Soup Day by Melissa Iwai, was a great book to someday share with your own child. I would also like to have this book available for my students in my future classroom. I enjoyed reading this book because it reminded me of my own family and what my mom would do when I was a young child. I also enjoyed the idea of going to the market picking out the supplies and finally creating the soup. I also liked the aspect of having the child be patient until the soup was finished. The way the author had the mother spend time with the daughter was a great touch to the book, because some families today miss that aspect of raising children. That is why I enjoyed this book so much, because of all of the family ties it had in it and I believe my future students need to be exposed to that. Soup Day is a wonderfully illustrated children's book. What better time to make soup then a snowy day? The daughter and mother go to the grocery store to pick out ingredients. Melissa Iwai includes all the necessary steps to making a vegetable soup. My pre-k students really liked the illustrations and explanations of how things were cut and added to the soup. A great activity was reading the book and pretending to do what the characters were doing. Personally, I really liked seeing an Asian child portrayed in a picture book! Bonus points for that!
A nice little winter/cooking story to share with the toddler/preschool crowd.
—missjmedia
A step by step of making soup! Wonderful images and story, very realistic
—peachy
A little girl helps her mom make soup. Includes recipe!
—tiffany
