# 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.

**Number of Pages:** 36

**Dimensions:** 0.39 x 10.55 x 9.06 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** July 18, 2023

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Community Soup

**Interest Level:** Lower Grades, K-3

**Reading Level:** 1.4

**Point Value:** 0.5

## Details

- **Price:** 18.95 USD
- **Vendor:** Books by splitShops
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books by splitShops, Shopify Collective

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