chicken soup with rice a book of months book

I don’t own it and haven’t read it to my children yet. I have to admit that, while this book was apparently one of my favourites, I don’t have particularly vivid memories of it. June is another fun month, where the roses are drooping and the boy of the book peps them up with chicken soup. One of my favourite features is how the “chorus” is repetitive while still changing it to suit each month’s activity. Reading it as an adult, I’m amazed at how lyrical and rhythmic the words are, and now that I’ve heard the song once more, I don’t think I would be able to read it without slipping into the song. (It really is very catchy!) It goes through every month of the year, suggestingt a good reason to eat chicken soup with rice for each. She was all, “What book should we read today?” and we were all, “Chicken Soup with Rice, Chicken Soup with Rice, Chicken Soup with Rice!” I’m sure that wasn’t annoying at all.Īnd now that I’ve watched the video of the song and the book on Youtube, the song is on repeat in my head. I asked her what my favourite books were when I was a kid her response? “I only remember one book: Chicken Soup with Rice.” Apparently, she read it to my sister and me every day for a whole lot of days.

Regardless of the TV program and live musical, I was a big fan of the book as a kid, and –according to my mother– that’s putting it mildly. In 1975 there was even an animated TV special and in 1980 there was an Off-Broadway production of Really Rosie. Popular enough that Carole King wrote a song with the exact lyrics of this book – a song that was written for the musical Really Rosie, based on several of Sendak’s books including Pierre, One Was Johnny, Alligators All Around, The Sign on Rosie’s Door and, of course, Chicken Soup with Rice. This book may not be as well-known as some of Sendak’s other books, but it was pretty popular when I was growing up in the 70’s.

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 (A Book of Months)ġ962 | Written and Illustrated by Maurice Sendak | HarperCollins

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. 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. Maurice Sendak’s children’s books have sold over 30 million copies and have been translated into more than 40 languages.

Chicken soup with rice a book of months book