Soup Day

Maybe I should have posted this one yesterday because I love, love, love it. And I don't even like soup. I mean, I've tried to like soup, and I love the idea of soup, but somehow it never works for me. Anyways.

I want to hug this book. It is so warm and comfy, but sturdy too. It is not precisely a board book, but its pages are sturdier and stiffer than normal picturebooks, kind of a thin cardboard. The simple text is bold and marches strongly across the collaged and colorful illustrations.

On a snowy day, it is soup day. Counting up to six, a little girl and her mother pick out vegetables. Coming home, the vegetables get cut into different shapes. The vegetables cook in the pot and the little girl and her mother play together. Then it's show more time to add noodles and spices, clean up toys, and Daddy's home and it's soup time!

A recipe for soup is included in the back of the book. There are several reasons I like this story, apart from the endearing text and illustrations. First, I'm pleased to see the depiction of an Asian girl with Caucasian parents. Even in our fairly small, homogeneous community there are quite a few adopted Chinese girls and I have not found many stories that portray these children naturally, without making a huge issue of their adoption. Second, I really like the inclusion of concepts. This is a perfect toddler book and concepts are always good in books for little ones. They like to pause and count and identify. Third...I just really like all the elements together in this book.

Verdict: It's like really good soup - lots of different parts making one yummy whole! show less

One snowy beautiful day, a little girl helps her mother choose vegetables at the store because it is their special soup day. She helps her mom wash them, and even chop them (I get to cut the mushrooms and zucchini with a plastic knife because they are soft. Mommy helps my hand). Then, while the soup simmers on the stove, they spend the time playing and reading together. After her mother adds spices, the girl chooses her favourite pasta to add to the pot. They clean up the room and put away the toys. When her dad comes home, they all eat the soup together. The recipe for Snowy Day Vegetable Soup is appended. I really like the simplicity of concept and expression in this text. This picture book shows the everyday places and activities show more from a child’s point of view. The brightly colored illustrations with the combination of acrylics, fabric and paper collage provide plenty of familiar concepts for young reader to identify and new ones to explore, such as the six kinds of pasta that pictured on one page, and what various vegetables look like. show less

This book by Melissa Iwai makes me want to make a big pot of soup. The step by step process of making soup from chopping the vegetables to waiting for the soup to cook brings this book to life. I like how the author used "Sssssss" to describe the sounds the broth makes when pouring into the pot. I also enjoyed how she refers to the parsley as confetti. The illustrations of the different vegetable shapes and the different varieties of pasta are great visuals. The author ends the book with a recipe for snowy day vegetable soup. This book reminds me of Campell's soup commercials! This is a great mentor book with the onomatopeias, step by step process of making soup, and shape and alphabet concepts.

Simple text shows a mother and daughter making soup, step by step. Unfortunate that Dad comes home only in time to eat, but beyond gender stereotypes it's a good primer on the cooking process and models involving kids in the kitchen.

I really enjoyed the vivid descriptions that the author gave about the items in the soup. It made the reading a lot more interesting instead of just saying for example carrots and celery. It was very cute that the little girl actually helped her mom make the soup instead of just watching her make it. It was great that they put in the filler part about what the little girl and the mom did while they were waiting for the soup to be done. It is a good lesson about learning how to be patient. This is a great lesson for kids to learn. It also teaches them that there are ways to be patient and have fun too.

This is a great picture book to teach children about soup. The story is about a mother and daughter who makes soup, and what they do while they wait until the soup is ready. There is a recipe for chicken noodle soup, at the end of the book, which a teacher can utilize into a lesson plan for the book.

This is a great book for mother and daughter bonding, and getting children to want to help in the kitchen. A little girl and her mother go to the store and get the ingredients to make soup, they prepare the healthy recipe together, and they clean and play games together while waiting for the soup to be done. When I was little some of my fondest memories were watching my mom cook, and being so proud of myself every time I was able to help her. It is so important to let children help it really does boost their confidence letting them be involved.