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Asian food poses unique challenges to the gluten-free cook because of its heavy reliance on kitchen staples such as noodles, soy sauce, and oyster sauce that typically contain wheat. But with culinary know-how and ingredient awareness, any home cook can quickly and simply turn out full-flavored dishes such as Korean Green Onion Pancakes, Sticky Rice dumplings, Chilled Tangy Soba Noodles, Tempura, Soy Sauce Chicken, and Banana and Sweet Potato Fritters.

Kids are drawn to manga like magnets, and Christopher Hart's manga books are among the hottest sellers of all books, with more than 2.5 million copies in print. Now Watson-Guptill has gathered Hart's four best-selling Kids Draw books and combined them into one giant manga book. If they're out there in the world of manga, they're in here: cute little critters, sophisticated heroes, witches and wizards, magical boys and magical girls, and everything else manga!