Adventures with Allie and Friends: Chef Cherie’s Cafe Awareness Tour is presented in partnership* with Melanie Moore and The Children’s Book Review.
Join Allie on a heartwarming adventure filled with friendship, helpfulness, and fun in Melanie Moore’s Adventures with Allie and Friends: Chef Cherie’s Cafe!
Readers who join us on this virtual book tour have the chance to win one of 10 hardcover copies of Adventures with Allie and Friends: Chef Cherie’s Cafe by Melanie Moore! Don’t miss your chance to bring Allie’s heartwarming adventure home and share in her journey of friendship, creativity, and making a difference. Enter below for your chance to win!
Adventures with Allie and Friends: Chef Cherie’s Cafe
Virtual Tour Dates
| Monday, November 3, 2025 The Children’s Book Review Tour Kick-Off for Adventures with Allie and Friends: Chef Cherie’s Cafe |
| Tuesday, November 4, 2025 The Starlit Path Book Review of Adventures with Allie and Friends: Chef Cherie’s Cafe |
| Wednesday, November 5, 2025 avainbookland Instagram Post about Adventures with Allie and Friends: Chef Cherie’s Cafe |
| Thursday, November 6, 2025 Crafty Moms Share Book Review of Adventures with Allie and Friends: Chef Cherie’s Cafe |
| Friday, November 7, 2025 Deliciously Savvy Book Review of Adventures with Allie and Friends: Chef Cherie’s Cafe |
| Monday, November 10, 2025 bored_militray_wife Instagram Post about Adventures with Allie and Friends: Chef Cherie’s Cafe |
| Wednesday, November 12, 2025 @nissa_the.bookworm Instagram Post about Adventures with Allie and Friends: Chef Cherie’s Cafe |
| Thursday, November 13, 2025 icefairy’s Treasure Chest Book Review of Adventures with Allie and Friends: Chef Cherie’s Cafe |
| Friday, November 14, 2025 Lisa’s Reading Book Review of Adventures with Allie and Friends: Chef Cherie’s Cafe |
| Monday, November 17, 2025 Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers Book Review of Adventures with Allie and Friends: Chef Cherie’s Cafe |
| Tuesday, November 18, 2025 Confessions of a Book Addict Book Spotlight on Adventures with Allie and Friends: Chef Cherie’s Cafe |
| Wednesday, November 19, 2025 My Reading Getaway |
| Thursday, November 20, 2025 Little Free Library Mystery Network Instagram Post about Adventures with Allie and Friends: Chef Cherie’s Cafe |
| Friday, November 21, 2025 Q&As with Deborah Kalb Author Interview with Melanie Moore |
| Monday, November 24, 2025 @tinks_books_and_fosters Instagram Post about Adventures with Allie and Friends: Chef Cherie’s Cafe |
| Friday, November 28, 2025 Froggy Read Teach Instagram Post about Adventures with Allie and Friends: Chef Cherie’s Cafe |
| Monday, December 1, 2025 @meghenslittlelibrary Instagram Post about Adventures with Allie and Friends: Chef Cherie’s Cafe |
| Tuesday, December 2, 2025 Me Two Books Author Interview with Melanie Moore |
| Wednesday, December 3, 2025 Country Mamas With Kids Book Review of Adventures with Allie and Friends: Chef Cherie’s Cafe |
Adventures with Allie and Friends: Chef Cherie’s Cafe
Book Giveaway
Adventures with Allie and Friends: Chef Cherie’s Cafe: Book Giveaway
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?
Buy the Book
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!
Thanks for following along with us on Melanie Moore’s Adventures with Allie and Friends: Chef Cherie’s Cafe awareness tour!
13 Comments
I think my granddaughters would enjoy this book. They sometimes want to help me cook. They also call my kitchen “grandma yummys”.
bake stuff
This would be a fun and great book for my nephews and niece.
They would enjoy it so much.
Very cute book, congratulations.
I would like to win this cute book for my grandson.
Friendship and cooperation is always a valuable lesson.
A fun book to read.
A cute story.
I’m trying to get gifts to give to my nieces and nephews. I’m really excited about the giveaway!
This sounds like a cute book.
This sounds like a book my grandson would enjoy reading.
Would love to entertain my grandson with this funny story book.
Sounds like a delightful story.