International Literature #2: Delicious! A Pumpkin Soup Story

Delicious!  A Pumpkin Soup Story
written and illustrated by Helen Cooper
Originally published in England

In an old white cabin lives a cat, a squirrel and a picky duck. When the pumpkin patch leaves the three without a ripe pumpkin for lunchtime, they had to make something else. All they had ever eaten was pumpkin soup. They pulled out the recipes book and look for a nutritious and delicious soup. The duck is hard to please, and each time a new soup is made, he will not eat! He would not eat the fish soup, the mushroom soup or the beet soup.

After a terrible fight, the cat decides to trick the duck. He uses carrots, tomatoes, zucchini and corn to make a soup that looked like pumpkin soup. The cat tastes the soup..."This is not pumpkin soup!" yelled the duck, but he loved the soup!!

This is a wonderful book that could be used to discuss nutrition and compromising. The illustrations are wonderfully detailed. On the sides of the pages there are little bugs talking to one another. I had to go back through the book after I read it to look at all the illustrations. Even though the duck is certainly fussing throughout the book, the illustrators draws him adorably that I could not help but love him!