Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months (Hardcover)

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 hugbuddy

I loved this book when I was a child! We had it in my elementary school library, and I checked it out all the time. It is a very simple and soothing book of months. Great story at bedtime!

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 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 ...