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How to Cook Children: a grisly recipe book

There will be kids who will howl over this book, and there will probably be parents who will complain.  Presented as a cookbook collected from witches around the world, they all follow the same gruesome pattern of tongue-in-cheek recipes with plump and juicy children as the main ingredients.  The illustrations are fun, and the language is sophisticated, with lots of plays on words that would likely go over the heads of younger readers.  Because it was originally published in Great Britain, some of the slang will be unfamiliar to American readers. The different voices of the different contributing witches come across loud and clear.