Common Sense Note
It won't take long before children start repeating the poem. The writing is simple, yet entertaining, and the art conveys warmth.
Common Sense Review
Reviewed By: Peter Lewis
Sendak delivers a charming little book of poems and creatively maintains the chicken-soup-with-rice theme all the way through. Each poem is well crafted, and the artwork gives the book a warm feeling, much like chicken soup itself.
There is a child's sensibility at work in the notions of a whale spouting chicken soup and of floating down the soupy Nile.
After a few readings, the words "chicken soup with rice" become like good-luck pieces that can be deployed on many occasions: Anything that's genuinely worthwhile, anything that sees you through--that's chicken soup with rice. When a feverish four-year-old asks for chicken soup with rice, a parent knows he or she's in the presence of something elemental.
See Sendak's One Was Johnny, Pierre, and Alligators All Around for three more small-scale beauts. Wanda Gág's Millions of Cats is another fine bit of storytelling for the young.
Plot Summary:
This is a nice early work by children's book all-star Maurice Sendak. Every month in the year has a poem with the soup theme. The simple illustrations add warmth and character to the poems.
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