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Delicious!

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I bought "Pumpkin Soup" for my 4 year old granddaughter last year around Halloween. It was a hit. We then picked up "A Pipkin of Pepper." Now "Delicious" has rounded out our collection, giving us all three books about duck, squirrel and cat. My granddaughter looooooves them! They are fun to read to her and the illustration are just beautiful. I hope Helen Cooper has more stories coming about cat, squirrel and duck.

The 3rd in a series, this book is very sweet. The illustrations are works of art & bottom line, it makes my son happy.

This book is wonderful for getting kids to see all the wonders and secrets that books can hold. The secondary story of the bugs is amazing. It also adds a touch of adult humor. The rhyme makes it captivating for kids to hear read aloud or it can help them in reading it themselves.

Duck, Squirrel and Cat previously encountered in Cooper's Pumpkin Soup (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1998) and A Pipkin of Pepper (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2005) want to make pumpkin soup but they do not have a ripe pumpkin. They look in a recipe book and then make fish soup, and cat says, "It's scrumptious!" Squirrel says, "Nutritious!" but Duck says, "YUCK". They also make mushroom soup but Duck still says, "YUCK". Duck refuses to eat beet soup because it is pink and when the soup spills on the counter, the friends quarrel just as they did in the first book. A humorous parallel story shows some bugs enjoying the discarded fish soup and muttering about the waste, " Think of the starving poor" then drilling a hole in the kitchen sink pipe so they can siphon future discarded soup. The mixed media illustrations are brimming with color, movement and humor and the characters sparkle with personality. The three animals sit together and leaf through a cookbook, Squirrel and Cat rest their heads on their paws while Duck turns a page revealing a picture of a snail. The final double spread shows the three friends holding their spoons and happily sharing a big bowl of orange vegetable soup. A recipe for beet soup is included.

My son and I both love this book! The story is funny - both kids and adults can relate to the humor. The illustrations are spectacular - just like the other books in this series.

Fantastic fun and easy for my daughter, aged three, to follow. Unfortunately she has cottoned on to saying 'YUCK!', like the duck in the story, whenever she doesn't want to eat something or doesn't like something. However, the YUCK is a really good laugh in the story, so it's worth it.

The little cooks in Chef Buddies Cooking with Kids was fascinated with this book. We read a similar story before each cooking class starts. This book helped our picky eaters relax,and not make decisions about foods before they were ready to eat. We discussed the book and how the characters were right or wrong in how they handled the situation. The kids like the continued story so glad I bought all three books in the series

It's lunchtime in the old white cabin but Cat, Duck and Squirrel haven't got a ripe pumpkin for the Pumpkin Soup in Helen Cooper's Delicious! Can they substitute something else? There are possibilities, but Duck won't consider them - so how can they find a new dish to share? Recipes and fun culinary insights abound in a fine, different story of sharing.