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kathydavie's review against another edition
5.0
A standalone story in the Nutshell Library series for children that has fun exploring seasonal expectations of each month of the year.
My Take
The illustrations are darling — y'all'll get a kick out of Sendak's choices for each month — with a common color theme of blues and yellow. I can't decide if they're engraving-like images with watercolors or if Sendak used aquarelles.
The chapters are titled with the month and a seasonally changing blue, green-and-yellow and yellow background encased in an elaborate curlicue of a ribbon-like black-and-white border.
Each month is a cute rhyme that references the month and time of year and how nice it is to eat chicken soup with rice. January is ice, February is a celebration with his snowman, March is the blowy month while April finds an elephant sharing his soup, and more.
Sendak gets the animal kingdom involved from elephants to robins to turtles to crocodiles to whales as he travels to India, Egypt, the beach, and the backyard. I must confess I'd not get as excited as the children in the illustration about December's offering!
This could be a fun discussion with the kids about the months of the year.
The Cover and Title
The cover is a pale yellow with a subtle green frame encasing a deeper yellow background with the author's name in a deep, deep brown at the top, followed by the title, its subtitle, and the publisher's name at the very bottom. In between is an ornately framed oval of a little boy in blue short pants and jacket prancing as he enjoys a hot bowl of Chicken Soup with Rice.
My Take
The illustrations are darling — y'all'll get a kick out of Sendak's choices for each month — with a common color theme of blues and yellow. I can't decide if they're engraving-like images with watercolors or if Sendak used aquarelles.
The chapters are titled with the month and a seasonally changing blue, green-and-yellow and yellow background encased in an elaborate curlicue of a ribbon-like black-and-white border.
Each month is a cute rhyme that references the month and time of year and how nice it is to eat chicken soup with rice. January is ice, February is a celebration with his snowman, March is the blowy month while April finds an elephant sharing his soup, and more.
Sendak gets the animal kingdom involved from elephants to robins to turtles to crocodiles to whales as he travels to India, Egypt, the beach, and the backyard. I must confess I'd not get as excited as the children in the illustration about December's offering!
This could be a fun discussion with the kids about the months of the year.
The Cover and Title
The cover is a pale yellow with a subtle green frame encasing a deeper yellow background with the author's name in a deep, deep brown at the top, followed by the title, its subtitle, and the publisher's name at the very bottom. In between is an ornately framed oval of a little boy in blue short pants and jacket prancing as he enjoys a hot bowl of Chicken Soup with Rice.
beyondevak's review against another edition
5.0
What I Liked:
- Super funny
- Great review for calendar
- Excellent "What's Wrong?" activity book
- Super funny
- Great review for calendar
- Excellent "What's Wrong?" activity book
xsleepyshadows's review against another edition
3.0
A charming book of poetry about the months and drinking chicken soup with rice all through the year! This is a perfect reading level for kids learning months in a humorous way. A fun thing to do with this book is read one once a month with the appropriate month. Also nice book I suggest when kids are sick because chicken soup becomes a necessity! ~Ashley
vll295's review against another edition
5.0
My absolute favorite book as a kid! I can still recite it by heart :)
roseannmvp's review against another edition
5.0
We have the mini library- my kid loved this one, and she love chicken soup, too!
the_weirdling's review against another edition
5.0
This might be a silly book, except for one important detail. It is entirely correct: chicken soup with rice is great at any time of the year and in any place, no matter how ridiculous. Sure, maybe that sounds a lot like a cult. But here’s the thing: if the cult comes with chicken soup with rice, who really cares that it’s a cult?