This edition is perfect for lap sharing and as a baby shower gift. This beloved classic from Maurice Sendak has helped introduce the months and seasons to generations of children. This would be especially relevant to use in a climate such as ours in Pennsylvania so that students can understand that when it is October, it will be chilly and blustery along with the spookiness of Halloween. Now in a larger, 5 x 7 trim size, Chicken Soup with Rice is a book that children and their grown-ups will want to return to month after month. Scholastic Book Wizard has identified this book as a Pre K-3 level. Along with being a silly rhyming book, this can be considered a concept book because of its evaluation of the timeline of each month and the weather that changes along with it. Each month, along with the changing weather, the narrator talks about how perfect chicken soup with rice is for any occasion. In February he enjoys some chicken soup with rice with a snowman pal. This rhyming book cleverly uses a little boys love for soup to teach children the months of the year and features Sendaks imaginative drawings and lyrical verses. In January, he is sipping chicken soup with rice while sliding on the ice. Learn the alphabet with silly alligators, drink chicken soup with rice every month, count visitors with a boy named Johnny, and survive a scare with a boy who. Now in a larger, 5 x 7 trim size, Chicken Soup with Rice is a book that children and their grown-ups will want to return to month after month. Maurice Sendak, the Caldecott Medal-winning creator of the iconic Where the Wild Things Are, created a warmly loved classic book of months, in verse, with Chicken Soup with Rice. Each month, the narrator talks about how perfectly chicken soup with rice goes with the festivities of the month. As someone who lived off of chicken soup with rice every season of the year, especially when I first moved to Pennsylvania, I loved to read this with my mom and share a giggle about how much we related to his character.

Chicken Soup with Rice has always been one of my favorite concept books growing up.

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