Friends, you need to get your big fat paws on this brand new picture book. Talk about a roarin’ good time!

Here I was, my meek, mild-mannered self minding my own business, when this ferociously funny SOUP BOOK growled at me. Open me, read me, devour me, it said, slurp. up. every. word! Who am I to ignore such a request?

Seriously. I didn’t stand a chance from the get-go. When I opened the book, I saw this:

Aahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

See what I mean? Look at the endpapers! I want to marry them.

In Tiger in My Soup by Kashmira Sheth and Jeffrey Ebbeler (Peachtree Publishers, 2013), a young boy left in the care of his older sister begs her to read his favorite tiger book to him. Alas and alack, she is too absorbed in her own book to pay him any attention, prompting the boy to pull out his most imaginative stops to get her to change her mind.

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