I used to have this book I *really* loved as a child, called La Cuisine Est Un Jeu d'Enfants, by Michel Oliver. I'm surprised and so pleased to see it's
still in print - not only is it absolutely beautiful, and of interest to anyone interested in design or type or illustration, but the recipes were totally great and were what originally got me interested in cooking. God, amazing it still exists. Buy it! It's in very simple child-French. Anyway -
They Draw and Cook is a site composed of illustrated recipes (you can contribute your own), and it's v nice. But not as nice as that book. That book is GREAT.
Don't know why that picture is so poxy and small, sorry.
Curious Pages is a blog about slightly inappropriate but never the less recommended books for children, including Boners (By Those Who Pulled Them), from 1931. It also has an entry about a book called The Stupids Die, which has to be the best title in the history of titles. And look - the pic is early Dr Seuss, and a thing of joy and beauty.
I seem to have gone into a recipe frenzy - possibly not unrelated to the fact that it's half term. When I was younger I used to make psychedelic versions of marble cake to amuse my little sisters. This one is only marginally more complicated, beautiful, in its loony way, and quite a good way of spending an afternoon with small children (the bottom layer looks black in the picture but is in fact violet). Its joyful aspect means it would also make a lovely birthday cake, though perhaps not for anyone whose idea of wild colour is Farrow & Ball. Found via Urban Outfitters' blog.