children in this picture book.

What Should I Feed My Kids? How to Keep Your Children Healthy by Teaching Them to Eat Right. Ronnie Litz Julien, $19.50

Convincing your child to eat healthy isn’t easy, but it can be done, one habit at a time. What Should I Feed My Kids is the first comprehensive “how-to” manual to help your children develop healthier habits, from their first bite of food through the teenage years and beyond.

Whining & Dining: Mealtime Survival for Picky Eaters and the Families Who Love Them. Emma Waverman & Eshun Mott, $29.95

Packed with anecdotes and helpful advice, Whining and Dining offers a creative and practical approach for teaching your children the pleasures of eating.

Wonderfoods for Kids: Keep Your Child Fit, Well and Happy. Natalie Savona, $18.95

The quality and range of foods that children eat is one of the most important contributing factors to their growth, mental development, energy and ability to fight off illness, yet few children today have a really healthy, varied diet. In this inspiring book, nutritionist Natalie Savona presents 70 key ingredients chosen for their exceptional values and their appeal to children. These wonderfoods are grouped into chapters relevant to specific body systems: Energy, Tummy, Allergy, Calm, Skin, Defense and Growth. A concise introduction to each wonderfood gives its health benefits and vital nutrients, and this is followed by at least two delicious, child-friendly recipes.

This groundbreaking book gives clear evidence that children gain too much weight because of how, not what they are fed. Satter's calming, practical and carefully documented voice empowers readers to feed well, parent well, and let children grow up to get bodies that are right for them. Packed with Satter's ever-popular feeding stories, Your Child's Weight offers clear guidance for professionals as well as parents.

YUM: Your Ultimate Manual for Good Nutrition. Daina Kalinas, $16.95

Listen to your body, eat well and feel great! YUM explains how you can get what your body needs from the food you eat. It also shows you how to read labels, cook from recipes and gives you the tools you need to make good eating fun.

Yummy in My Tummy: Baby’s First Foods. Liandrea Productions, $19.95. DVD, 45 minutes

Yummy in My Tummy is 45 minutes of expert advice on building a lifetime of healthy eating habits. Designed for babies 6 months to one year — or older — this lively DVD includes information on introducing solid food; making nutritious choices and menu-planning; allergies; obesity and raising a healthy, happy eater.

Also available in French: C'est bon dans mon bedon: bien nourrir son bébé - La recette de l'introduction des solides.