Silly soup day: A children's book about the alphabet

• Main Author: Yu, Sophia Ysabelle
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2018
• Subjects: Children's books > Philippines; Illustrated children's books > Philippines; Communication
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/2955
• Institution: De La Salle University

Silly soup day is a children's book that revolves around the alphabet and a silly adventure between a father and his daughter. The story centers on a father-daughter duo and how they both attempt to make alphabet soup without fear of making mistakes. This story not only aims to teach or reintroduce the alphabet to its readers, but it also encourages them to be creative and to have close family ties, especially with the paternal figures in their lives. Silly soup day, in its entirety, breaks gender norms by showing the more sensitive and silly side a work-from-home father has with his child as he attempts to cook her alphabet soup to cure her cold. The book is written in the English language and has targeted audience of children from classes A and B, ages 6 to 8. This children's book is in the specific children's literature genre of a fictional picture storybook, with the title of Silly soup day. The book's illustration was done by the component using different mediums like watercolor, colored pencils, and digital applications like Adobe Photoshop and a desktop publishing application on the computer. The size of the book is 8 by 9 inches and has 32-pages, including the cover, the message to the readers, the copyright pages, title page, etc. The binding type for the book is the staple bind, one of the most common book binding available.