Delicious!: A Pumpkin Soup Story Hardcover – August 21, 2007

These Helen Cooper books with the duck, cat, and squirrel are better than your average little kid's book. The characters are a little fresh sometimes and have their own desires that don't always match up with their friends. There's drama and conflict resolution and lessons about friendship and cooperation. Relatable, funny, and the illustrations are great. A little repetitive, but it works well for the 3-6 year old readers.

The children didn't know it was a trilogy...were there surprised!!

This was one of my daughter's favorite books growing up. We lost our copy so I bought another one when my son turned 2. It is such a cute story with beautiful illustrations. And having your child beg you to read "dewishcious" over and over again is too cute.

I don't really know if Delicious or Pumpkin Soup came first, but this one reads like a sequel, not as fresh, a little forced. Part of Pumpkin Soup's success lies in the mysterious relationships of the three characters; there's not so much mystery in Delicious. The trio's troubles and efforts just seem grouchy, and a little ungrateful.

Looking forward to sharing this book with my students, especially in the fall, and hoping to make some pumpkin/squash soup to accompany the book

This companion book to "Pumpkin Soup" has become a favorite of my kids' as soon as we got it.Love the illustrations, the simple, sweet plot and characters - and the recipe included totally makes the book!!

Very popular with the kids I read with. Very cute story with great illustrations.

Great for children and my students! Love all Helen Cooper books in this series!

Part of the Helen Cooper Pumpkin Soup series, the 32 good quality page book is a beautifully illustrated, well written tale with a distinct message ~ sharing and compromise ~ and don't we all know how difficult that can be at certain ages?(!)It also aims to tackle that other often precarious subject ~ 'the try something new' one, where, as the readers find out, appearances can be deceptive!ooOooFrom the back cover:'Every day, Cat, Squirrel and Duck make pumpkin soup ~ the best you have ever tasted. But one day, disaster strikes ~ there is not a single ripe pumpkin to be found!So, they make fish soup, mushroom soup and beetroot soup, but will the new soups be as delicious as their favourite? Duck doesn't think so ~ in fact he won't even try them!Poor Duck gets hungrier and hungrier and grumpier and grumpier, until at last Cat comes up with a soup that might just be...delicious!Simply delightful book, with an extra surprise, as 'the insects' get their own space, and witty comments, too!Look out for A Pipkin of PepperPumpkin SoupA Pipkin of Pepper

Not quite as good or entertaining I thought as `Pumpkin Soup' in my opinion - but then there is a limit to how you can story-tell in a fresh way about one subject; `soup'!The three characters are nice, though again; the story centres around the same one causing the trouble; the Duck! (would have made a nice change to have had one of the other animals `play-up'!)The pictures again are very nice, but not quite as engaging perhaps as the original `Pumpkin' book.This book (at least the hardback version does) includes a recipe for `pink' soup made from beetroots!

Superb book - story and illustrations.The antics of the insects as a side-story are adorable.

Wasn't as sure about this one as the first two books. (Pumpkin soup and pipkin of pepper) but once we read it together it was interesting to see the reaction. 6 year old daughter thought at first that duck was being rude and should get nothing but then felt sorry for him and wanted to help. Real emotional journey.

My son loves this book, he likes all the pumpkin soup range. He reads every night