When Tonlu tries to steal a pearl from the Cloud Dragons' treasure in order to help her father pay his debts, she finds herself resolving a dispute about soup recipes.
A mother and child spend a snowy day together buying and preparing vegetables, assembling ingredients, and playing while their big pot of soup bubbles on the stove. Includes a recipe for "Snowy Day Vegetable Soup.".
Poverty has made the people of a small town stingy and sour, but the arrival of an old beggar who claims he can make borscht from buttons, teaches them the value of friendship and sharing.
In a garden outside a Kenyan schoolhouse, the children work together to harvest the vegetables they have grown and make them into a soup for everyone to share, but Kioni's goats have followed her to school today and they are trying to eat all the vegetables.
A rhythmic text with repetitive phrases relates how the children watch Mama make soup and go with Papa to get tortillas before enjoying the results of her labor. Presented in English and Spanish.
Directions for making various ethnic and regional soups, including minestrone, chop-suey soup, chicken soup, navy bean soup, and clam chowder, with accompanying menu suggestions.
In this retelling of "Stone Soup" set in the West Indies, an old woman claims to have found a magic shell that can make kallaloo, a popular Caribbean soup.
