Sweet book about a mother and daughter who cook soup together all day on a chilly day. Cozy vibes! Pre-K through 2nd grade. ( )

This book follows a mother and a little girl who shops for ingredients to make a vegetable soup together. While the soup is cooking, the two of them spend time with each other. This book emphasizes a mother and daughter relationship while celebrating the idea that food brings people together. This would be a great book for kindergarten to early elementary students. ( )

Soup day tells the story of a little girl who cooks soup with her mother. Before long, Daddy's home and the family sit down to enjoy a homemade dinner. This story works best for students ages kindergarten through second. I appreciate how this book teaches kids about the importance of a homemade meal, it could potentially be used in health class.

This is a board book/hard book that is perfect for primary readers. It includes various shapes, colors, and vegetables for kids to learn. It also has a recipe for kids to try and follow along which a fun way to stay engaged. This book goes through what this girls family does on "soup day" which could also be another Childs snow day. ( )

This book would be good for primary students.

This book is about a little girl who makes soup with her mom. They pick out the vegetables and cut them. She talks about the colors and the shapes that she gets to cut them into. She talks about the types of pasta that she can add to the soup.

This book would be great to pair with a nutrition lesson. This book talks about pasta, vegetables and meals. This way would be a great way to talk about how students might help at meal time at home. They could also make their own soup with paper and glue. They can make projects. ( )

This book is geared towards younger elementary students.

This book follows a little girl and her mom as they go to the grocery store. They work together to chop up vegetables and put soup together for dinner. While they wait for the soup to be done, the mom and the daughter play together.

I would use this book if we were cooking in class together. ( )

I think this book would be good for for Kindergarten-First because the words are bold and simple. The story is a relationship between a mother and her daughter making their favorite soup and spending the day together. ( )

A sweet mother/daughter day, including a recipe for "snowy day vegetable soup."

We actually made the soup from the recipe in the back, and it was delicious!

See also: Dim Sum for Everyone by Grace Lin, Me & Mama by Cozbi A. Cabrera, Saturday by Oge Mora ( )

This book by Melissa Iwai makes me want to make a big pot of soup. The step by step process of making soup from chopping the vegetables to waiting for the soup to cook brings this book to life. I like how the author used "Sssssss" to describe the sounds the broth makes when pouring into the pot. I also enjoyed how she refers to the parsley as confetti. The illustrations of the different vegetable shapes and the different varieties of pasta are great visuals. The author ends the book with a recipe for snowy day vegetable soup. This book reminds me of Campell's soup commercials! This is a great mentor book with the onomatopeias, step by step process of making soup, and shape and alphabet concepts. ( )

This simple book is an interactive book between a child and her mother on a snowy day as they make soup for dinner. This book shows our culinary kids that even their favorite activity can be a great story! As a bonus, the recipe is in the back for a fun activity with the kiddos. ( )

I really enjoyed the vivid descriptions that the author gave about the items in the soup. It made the reading a lot more interesting instead of just saying for example carrots and celery. It was very cute that the little girl actually helped her mom make the soup instead of just watching her make it. It was great that they put in the filler part about what the little girl and the mom did while they were waiting for the soup to be done. It is a good lesson about learning how to be patient. This is a great lesson for kids to learn. It also teaches them that there are ways to be patient and have fun too. ( )

Mother and daughter are shopping for their dinner, today is soup day. After coming home they wash and chop all ingredients and prepare their soup. While the soup is simmering , mom and daughter playing games, read books. The soup is done just when dad walks into the house.

This book is about a girl who helps her mom make soup. They shop together and she gets to pick the type of noodles she wants. ( )

One snowy beautiful day, a little girl helps her mother choose vegetables at the store because it is their special soup day. She helps her mom wash them, and even chop them (I get to cut the mushrooms and zucchini with a plastic knife because they are soft. Mommy helps my hand). Then, while the soup simmers on the stove, they spend the time playing and reading together. After her mother adds spices, the girl chooses her favourite pasta to add to the pot. They clean up the room and put away the toys. When her dad comes home, they all eat the soup together. The recipe for Snowy Day Vegetable Soup is appended. I really like the simplicity of concept and expression in this text. This picture book shows the everyday places and activities from a child’s point of view. The brightly colored illustrations with the combination of acrylics, fabric and paper collage provide plenty of familiar concepts for young reader to identify and new ones to explore, such as the six kinds of pasta that pictured on one page, and what various vegetables look like. ( )

This is a great book for mother and daughter bonding, and getting children to want to help in the kitchen. A little girl and her mother go to the store and get the ingredients to make soup, they prepare the healthy recipe together, and they clean and play games together while waiting for the soup to be done. When I was little some of my fondest memories were watching my mom cook, and being so proud of myself every time I was able to help her. It is so important to let children help it really does boost their confidence letting them be involved. ( )

On a snow day a little girl goes with her mom to the store. They pick out all the thing they need for vegetable soup. The little girl and her mom then start to prepare there vegetable soup. While they wait they play games and read book. After they are done playing they pick up and when dad gets home they all eat their vegetable soup. The pictures cover the whole pages but some have frames around them. The colors are bright and bold. ( )

discusses a little girl going about making soup with her mom. she talks about the different steps and how she spent her day making the soup.
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I would use this book in a Pre-K class. It is a short story, with beautiful illustrations. A girl and her mother bond while making soup. They read books and play together. I like this book for very young children because it teaches them shapes and colors. The little girl in the story describes the different vegetables that are used to make the soup by using colors and the shapes that they are cut into. ( )

This was a short picture book about a little girl and her mother making soup. I liked how it talked about eating vegetables. There was a recipe for the veggie soup in the back that could be a nice tie in for the classroom for a celebration. WE could use it to start a discussion about family traditions. Or, because of the veggie component, for a health unit. ( )

Soup Day is about a mother and a daughter making soup. In the story we see the mom and daughter go to the store for ingredients. After they go home and chop all the vegetables to make the soup. While the soup is cooking they play games together. Once the soup is done they all eat including the dad. This story is very cute and would be fun for a younger class. ( )

Soup Day is about a young girl and her mother who go to the store to make delicious soup. The little girl helps her mommy pick out all the ingredients that they need for the soup and they begin to cook it. The little girl helps cut the mushrooms with a plastic knife and her mommy helps her. While the soup is cooking, the young girl and mommy build a city, run away from a monster, and read to each other. A little time passes and they smell the soup, its almost done. When the soup is all done, Daddy walks in and its time to eat the soup. ( )

This is a great picture book to teach children about soup. The story is about a mother and daughter who makes soup, and what they do while they wait until the soup is ready. There is a recipe for chicken noodle soup, at the end of the book, which a teacher can utilize into a lesson plan for the book.

A story about a child and her mother who are cooking together, then play while the food is cooking, then they clean up and eat the soup with their family. It shows that children can help when the time is right and the importance of spending time together. ( )

Age 4-8
tacoma pubic library
A book about a young girl who goes to the market with her mom and pick out some vegetables then she learn how to cook it with the help of her mother.

This book is about a girl and her mother making a soup for the day. They have to go to the market and pick out the freshest vegetables, then they have to clean them and chop them. She learns which goes first and what to put in the pot. She is being a big helper to her mother by giving her a helping hand. They waste time by playing and reading books until the soup is ready. I love that her mother is giving her choices so she can come up with the decision. I love that they are working as a family to make the meal then eats the soup at the table. This is a great book for a home economics class or if you would like to make a soup with your mother or father one day. ( )