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Bone Soup (2008)

by Cambria Evans(Favorite Author)

3.92 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0618809082 (ISBN13: 9780618809080)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

HMH Books for Young Readers

review 1: Most children know the story "Stone Soup", so I always tell my students that the author took "Stone Soup" and Halloween-ized it, giving us Bone Soup. Kids generally like the premise, the great monsters, the icky monster food, and the luminous illustrations.Finnigin is known far and wide as "The Eater", and a penniless one at that. One Halloween he's traveling in a lovely barren land looking for a Halloween Feast. A witch on her broomstick sees him and races home to warn the other monsters in the village that "The Eater" is coming. All of the townscreatures (including a family of the cutest zombies ever) stash their food and lock the doors. Poor Finnigan comes through town looking for a feast and finds nothing. He goes from door to door asking if anyone can spare "some worm... morey cheese and bread for a simple traveler" but he is rudely turned away every time. Luckily he's used to living by his wits, since he has no house to haunt, and he fills the town's cauldron with water and sets it to boiling. He makes a production of dropping a "magic" bone into the water and sings a song about Bone Soup. The townscreatures are drawn by his singing and one by one are tricked into providing ingrediants for the soup. Kids love the stewed eyeballs, bats wings, frog legs, toenail clippings, and more. Finnigin then tells the assembled monsters that Bone Soup is great, but best shared. Everyone enjoys a Halloween feast of Bone Soup and the kids enjoy the picture of Finnigin about to eat an eyeball.The illustrations are simple but fun and the colors used really make it seem like things are glowing. I also love all of the creature's glowing eyes as they stare out of dark windows to see what Finnigin will do next. It's a fun seasonal story and a good one to pick up from the library and share with your family. It's a great Halloween read but you don't need to buy it.
review 2: A Halloween take on Stone Soup. A cute little skeleton with a very big appetite manages to get all sorts of ghastly ingredients from the ghouls to make his magic "bone soup". We are talking bat wings, eyeballs, toenails... EXACTLY what Campbell's was thinking when they came up with the "mmmmmmm mmmmmm good" slogan!The artwork is great, the story is cute and not too scary.My four year old is warped enough to enjoy the story, and I enjoyed it enough to read it to him 5 times in a row!(By the end of the week, I will have hidden it under a couch cushion or up in the closet to preserve my sanity. Ah, you do it too, you know it!) less

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