- Hi, friends!

My name is Carlton, and today we'll be reading one of my favorite books, Soup Day.

The author and the illustrator of this book is named Melissa Iwai.

[upbeat music] Today is soup day.

Do you see how cold it is outside?

I see snow.

I see gloves.

I see scarves.

It looks like a really cold day.

I help Mommy pick out the vegetables.

She says it's important to choose the freshest ones with the brightest colors.

This is what we put in our basket.

One bunch of crispy green celery, two shiny yellow onions, three long orange carrots, four smooth tan potatoes, five tiny dark green zucchini, six big white mushrooms.

Oops, we almost forgot the parsley.

Back at home, we wash the vegetables.

Then Mommy chops everything into different shapes.

The celery and onions become tiny squares.

The carrots become circles.

The potatoes become cubes.

The parsley becomes confetti.

I love confetti.

I get to cut the mushrooms and zucchini with a plastic knife because they are soft.

Mommy helps my hand.

And, friends, what shape does she cook the zucchini?

It's a circle!

Good job.

We pour oil into the big soup pot and Mommy cooks the onions, celery, and carrots together.

This makes them soft.

They sizzle in the oil.

Then we fill the big pot with broth.

"Ssssssss!"

It makes a loud sound.

I help put in the rest of the vegetables.

Mommy covers a pot and we wait.

Friends, all this food is making me hungry.

Anybody else hungry?

For a while we make a city.

We read to each other.

Then we have to escape from a big monster.

Uh oh, friends, do you see the monster?

Where is the monster?

Before long, our home smells like yummy soup.

It looks like they're having a lot of fun.

There's toys everywhere!

Mommy checks the pot.

We hear the soup bubbling inside.

She tastes it.

"It needs a little something," she says.

Mommy adds some spices.

Mommy adds some of the spices in the soup.

This is gonna be some good soup, friends.

Now I get to choose which kind of pasta to add to the soup.

Angel hair, fettuccine, farfalle, pastina, rotini, elbow macaroni, alphabet, which is my favorite.

I pick alphabet because I like to eat the letters.

Sometimes they make words.

While we wait for the noodles to cook, we clean up our city.

All right, friends, it's time to clean up.

We return the books to the bookshelf.

We put the monster to sleep.

And then Daddy's home!

Now it's time to eat our soup!

Look, friends, do you see Daddy?

He's coming through the door.

Mommy lets me sprinkle the confetti parsley on top.

It looks like green snow.

Mmmm, I love soup day.

Okay, friends.

So after that story, I don't know about you, but I am hungry, so I'm gonna make my own soup, but I need your help.

Can you help me?

Okay, great.

So I need you to help me determine what is a fruit and what's a vegetable?

What vegetables can go in my soup?

Are you ready?

All right, let's do this.

Okay, so the first thing I have here is this.

Can you tell me what this is?

Yes, this is a carrot, correct!

Now, friends, is a carrot, a fruit or a vegetable?

A carrot is a vegetable.

So therefore, this can go in my soup!

Okay, great.

I'm gonna have carrots in my soup.

Perfect, okay, next one.

What is this?

Have you seen this before?

Yes, this is a banana!

And, friends, is a banana a fruit or is it a vegetable?

A banana is a fruit, so therefore this cannot go in my soup.

We don't want fruit in my soup.

All right, so we're gonna put this to the side.

All right, let's keep going.

Friends, can you tell me what this is?

What is this?

It's broccoli!

Yes, this is broccoli.

Now, is broccoli a fruit or is a vegetable?

Broccoli is vegetables, that's correct.

Awesome job, friends!

Also, this is going in my soup.

All right, great.

So we're gonna have broccoli in my soup.

All right, okay, let's go, let's move forward.

All right, what is, are you ready?

What is this?

Friends, can you tell me what this is?

Have you seen this before?

Okay, this is a dragon fruit!

Yes, it's a dragon fruit.

Now, is a dragon fruit a vegetable, or is it a fruit?

That is correct, it is a fruit!

So therefore, this cannot go in my soup.

All right, we're gonna put this to the side.

Let's do one more.

One more.

Okay, what about this one?

Have you seen this before?

This is a tangerine!

Now, is a tangerine a fruit or is it a vegetable?

That is correct, a tangerine is a fruit.

so therefore, we're not gonna be putting this in my soup.

Alright, friends, I think we're good.

I'm ready to have some soup.

It's gonna be so good.

Thank you, guys so much!

You guys were great.

I'm gonna go make some soup!

All right, bye-bye!

[upbeat music]