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.

Around The World Cookbook: More Than 50 International Recipes for Children. Abigail Johnson Dodge $21.99 (ages 7 and up)

With foods like hummus and Pad Thai becoming as common as meatloaf and apple pie, it’s no surprise that international foods are hotter than ever. While cooking these traditional recipes found in the Around the World Cookbook, kids also learn about the countries the foods come from. Together with DK’s fun and innovative visual style, the information and recipes in this unique cookbook tie in beautifully with school curriculum.

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-led Weaning: Helping Your Baby to Love Good Food. Gill Rapley & Tracey Murkett, $27.95

Baby-led Weaning is a practical and authoritative guide to introducing solid food, enabling your child to grow up a happy and confident eater. It shows parents why baby-led weaning makes sense and gives them the confidence to trust their baby’s natural skills and instincts.

Baby’s First Foods. Lindsay Harris, $22.00

Baby’s First Foods enables parents to monitor the introduction of solids and their baby’s reactions to new foods.  Designed for ease of use and divided by common foods groups, this journal ensures parents and caregivers are aware of allergens and food preferences.

The Baby’s Table: Over 150 Easy, Healthy and Tasty Recipes Your Baby Will Love. Brenda Bradshaw & Lauren Donaldson Bramley, $23.95

More than 150 recipes that showcase whole foods and fresh ingredients and have no added sugar, salt, starches or fillers.

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. The first half of the book addresses:

• nutritional needs before conception and during each trimester
• how a mother's diet affects growth of the fetus
• healthy weight gains through each trimester
• nutritional supplements including vitamins, minerals, and herbs
• effects of particular foods, such as coffee, un-pasteurized cheeses & alcohol
• increased nutrient requirements needed during lactation

The second half of the book features 125 recipes ideally suited to expectant mothers. Each recipe has a complete nutrient analysis plus there are handy meal plans and Snacks on the Go that help prevent nausea and vomiting. Every page of the nutrition section is packed with tips, sidebars, recommendations, and common-sense guidelines presented in easy-to-use tables and charts.

Bunny Eats Lunch. Michael Dahl, $9.95

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.

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Vegan Eating for Kids. Dana Villamagna & Andrew Villamagna, $18.50

Bring delicious, nutritious vegan dishes to your child’s plate with these easy-to-follow nutritional guidelines, shopping lists and recipes for the vegan family.

Cooking with a Baby on Your Hip. Francine Cascio Lawrence, $15.50

A sweet little gift book for new parents, Cooking with a Baby on Your Hip offers easy and playful recipes for nourishing the soul as well as the tummy.

Diabetes Snacks, Treats and Easy Eats for Kids. Barbara Grunes, $18.50

130 recipes for the foods kids really like to eat.

Digestive Wellness for Children is a primer for all parents who are interested in learning about, and actively supporting, their children’s digestive health. It provides practical instructions for keeping children healthy, for healing them when they aren’t, and for feeding them healthful foods that will provide the nutrients they need to stay well and strong from infancy through the teen years.

Successful attorney Cameron Stracher has it all — and is never home to enjoy it. So he makes a bold decision — for the next year he will be home by 6:00 p.m. at least five days a week to sit down to a family dinner with his wife and kids, and he’ll share the cooking and shopping duties. What follows is a journey to the heart of what matters most.

Early Sprouts: Cultivating Healthy Food Choices in Young Children. Carrie Kalich, Dottie Bauer & Deirdre McPartlin, $34.95

Plant lifelong healthy eating concepts in young children with Early Sprouts. This “seed-to-table” approach gets children interested in and enjoying nutritious fruits and vegetables. The Early Sprouts model engages preschoolers in all aspects of planting, preparing, and eating organically grown produce. Find directions for designing and caring for gardens, recipes children can help prepare, and ways to involve the whole family in making healthy food choices. The activities can be tailored to fit any early childhood program, climate, or geographical region. No space for a garden? Many of the benefits of the Early Sprouts program can be achieved in other ways, including visits to a farmer’s market and small-container gardens.

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.

Ending the Food Fight. David Ludwig, $34.95

This scientifically proven approach addresses, for the first time, all three key factors affecting body weight — biology, behavior, and environment — and integrates them into a powerful prescription for weight loss. Dr. Ludwig compassionately recognizes the challenges children and their parents face in today’s fast food/fake food world and guides them from conflict to cooperation along the road to health. In Ending the Food Fight, Dr. Ludwig shares his program with parents everywhere, giving them all the tools they need to help their children win the food fight, once and for all.

The Everything Guide to Cooking for Children with Autism. Megan Hart & Kim Lutz, $18.99

From everyday meals to holiday treats, learn how to prepare meals your child will love to eat with this collection of 200 gluten-free and casein-free recipes.

The Everything Guide to Cooking for Children with Diabetes. Moira McCarthy & Leslie Young, $18.99

From everyday meals to holiday treats, learn how to prepare meals your child will love to eat.

Expect the Best: Your Guide to Healthy Eating Before, During & After Pregnancy. Elizabeth Ward, $18.95

Expect the Best shows you how a healthy lifestyle from preconception to post-delivery will help you and your baby to flourish. The book offers practical, easy-to-follow tips for healthy eating and activity, including 50 delicious, nutritious recipes for the entire family.

Family Dinners: Easy Ways to Feed Your Kids and Get Them Talking at the Table. Janet Peterson, $18.95

Family Dinners features 280 recipes, plus valuable tips for saving time during meal prep, money at the grocery store, and your own effort by getting your family in on the cooking and cleaning. Make dinnertime the highlight of the day for everyone involved.

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.

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, $32.95

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

Food Adventures: Introducing Your Child to Flavors from Around the World. Elizabeth Luard & Frances Boswell, $22.95

Babies and small children are naturally adventurous. They will try anything once, and once is all you need. In 100 recipes from all over the globe, Food Adventures takes us from first spoonfuls to first schooldays, exploring and adapting dishes that children are encouraged to try as soon as they're old enough to sit up and take notice.

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.

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.

Full Mouse Empty Mouse: a Tale of Food and Feelings. Dina Zeckhausen, illustrated by Brian Boyd,  $11.50 (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.

Generation Extra Large: Rescuing Our Children from the Epidemic of Obesity. Chris Woolston, Lisa Tartamella & Elaine Herscher, $19.95

Generation Extra Large reveals the cultural and economic causes of childhood obesity. It's not only television, video games and junk food. Parents work long hours that disrupt family eating and exercise. Schools compound the problem by lining the halls with soda machines, serving fast food and cutting back physical education and recess. Poverty plays a key role, with kids growing up in neighborhoods where it's too dangerous to play and where unhealthy food is affordable and all too easy to get … Generation Extra Large explains why the epidemic has grown, reveals the consequences it has in store for our young people and gives us tools to fight it.

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, $22.95

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 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.

Healthy Eating for Kids: Over 100 Meal Ideas, Recipes and Healthy Eating Tips for Children. Anita Bean, $28.95

Up to date advice, fun and easy recipes and beautiful colour photos help prove that good eating doesn’t have to mean boring meals.

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 Food for Babies and Toddlers. Henny Fordham, $12.95

This delightful book from the Usborne Parents’ Guide series is filled with nutritional information, recipe ideas and plenty of tips and tactics to get young children to eat well from birth to age three.

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.

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, $17.50

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, $28.50

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 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' Healthy Lunchbox: Over 80 Delicious and Nutritious Recipes for Children of All Ages. Cara Hobday, $12.95

Alongside over 80 fast and delicious recipes, you’ll also find ideas for getting children to help make their own lunches. Kids’ Healthy Lunchbox provides the perfect opportunity to teach children about nutrition and meal preparation, while keeping them healthy, energetic and satisfied at the same time.

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.

Kitchen Playdates: Easy Ideas for Entertaining that Include the Kids. Lauren Bank Deen, Photographs by Tina Rupp, $29.95

Filled with 70 delicious recipes, varied menus, and themed activities, Kitchen Playdates offers parents a new way to socialize with friends and family without resorting to pizza. This handy cookbook includes "Kids in the Kitchen" notes with each recipe, providing age-appropriate tasks to keep children busy (and safe). And creative all-ages craft ideas allow everyone to get involved when there are too many cooks 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 Boxes: Over One Hundred Great Ideas for Nutritious and Delicious Packed Lunches for Kids. Jennifer Joyce, $23.00

Lunch Boxes is an easy-to-use and entertaining guide to making packed lunches fun and delicious while offering nutritious alternatives to sweets and processed foods and solutions for the fussy eater.

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

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

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.

An essential kitchen survival guide for parents! Inside you'll find:

• Tricks for preparing no-fail everyday meals, most in 30 minutes or less
• More than 30 appetizing menus for any season or occasion
• Game plans for success — stocking the pantry and filling the freezer
• Table for 3 — tips for dining out with baby

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, $23.95

In this sequel to her classic children's recipe book Pretend Soup, 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.

The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids’ Favorite Meals. Missy Chase Lapine, $21.50

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.

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!

Super Juice for Kids. Michael Van Straten, $19.95

Packed with recipes for juices to boost energy, memory, immunity and healing, to protect against stress and to help kids get a good night’s sleep.

Teens Cook: How to Cook What You Want to Eat. Megan & Jill Carle, with Judi Carle. $27.95

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!

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.

With Growing Children: Healthy Kids’ Recipes and Tips. Karen Kingham, $19.95

Satisfy your growing children’s appetites while ensuring their health. With Growing Children features over a 110 recipes tailored to maintain good health in growing children and keeping even the fussiest eaters satisfied. With an informative, accessible introduction and a complete nutritional analysis for each recipe. This is an inspiring, informative resource for parents who put their children’s health first.

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! Every Parent’s Nutrition Bible. Jane Clarke, $29.95

Jane Clarke, the Times (UK) nutritionist, decided to write a recipe book when she adopted her daughter two years ago. As a busy working mom, she wanted delicious meals but with easy recipes that didn’t take long to shop for, prepare or cook. The selection of recipes in Yummy! takes you through meals, snacks and drinks for every day, as well as special-occasion treats and party food. Yummy! shows you how to put theory into practice, quickly and easily.

Yummy in My Tummy: Baby’s First Foods. Liandrea Productions, $24.95. 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.