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Loading... Granny Torrelli makes Soupby Sharon Creech
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Rosie discovers that her relationship with Bailey, a blind boy next door, is very similar to one that her Granny Torrelli had with a boy in Italy before immigrating to the United States. Most of the lessons Rosie learns take place in the kitchen as food is being prepared. This book should be used to bring families closer together. I found the writing style to be a bit "choppy" for my personal tastes, but it makes it easy for younger readers or for reading aloud when time is limited. (  )1   thornton37814 | Sep 27, 2008 |  Granny Torrelli Makes Soup is a sweet story about friendship and family. Although children would certainly enjoy reading this book on their own, it is a story that begs to be read aloud. Read this with your favorite children. It just might lead you to tell your own family stories while you teach them to make your favorite recipes! (  )2 cbl_tn | Sep 16, 2008 | With the help of her wise old grandmother, 12 year Rosie works out some problems with her best friend Bailey, the boy next door. (  ) nclibrarian724 | Aug 19, 2008 | What a lesson to learn! Something most of us can't articulate until adulthood. We can't control who comes and goes in our lives or who we will be friends with and for how long. Once we acknowledge that it's a lot easier to let go of angst and insecurity. Granny Torrelli Makes Soup is by Sharon Creech and this story is about Granny's granddaughter and the girl's relationship with her best friend. Lovely as always, though thankfully not a tearjerker. Originally posted July 16, 2005 kconcannon | Sep 26, 2007 | Creech does it again. Using the first person narrative, she quickly engages the reader and keeps us hooked. Chapters are short (often 2-3 pages) and pithy. I marvel at how she generates suspense: sometimes something as simple as having Granny Torrelli leave the room to use the bathroom. Rosie is the protagonist, and she's mad at her friend, Bailey. Granny Torrelli's a sharp one. She sees that tutto non va bene with Rosie. Through her cooking and telling stories about her childhood, Granny helps Rosie and Bailey better understand themselves and each other. The anecdotes are rich with different emotions. Creech handles dialog in an unusual way, using italics instead of quotes. This keeps the reader firmly in Rosie's head, and it keeps the story moving along. ( )1 blo3 | Sep 7, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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Best known for Walk Two Moons and The Wanderer, Creech makes good use of another inventive format: Rosie's story unfolds first, over making and eating zuppa, and then Granny Torrelli tells parallel stories from her own childhood to help Rosie with her current predicament. Granny Torrelli's tales are laced with endearing, fun-to-say Italian: "I didn't like it, not one piccolino bit," as is her attempt to help Rosie mend her rift with her best friend Bailey ("That Bailey boy!"), for whom she's starting to feel more-than-friendship feelings.
The details of both Rosie's and Granny Torrelli's respective stories are often quite funny (from Braille jealousy to secret guide-dog training for the legally blind Bailey). But, as usual, what Creech does best is slyly proffer small, nourishing morsels of wisdom--not unlike the cavatelli, the "little dough canoes," that Rosie, Granny Torrelli, and that Bailey boy labor over in the book's sweet second half. Just be warned that you might find yourself starving by the end of the story. (Ages 9 to 12) --Paul Hughes
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