Chicken Soup with Rice Board Book : A Book of Months

from PattyHoward

Chicken Soup with Rice is my favorite Maurice Sendak book. I have a clear weakness for clever rhyming books with great cadence and charming pictures. This is no exception. One thing I love about this book it is the way that each page ends with "Chicken Soup with Rice!" My kids used to practically...

from Lara.Lofdahl

Another one of my favorite books as a child. I have always been a big fan of Maurice Sendak; he has lovely and imaginative stories combined with sweet and funny illustrations. This particular book doesn't necessarily have any character development. It is more about learning the different months a...

from szierdt

A classic picture book of the favored author Maurice Sendak. Lots of good repitition and rhyming including 12 months of the year. It would be great to read this book on the first day of each month, identifying student birthday's and anything else that would go well with chicken soup with rice dur...

from rbelknap

This book is a great example of a fantasy book because there are things like the wind, birds, and pots that are given human characteristics. And none of these things can do the things they do in the book in real life. Age Appropriateness: Primary Media: Pen and Ink drawings

from breksarah

The main idea of the book is the way the season change with time. It is a serious of poems, each named after a different month. Each small poem has a simple rhyme structure that depicts the child's activity for that month. This book is great for young children, from Pre-K through First grade. It ...