Pumpkin Soup - Hardcover

Cooper, Helen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385604939 ISBN 13: 9780385604932

Publisher: Doubleday Children's Books, 2002

Synopsis

Cat, Duck and Squirrel live in an old white cabin, with a pumpkin patch in the garden. Every day Cat slices up some pumpkin, Squirrel stirs in some water and Duck tips in some salt to make the perfect pumpkin soup...Until the day Duck wants to do the stirring...A funny, rhymical story about friendship and sharing, with fabulous animal characters, illustrated in glowing autumnal colours.

About this title

Review:

Three friends, Duck, Squirrel and Cat, join together every evening to make pumpkin soup. Each has their own very important part to play in the process and the soup is always delicious. Then, one day, Duck decides he wants to stir the soup instead of adding the salt. This leads to a tremendous quarrel which ends with Duck leaving in a huff. At first Squirrel and Cat are unconcerned by his absence, but as time goes by they start to worry about what might have happened to their friend.

This is a witty, observant and highly original tale about the ups and downs of friendship by award-winning author-illustrator Helen Cooper. As in The Bear Under the Stairs and The Baby Who Wouldn't Go to Bed, Helen Cooper has created a magical picture book from a familiar childhood occurrence. --Philippa Reece

Review:

"A highly inventive, witty slant on a familiar theme of friendship and sharing which children of ages three and up will adore." -- "Bookseller" " A highly inventive, witty slant on a familiar theme of friendship and sharing which children of ages three and up will adore." -- "Bookseller"

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday Children's Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0385604939
• ISBN 13: 9780385604932
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32