Born Hungry: Julia Child becomes "the French Chef"

 Shirley J.                 Juvenile Non-Fiction                               Julia Child's life

Born Hungry: Julia Child Becomes "the French Chef" by Alex Prud'homme   40 pages

The nephew of famous cook, author and t.v. star, Julia Child writes a picture book in the My First Complete Learning Library series (20 books) about his delightful aunt who had quite an amazing life first as the daughter of well-to-do parents in California, then during WWII, she worked in the foreign service on assignments in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), India and China where she met her husband, after which they enjoyed living in the Netherlands, and most particularly in France where Julia found she had a passion for cooking and learned to master the art of French cooking and brought her skills to the United States and to the world teaching everyone how easy it is to prepare French food with a flare every day.  Such a good book and presented in such a way youngsters on up to adult seniors will love the story.  Just delightful.