Duck Soup by Jackie Urbanovic

This book was only okay. It's about a duck, Max who is making his own soup for his friends to eat at dinner. I don't think kids would know what half of the foods and spices he is adding to his soup. I wouldn't have known what chives or parsley were at a young age reading this, but who knows maybe I'm not giving them enough credit. The pictures are pretty plain although the duck is really cute with his over sized chef hat on. The characters are quite dramatic in this story which I don't know if I like, but it would be easy to create a play from this book! Max's friends are hungry and ready to eat so they venture into the kitchen and can't find the Max. His pot of soup is still on the stove so they convince themselves that he fell into the soup. As they strain the soup in attempt to find Max they claim they see his eyeballs which are onions, his head which is a potato, and his feet which are carrots. After they are done straining and pouring the soup down the drain Max walks into the kitchen, he had run out to get more ingredients for his soup. They end up ordering pizza, which I think happens more often than not when people, or ducks in this matter, try to cook. I liked this book, but it wasn't one of my favorites I have ever read.