This post is sponsored by Melanie Moore. The review and opinions expressed in this post are based on my personal views.
MY REVIEW
Some of my favorite books are those that encourage children to be helpful. Teaching children to be kind and thinking of ways to be helpful is so important. The first book in the Adventures with Allie and Friends : Chef Cherie’s Cafe is a charming book. Allie is a young girl going to visit Chef Cherie, who is opening a new cafe. Chef Cherie could really use help with her menus. She asks Allie to help her decide which foods should be on the breakfast menu vs the lunch menu.
Using her chalkboard, Chef Cherie goes through a list of dishes, asking Allie if the food is to be served at breakfast or lunch. The child helps Cherie complete the menus and the chef is so appreciative! Throughout the book, Allie points to the reader and asks the question, Lunch or Breakfast. The book then asks the children to create their own menus, using paper and crayons or markers.
Author, Melanie Moore, works with special education. This. book can be used by teachers to teach skils, such as sorting. Melanie Moore and illustrator, Juan Diaz, have put together a sweet book with adorable characters. I look forward to seeing the next book in this series.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Adventures with Allie and Friends: Chef Cherie’s Cafe
Written by Melanie Moore
Illustrated by Juan Diaz
Ages: 3-8 | 40 Pages
Publisher: Mascot Publishing (2025) | ISBN: 979-8891385351
Publisher’s Book Summary: Meet Allie! She loves helping her friends any way she can. She is always on the lookout for new ways to make a difference.
In this first book about her adventures, Allie helps Chef Cherie with her restaurant.
Will you come along with Allie and Chef Cherie?
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Melanie Moore is a native West Texas girl born into a loving Christian family. She was born with several disabilities, but that never stopped her! When she was a little girl, she participated in elementary-level cheerleading, sang in the school choir, and played the clarinet in the marching band. In her spare time, she loved reading The Berenstain Bears, The Babysitter’s Club, and the Sweet Valley High series. Some of her favorite pastimes were vacationing in the mountains of New Mexico, family get-togethers, and picking pecans at her grandparents’ farm.
After graduating from high school, she went to Hardin-Simmons University, where she was elected Treasurer of the Social Work Club and earned a Bachelor of Behavioral Sciences in Social Work. During that time, she interned for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Abilene. She helped connect children with possible mentors. She was also a mentor to a little girl in the program.
After college, she worked for the public school system in her hometown. She explored her creative side while working with speech language pathologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, music therapists, behavior specialists, autism specialists, teachers, and students. With the encouragement and guidance of her supervisors and coworkers, she created social stories and a small categorical book for speech-language pathologists.
Melanie has spent most of her career working with children with special needs. She credits her success to the students she works with every day. Her motto is that we must first seek the needs and wants of each student and allow them to teach us before we can teach them. These days, she is mostly focused on family days completed with a rousing game of Train, attending a Supper Club ministry at her church, volunteering with the Education Foundation, and maintaining a goal of walking three miles every day—or at least she tries!
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