Adventures in Veggieland: Help Your Kids Learn to Love Vegetables with 100 Easy Activities and Recipes. Melanie Potock, $29.95

A new, foolproof method developed by feeding therapist Melanie Potock teaches kids ages 3–8 to love vegetables — for a lifetime of good eating. Her program is a simple and fun three-step process: the “Three E’s”!

• Expose your child to new vegetables with sensory, hands-on, and educational activities (Make Beet Tattoos)
• Explore the characteristics of each veggie (texture, taste, temperature, and more) with delectable but oh-so-easy recipes (Crispy Asparagus Bundles)
• Expand your family’s repertoire with more inventive vegetable dishes—including a “sweet treat” with every chapter (Give Peas a Chance Cake)

The book features 20 vegetables divided into four seasons. In addition to the easy-to-follow activities and recipes, Potock offers bite-size advice on kitchen science and parenting in the kitchen.

The Allergen-Free Baker’s Handbook: How to Bake Without Gluten, Wheat, Dairy, Eggs, Soy, Peanuts, Tree Nuts and Sesame. Cybele Pascal, $29.95

100 vegan recipes for a delightfully familiar array of treats.

An Appetite for Life: How to Feed Your Child from the Start. Clare Llewellyn & Hayley Syrad, $21.95

One of the greatest challenges a parent faces is navigating their child’s appetite. From picky eaters to overeaters, babies and toddlers can be difficult to feed. Yet a parent’s job is to ensure that their child is receiving the nutrition they need. New research suggests that a child’s eating habits are shaped as early as pregnancy. In An Appetite for Life, researchers Clare Llewellyn and Hayley Syrad separate fact from fad and share the latest reliable science to help you decide what’s best for you and your child. This is an invaluable, evidence-based guide to your child’s unique appetite and what they need in order to eat well—for life.

The Baby Bistro: Child-Approved Recipes and Expert Nutrition Advice for the First Year. Christina Schmidt, $18.95

Handy, playful and smart advice for your baby’s first year — from breastfeeding to mealtime, including information for vegetarian and vegan families.

Baby Greens: a Live-Food Approach for Children of All Ages. Michaela Lynn & Michael Chrisemer, $19.95

Baby Greens is a lively mix of nutrition education, philosophy, recipes and activities for enhancing the relationship between parents, children and their food. Authors Chrisemer and Lynn take a living foods approach and adapt it for all ages and stages to help establish healthy eating patterns early in life.

Baby Self-Feeding: Solid Food Solutions to Create Lifelong, Healthy Eating Habits. Nancy Ripton & Melanie Potock, $32.99

Picky eating is a huge stress to parents. What if you could help negate overly choosey eaters from the day you introduce food? Baby self-feeding puts your child in the driver's seat from the moment food is introduced, helping to establish a positive relationship from day one and creating a willingness to try new things!

Complete Guide to Baby-Self Feeding offers practical solutions, step-by-step ways to implement self-feeding and 25 simple recipes your baby will love! These homemade solutions and recipes avoid the excess sugar, sodium, dyes, and fillers found in commercial products while introducing babies to real food. Tips on how to transition your baby to solid food are provided, as well as information on common concerns about gagging and choking. And don't worry about dining out! Easy solutions are offered for keeping babies clean while out to eat.

Baby-Led Feeding. Jenna Helwig, $24.99

What if you could skip the tiny jars and pouches of bland baby food in favor of a more natural, flavor-filled, and family-friendly transition to solid foods? Baby-led feeding (also known as baby-led weaning) is just that. Feeding your baby a variety of healthy, wholesome solid foods, rather than relying solely on purees, is thought to promote motor skills and establish lifelong healthy eating habits. Here, author and food editor at Parents magazine Jenna Helwig gives an easy-to-follow introduction to this popular new method.

With more than 100 ideas and recipes, this bright, photo-driven book includes chapters on the benefits of this approach, when and how to get started, essential safety and nutrition guidelines, frequently asked questions, basic fruit and vegetable prep, more complex finger foods, and family meals. All recipes have been reviewed by a registered dietitian and include nutrition information to ensure a healthy mealtime.

The Baby-Led Weaning Cookbook. Gill Rapley & Tracey Murkett, $25.95

130 easy, nutritious recipes that will help your baby learn to eat (and love!) a variety of solid foods that the whole family will enjoy.

Baby-Led Weaning, Revised 10th Anniversary Edition: the Essential Guide to Introducing Solid Foods and Helping Your Baby Grow Up a Happy and Confident Eater. Gill Rapley & Tracey Murkett, $21.00

Forget baby purées and spoon-feeding — there’s an easier, more natural way for parents to introduce their baby to solid foods. By about six months — when babies can sit up unassisted, grab things, and “munch” on them — they are ready to join the family at the kitchen table and discover food for themselves.

Now, ten years after the first publication of this guide, baby-led weaning is a global movement. Here originators of the concept Gill Rapley and Tracey Murkett update their guidelines on baby-led weaning, recap its many benefits, and offer parents all-new research on how to feed their little one. Baby-led weaning is:

• Good for baby’s development and lifelong health
• More convenient for parents than purées
• Just as safe as spoon-feeding

The Baby-Led Weaning Family Cookbook: Your Baby Learns to Eat Solid Foods — You Enjoy the Convenience of One Meal for Everyone. Gill Rapley & Tracey Murket, $29.95

Gill Rapley and Tracey Murkett are the creators of baby-led weaning (BLW), a commonsense way to introduce your baby to solid foods. There’s no need to struggle with purées and spoon-feeding! Instead, Baby can explore the same foods you enjoy — how they feel, smell, and taste; how to grasp them and chew them — all at his or her own pace. The Baby-Led Weaning Family Cookbook includes 99 all-new recipes, many suited for families of 4 or more. Plus, Rapley and Murkett review all the benefits of BLW:

• It’s convenient: The whole family eats the same meal — together
• It helps Baby learn: BLW builds motor skills, coordination, and confidence
• It promotes lifelong health: By teaching Baby to love a variety of foods and to gauge fullness, BLW helps prevent picky eating, and overeating, later on!

Baby-Led Weaning: the (Not-So) Revolutionary Way to Start Solids and Make a Happy Eater. Teresa Pitman, $19.95

Put down the spoon and forget the purées — baby-led weaning is the easy, natural way for your baby to start solid foods. Around 6 months, most babies are developmentally ready to self-feed. The philosophy behind baby-led weaning is to offer your baby healthy finger foods and let her determine how much or how little she wants to eat. The baby-led method has been proven to:

• Encourage healthy eating habits
• Discourage pickiness
• Help children learn to listen to their bodies
• Build confident eaters

Author Teresa Pitman, a leading parenting authority and mother of four, has put together all you need to know about the baby-led method in an informative, visually appealing package. Baby-Led Weaning features at-a-glance nutrition and food tips as well as specific chapters on special diets and allergies. Parents around the world are turning to the baby-led method, and Baby-Led Weaning is a uniquely authoritative and lively volume on this growing phenomenon.

The Best Homemade Baby Food on the Planet. Karin Knight & Tina Ruggiero, $28.99

Know what goes into every bite with more than 200 of the most deliciously nutritious homemade baby food recipes.

Better Baby Food: Your Essential Guide to Nutrition, Feeding & Cooking for All Babies & Toddlers, 2nd Edition. Daina Kalnins & Joanne Saab, The Hospital for Sick Children, $27.95

The complete, authoritative guide that takes the guesswork out of feeding babies — from birth to 24 months and beyond.

Better Food for Kids: Your Essential Guide to Nutrition for All Children from Age 2 to 6, 2nd Edition. Joanne Saab & Daina Kalnins, The Hospital for Sick Children, $27.95

Featuring 200 delicious recipes, including updated and modified favorites that reflect today’s guidelines for sugar and salt intake.

Better Food for Pregnancy: Nutrition Guide Plus Over 125 Recipes for Healthy Pregnancy and Breastfeeding. Daina Kalnins & Joanne Saab, $27.95

Pregnancy is not a time for guesswork about nutrition. Expecting women have specific nutritional needs and will find it useful to have a sensible guide to this vital information. Better Food for Pregnancy is that guide. Written by experts on staff at the renowned Hospital for Sick Children, this book is comprehensive and authoritative.

Blender Baby Food, 2nd Edition. Nicole Young, $19.95

Over 175 recipes for healthy homemade meals, with menu plans, nutritional info and guidelines on introducing new foods from six months and onward.

Broccoli Boot Camp: Basic Training for Parents of Selective Eaters. Keith Williams & Laura Seiverling, $29.95

Broccoli Boot Camp is a comprehensive guide for parents of children who are selective or "picky" eaters, and children with — or without — special needs (e.g, autism or Down syndrome). It presents commonsense behavioural interventions to successfully expand children's diet variety, and preferences for healthy foods. The book starts with the simple premise that when children are encouraged to taste and consume tiny portions of new foods, repeatedly and with lessening resistance, they learn to accept and enjoy the foods as part of their regular diets.

The book describes ways to increase compliance, factors to consider when choosing an intervention, and strategies to shape behaviour. Finally, five intervention plans are presented with step-by-step procedures, modifications, and tips on maximizing success. Parents can choose the intervention which works best for their family's circumstances. The book also contains forms to track data, incentives, and meals, and a behaviour contract to use with older children. Broccoli Boot Camp gives parents the tools they need to promote healthy eating for their child as well as improve the family mealtime experience!

Bunny Eats Lunch. Michael Dahl, $9.99

College Cooking: Feed Yourself and Your Friends. Megan & Jill Carle, $24.95

Sisters and college students, Megan and Jill Carle share the tips and tricks they’ve learned while feeding themselves between late-night studying, papers, parties, and other distractions.

Starting with kitchen basics, Megan and Jill first cover ingredients, equipment, and other prereqs for cooking a decent meal. They then provide more than ninety simple yet taste-worthy recipes. College Cooking includes hearty home-style dishes, study-break snacks, healthy salads, sweet treats, and more (along with low-cal and veggie options). You’ll also find recipes for feeding a household of roommates, maximizing leftovers, cooking for a dinner date, and hosting parties with minimal prep and cost. Just consider College Cooking your crash course in kitchen survival — and required reading for off-campus living.

Come and Eat! George Ancona, $7.95

Take a tour around the world, and see all the wonderful foods and different ways that people eat. Illustrated with beautiful photographs of children and their families, this engaging book feasts on the joys of eating!

Complementary Feeding: Nutrition, Culture and Politics. Gabrielle Palmer, $18.95

Gabrielle Palmer's groundbreaking book THE POLITICS OF BREASTFEEDING highlighted the controversies surrounding the aggressive promotion of breastmilk substitutes. She now turns her attention to complementary feeding — the first foods that a child eats besides milk.

For most of human existence, children went without industrially processed foods and branded food products. The power and influence of the food industry has increased dramatically in recent decades. Seductive and often unethical modern marketing methods have led to the promotion of unsuitable, unnecessary and sometimes harmful baby foods. Yet not all industrially processed foods are bad and not all 'natural' foods are good. Both poor and rich children may be inappropriately fed.

What lessons can we learn from history? How do cultural and religious beliefs influence the choice of food? Can government initiatives have any effect? How can we provide good nutrition for all infants? This brief, compassionate and thought-provoking new book will be of interest to anyone who is curious about the world, its children and their nutrition, and will stimulate discussion and debate as part of the campaign to create a world where health for all is a true goal.

The Cookbook for Children with Special Needs: Learning a Life Skill with Fun, Tasty, Healthy Recipes. Deborah French, $29.95

This fully-illustrated book introduces children with special needs to the fundamentals of food preparation, healthy eating and cookery skills. Recipes pitched at three increasing levels of difficulty cover a wide range of skills making the book suitable for all abilities. The importance of health and safety is emphasised throughout.

The Cookbook for Kids (Williams-Sonoma): Great Recipes for Kids Who Love to Cook. Lisa Atwood, $23.95

Packed with more than 60 yummy recipes for easy-to-make treats, from crepes and cookies to fish tacos and nachos, Williams-Sonoma Cookbook for Kids makes cooking loads of fun! This book features gorgeous photography and colorful illustrations in a fun, uncomplicated book that kids and parents are sure to love. Kids will love dishes like cinnamon-swirl French toast for breakfast, or granola bars for after-school snacks. Lots of colorful illustrations and fun facts ensure they will have a blast whipping up their own creations in the kitchen. Delicious and simple, the recipes inspire creativity while teaching the basics of healthy eating and giving kids skills they can use throughout their lives.

Cooking Class: 57 Fun Recipes Kids Will Love to Make (and Eat!) Deanna Cook, $28.95

Start the day with French Toast on a Stick, make Quiche Cupcakes for lunch, and cook Fantastic Fish Tacos for a family dinner! Recipes, recipe cards, labels and stickers, mealtime game cards — this bright and cheerfully illustrated book will teach kids how to cook and have fun in the kitchen!

Cooking for Your Gluten-Free Teen: Everyday Foods the Whole Family Will Love. Carlyn Berghoff, Sarah Berghoff McClure, Suzanne Nelson & Nancy Ross Ryan, $22.99

COOKING FOR YOUR GLUTEN-FREE TEEN offers a unique perspective on living gluten-free from not only someone living with gluten-intolerance, but also from a parent who is also a chef, and a doctor who specializes in treating teens and others with Celiac disease.  

This creative book is filled with more than 100 recipes and helpful tips on everything from the top foods that gluten-intolerant teens crave, to converting family favorite recipes to make them gluten-free, as well as strategies for packing healthy and delicious lunches and snacks.  Straightforward tables and lists of naturally gluten-free foods, gluten-laden foods to avoid, and secret sources of gluten are also included, as is a take-along game plan for kids and adults when they are out and about.

Cooking Is Cool: Heat-Free Recipes for Kids to Cook. Marianne Dambra, $26.95

Cooking can be a delicious learning experience for children. As children read recipes, measure ingredients, and taste each dish, they build math and literacy skills, practice science process skills, and explore different food groups. COOKING IS COOL makes all of this hands-on learning possible without stepping foot in the kitchen. These classroom-friendly recipes are all heat-free, meaning they can be made without an oven, stove, microwave, or hot plate. With your guidance, budding chefs can follow the easy instructions to transform fresh, simple ingredients into tasty snacks, beverages, entrees, and treats.

Cure Your Child with Food: the Hidden Connection Between Nutrition and Childhood Ailments. Kelly Dorfman, $20.95

Grounded in cutting-edge science and filled with case studies that read like medical thrillers, this is a book for every parent whose child suffers from mood swings, stomachaches, ear infections, eczema, anxiety, tantrums, ADD/ADHD, picky eating, asthma, lack of growth, and a host of other physical, behavioral, and developmental problems. CURE YOUR CHILD WITH FOOD shows parents how to uncover the clues behind their children’s surprisingly nutrition-based health issues and implement simple treatments — immediately.

Eat Fresh Food: Awesome Recipes for Teen Chefs. Rozanne Gold, $22.50

Here is a just-for-teens guide (that everyone will love) to experiencing the joys of cooking and eating fresh food. Chef Rozanne Gold and her team of sous-chefs (aged 9 to 19) create over 80 of the most delicious, healthful, fresh recipes you could ever want to make.

Everyday Kitchen for Kids: 100 Amazing Savory and Sweet Recipes Children Can Really Make. Jennifer Low, $29.95

What's the best way to get kids excited about trying new foods? By getting them into the kitchen to make new dishes all by themselves! No sharp knives. No stove-top cooking. No motorized appliances. All good tasting, and all fun.

The Everything Organic Baby Meals Cookbook. $19.99

Give your child a healthy start, with naturally delicious baby food. This cookbook is packed with hundreds of ideas. From six months to two years, these recipes will start your little one on the path to healthy eating.

The Family Dinner: Great Ways to Connect with Your Kids One Meal at a Time. Laurie David & Kirstin Uhrenholdt, $38.99

Laurie David wants to help overwhelmed families sit down to dinner, and provides all the reasons, recipes, and fun ways to do so.

Research has proven that everything we worry about as parents — from drugs to alcohol, to obesity, and academic achievement — can all be improved by the simple act of eating and talking together around the table. Laurie has written a practical, inspirational, fun (and, of course, green) guide to the most important hour in any parent’s day. Chock-full chapters include over 75 kid-approved recipes; tips on teaching green values; conversation starters; games to play to help even the shyest family member become engaged; ways to express gratitude; the family dinner after divorce (hint: keep eating together) and much more.

Filled with moving memories and advice this book will get everyone away from electronic screens and make a lasting impact on family life.

Family Table: Recipes and Strategies. Marie Breton & Isabelle Emond, $19.95

Marvelously illustrated with full-colour photographs and illustrations throughout, the more than 70 delicious recipes in this delightful book reflect the award-winning authors’ belief in the fun and value of family time around the table at the end of the day.

Feed Your Baby & Toddler Right: Early Eating and Drinking Skills to Encourage the Best Development. Diane Bahr, $20.95

The majority of our eating and drinking skills are developed in the first two years of life. Parents can help with this process by using appropriate feeding techniques from birth. Every three months from birth, your baby will have a growth spurt in the area of feeding. Parents often receive very little instruction on ways to feed their children, yet good eating and drinking skills encourage the best mouth development and set up patterns for life. This book reveals secrets for better breast and bottle feeding, and feeding development for babies from birth to the toddler years.

Feed Yourself, Feed Your Family: a Blueprint for a Lifetime of Healthy Meals. La Leche League International, $24.00

From pregnancy to breastfeeding through weaning and beyond, this comprehensive nutrition and recipe guide will help nourish the entire family.

Feeding Your Baby Day by Day: From First Tastes to Family Meals. Fiona Wilcock, $29.00

Packed with more than 200 recipes, plus finger food ideas and baby-led weaning tips, weekly meal plans, nutritional information, and kitchen know-how, this book guides you step by step all the way from first tastes through to feeding a hungry toddler or preschooler.

The 52 New Foods Challenge: a Family Cooking Adventure for Each Week of the Year, with 150 Recipes. Jennifer Tyler Lee, $23.00

Like many parents, Jennifer Tyler Lee struggled to get her kids to eat healthy, balanced meals. The answer, she discovered, was making it a game. “We’ll try one new food each week,” she told her kids. “You pick!” She called it the 52 New Foods Challenge. In this week-by-week guide, Lee gives parents practical tips to dramatically change the way their families eat. Her helpful advice and the simple rules that her family followed will show parents how to start eating healthy every week of the year. Each week offers a healthy new food to try, from artichokes to zucchini, and includes easy recipes and fun activities to work on as a family — from learning to cook together to enjoying the farmers’ market to even experimenting with growing your own food.

With more than 150 simple, healthy recipes and advice from nationally acclaimed nutrition experts, The 52 New Foods Challenge shows parents how to enjoy mealtimes, plant the seeds of change at their family table, and easily incorporate healthy habits every day of the year. Guaranteed to inspire a child’s creativity and confidence in the kitchen and beyond, The 52 New Foods Challenge is the perfect companion for any busy parent who wants to stop stressing over mealtime and find a creative, playful solution to make this family ritual relaxing and fun. 

First Bites: Superfoods for Babies and Toddlers. Dana Angelo White, $16.95

First Bites is a quick and easy reference guide to making tasty and nutritious meals for your baby or toddler. Featuring fresh, minimally processed foods that are delicious and healthy, First Bites is designed to encourage youngsters to become strong and healthy eaters for a lifetime.

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, $23.49

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.

Food Fights, 2nd Edition. Laura Jana & Jennifer Shu, $22.99

Winning the nutritional challenges of parenthood armed with insight, humor and a bottle of ketchup!  Whether you've got an infant, toddler or young child to feed, FOOD FIGHTS promises real, practical advice on:

• How to pick your food battles
• Whining, dining and throwing food
• Heaping helpings, TV dining, fast food and other nutritional minefields
• Eating out, grocery shopping and travel
• The 5-second rule
• Drinking and dozing, juice, soda pop and other drinking problems
• Sick kids, vitamins, weight, allergies, constipation … and so much more!

French Kids Eat Everything (and Yours Can Too). Karen Le Billon, $22.99

How one family moved to France, cured picky eating, barred snacking, and discovered 10 simple rules for raising happy, healthy eaters.

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,  $14.50 (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, $28.95

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.

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, $27.99

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 for Life: Food and Eating. Anna Claybourne, $17.99 (ages 10-14)

Food can be confusing! There's a lot of information out there about which foods are 'good' or 'bad' for you — and it seems to change every week! And people can sometimes get very stressed about food and eating, and how it affects their bodies. This book for young teens explains how food works, so they can make their own decisions armed with all the facts.

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.

Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating: a Step-by-Step Guide for Overcoming Selective Eating, Food Aversion, and Feeding Disorders. Katja Rowell & Jenny McGlothlin, $25.95

In Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating, a family doctor specializing in childhood feeding joins forces with a speech pathologist to help you support your child's nutrition, healthy growth, and end meal-time anxiety (for your child and you) once and for all.

Are you parenting a child with 'extreme' picky eating? Do you worry your child isn't getting the nutrition he or she needs? Are you tired of fighting over food, suspect that what you've tried may be making things worse, but don't know how to help? Having a child with 'extreme' picky eating is frustrating and sometimes scary. Children with feeding disorders, food aversions, or selective eating often experience anxiety around food, and the power struggles can negatively impact your relationship with your child. Children with extreme picky eating can also miss out on parties or camp because they can't find “safe” foods. But you don't have to choose between fighting over every bite and only serving a handful of safe foods for years on end.

Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating offers hope, even if your child has “failed” feeding therapies before. After gaining a foundation of understanding of your child's challenges and the dynamics at play, you'll be ready for the five steps (built around the clinically proven STEPS+ approach-Supportive Treatment of Eating in PartnershipS) that transform feeding and meals so your child can learn to enjoy a variety of foods in the right amounts for healthy growth. You'll discover specific strategies for dealing with anxiety, low appetite, sensory challenges, autism spectrum-related feeding issues, oral motor delay, and medically-based feeding problems. Tips and exercises reinforce what you've learned, and dozens of “scripts” help you respond to your child in the heat of the moment, as well as to others in your child's life (grandparents or your child's teacher) as you help them support your family on this journey. This book will prove an invaluable guide to restore peace to your dinner table and help you raise a healthy eater.

How to Get Your Kid to Eat But Not Too Much: from Birth to Adolescence. Ellyn Satter, $21.95

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, $21.95

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, $8.99

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?

It’s Not about the Broccoli: Three Habits to Teach Your Kids for a Lifetime of Healthy Eating. Dina Rose, $23.00

You already know how to give your kids healthy food — the hard part is getting them to eat it. When parents focus solely on nutrition, their kids — surprisingly — eat poorly. But when families shift their emphasis to behaviors – the skills and habits kids are taught — they learn to eat right. Every child can learn to eat well — but only if you show them how to do it. Dr. Rose describes the three habits — proportion, variety, and moderation — all kids need to learn, and gives you clever, practical ways to teach these food skills, including:

• How to confidently explore strange, new foods
• How to know when they’re hungry and when they’re full
• How to branch out from easy-to-like prepackaged kid fare to more mature tastes and textures
• How to engage in open and honest talk about food

Just Take a Bite: Easy, Answers to Food Aversions and Eating Challenges! Lori Ernsperger & Tania Stegen-Hanson, $34.95

Is your child a “picky” eater or a full-fledged resistant eater? Does he or she eat only a few foods, refusing all others? Eat from only one food group? Gag, tantrum, or become anxious if you introduce new foods? If so, you have a resistant eater. Learn the possible causes, when you need professional help, and how to deal with the behavior at home. Learn about:

• Gastrointestinal, Physical, and Oral-Motor Development
• Environmental and Behavioral Factors in Problem Eating
• Sensory and Motor Based Problems Affecting the Resistant Eater
• Designing and Implementing a Treatment Plan

Kid Food: the Challenges of Feeding Children In a Highly Processed World. Bettina Elias Siegel, $27.50

In Kid Food, nationally recognized food writer Bettina Elias Siegel (New York Times, The Lunch Tray) explores the cultural delusions and industry deceptions that have made it all but impossible to raise a healthy eater in America. Combining first-person reporting with the hard-won understanding of a food advocate and parent, it presents a startling portrayal of the current food landscape for children — and the role of parents in navigating it. Siegel also lifts the curtain on shadowy food industry front-groups, including clever marketing techniques that intentionally confuse parents about a product's nutritional value. (Did you know that "made with real fruit" may mean a product is less healthy?) What emerges is the industry's divide-and-conquer strategy, one that stokes kids' desire for junk food while breaking down parents' ability to act as responsible gatekeepers.

For anyone who frets over what their child is eating, Kid Food offers both essential reading and a deeper understanding of the factors at play in their child's food environment. Written in the same engaging and relatable voice that has made The Lunch Tray a trusted resource for parents for almost a decade, Kid Food offers a well of compassion — and expertise — for those fighting the good fight at home.

The Kid-Friendly ADHD & Autism Cookbook, 3rd Edition: the Ultimate Guide to the Gluten-Free, Casein-Free Diet. Pamela Compart & Dana Laake, $20.99

The 3rd edition of The Kid-Friendly ADHD & Autism Cookbook provides a current and greatly expanded review of the most commonly used diets that are important in the treatment of ADHD and autism. There are recipes appropriate to specific diets as indicated by icons and descriptors with each recipe. The authors share details about just how and why each diet works, examine specialty ingredients in-depth, and provide extensive resources and references. The specialty diets covered include:

• Gluten-free, casein-free, soy-free
• Feingold diet: low phenol, low salicylate diet
• Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) and Gut and Psychology Syndrome Diet (GAPS)
• Anti-yeast/candida diets, or Body Ecology Diet
• Low Oxalate Diet (LOD)
• FODMAP (Fermentable Oligo-, Di- and Mono-saccharides, And Polyols)
• Anti-inflammatory diet
• Rotation diet

Despite the restrictions of these diets, this cookbook offers an array of tasty choices that kids and the whole family will love, including shakes, muffins, breads, rice and beans, vegetables, salads, main dishes, stews, and even sweets and treats. You’ll also find recommendations for school lunches and snacks. This comprehensive guide and cookbook is chock-full of helpful info and research, and includes more than 150 kid-friendly recipes, suitable to the variety of specialty diets.

Little Belly Monster Makes French Toast. Margaret John, illustrated by Sarah Kim, $17.95

Little Belly Monster Makes Pizza. Margaret John, illustrated by Sarah Kim, $17.95

These charming story books each include a simple, healthful recipe that kids and parents can make together.

Little Helpers Toddler Cookbook: Healthy Kid-Friendly Recipes to Cook Together. Heather Wish Staller, $20.95

When your toddler’s curiosity for the kitchen is bigger than their little hands can handle — it’s time to put on an apron and open this book! Never cooked with your little one before? Little Helpers Toddler Cookbook makes choosing what you’ll fix as easy as 1, 2, 3 with recipes that are labeled by difficulty. Plus, you’ll also find tons of tips and guidance on how to keep the kitchen a safe space where lots of fun takes place. Little Helpers Toddler Cookbook includes:

• Meals you make (and eat!) together — Help your toddler discover tasty new foods — like Pumpkin French Toast Sticks and Chicken BLT Kebabs — with 40 healthy mealtime, snack, and dessert recipes
• Easy-peasy instructions — This toddler cookbook highlights child-friendly steps, making it easy for you to know exactly how your toddler can help with every dish
• Savory foods, sweet memories — Each recipe includes space for you and your budding chef to record your experiences, making this toddler cookbook a wonderful keepsake of first cooking memories

Inspire a lifetime of loving food and cooking (and make some lifelong memories, too) with Little Helpers Toddler Cookbook.

Love in Spoonfuls: Fast and Easy Ways to Make Nutritious Food for Your Baby. Sarah Putman Clegg, $28.95

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

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.

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, $20.99

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

The New Vegetarian Baby: a Sensible Guide for Parents. Sharon Yntema & Christine Beard, $21.95

In an all-new edition of this favorite guide to bringing up baby as a vegetarian, authors Sharon Yntema and Christine Beard explain in clear, down-to-earth terms the way to start your youngster on a lifetime of healthy, happy eating. Incorporating all the latest information, this book will bolster your own instincts, answer your questions, and lay any lingering doubts about a vegetarian regimen for infants safely to rest.

No Ordinary Apple: a Story about Eating Mindfully. Sara Marlowe, illustrated by Philip Pascuzzo, $16.95

On an otherwise ordinary day, Elliot discovers something extraordinary: the power of mindfulness. When he asks his neighbor Carmen for a snack, he’s at first disappointed when she hands him an apple — he wanted candy! But when encouraged to carefully and attentively look, feel, smell, taste, and even listen to the apple, Elliot discovers that this apple is not ordinary at all. Lushly and humorously illustrated, NO ORDINARY APPLE makes a traditional technique for training mindfulness a fun and enjoyable way for children to learn to slow down and appreciate even the simplest things.

The No-Cry Picky Eater Solution. Elizabeth Pantley, $22.95

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

Nope. Never. Not for Me! A Little Senses Book. Samantha Cotterill, $22.99

This deceptively simple story guides sensitive kids through trying a new food, with support and encouragement aplenty.

Children are often picky eaters, but for kids on the autism spectrum or with sensory issues, trying new foods can be especially challenging. In Nope! Never! Not for Me! a young child refuses to try a bite of broccoli — that is, until her mom guides her through a careful exploration of the new food. First she looks, then she sniffs, then touches, and finally takes one tiny bite. What do you know? Broccoli isn't so overwhelming after all!

With simple, reassuring text and bold illustrations in a limited palette, Nope! Never! Not For Me! espouses a patient approach to picky eating and gently offers practical advice for coping with new experiences to sensitive children on and off the autism spectrum.

Nutrition: What Every Parent Needs to Know, 2nd Edition. William Dietz & Loraine Stern, $19.99

This comprehensive book gives parents all the information and strategies they need to meet the dietary needs of children from birth through adolescence, as well as facts about standards of weight and height; eating disorders and special dietary needs; alternative diets, and supplements; allergies; dealing with outside influences; and concerns about food safety.

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.

Outside the Box: Why Our Children Need Real Food, Not Food Products. Jeannie Marshall, $21.00

When Canadian journalist Jeannie Marshall moved to Rome with her husband, she delighted in Italy's famous culinary traditions. But when Marshall gave birth to a son, she began to see how that food culture was eroding, especially within young families. Like their North American counterparts, Italian children were eating sugary cereal in the morning and packaged, processed, salt- and fat-laden snacks later in the day. Busy Italian parents were rejecting local markets for supermercati, and introducing their toddlers to fast food restaurants only too happy to imprint their branding on the youngest of customers. So Marshall set on a quest to discover why something that we can only call "kid food" is proliferating around the world. How did we develop our seemingly insatiable desire for packaged foods that are virtually devoid of nutrition? How can even a mighty food culture like Italy's change in just a generation? And why, when we should and often do know better, do we persist in filling our children's lunch boxes, and young bodies, with ingredients that can scarcely even be considered food?

Through discussions with food crusaders such as Alice Waters, with chefs in Italy, nutritionists, fresh food vendors and parents from all over, and with big food companies such as PepsiCo and Nestle, Marshall gets behind the issues of our children's failing nutrition and serves up a simple recipe for a return to real food.

The Parent's Guide to Baby-Led Weaning: Skip the Purees and Go Straight to Solids! Jennifer House, $19.95

Welcome to an exciting stage in your baby's life: starting solid food! This will be a fun time for both you and your little one as your baby explores new tastes and gains a place at the family table. Jennifer offers you expert advice on everything you need to know to practice baby-led weaning safely and confidently: why you might want to use this method, when to start, what nutrients your baby needs, how to prevent choking, how to deal with allergies and what to feed vegetarian babies. Plus, she answers a ton of real-life questions parents often have when starting baby-led weaning and provides 125 delicious family-friendly recipes. Discover all the wonderful benefits of baby-led weaning — from good nutrition and a decreased risk of picky eating as your baby gets older to faster dexterity development and a healthier overall relationship with food.

Parents Need to Eat Too. Debbie Koenig, $21.00

Nap-friendly recipes, one-handed meals and time-saving kitchen tricks for new parents.

The Pediatrician's Guide to Feeding Babies & Toddlers. Anthony Porto & Dina DiMaggio, $24.99

Practical answers to your questions on nutrition, starting solids, allergies, picky eating and more.

The Picky Eating Solution.  Deborah Kennedy, $18.99

This isn’t a recipe book. This is a guide to discovering your child’s eating ‘type’ — and beating mealtime struggles forever. No matter what age your picky eater is, this book will show you how to implement consistent strategies that will set your child up for a lifetime of healthy eating.

Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes: a Cookbook for Preschoolers & Up. Mollie Katzen, $22.99

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.

Red Light, Green Light, Eat Right: the Food Solution That Lets Kids Be Kids. Joanna Dolgoff, $26.50

It's time to give our kids the tools they need for a healthy future! Determined to help her young patients — and their families — pediatrician Dr. Joanna Dolgoff created RED LIGHT, GREEN LIGHT, EAT RIGHT, a safe, effective plan for the whole family that uses the colors of the traffic light to divide food into three categories: Green (Go!), Yellow (Slow!), and Red (Uh Oh!). On this plan:

• No foods are off limits!
• Children get the nutrients they need!
• Busy parents can use sample menus and meal plans!
• Eating out is a breeze!

Customizable, interactive, and fun, RED LIGHT, GREEN LIGHT, EAT RIGHT will help your family lose weight and start living healthier, together.

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, $24.99

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.

The Smart Girl’s Guide to Going Vegetarian. Rachel Meltzer Warren, $22.99

No labels. No fuss. It's not about what you call yourself — it's about how you feel. Eating less meat can boost your energy, help you lose weight, and it's better for the environment. If you’re looking to cut down on meat or cut it out completely, here you'll find awesome advice and the answers you need to make it work for you. Get the scoop on:

• Daily meal ideas and easy recipes even your non-veggie friends will want to try
• How to convince your family this isn't just a fad or a phase
• Finding good food when you're away from home: veggie-friendly restaurants, colleges, and travel spots
• Getting enough iron, protein, and other vital nutrients to be healthy (because being vegetarian does NOT mean a diet of ice cream and pasta)
• Sneaky meaty things that can end up in food that seems perfectly safe for vegetarians

The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids’ Favorite Meals. Missy Chase Lapine, $26.00

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!

Special Diets for Special Kids. Lisa Lewis, $39.95

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.

Sprout Right Family Food: Good Nutrition and Over 130 Simple Recipes for Baby, Toddler, and the Whole Family. Lianne Phillipson, $29.95

Whether your son is starting to eat more finger foods as he approaches his first birthday, or you're sending your daughter off to her first soccer practice, giving your family the food they need to live healthy, energetic lives doesn't need to be a source of stress. In Sprout Right Family Food, registered nutritionist Lianne Phillipson clearly explains the simple nutritional steps you can take to maximize the health of your baby, toddler, and the whole family. Learn everything there is to know about starting your baby on solids with ease and confidence, about navigating allergy concerns and food reactions as your little one progresses to family food in the toddler years, and about the importance--for everyone--of eating a rainbow of fruits and vegetables every day.

Sprout Right Family Food is packed with essential nutritional information and over 130 delicious recipes that range from smooth and chunky purées for babies, to energy-packed meals for toddlers including Veggie Pesto Pizza and Go Faster Granola Bars, and timeless healthy family recipes such as Baked Butternut Squash and Garlic Risotto and Corn Coconut and Ginger Soup. Phillipson believes good food and good health go hand in hand, and that learning how to make the best food choices today will ensure long-term health as everyone in your family grows.

Starting from Scratch: What You Should Know about Food and Cooking. Sarah Elton & Jeff Kulak, $19.95 (ages 12+)

Starting from Scratch is not a cookbook. It's a book about food — how it works, why it works, and what you need to know to make the kitchen your playground.

Teens Cook: How to Cook What You Want to Eat. Megan & Jill Carle, with Judi Carle. $24.99

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, $21.95

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

The Ultimate Step-by-Step Kid's First Cookbook: Delicious Recipe Ideas For 5-12 Year Olds, From Lunch Boxes And Picnics To Quick And Easy Meals, Sweet Treats, Desserts, Drinks And Party Food. Nancy McDougall, $17.99

Every kid can learn to cook with this lively, clear and comprehensive cookbook, with 750 step-by-step pictures showing exactly how to create 150 tasty dishes.

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

If you think vegan lunchtime means peanut butter and jelly day after day, think again! Vegan Lunch Box offers 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 to Feed Your Baby: Cost-Conscious Nutrition for Your Infant. Stan Cohen, $22.95

When babies are born, parents are bombarded with information, much of it around infant feeding. Sorting through it all can be confusing and intimidating. In WHAT TO FEED YOUR BABY parents can find clear, accessible advice about feeding their babies in the first year. Pediatrician Stan Cohen considers the nutritional value of each option, as well as the costs involved, so that parents can make truly informed choices. He also discusses the common problems — gastric reflux, gassiness, and colic — as well as less common issues such as allergies, special needs, and prematurity.

Detailed, concise, and thoughtful, WHAT TO FEED YOUR BABY will help parents understand the impact of the feeding choices they make in these early months of their child’s life. (Note: this book is American, so it does not necessarily reflect the costs and lifestyle influences — such as length of maternity leave — parents here in Canada experience.

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.

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.