Pumpkin Soup (edition 2005)

Three best friends: a cat, a duck, and a squirrel live a quiet peaceful life making their favorite pumpkin soup all the time. They each have a job to do when making the soup, until one day the duck wants the cat's job of stirring the soup. The three friends get into a horrible fight and duck storms out the door. They all finally learn that it's ok to share their specific tasks and not be such control freaks. The lesson children can learn from this story is sharing and that just because someone does something different than you would doesn't make it the wrong way, it's just a different way. The illustrations are great. A good picture book to read to kids. ( )

The Cat, the Squirrel, and the Duck live an old white cabin with pumpkins in the garden. They have their duty when they cook pumpkin soup. The cat will slices up the pumpkin; the squirrel will stirs the water and the scoops up a pipkin of salt, and tips in just enough. But one day, the duck and the squirrel argue to stir the soup. Then the duck decides to leave. The cat and the squirrel try to find the duck. This book helps children understand about friendship that we can share and take turns to do something together.

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A book about sharing and giving. Cat, squirrel and duck live together and have their own jobs when making Pumpkin soup. When duck decides that he wants to stir instead of be in charge of salt, the others aren't okay with it. Duck leaves in a huff and they all realize that their fighting wasn't worth it.

Book #5 Pumpkin Soup
By: Helen Cooper

This book is a fiction book about animals that are making pumpkin soup. It is important for students to get to hear a fiction book that relates to what they are learning. This puts in some interesting things into the learning of pumpkins while giving the students a laugh. This is also a good book to have on your shelves in your classroom because students that cannot read the whole book can still look at the pictures. This will increase and feed their imagination, which all children need these days.