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[coraa]

Also -- I'm all kinds of posty tonight! -- also, whenever I make chicken soup with rice (or almost make it, as today), I think of the Chicken Soup with Rice book. Did any of the rest of you read this one when you were little? With a chicken soup rhyme for each month?

For example, this month it's:

In January it's so nice
While slipping on the sliding ice
To sip hot chicken soup with rice
Sipping once
Sipping twice
Sipping chicken soup with rice

Although my favorite was always, always September:

In September, for a while
I will ride a crocodile
Down the chicken soup-y Nile
Paddle once
Paddle twice
Paddle chicken soup with rice

(I actually had to go look this book up to make sure I wasn't inventing it. But I wasn't!

Paddle chicken soup with rice!)

Comments

[triath.livejournal.com]

I love that book! I even had the book+record (or was it tape?) when I was little and they sang the words as a song!

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Ooh! I didn't know there was a record/tape. Cool!

[mbrubeck.livejournal.com]

Did you know the song came from the animated musical Really Rosie, by Maurice Sendak and Carole King? (I grew up listening to the whole soundtrack, and I know I saw the video at least once.)

[jmpava.livejournal.com]

My copied was brailed. So there :-P

[triath.livejournal.com]

Can you read braille?

[jmpava.livejournal.com]

Basic braille, yeah. That is, I can translate the letters by sight - but not by touch, I can't distinguish the dots through my fingers. However, most written braille is not individual letters but various contractions and those I don't know.

But it was primarily so my mother could read to me.

[triath.livejournal.com]

Thanks! That's still pretty darn cool! :]

[porfinn.livejournal.com]

We always knew you could be a bit touchy about things :). That's really cool that you can do that!

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

Each month is gay, each season nice, when eating chicken soup with rice.

*adds to wish list*

[coraa.livejournal.com]

♥

[tedeisenstein.livejournal.com]

I still have a set, although my favorite is Pierre.

Ah, childhood comfort food for the mind - the Nutshell Library, the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series, Robert McCloskey's Centerburg Tales, and my all-time favorite, The Phantom Tollbooth....

[porfinn.livejournal.com]

Ah..The Phantom Tollbooth...I didn't read that until I was *cough* an adult (some might debate if that is an appropriate title). It was worth reading again and again, I had to make up for years of missed opportunities :)

[coraa.livejournal.com]

I love The Phantom Tollbooth. One of my favorite children's books.

[gwyneira.livejournal.com]

I read the whole Nutshell Library to Liam so many times when he was younger that I had all four books memorized for a while. Also most of The Lorax, though I think I can only do the first couple of pages of that now.

[epj.livejournal.com]

Oh, I loved that book! So wonderful.