Easy Fiction Treasure
Mouse Soup - the publisher blurb:
Weasel is ready for his dinner, and poor Mouse is it. Can
Mouse stop Weasel from serving up mouse soup for supper? The clever mouse tells
the weasel four stories to make the soup tasty—then manages to trick the weasel
and get home safely.
Listen to an audio sample here.
"It has no stories in it.
Mouse soup must be mixed with stories to make it taste
really good.”
“But I have no stories,” said the weasel.
“I do,” said the mouse.
“I can tell them now.”
“All right,” said the weasel.
“But hurry. I am very hungry.”
Arnold Lobel (1933-1987) is an important and timeless book creator. He won the Caldecott Medal for his book Fables in 1980. Every library should have copies of his Frog and Toad books along with Mouse Soup (1977) and Mouse Tales (1972). Luckily if you don't have them they are both still in print.
Once again Lobel demonstrates that a beginning reader can be gentle in humor, resourceful with limited vocabulary, and even subtle in simplicity. Kirkus
Mouse Tales contains seven little stories one for each mouse and one for each night of the week!
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