Two friends find an enormous parsnip and envision all the things they can make with it. They finally settle on soup, as more kids gather to help them count and collect ingredients.
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Soup-er Reads
A bowl of soup is just the thing on a cold, damp day. Discover a spoonful of comfort in these stories that deliver fresh ingredients and warmth.
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- Family members join in to help make Birthday soup, a traditional Korean dish often eaten on birthdays to honor mothers.
- Stunning illustrations illuminate this cautionary tale about a rabbit who makes tasty vegetable soup, and starts to manufacture it. As his priorities change, Mr. Lepron decides to return to the forest to spend time with his family.
- A Haitian grandmother and grandaughter work together to make Freedom Soup, a time honored Haitian dish made from marinated meats, vegetables and pumpkin.
- Large, clear illustrations show off bold, colorful vegetables used to make soup. Includes counting opportunities as well as a recipe.
- When two brothers sit down to a bowl of hot soup, the older brother must patiently answer questions about soup for his younger brother as they wait for the soup to cool.
- As grandmother mouse prepares blue corn soup, more neighbors add the last of the fall harvest to the pot and it quickly turns into friendship stew.
- Each time a waiter returns with a new bowl of soup to satisfy a boys complaint, a different animal appears in the soup. A humorous read with cartoonlike drawings.
- Sophie combines Bubbe's Jewish chicken soup with Nai Nai's Chinese chicken soup at dinner, showing her grandmothers that there are more similarities than differences.
- This simple rhyme and counting book begins with one fly in a bowl of soup who is soon joined by another, and another, until the bowl is brimming with 10 flies.
- When Alvie's grandma, who is a chef, comes to visit, his parents worry and try to change his eating habits as he won't eat anything but soup.
- Kids will love the antics in this silly story when Max's friends think he has fallen into the pot of soup he was cooking for dinner.
- In a garden outside a Kenyan schoolhouse, the children work together to harvest the vegetables they have grown and make them into a soup for everyone to share, but some goats are trying to eat all the vegetables.
- Left in the care of his older sister, a boy begs her to read his favorite book, but she is too absorbed in her own reading even to notice when a tiger comes to life in the steam from his soup.
- Mouse gets his friends to help make some Elephant soup as a way to beat the blues. Elephant manages to escape the pot but ultimately helps everyone feel better.
- Vivid, colorful graphics capture the process of digging, picking, washing and chopping vegetables to make homemade soup.
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