  | Mr. Lepron's mystery soup Author: Zoboli, Giovanna | |
| Price: $23.28 | ||
Summary:
Mr. Lepron is a rabbit who lives in a cozy burrow with many offspring. Every year on the first day of autumn, he reaps vegetables from the farmer's garden-carrots, onions, celery, beans, aromatic herbs, and much more-and makes the best soup on earth, adored by his family. As it simmers, he dozes and dreams of being a famous cook, hosted by kings. And sure enough, his soup is so good that it starts drawing creatures from all over.
| Illustrator: | Di Giorgio, Mariachiara |
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (+) (09/15/24)
Booklist (11/01/24)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 11/01/2024 In this Italian important, rabbit home cook Mr. Lepron becomes renowned for his extraordinary vegetable soup. When he makes soup at home, he takes a nap, and his dreams add special flavor to the cooking soup. Mr. Lepron shares his delicious soup (made seasonally from local vegetables) with family and friends, then eventually expands to sell multiple flavors of canned soup throughout the world. In the process, though, Mr. Lepron loses his secret ingredient: his dreams. In the end, he decides to close his factories and return to his dreamy home cooking. Is the story a metaphor for the woes of capitalism or an homage to local food and cooks? It's not entirely clear, but it does succeed on its own merits. Di Giorgio's lush illustrations have a sense of humor visible in details—from cans of soup to witchy dreams. Appropriately, though, the illustrations reveal their greatest warmth in the vegetables gathered by Mr. Lepron's extended family and in the family gatherings at which they eat the amazing soup. Mysteriously beautiful. - Copyright 2024 Booklist.
