Story Books From the 1970s: Chicken Soup with Rice

Oh yay! You all are in for a treat…. if you like 1970s children’s literature! Check out the video below!

I’m time traveling back to the 1970s again today with another classic story – Chicken Soup with Rice, by Maurice Sendak. If you’re not familiar with this book, it’s a stroll through the calendar extolling the virtues of chicken soup. It’s not fair, but I don’t associate this book with Sendak as much as Carole King, who sang the song. I don’t know if I ever actually heard the story without the accompanying cassette tape. If you emerged from a 1970s childhood without at least a fondness for King, then you never heard this song. Sendak is also responsible for another of my favorites – Where the Wild Things Are.

This is such a cozy book and song. And it’s catchy. I love it so much that a few years ago I checked out the book and tape from the library and played it over and over for my kids in the car. I’m glad I did that, because now I probably couldn’t get through it once before they were asking me to switch to 101.9.