Sophie's squash

This is a silly book about a little girl who adopts a squash. Sophie takes her squash everywhere much to the chagrin of her parents only to find that over time her squash is getting quite squishy. She puts the squash in the soil and next year gets a surprise!

I would recommend this for young school

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age children who might find humor in it and learn a little about the life cycle of a plant.

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A great seasonal book for the fall time! Like many young children Sophie finds a friend in an inanimate object, in this case a squash. Overtime her squash starts to get rotten so she puts it in the soil for next year. I think this is a great story for young children because they will be able to

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relate to finding friends in odd places, and see that even if they have to let go of these friends some good things can come out of it!

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Discover what happens when Sophie decides to befriend the squash her mother bought at the farmers' market. I read it aloud with 1st and 2nd graders and they were hooked. Opens them up to talk about friendship and that friends truly do come in all shapes and sizes. What they really enjoyed was

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making their own squash friends afterward with a simple paper activity. If I had a real live squash for every one of them, that would have been even better.

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Sophie and Bernice are great friends who do everything together: visit the farmers' market and the library, practice somersaults in the grass. The problem is, Bernice is a squash, a squash Sophie's parents had intended to cook for dinner. ("'I call her Bernice,' Sophie said. 'I'll call for a

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pizza,' said her mother.") And now she is becoming softer and beginning to look blotchy. Sophie consults a farmer at the market about the best way to care for a squash like Bernice. "It's simple, really...Fresh air. Good, clean dirt. A little love." Sophie provides all these things and even has the patience to wait out the long winter (with the help of a new friend, Ace the goldfish, who is an excellent listener). When spring arrives, so do new gourd friends.

The cartoon-style illustrations are rich with humorous and endearing details (Sophie's facial expressions, the unnamed pet cat who follows her all around the house, her squash portraits hanging on the wall). Though a bit long for story time, the narration is so thoroughly engaging that I wouldn't hesitate to read this to preschoolers.

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Sophie's squash is an endearing story about friendship being found in the most unlikely places.I loved this story because it shows the way that children's minds work sometimes. When we are younger we get attached to many things that we might think are so precious, and this book did a great job

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portraying that idea. When Sophie and her parents go to the supermarket, they buy a squash. Sophie starts growing attached to the squash, and her parents tell her she can't be friends with a squash because squash is something that they will eat. Sophie refuses to do such a horrible thing. After time passes on, her squash, Bernice is beginning to rot and Sophie starts investigating hoe to keep it nice and fresh. Eventually Sophie ends up putting Bernice underground hoping that she will get better, but Bernice has decided to do something bigger. She grows and gives fruit to two more squashes, which Sophie ends up loving just as much as she loved Bernice.

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Summary: Sophie and her parents go to the farmers market and pick out a squash for dinner. Sophie decides she doesn't want to use the squash to eat but she wants to use as a friend. Sophie names the squash Bernice and they do everything together, including going to the library, playing with other

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squash, doing somersaults and sleeping. Eventually, Bernice started to get old and had bruises on her. Other children made fun of her so Sophie's parents tried to get her interested in a new toy. Sophie still wasn't interested so she asked the farmer how to keep a squash fresh. He told her Bernice needed dirt so Sophie buried Bernice in the yard. That night, it started snowing. Sophie couldn't get to Bernice so Bernice stayed under the dirt all winter. Sophie's parents got her a pet fish but she still was not interested. Finally, spring came around and Sophie went outside to find Bernice. She discovered that Bernice had turned into a plant and made 2 smaller squashes. Sophie loved the other 2 just as much as she loved Bernice.

Argument: I think this book was a really cute story. It shows how finding an object and loving it can be like having a friend. Sophie loved her squash and it felt like a friend to her. I think children could connect to this message because many children use inanimate objects and pretend like they are their friends. This book is another book that has great illustrations that really enhance the words of the story. Another reason I liked this book was because it had lots of information about the seasons changing. The book went from fall with the leaves falling and the squash, to winter with snow falling to spring with plants growing.

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Absolutely adorable. I don't read many picture books but when I started this one I couldn't stop... Lovely story about a girl and the squash she adopts and names Bernice.

Little girl has a peculiar attachment to a squash.

Sophie's Squash is about a girl who decides to personify a squash. Sophie loves this squash. This squash is her best friend. This squash goes everywhere with her. I'm at a point now in my education where I had to write the sentence "This squash is her best friend", which is a sobering reality.

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Eventually this squash begins to rot, so she plants the squash in the garden to heal it. Then it produces new squashes. Now Sophie has two squash friends.
Good read if you want to educate students about squash. I think this girl needs some non-vegetable friends.

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Sophie's Squash is a fun book about a little girl who befriends and takes care of the squash that came home for supper one evening. The story is super engaging and the illustrations that go along with it really help enhance the close relationship that Sophie has with Bernice, the squash. In this

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book, Sophie shows unconditional love for Bernice as she totes her everywhere, even somersaulting with her down a hill. In the end, Sophie learns that when you let something go, there might be something just as good waiting to take it's place.

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A touching story about a girl and her squash. Clever illustrations; make sure you follow the cat throughout the book.

A silly sweet story of a girl and her squash, for people who are very young and can't do spiders.

When Sophie and her parents purchase a butternut squash at the farmer's market, the young girl immediately adopts the piece of produce as her baby and best friend, naming it Bernice. Nothing her parents do can change her mind - she isn't interested in any other kind of companion or plaything. When

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Bernice begins to rot, Sophie puts her "to bed" in the ground, and the next spring, Bernice has had children...

Pairing a sweet story and cute artwork, Sophie's Squash is a picture-book that I should have enjoyed more than I did, especially given my fondness for autumnal scenes. Unfortunately, while there was nothing really wrong here, I just failed to have any particularly strong reaction to the book, whether positive or negative. Perhaps I just have difficulty anthropomorphizing squash, but it was difficult to take Sophie's squash 'friend' seriously, and the jaded part of me kept thinking: do we really need to encourage children to befriend their vegetables, rather than eat them? Tastes vary, of course, and others seem to have really enjoyed this one, so if the picture-book reader is in the market for autumnal/seasonal stories about friendship and the natural world, this might fit the bill.

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