Chicken+Soup+with+Rice

__**CHICKEN SOUP WITH RICE**__ Title: Chicken Soup with Rice Author: Maurice Sendak ISBN-13: 9780064432535 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Publication date: 3/28/1991 Series: Trophy Picture Bks. Edition description: Reprint Edition number: 1 Pages: 32 Hardcover: $12.41 Sales rank: 52,771 Age range: 4 - 8 Years
 * Book Review by: Kara Brighindi**
 * Bibliographical Information:**

Maurice Sendak is an excellent writer and illustrator of children’s books. He is often referred to as "the Picasso of children's books." Sendak was born in Brooklyn. He decided to become an illustrator after watching Walt Disney's film //Fantasia// at the age of twelve. Maurice Sendak drew inspiration and influences from a vast number of painters, musicians and authors. Sendak has won a series of awards for his amazing childhood books. Sendak received the third biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration in 1970, one of two inaugural Astrid Lindgren Memorial Awards in 2003, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal from the American Library Association in 1983. He is also famous for his books, //The Nutshell Library,// and //Where the Wild Things are.//
 * Author Biography:**

This book is about a little boy who loves his chicken soup with rice. He talks about what he will do each month of the year with his chicken soup with rice. It is a great sing along story that has many repetitive refrains so the students will be able to easily catch on with parts of the story after a while. Each month he talks about something related to that month so it helps students learn the months of the year. The story is written as a poem and is simple but still fun for children to read.
 * Summary:**

I really like this book. I remember reading it as a child and it was one of my favorite books. It was so helpful when learning about the months of the year. I think it does a great job at illustrating the different months of the year and portraying the story as it travels through the months. I really like the song version that goes along to this book because I think it would be a great way for students to learn the book and the months if they get to do it a fun way. The words in the book are fairly easy enough for students so they should be able to catch on really quickly. I would definitely use this book in my classroom with the song version because I think that students would have a fun time singing along to the story. I think this story does an excellent job at teaching about the different months of the year in a fun and interesting way.
 * Book Review: **

Bringing this book into my future class will benefit the students in many different ways. It is an interesting but easy book to read so it can easily be understood by student’s at all different levels. Also, the illustrations of this story go along perfectly with the different months of the year. I think that with the illustrations it will further teach the students about the different months of the year. The theme of this story is to teach children the order of the months and about the months but in a fun and silly way. I think that by teaching children through a fun song of the story that they will be more likely to remember the months. Therefore, it is extremely beneficial to teach children this way. You can see this theme throughout the entire book because each time he talks about chicken soup with rice, he is introducing a new month for children to learn. He not only introduces the month but also talks about what he does within that month. Therefore, it is helpful for students because not only will they remember October but they will remember it as the month of Halloween.
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