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One morning Elsie, a cabbage farmer, discovers that half of her crop is missing. She decides to stand watch in her cabbage patch all night to catch the culprit. Unfortunately, she falls asleep, only to awaken to even fewer cabbages! With the help of her two cats and some homemade cabbage soup, Elsie gains control of the long-eared perpetrators. Instead of nibbling her cabbages, they end up keeping her warm at night. Children will enjoy being a step or two ahead of Elsie in this cozy story about cultivating friendship.

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One morning Elsie, a cabbage farmer, discovers that half of her crop is missing. She decides to stand watch in her cabbage patch all night to catch the culprit. Unfortunately, she falls asleep, only to awaken to even fewer cabbages! With the help of her two cats and some homemade cabbage soup, Elsie gains control of the long-eared perpetrators. Instead of nibbling her cabbages, they end up keeping her warm at night. Children will enjoy being a step or two ahead of Elsie in this cozy story about cultivating friendship.

Elsie lives a simple life on a small farm, growing things that she sells to the green grocer, but one night half of her cabbages disappear and her cats, Fluff and Gordo, find the culprits and make them set things right.

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A reclusive farmer named Elsie can't seem to stop a mystery marauder from decimating her famous cabbage patch. After she fails at keeping sentry, Elsie's formidable cats, Fluff and Gordo, take on the role of enforcers, catch a gang of rabbits in the act and compel them to return all their booty to Elsie's doorstep. When Elsie spots them, she invites them in for soup; they join the household and help her cultivate cabbages of renown. "Her life was no longer so simple, and she liked it that way." In her first book as both writer and illustrator, greeting-card artist Oller (Dogs, Dogs, Dogs!) makes wonderful use of her visual signature: rotund, soulful characters who seem to materialize from clouds and puffs of watercolor. While there's deliberate humor in the plodding movements of Elsie and the squat imperiousness of Fluff and Gordo, Oller communicates that their considerable girths contain immense reserves of feeling and purpose. Her storytelling, however, lacks the same control. The text, while not long, contains extraneous phrases and seems to wander to its rather pat conclusion. Ages 4-up. (Feb.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Children's Literature
Elsie lives on a farm with just her two cats. She grows many things, but her cabbages are the best. One day, she is shocked to find half of her cabbages gone. She tries to stay awake that night in the field to see who is taking them, but falls asleep while more cabbage plants are reduced to stumps. While she sleeps the next night, sick with a cold, her cats get busy. So the next morning when she decides to make some of her favorite cabbage soup, all the necessary ingredients are mysteriously waiting for her by the door. When the soup is done, she discovers that the cats have had helpers, and she invites them to share the soup. The new friends help plant more than enough new cabbages, and help keep the house cozy at night as well. Warm, fuzzy watercolors tell the tale with the bunny friends, first seen scampering around a huge cabbage on the cover, staying to cuddle with the cats. Elsie's face displays her changing emotions from consternation to grief and resignation to final contentment. 2004, Dutton Children's Books/Penguin Young Readers Group, Ages 4 to 8.
—Ken Marantz and Sylvia Marantz
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PreS-Gr 1-An old woman and her two cats live quietly on a small farm where she is especially good at growing cabbages. Then one day, half of her crop mysteriously disappears. Elsie resolves to find the culprit, but, in the end, it is her pets that set things right, and expand her circle of friends in the process. The watercolor illustrations are a perfect accompaniment to the text. Kids will love being in on the joke when they see what destroyed the cabbages long before the woman does (rabbits). One particularly funny page shows Elsie's reaction to her decimated field: the stately text, "For a moment, she lost control," is set against a trio of pictures of Elsie in full tantrum mode. The evocative, muted tones set the mood as surely as the expressive faces on Oller's characters, both human and animal. An ideal addition to storytime, and a tale destined to be enjoyed by a wide audience.-Kathleen Kelly MacMillan, Maryland School for the Deaf, Columbia Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Kirkus Reviews
Elsie lives a simple life on a small farm where she grows many vegetables, but growing cabbages is what she does best. Everyday she loads them onto her truck to sell to the greengrocer-until one morning, when she finds half her cabbages gone. She sits up all night to guard them; instead she falls asleep and catches a cold. That's when Fluff and Gordo, her two cats, take action. When Elsie gets up to make cabbage soup to soothe her throat, she finds all the ingredients on her doorstep. As the soup simmers, the cabbage-eating culprits-rabbits, of course-pile up outside her window and she invites them in for soup. When Elsie plants more cabbages, the cats make sure the rabbits help this time (even adding a little fertilizer). The charming soft-toned and -shaped watercolors enhance this subtle twist on a familiar plot. Adults may recognize the plump cats and Elsie's images from her greeting cards. A clever story about cultivation, in more ways than one. (Picture book. 4-7)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780525470052
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
  • Publication date: 1/19/2004
  • Pages: 32
  • Age range: 4 - 8 Years
  • Lexile: AD670L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 8.86 (w) x 10.36 (h) x 0.38 (d)

Meet the Author

Erika Oller is the illustrator of several picture books by Leslea Newman and has a successful line of greeting cards.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 18, 2004

    A DELIGHTFULLY DELICIOUS STORY

    Delightful watercolor illustrations enliven this story of friendship. You're familiar with 'cabbages and kings,' well, this is cabbages and friendship. For years Elsie has lived on a small farm where she raises potatoes, tomatoes, peas, and pumpkins. But best of all are Elsie's cabbages. She enjoys her life; it's quite simple on her little plot of land with her two cats, Fluff and Gordo. One morning when Elsie goes out to the field to collect her cabbages she is chagrined to find half of them gone. Only stumps remain rather than the thick green heads. Determined to find out who or what is eating her cabbages Elsie decides to stay in the field all night. Unfortunately Elsie falls asleep and awakens to find even more cabbages have been eaten. She is discouraged and exhausted. She sleeps through the whole day and into the night. Fluff and Gordo determine to help their mistress who is now awake and busily making cabbage soup. The delicious aroma of this soup brings some unexpected visitors to her house. Are they friends or the mysterious cabbage eaters? Young readers will never guess the outcome of this deliciously different tale.

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