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Lentil Soup
by Carole Tremblay
Age Range: 6-8
Do you ever wonder where the ingredients in your food come from? If so, you must be genuinely curious about ingredient sourcing. This is not exactly the case for a young mouse about to eat his brother’s homemade lentil soup. The little mouse asks questions about every ingredient in the soup in order to prolong the time before he has to eat it! Rather than getting upset at his little brother for not eating his soup, the older mouse brother plays along and thinks up humorous scenarios of where the ingredients come from, making his younger brother guess which choice is the correct and most accurate one.
Written in French by Canadian author Carole Tremblay and translated into English by Charles Simard, Lentil Soup is a silly but informative story about the ingredients in lentil soup—and there is even a recipe for the soup at the back of the book! Readers laugh along with the older mouse brother’s funny ideas, like carrots being from the claws of fire dragons, celery being from two people in the jungle named Henry and Celine combining their names, and tomatoes being from the noses of clowns that have gotten too big.
What makes Lentil Soup truly unique is the layout of each page, where the text is contained within speech bubbles spoken by Maurčen Poignonec’s illustrations of the mouse brothers and their crazy world of lentil soup ingredients. This style makes the story seem more conversational, rather than if the text was simply at the bottom of each page. After a good laugh from the silliness, by the end of the book, readers will understand exactly where the ingredients of lentil soup come from.
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