Community Soup - Hardcover

by Alma Fullerton (Author), Alma Fullerton (Illustrator)

In a garden outside a Kenyan schoolhouse, teachers and students are gathering their vegetables for soup. But all Kioni brought today were her troublesome goats. How can they contribute?

In a garden outside a Kenyan schoolhouse children are working together to harvest the vegetables they have grown and make them into a soup for everyone to share. But Kioni is having trouble: her herd of mischievous goats followed her to school today and they are trying to eat all the vegetables. The ensuing chaos caused by the goats is cleverly resolved by the children, making their vegetable soup very tasty while saving Kioni's four-legged intruders at the same time.

Using rollicking verse with echoes of "Mary had a Little Lamb," Alma Fullerton tells a lively story about communal projects and finding creative solutions that help everyone contribute. This lively story for young readers is graced with Alma's stunning primitive paper sculpture art - the first book she has chosen to illustrate herself.

Author Biography

Alma Fullerton was first known for her award-winning free-verse
novels for juvenile and young-adult readers, including the Governor General's
Award-nominated Libertad. Since
then, her picture books about children around the world have also won national
and international awards, including a White Ravens Choice and a Bank Street
Best Book for A Good Trade, and a USBBY Outstanding International Book
for When the Rain Comes. Most recently, No More Plastic! was an
honor book for the Green Earth Book Award and a finalist for both the OLA
Forest of Reading Blue Spruce Award and the SYRCA Shining Willow Award. Alma
lives in Prince Edward Island with her husband, her service dog, Gibson, and
her own herd of mischievous goats.