Alphabet Soup

Banks's story begins with a typical dinnertime trauma-a boy will not eat his soup. What follows is an adventure across a tablecloth landscape of cups that sail, wise-looking salt shakers, and a house (painted on the side of a teapot) where the boy and the bear take shelter for the night. Everything that transpires is governed by what was placed on the table before the fantasy begins, so that readers can flip back to the opening shot of the boy and venture guesses as to what might happen next.Banks, Kate is the author of 'Alphabet Soup', published 1988 under ISBN 9780394891514 and ISBN 0394891511.