
This would be especially relevant to use in a climate such as ours in Pennsylvania so that students can understand that when it is October, it will be chilly and blustery along with the spookiness of Halloween. Scholastic Book Wizard has identified this book as a Pre K-3 level.


Along with being a silly rhyming book, this can be considered a concept book because of its evaluation of the timeline of each month and the weather that changes along with it. Each month, along with the changing weather, the narrator talks about how perfect chicken soup with rice is for any occasion. In February he enjoys some chicken soup with rice with a snowman pal. In January, he is sipping chicken soup with rice while sliding on the ice. Each month, the narrator talks about how perfectly chicken soup with rice goes with the festivities of the month. As someone who lived off of chicken soup with rice every season of the year, especially when I first moved to Pennsylvania, I loved to read this with my mom and share a giggle about how much we related to his character.

In 2003, Sendak received the first Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, an annual international prize for children’s literature established by the Swedish government.Chicken Soup with Rice has always been one of my favorite concept books growing up. Summary: Each month is gay, each season nice, when eating chicken soup with.

In 1970 he received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Illustration, in 1983 he received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award from the American Library Association, and in 1996 he received a National Medal of Arts in recognition of his contribution to the arts in America. Title: Chicken soup with rice board book : a book of months / Maurice Sendak. He received the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are and is the creator of such classics as In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, Higglety Pigglety Pop!, and Nutshell Library. Item :NTS127594 ISBN13:9780060255350 Format:Hardcover Book Pages:32 Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers Genre:Comedy and Humor, Poetry, Songs, Verse. Maurice Sendak’s children’s books have sold over 30 million copies and have been translated into more than 40 languages.
