cover image Mean Soup

Mean Soup

Betsy Everitt. Voyager Paperbacks, $8 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-15-200227-5

Horace's mother cooks up an antidote to a bad day in a story that ``bubbles with a building excitement''; paintings ``convey all of the feisty emotion of a frustrated youngster,'' said PW. Ages 3-8.(Mar.)