This assortment of 25 kid-tested and kid-approved snack recipes is designed for young and enthusiastic cooks who view flour dust storms as a sign of progress and sticky fingers as a measure of success! Kids will delight in the colorful illustrations of Alaska scenes by Shannon Cartwright and love creating such tasty treats as Totem Poles, Denali Peaks, Glacier Ice, and more. Kindergarten-Grade 5-Arctic Animal Crackers, Denali Peaks, Iditarod Trail Mix, Muskox Morsels, Sea Otter Biscuits, and Tundra Turf are just a few of the 25 fun and easy-to-make snack-food recipes included in this original cookbook. Most of them require minimal parental guidance with only a few necessitating the use of a hot stove, heated oil, hot grease, or a sharp knife. The simple ingredients and clear instructions guarantee quick results. The two-page table of contents lists each treat in alphabetical order followed by a short description and an illustration of the final product. Each following page is devoted to a single recipe and includes a list of ingredients, step-by-step instructions, and a two-line (often rhyming) snippet of related information. The colorful, detailed, and fanciful illustrations depict the needed ingredients; the completed snack; and a scene connecting it to the people, land, animals, or event it represents. This clever, imaginative, and just plain fun concoction of simple, creative, easy-to-prepare recipes will enhance any study of Alaska, as well as delight readers, cooks, and eaters of all ages. Mollie Bynum, formerly at Chester Valley Elementary School, Anchorage, AK Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. "Here come 25 child-tested (and approved!) snack recipies from The Last Frontier that will tickle tastebuds and satisfy after-school sweet tooths across the country...Children ages five and up will get a great sense of satisfaction from making these snacks, not to mention the tasty rewards when all the pots and pans are put away." -- Frontier Fair, October 1999 Alice Bugni is the author of Moose Racks, Bear Tracks, and Other Alaska Kidsnacks. She draws inspiration from her Alaskan surroundings and her own cozy kitchen. Shannon Cartwright arrived in Alaska in 1972 after graduating from the University of Michigan School of Architecture and Design. She was drawn north by the stories she heard as a child from her grandmother, Esther Schaubel, a famous public-health nurse who spent 15 years in the Alaska bush during the '40s and '50s.   She has spent most of her Alaska years living in the bush, away from the road system, and has never owned a TV or a computer and communicates by satellite phone and US mail. Cartwright has traveled all over the state working on a set-net site in Bristol Bay, driving horse-pack trips, guiding in the Alaska Range and Brooks Range, researching book projects, and traveling between her cabins by train, skis, snowmobiles, and horses. She expresses her love of Alaska through the 28 children's books she has illustrated, seven of which she has also written.