My Never Ending List

I loved this book!  I can’t wait to share this book with my classes.   The illustrations were fantastic and the story was fun.  It centers upon Chef Marcel and his famous recipe.   This famous recipe is for cheese soup and it is time again for the yearly contest to see if his recipe can hold its place as #1 in France.  Oh course, Chef Marcel is a mouse and his family is the only one who knows the secret recipe so they all must work together to win the contest.   The judge is coming is one hour and the family is frantically bumping into one another in the kitchen to get the soup cooked and in the bowl before the judge enters the establishment.  Only there is one problem.  They are out of the secret ingredient!  How can they make the famous soup?  Will Chef Marcel be able to hold onto his title of the best cheese soup in all of France? 

What a wonderful story and the pictures are so whimsical and amusing. As the family fumbles around in the kitchen, you feel the panic and the concern that is running through their minds as they wait for the judge to arrive and wonder what they are going to do over the missing secret ingredient. After reading this book, you might also learn a few French words using the pronunciation guide that’s included, you just never know. I can’t say enough about this book except you need to pick this up and read it- you will truly love it. I have been reading the book Anatole for year and I think this book is a terrific book to pair with it.

Thanks NetGalley and Tanglewood Press for providing me a copy of this book.