Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: A father and child grow vegetables and then make them into a soup.

Flannel Board

	Mean Soup by Betsy Everitt Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: Horace feels really mean at the end of a bad day, until he helps his mother make Mean Soup.

Song

	Cucumber Soup by Vickie Leigh Krudwig Age Level: Advanced Preschool and up
Synopsis: All the insects in the garden, from ten little black ants down to one tiny flea, get involved in moving a fallen cucumber. Includes a recipe for cucumber soup and factual information about the insects in the story.

Song

	Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper Age Level: Advanced Preschool and up
Synopsis: The Cat and the Squirrel come to blows with the Duck in arguing about who will perform what duty in preparing their pumpkin soup, and they almost lose the Duck's friendship when he decides to leave them.

Films

	Chicken Soup With Rice by Maurice Sendak Age Level: PreK-2
Synopsis: ‘Each month is gay, each season nice, when eating chicken soup with rice.’

	Stone Soup by Marcia Brown Age Level: K-3 Running time: 11 minutes
Synopsis: When three hungry soldiers come to a town where all the food has been hidden, they set out to make soup of water and stones, and the entire town enjoys a feast.

More Books to Read On Your Own

Monkey Soup
by Louis Sachar
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: With the help of her toy monkey, a girl prepares an all-encompassing soup full of band-aids, crayons, and tissues, for her father who is sick in bed.

Bravery Soup
by Maryann Cocca-Leffler
Age Level: Advanced Preschool and up
Synopsis: Carlin, who is frightened by everything, wants to try some of Big Bear's bravery soup, but first he must travel through a dark forest to a monster's cave to retrieve an important ingredient.

Alvie Eats Soup
by Ross Collins
Age Level: Advanced Preschool and up
Synopsis: Alvie will eat only soup, and his parents are worried that his Granny Fanny, a famous chef, will find out.

The Soup Bone
by Tony Johnston
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: Looking for a soup bone on Halloween, a little old lady finds a hungry skeleton instead.

Tomato Soup
by Edith Thacher Hurd
Age Level: Preschool and up
Synopsis: When Baby Mouse catches a cold, she finds a mischievous way to avoid taking her medicine.

Moon Soup
by Lisa Desimini
Age Level: Advanced Preschool and up
Synopsis: When Mercurio, a wizened, flat-topped elf of a man, awakens one morning and finds the house to himself, he is struck with the idea of making moon soup. He spends all day gathering the ingredients to prepare this delicacy--and what a shopping list it is! Six eggs and the color purple (lilacs, violets and eggplants are good), "teacups galore," a scoop of sunset and a little music all blended in a large umbrella. When the lunar brew is ready, there's only one place to dine: "sitting on the moon."