Stop That Stew!

by Margaret Mahy, Deborah Rigby (Illustrator)

Mr. Winkle makes himself a delicious stew one day in his big, brown pot. Not one to keep a good thing to himself, he’s desperate to share his stew, so he takes it, pot and all, on the road. He gets a little more than he bargained for when the delectable smell of his stew brings everyone who smells it running. This clever and engaging story is sure to awaken children’s hunger for reading.

Genres: Picture Books

23 pages, Library Binding

First published December 15, 2009

About the author

Margaret Mahy was a well-known New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. While the plots of many of her books have strong supernatural elements, her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growing up.

Her books The Haunting and The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance both received the Carnegie Medal of the British Library Association. There have 100 children's books, 40 novels, and 20 collections of her stories published. Among her children's books, A Lion in the Meadow and The Seven Chinese Brothers and The Man Whose Mother was a Pirate are considered national classics. Her novels have been translated into German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Catalan and Afrikaans. In addition, some stories have been translated into Russian, Chinese and Icelandic.

For her contributions to children's literature she was made a member of the Order of New Zealand. The Margaret Mahy Medal Award was established by the New Zealand Children's Book Foundation in 1991 to provide recognition of excellence in children's literature, publishing and literacy in New Zealand. In 2006 she was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award (known as the Little Nobel Prize) in recognition of a "lasting contribution to children's literature".

Margaret Mahy died on 23 July 2012.

On 29 April 2013, New Zealand’s top honour for children’s books was renamed the New Zealand Post Margaret Mahy Book of the Year award.

For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret...

Reviews

[Eva-Marie Nevarez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Deborah Rigby's illustrations in this book are loud and funny and really easy on the eyes. The illustrations, along with the story, had both of us laughing out loud more than once. You know where the story is going the whole time, right from the beginning, but with this story it makes no difference at all.
Mr. Winkle basically leaves a very great smelling pot of stew on the top of his car and on the way to his friends how a host of people and animals smell the stew and all, for various reasons, begin to follow Mr. Winkle. By the time he gets back home (the friend wasn't home) Mr. Winkle has himself a spur of the moment party.
Very cute, maybe better for younger kids and toddlers.

[Katie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Classic story of following - Mr Winkle makes stew and drives it to a friend, but leaves it on the top of his car. Some dogs smell stew and follow Mr Winkle, then the dog catcher follows the dogs ...

Cute, pictures aren't the most appealing but simple and informative.

Could just about read at a storytimes.

[Tricia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mr. Winkle journeys to share his stew with a friend, in the process attracting quite a crowd. Simple text, simple illustrations. Repetitive.

[Amanda Hlava · Rating 3 out of 5]

repeating story about a man that puts soup on the top of his car and has many different people following him to get it or the other people chasing it.