From their bright red-and-yellow covers and inviting titles to their emphasis on appetizing choices, the Make Your Own: Food Menu series (6 titles) aim to attract kids and show them how to prepare certain foods. Each slender volume focuses on one food item or category, and a typical double-page spread includes an attractive color photo illustrating the adjacent text. Bolte often begins by concisely reviewing the food's history, its popularity, and some typical ingredients, before offering a recipe and showing readers how to make it themselves (with adult assistance when the writer calls for it). Let's Make Nice Cream looks at the origins of ice cream before telling readers how to make a dairy-free alternative, nice cream, from frozen banana slices machine-blended with other flavors. With some original topics, these books offer fresh ideas for young cooks.