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Title: Mean Soup by Betsy Everitt ISBN: 0152002278 Publisher: Voyager Books Pub. Date: 27 March, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38
Rating: 1
Summary: This book advocates dangerous, life threatening behaviors!
Comment: A mother allows her out-of-control son to teeter over the kitchen stove on a long-legged bar stool. She then has him put his face over the lit stove and yell into a steaming pot of boiling water! He is then given a wooden spoon and ecouraged to bang the pot of roiling soup. Later, he literally breathes fire with his "dragon breath". In another illustration, he is permitted to ride home from school in a car driven by his mother's friend who is so wild that she nearly kills 3 poodles!
Woe is the child who takes it upon himself to mimic the behaviors so charmingly illustrated in this book! Humor is great, but this stuff isn't funny, it's dangerous. Managing anger is an important skill, but doing so with fire and boiling soup is a recipe for disaster!
It is shocking that a publisher would release such a reckless book. It is incomprehensible and irresponsible for any reviewer to laud this book's tackling of anger management without condemning the specific behaviors employed and illustrated in this story. Any parent modeling the behaviors shown in this book is a good candidate for incarceration for child endangerment. This is one book to stay away from!
Rating: 5
Summary: A Cute Way To Relieve Stress
Comment: Horace has had to deal with quite a bit today, and when he gets home from school he is definitely in a very, very bad mood; so bad in fact, that he "hisses" at his mother when she greets him at the door! After his temper tantrum (which really is adorable, not bratty!), his mother suggests that they make soup. Still feeling mean, Horace watches in astonishment as his mother finds an incredibly funny (and ingenious) way to lure him out of his bad mood.
Thoughtful, creative and beautifully illustrated, MEAN SOUP teaches children how to act out their anger and frustration in a positive, fun way. Don't just settle for a library copy of this book. It is definitely worth a buy. You will be reading it over and over again as a pleasant, subtle reminder to children who, like Horace, are having a tough time dealing with tough days!
Approximately 14 pages. One sentence and a beautiful illustration on each page. Some blends and sight words present... The recommended reading level for this book is ages 4-8. I would say that perhaps advanced pre-school (read aloud - child should have good comprehension skills) to remedial 2nd is more like it. The main idea is for a varied audience, but certainly not the reading level.
Rating: 5
Summary: mean soup
Comment: perfect for new mom'spowerful messageI wish this book had been out 35yearsago,when I was a naive,first time mom.
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Title: The Chocolate-Covered-Cookie Tantrum by Harvey Stevenson, Deborah Blumenthal ISBN: 0395700280 Publisher: Clarion Books Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Andrew's Angry Words (North-South Paperback) by Dorothea Lachner, the Tjong Khing, Tjong Khing The, Tjong Khing, Tjong-Khing ISBN: 1558587691 Publisher: North South Books Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: When Sophie Gets Angry- Really, Really Angry... (Caldecott Honor Books, 2000) by Molly Garrett Bang ISBN: 0590189794 Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Hands Are Not for Hitting by Martine Agassi Ph.D., Marieka Heinlen ISBN: 1575420775 Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: When I Feel Angry by Cornelia Maude Spelman, Nancy Cote ISBN: 0807588881 Publisher: Albert Whitman & Co Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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