Very useful tips and extremely well organized! I love a book that gives you just the stuff you need to know and gives you the space to figure the rest out. I think this guide does that perfectly! Well-timed tips like knife safety as well as how to build a solar oven. Great recipes but the format really kicks it up a notch!

Children will enjoy the freedom and creativity to create their own camp meals with this instructional cookbook. While the recipes themselves will inspire young outdoor chefs, the overall composition could be better executed. Sections of the cookbook are far too wordy and likely to lose a child’s attention. The graphics throughout are mismatched between illustrations and photographs, often laying over the edge border or set awkwardly on the page. Activities to test the reader’s knowledge are beneficial to reinforce the information but the colored rectangles outlining some of these activities is visually disjointed. Often children’s cookbooks advise constant adult supervision but this cookbook allows the child to learn safe and empowering skills.

As a parent who has been taking my kids camping for over 14 years and has volunteered as a scout and cub scout leader for almost as long, this book seemed like a good one to check out - particularly because I have two kids who are about to start their cooking merit badge. This is a book that I will definitely having them read as a reference, but I also think that my younger kids, who love camping, will be interested in reading it and trying out recipes as well.

The recipes in this book are "doable" for older kids (8 years on up, depending on the cooking method) and they are palatable for even picky eaters. Children are always more likely to be picky about the food they eat if they have chosen, planned and prepared it, and this cookbook fits the bill in empowering and enabling children and teens to be involved in the campfire/outdoor cooking process. The ingredients are simple and easy to find in the grocery store, and we will definitely be referring to this book as we plan the menu for our next camping trip.

There's a crucially important emphasis on fire safety when cooking outdoors, as well as food handling safety and water sanitation. The first 20% of the book is focused on this and HOW to do things, and I really think that's what sets this cookbook apart from others. There are a lot of things that I would LOVE for my kids to know, but I don't always think or have time to explain to my kids ahead of time, and especially not in the moment. The remainder of the book is full of recipes, games, and tips and explanations of the different cooking methods. I've never seen the reflector oven concept, and I'm excited to try that one out! The only downside of the book is that it only prevented one method for building a campfire, when there are specific methods that work best for particular types of cooking that are discussed in the book. All the same, I can't wait to use this book as a reference to help teach my children more about outdoor/campfire cooking and have them grow in ability and confidence as they get to apply what they've learned.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for letting me review this book. This has some great tips for outdoor cooking along with easy recipes to follow. I like how there is various conversions.

This has some great tips for outdoor cooking, but I wouldn't recommend this for kids below the age of 10, and perhaps even older. That would be true of pretty much any outdoor cooking book, since safety is a big concern with open fire. The book does provide ideas for cooking that doesn't require open flame as well (such as solar ovens or using hot briquets). The recipes are simple; My kid and I just didn't find them as appealing as we'd like to (better photos might help, but the photos are realistic of what the food would look like, so that's nice!). My favorite part of the book are the overall camping tips for safety and caring for nature. I recommend taking a close look at the book before purchasing to make sure it's a good fit for you!

Thank you to Netgalley and The Globe Pequot Publishing Group, Inc. | FalconGuides for the advance read copy!

I honestly LOVE this! It isn't the prettiest of cookbooks, but it is Loaded with great information and safety advice for outdoor cooking. I have a 5-year-old that has just started camping and this will be PERFECT to teach him all the cool ways you can cook outdoors. It has recipes and How To's as well. I have always camped, and I didn't know how versatile some of these things could be! Super excited to try these out!

Outdoor Cooking for Kids is a comprehensive guide for outdoorsy kids to learn to cook while camping. These recipes are designed to be cooked on an open campfire fire, so it would be perfect for kids in the Scouting or Guiding (or similar) movements .

There is a fantastic section at the start all about food safety, fire safety, general cooking tips and wildlife safety (US-specific) before getting to the recipes, which are all achievable for kids (with adult supervision). The book teaches the young cook everything from roast chicken to baking (using an improvised oven or a DIY solar oven), and the recipes are laid out according to cooking methods - on a stick, on a grill, in an improvised oven, in a Dutch oven, in foil, and so on.

For the most part, the recipes are generic enough to translate across continents, however some US-specific measurements and brands are references. There's a conversion guide at the back for non-US readers (although as an Australian, I would query the use of ounces/pounds/pints !).

The images appear to be stock images, or taken from the author's own camping experience - not a deal breaker for me, although I would have possibly liked some more images of the completed meals, for reference.

Overall a great outdoor cookbook for camping. I'll be getting this for my Scouts.

~Many thanks to NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review~

I did not care for this book. It wasn't clear whether it was geared towards adults or children but instead straddled that line. Some of it was interesting and useful, but some of it was poorly written and not well-researched and written in a strangely casual way (e.g. (yep!) after an unusual ingredient). I did like the artistic illustrations, Smoky the Bear history, recipes themselves, and first aid and safety tips.

The Advanced Review Copy (ARC) was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This looks and reads very much like a self-published book. The ideas are great, the photographs are nice, and the content is thorough. But the illustrations aren't appealing and the writing quality is poor. A very basic edit to check modifiers and reduce redundancies would go a long way with this one.

I am very interested in the subject matter for the demographic at my library, but I will look for it in a more professionally done resource.

This is a very detailed book for all things you need to know for cooking outdoors. I definitely have some new recipes to try.