Soupy Saturdays With the Pain and the Great One (10 page)
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Authors: Judy Blume
Tags: #Ages 5 and up
Then she said, “Mmm … sounds yummy!”
So I said, “Spider poop soup! That’s what you are.”
Then she got mad and yelled, “That’s it!” And she started chasing me.
I ran as fast as I could, calling, “Mom … help! Mommmm! She’s after me.”
The Last Word from FluzzyOh, good—
They’re playing my favorite game.
Run, chase, shout.
You
’
ll be sorry
!
I’m telling
!
I’m going to get you
!
Best is when they throw things.
His elephant.
Her markers.
I run around them so they know I want to play too.
The mom and dad don’t get it.
They call,
That’s enough!
They call,
No fighting, no biting!
But fighting and biting are the best parts.
Not scary bites. Just little nibbles.
Oh, listen—
Now they’re going to make spider soup.
Spider poop soup.
I’ve never tasted any kind of spider soup.
I wonder if I’ll like it?
I meow, telling them to wait for me.
Judy Blume
spent her childhood in Elizabeth, New Jersey, making up stories inside her head. She has spent her adult years in many places, doing the same thing, only now she writes her stories down on paper. Her twenty-five books have won many awards, including the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
Judy lives in Key West, Florida, and New York City. You can visit her at
www.judyblume.com
.
James Stevenson
has written and illustrated more than a hundred books for children. In forty years at the
New Yorker
, he has published more than two thousand cartoons and covers, as well as numerous written pieces. His illustrated column “Lost and Found New York” frequently appears on the op-ed page of the
New York Times
.
