Everybody Serves Soup

It’s the week before the winter holidays, and it’s been snowing so much that Carrie has the day off from school. She wants to earn money shovelling so she can buy her mother a Christmas present. But what should she buy? As she goes from house to house, Carrie finds that everybody is making soup. Carrie’s neighbours come from many places, so each one is making a different kind of soup, from Southern corn chowder to Japanese miso shiru. And as she samples the goods at each household, Carrie begins to get an idea of what to give her mother…