All Rabbit wanted to do was make some carrot soup with the carrots he grew in his garden. When he goes to pick them, they are all gone! Rabbit asks all his friends but none of them seem to know. When Rabbit gets home, he finds out all of his friends had told a white lie to surprise him with a party with tons of carrot soup.

This book was really cute and had a great message about friendship. ( )

Aurora Says:
Carrot Soup is about this bunny who grows carrots. Every time they start sprouting he digs them up and makes soup. But this year they sprouted and he ran to tell all his friends. No one was at their houses. When he went home he say no carrots. Then he went back to his friends houses to tell them that his carrots were gone. None of the friends knew where the carrots went. But the friends did know where they were because they were in their houses because they were going to cook carrot soup for him this year. ( )

It's the start of Spring and rabbit can't wait to start growing carrots. It shows how he planted the seeds (and waited and waited) but then there are no carrots. His friends had taken the carrots for Rabbit's surprise party.

Can be used with Creepy Carrots or any other book about gardens, vegetables or Spring.
Have kids pay attention to the details to see Rabbit's friends take the carrots and get ready for the party.
Lots of ! and ? make it an interesting read aloud to demonstrate expression and fluency.

Very cute story about a rabbit and his lost carrots. The illustrations give a hint of what is to come, great for making predictions. ( )

reviewed on www.vegbooks.org
http://vegbooks.org/index.php/2010/06/16/carrot-soup/

Carrot Soup is a tasty little tale about a rabbit who grows an assortment of carrots for his favorite meal: carrot soup. Rabbit does all the familiar farm labor of hoeing, planting, watering, and waiting… and waiting… and waiting… until it is finally harvest time. But when he goes to pull the carrots, he can’t find them anywhere! So he begins interrogating his friends one by one, who suggest a different friend to question. All of his friends deny or avoid answering his questions about his carrots, except for pig, who can’t be found anywhere. Finally, rabbit gives up and despondently returns home only to discover what really happened to all his carrots!

John Segal creates a funny, yummy mystery full of visual clues for children. The animal characters are illustrated with funny and expressive faces in watercolor and ink. The background scenes as rabbit interrogates individuals depict other animals carting off barrels and wagons of carrots. The pictures hint at the answers to rabbit’s mystery, but he is quite oblivious to all except his immediate surroundings and current suspect.

Besides the clever visual humor, I especially enjoyed the page to identify a variety of different types of carrots as well as a carrot soup recipe in the back. Unfortunately the soup recipe calls for chicken broth and butter but those could easily be substituted by the reader. Besides the recipe, Carrot Soup is otherwise a veg-friendly book.

Ages 3-8. ( )