Pumpkin soup by helen cooper5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() My children go off in very large huffs, especially if their desires are thwarted. It's trouble, it's big, big, big trouble. The three friends argue and fight, soup goes everywhere:ĭoes that sound at all familiar? I'll bet it does. ![]() One day Duck takes a fancy to soup stirring. Each has a job to do and things are happy and peaceful. They work in harmony, these three friends, even at bedtime when they 'pop off to bed, in a quilt stitched together by the Cat, embroidered by the Squirrel and filled with fine feathers by the Duck'. Cat slices the pumpkin, Squirrel cooks and stirs and Duck 'scoops up a pipkin of salt, and tips just enough in'. They always have a huge pan of the best pumpkin soup you ever tasted sitting on the stove. They play music during the autumn evenings Cat has bagpipes, Squirrel has a banjo and Duck sings. If they like it, you can always buy it!Ĭat, Squirrel and Duck live in an old white cabin deep in the woods. ![]() It perhaps overdoes the sentimentality, but is certainly worth borrowing from the library. Summary: Beautifully illustrated, simple, rhythmic and with some useful messages about friendship and loyalty, Pumpkin Soup is a class act of a picture book. ![]()
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