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Summary: Great Kindergarten Book!
Review: Each month in my kindergarten class we memorize the chicken soup poem for the month. The humorous rhymes, pictures, and predictable pattern make it easy to learn. Kids love it, and months later they can still recite all the poems from the preceding months! I bought the big book also, and cut apart the pages to make posters to display every month.
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Summary: Poems and pictures children really enjoy!
Review: I found this book to be once of the best childrens books I have ever read. The pictures portrayed the poems wonderfully. A great way to spend a rainy day with your child, or to teach kids months of the year. This book really lets your child use their imagination. You should try watching the video with them too so they can see the book come to life!
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Summary: Paperback book way too small for the high price.
Review: I think I paid way too much for this extremely slim and small book. This paperback book measures approximately 3 inches by 5 inches. About 1/10 of an inch think. I paid over $5 from Amazon. The pages can easily be torn by a toddler or preschooler. It's just way too small to read to several children at once. Everyone is complaining that they can't see it.
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Summary: In December it will be, my snowman's anniversary...
Review: My daughter loves all the "Really Rosie" books. She was introduced to the Really Rosie CD performed by Carole King (also available on Amazon!) on her 1st Birthday and now, a year later, she knows all the songs. As far as the books go, we own: One Was Johnny, Alligators All Around, & Chicken Soup w/Rice. These books are well written with clever art work by Maurice Sendak. Plus, they are really cheap!! Highly recommended :)
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Summary: Read to Your Child to Improve Bonding and Intellect!
Review: Researchers constantly find that reading to children is valuable in a variety of ways, not least of which are instilling a love of reading and improved reading skills. With better parent-child bonding from reading, your child will also be more emotionally secure and able to relate better to others. Intellectual performance will expand as well. Spending time together watching television fails as a substitute. To help other parents apply this advice, as a parent of four I consulted an expert, our youngest child, and asked her to share with me her favorite books that were read to her as a young child. Chicken Soup with Rice was one of her picks. Now I should provide some more background. My wife's Mother makes a lengendary chicken soup, which will cure whatever ails you, cheer you up when you're sad, and help you get your homework done faster. We have always received large containers of this wonderful soup for every possible use. It becomes not only something we eat a lot of, but something that we talk about frequently. There is also discussion about how hard the Matzoh balls should be. Although this book is ostensibly about the months of the year, it also has a theme about what you do with chicken soup with rice in each month. So the poems were just a starting point for us in discussing what else to do with Grandma's chicken soup. At the same time, I know that my daughter's love of this book also helped her learn the months (and what seasons they are in). Maurice Sendak's illustrations are wonderful and witty, and she enjoyed them very much. I think you and your child will, too. There's a short 10 line poem for each month with chicken soup with rice in it. In January you eat it while slipping and sliding on the ice. In February, you eat it to celebrate your snowman's birthday. In March, the wind blows open the door so you have to eat the soup off the floor after it spills. In April, you go on a trip and think about chicken soup with rice. In May, you imagine being a robin making the soup in your nest. In June, you put some on your roses to fertilize them. In July, you find a turtle selling it at the bottom of the ocean. In August, you become a cooking pot for the soup. In September, you paddle down a chicken soupy Nile river. In October, you serve it to ghosts, witches, and goblins. In November, you become a whale who spouts hot chicken soup with rice. In December, chicken soup bowls become ornaments on a Christmas tree. Our daughter would the come up with her own variations. And she would laugh and laugh at every mention of chicken soup with rice. The repetition helped her learn to read the poems. First, she memorized them, and later she learned to read them. This was clearly one of her favorite books for helping her learn to read. Overcome your stalled thinking that chicken soup with rice isn't good for learning to read!
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Summary: MMMM chicken soup....
Review: Summary: A young boy describes the usefulness of chicken soup with rice for each month of the year.
Evaluation: With Sendak's creative repetitious and rhythmic words, children will enjoy and learn to read the story of a boy who loves chicken soup with rice! Through Sendak's catchy story, children will also learn the months of the year, as well as what seasons go with what month! They learn to identify ice-skating and snowmen in the winter; strong wind in March; birds and flowers in the spring; swimming and hot temperatures in the summer; and finally different holidays throughout the year. Such as Halloween in October, and Christmas in December.
Sendak's simple three colored crayon-like drawings are a perfect addition to his educational and entertaining story.
A great activity that you can do with this book is to have children draw their own illustrations for each month of the year. Afterwards you can bind the pages together so the children can create their own book.
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Summary: Read it once. Read it twice. Reading Chicken Soup With Rice
Review: These days, when a person says, "chicken soup" they're probably going to follow up those words with, "for the soul" or maybe "for the teenaged soul". Didn't used to be that way. Why I can remember a time when if a person said, "chicken soup" those words were followed by an enthusiastic "with rice!". Such was the power of Maurice Sendak's catchy 1962 children's book. I am pleased to report that if you care to read this book again today, you will find it hasn't dimished a jot in terms of frolicksome fun. In this book we are led through a whirlwind chicken soup year with our host, a boy who bears no little resemblance to Sendak's other great rhyming tale "Pierre" (in looks if not demeanor). It's a catchy flouncy bouncy combo of soup and the people who love it so.
This is ostensibly a book meant to teach your children the different months of the year. Each month gets its own rhythmic poem and accompanying illustration. These are fairly simple pen and ink drawings with the occasional splash of blue (in varying shades), yellow, gray, and green. You may wonder how an author could ever hope to come up with twelve highly original soup-related poems. I mean, honestly, how much is there to say about even the fanciest soup, let alone chicken soup with rice? Quite a lot, as it happens. In the cold winter months soup is supped while sliding on ice, while celebrating the birthday of a snowman, and in a gusty gale as a whale. In the spring there's robin's nest soup, soup to cure drooping roses, and soup stolen by jealous March winds. Our hero postulates the potential joys that could come of being a cooking pot, stewing soup or (oddly enough) as "a baubled bangled Christmas tree".
Not to degrade the reading skills of parents everywhere, but I cannot recommend enough getting an audio version of this tale to accompany your child's reading. Though I am now a wise and cultured 26 year-old (the years have been kind to me in this, my old age) I can still remember the chicken soup with rice tune. Heck, I read this entire book recently and found I could do the song perfectly with each and every line. Now maybe you have your own particular chicken soup with rice song style that you're just loathe to give up. If so, fine. I understand why you might not want to taint your already existing chicken soup melody. But if you haven't found a jingle to accompany this book, get the audio version immediately, if not sooner. Until you can sing "Whoopy once, whoopy twice, whoopy chicken soup with rice" with the correct oomph, you're missing out.
I take my "Chicken Soup With Rice" readings seriously. This book was the "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" of its day, and still remains the catchiest method to teach kids the months of the year. It is also seriously in danger of being forgotten. So pull out your old accordion and strap on your dancing shoes. The time for yukkin' it up to a merry dance of poultry broth is here. It's Sendak at his finest.
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Summary: Can't explain why
Review: This book has been a favorite of mine since I was able to read. It was one of my first introductions to poetry, and the humorous rhymes have been an inspiration to me in my own writing. This is the type of book that college students reminisce about and bond over--it really is that simple and good.
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Summary: A great way to learn the months
Review: This is a book of poetry about the months of the year. It goes through each month and has a cute little poem to go along with it. I love this book because it is a really fun way to learn the months and the poems are very creative. The author's purpose for writing this book was to give children a fun way to learn the months. The children can also learn things about poetry and rhythm through reading this book.
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Summary: A great way to learn the months
Review: This is a book of poetry about the months of the year. It goes through each month and has a cute little poem to go along with it. I love this book because it is a really fun way to learn the months and the poems are very creative. The author's purpose for writing this book was to give children a fun way to learn the months. The children can also learn things about poetry and rhythm through reading this book.
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