My daughter loves this book and Pizza Day. The stories are very similar but cute and emphasize making your own food. In this one, the mom and daughter go to the store to pick out colorful veggies and make soup. They talk about cutting the veggies in different shapes and different pasta shapes as well. I like that both books have the child helping cook/prep, as well as they have a time that they play and then clean-up. My husband says subliminal messaging for them to help out. There's a soup recipe at the back of the book that we have not tried yet.Another thing that I like, the pages are not typical book pages but a little thicker so I think it would be more difficult for her tear (she's 1.5 so not always gentle).