- Paperback: 32 pages
- Publisher: Avon Books; 1st Harper Trophy Ed edition (3 Feb 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 006443253X
- ISBN-13: 978-0064432535
- Product Dimensions: 15.4 x 11.2 x 0.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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A small boy describes the activities that accompany chicken soup with rice in each month of the year.
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In January it's so nice while slipping on the sliding ice to sip hot chicken soup with rice. Read the first page
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Library Binding
The first time I read this I was in kindergarten (1984). They had a record that you would play along with it.I would rush to finish my work just so I could go hear it. Eventually, I learned all the words and the song that was on the album.While everyone was still doing their work, I was singing my lungs out in the back of the room.I've been trying to find it ever since. I'm so glad that I found it!!! Now I can give it away as gifts to all the kids I know will enjoy it!!!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I am still nostalgic for this book. Read it to your children.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Researchers constantly find that reading to children is valuable in a variety of ways, not least of which are instilling a love of reading and improved reading skills. With better parent-child bonding from reading, your child will also be more emotionally secure and able to relate better to others. Intellectual performance will expand as well. Spending time together watching television fails as a substitute.
To help other parents apply this advice, as a parent of four I consulted an expert, our youngest child, and asked her to share with me her favorite books that were read to her as a young child. Chicken Soup with Rice was one of her picks.
Now I should provide some more background. My wife's Mother makes a lengendary chicken soup, which will cure whatever ails you, cheer you up when you're sad, and help you get your homework done faster. We have always received large containers of this wonderful soup for every possible use. It becomes not only something we eat a lot of, but something that we talk about frequently. There is also discussion about how hard the Matzoh balls should be.
Although this book is ostensibly about the months of the year, it also has a theme about what you do with chicken soup with rice in each month. So the poems were just a starting point for us in discussing what else to do with Grandma's chicken soup.
At the same time, I know that my daughter's love of this book also helped her learn the months (and what seasons they are in). Maurice Sendak's illustrations are wonderful and witty, and she enjoyed them very much. I think you and your child will, too.
There's a short 10 line poem for each month with chicken soup with rice in it. In January you eat it while slipping and sliding on the ice. In February, you eat it to celebrate your snowman's birthday. In March, the wind blows open the door so you have to eat the soup off the floor after it spills. In April, you go on a trip and think about chicken soup with rice. In May, you imagine being a robin making the soup in your nest. In June, you put some on your roses to fertilize them. In July, you find a turtle selling it at the bottom of the ocean. In August, you become a cooking pot for the soup. In September, you paddle down a chicken soupy Nile river. In October, you serve it to ghosts, witches, and goblins. In November, you become a whale who spouts hot chicken soup with rice. In December, chicken soup bowls become ornaments on a Christmas tree.
Our daughter would the come up with her own variations. And she would laugh and laugh at every mention of chicken soup with rice. The repetition helped her learn to read the poems. First, she memorized them, and later she learned to read them. This was clearly one of her favorite books for helping her learn to read.
Overcome your stalled thinking that chicken soup with rice isn't good for learning to read!
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childhood memories
I "learned" this book with my son when he was 4 years old - as did all the children and many of their parents, at the Montessori School on the AFSouth NATO base in Naples, Italy... Read more
Published 17 months ago by marionclarion
Read to Your Child to Improve Bonding and Intellect!
Researchers constantly find that reading to children is valuable in a variety of ways, not least of which are instilling a love of reading and improved reading skills. Read more
Published on 21 May 2004 by Donald Mitchell
Beautiful illustrations!
I read this book when I was a kid and to this day I can recite almost every word of it. Maurice Sendaks illustrations are out of this world. He has great talent and skill. Read more
Published on 24 Jun 1999
Just loved this book!
I always loved reading this book when I was growing up. I have a copy of it somewhere, but can seem to find it. I just love the ryhmes and the chorus of chicken soup with rice.
Published on 7 April 1999
sip it once sip it twice
Kids would like this because it rhymes. And it has very interesting pictures. It's also written in very good detail. Read more
Published on 1 April 1999
Great book....
We bought it once, now we've bought it twice, oh how Hailey loves her "Chicken Soup With Rice". Read more
Published on 20 Dec 1998
A childhood favorite
This was my favorite book when I was growing up. Each week, when I would go to the library with my mom, I would take this book out. Finally I received a copy as a gift one year! Read more
Published on 15 Dec 1998
Enchanting poetry for children....forever remembered.
A wonderful book of monthly poetry. Written with a continuous thematic strand. A perfect resource for primary children using poetry to introduce the months. Read more
Published on 22 Aug 1998
Fun to read along with your children.
My seven year old and 4 year old delight in the whimsical and silly ryhming. We love it once, we love it twice. We love Chicken soup with rice!
Published on 8 Oct 1997
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