Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months
Here's an old favorite, by well-loved children's author Maurice Sendak.
JANUARY
In January It's so nice while slipping on the sliding ice to sip hot chicken soup with rice. Sipping once sipping twice sipping chicken soup with rice.
This much-loved, old favorite by Maurice Sendak, author of the awarding-winning "Where the Wild things Are," still proves to be an entertaining way for kids to learn the months of the year. "Chicken Soup with Rice" is part of Sendak's Nutshell Library that includes three other titles that present basic learning concepts for kids: "Alligators All Around: An Alphabet;" "One was Johnny: A Counting Book;" and "Pierre: A Cautionary Tale in Five Chapters and a Prologue." The four volumes may be purchased in this boxed set or separately.
Originally published in 1962, "Chicken Soup with Rice" is a favorite with kids of all ages, (even some adults!), because of its singsong, upbeat rhyming verses. Most often thought of as a remedy for the cold or flu, the improbable uses for chicken soup in this book -- as Christmas ornaments, Halloween treats or to provide a swimming hole for crocodiles – brings a smile to most faces. Many children also respond to the child-friendly size of the book.
More realistically, the story presents seasonal activities that kids will identify with–ice skating and snowmen in winter; March's strong winds; the robins and flowers of spring; swimming in July; and the fall holidays.
All around a book that packs a lot of fun reading, and becomes one of those books that kids always remember sharing with their parents.
