So here's the scoop on the soup... my part of this is to let you know my favorite soup, and the recipe. And it just so happens that I've recently gotten into making split pea soup, just like my mom used to make! I don't really follow an exact recipe... a pound of split green peas, a ham bone, a lot of water, onions, carrots, garlic, and boil until it's soup! Then you can take out the bone, pick off any meat that remains and dig in. I tried for years to make split pea soup without the ham bone, and I'm here to say... just don't. It's not right until you've cooked it with the bone!
And now for the book:
BLURB: Gregory Green loves his mom’s pea
soup, but when he eats it at school, all of his friends make fun of how it
looks. He doesn’t think it looks like bugs, and it tastes good! Then at recess,
his friends run from him, screaming, “He’s a monster!” Gregory doesn’t know why
his friends are being mean until he sees his skin is green. The teasing gets
worse until an unlikely friend comes to the rescue—his teddy bear, Sammy. Sammy
usually only comes to life for Gregory and his family, but Sammy has an
important lesson to teach Gregory and his classmates.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Elaine
Kaye got the idea for Pea Soup Disaster from
her son who loved to eat her homemade pea soup. Pea Soup Disaster is the first of many fun stories featuring
Gregory Green and his teddy bear, Sammy, as part of the Gregory Green Adventure series.
Kaye has
worked as a library assistant and teacher's assistant in elementary schools in
the Sunshine State. She currently lives in Florida, but she has called
Michigan; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Okinawa, Japan home. She is a grandmother of
three boys.
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