Everyone knows about Where The Wild Things Are. It was a staple of my childhood. However, I was completely unaware that Maurice Sendak had written anything else.

My ex had a different perspective, being smitten with Chicken Soup With Rice when she was a kid. So she bought it for our five year old daughter.

Said daughter, and I, are just as charmed by the month to month rhymes, and I think the illustrations are cool, and so obviously Sendak’s style. She is now fascinated by the idea of trying such soup. Not sure how that will go over, since she is in a phase where food items can’t be mixed the way they are in soup of that type.

The book doubles as an aid for teaching her about the months, seasons and calendar, as I’ve been doing recently. Along with some geography. She’s crazy about maps.

It’s not chicken, but I plan to turn leftovers in turkey soup with rice. We’ll see how that goes…