They hide under the dining room table, their Action Man back packs filled with essentials - er.dinosaur stickers, toy tanks, dummies, teddies - you know the kind of things I'm sure. 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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