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  <title><![CDATA[Mouse Soup]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;H4 ALIGN=CENTER&gt;Mouse is in a&lt;BR&gt; jam -- soon he'll&lt;BR&gt; be weasel soup!&lt;/H4&gt;&lt;P&gt;Weasel is ready for his dinner. And poor mouse is it. Just in time, he thinks up a clever and entertaining way to distract weasel from serving up mouse soup for supper.&lt;/P&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1977</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Arnold Lobel]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ Along with the Commander Toad books, we borrowed Mouse Soup by Arnold Lobel from the library. We are fans of Arnold Lobel's offbeat stories and cute illustrations.<br/><br/>Mouse Soup is a sequel to Mouse Tales (1978). A little mouse who is captured by a weasel to be cooked into soup. To save his...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5872810">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Frank absolutely adores this book.  I suppose it probably doesn't help that his grandma has a little movie version of it, but really he found the book just as fascinating.<br/><br/>I love Arnold Lobel.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[We love Arnold Lobel around here and this is just another one of his cleverly written little 'chapter books' that my 6 year old really enjoys reading to herself and to her siblings.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Nov 25 13:36:18 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[omg!! mouse soup!!another fave of mine and my kids!! read this over and over!! even made some mouse soup a few times!! heehee!! kids books are da bomb!!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my alltime favorite kids books. I still have my copy and now I read it to my kids. Still enjoyable even though I am 34. ]]></body>
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    <review id="42034549">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1976</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I still remember the illustration of the weasel with the bee stings from back when I first read it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The second book Emory read by herself, still re-reading it to her brother as well as Mouse Tales]]></body>
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    <review id="39942202">
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    <body><![CDATA[A childhood favorite that I enjoy reading to my kids. A fun take on the stone soup story.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The bees are the best. That mouse was tricky. Thank goodness or he'd be in the soup!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[On the suggested summer reading list for students.]]></body>
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    <review id="57657420">
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    <body><![CDATA[Fun concept with the stories in a story.]]></body>
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    <review id="62650893">
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    <body><![CDATA[BL 2.4 .5 pts, test 5/09]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ha ha ha<br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="56468804">
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    <body><![CDATA[JEAR2-Lob]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although this text villianizes a weasel, and teaches children that carnivorous animals are some how morally worse than herbivores, it still has a story that is challenging and complex. It teaches students a degree of reasoning and has a very good, motivated resolution. I recommend it, despite its fl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22866399">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book growing up. I loved that the mouse told short stories--an excellent chapter-style for readers just past beginning. But the best part was making the bad guy go collect things from each story. I liked the pictures. I liked the stories. And each story actually had a lesson to it, too....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18170753">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20176988">
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    <body><![CDATA[A clever mouse spins short tales to distract a weasel from enjoying a little mouse soup - good times for a beginning reader. We'll be keeping this one on the &quot;currently reading&quot; list for awhile. Or until our son moves on to Harry Potter!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If only I were as smart as this guy.  I never would have been caught buying all that candy with money from my dads change jar.  Dang it... Read this book a little too late.]]></body>
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    <review id="18509923">
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    <name><![CDATA[Karen L.]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[When my kids were little they found this an easy real aloud as they learned reading. Also they absolutely loved it and laughed at the cute stories.]]></body>
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