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Soup Day (2010)

by Melissa Iwai(Favorite Author)

3.94 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0805090045 (ISBN13: 9780805090048)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

review 1: Subjects Mother and child -- Juvenile fictionSoups -- Juvenile fiction.Cooking (Vegetables) -- Juvenile fiction.On a cold, snowy day, a young girl and her mother shop to buy ingredients for vegetable soup. At home, they work together ”step by step ”to prepare the meal. While the soup is cooking, they spend the time playing games and reading. Before long, Daddy’s home and the family sits down to enjoy a home made dinner. This book celebrates the importance of making a nutritious meal and sharing in the process.
review 2: The pictures are extremely well done and quirky. The book focuses on a girl who looks to be Asian and her presumably adoptive white mother as they prepare a meal together. I love that the protagonists in the story are an underrepresented ... morepopulation of society. This is obviously not the focus of the book, but it does add something special in my opinion.This book is a great find for younger children. Kids will be drawn in by the pictures and will think it's fun to see the pictures of the foods that are being added as well as to hear them pronounced (vegetables, spices, various kinds of pasta). In a very subtle way, it builds extra vocabulary for the younger kiddos. It will also help that there may be prior knowledge about certain parts of the book - a young child would possibly be able to relate to seeing a parent cooking, playing with a parent, and having to put things away.This is the perfect read for a parent and child to bond together, and there is even a recipe for Snowy Day Vegetable Soup at the back of the book if the kids are interested in actually cooking with a parent. less

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