While trying to earn money by shoveling snow so she can buy her mother a Christmas present, Carrie comes up with an idea for just the right gift. Includes soup recipes.

Jillian does not want another grandmother, after all she already has a Noni and a Gram, so when her mother marries Michael she is distinctly cool to her new bubbe--but her mother convinces her to give Bubbe a chance, and Jillian and all her grandmothers come together over a bowl of soup. Includes recipes for Matzo Ball Soup, Italian Wedding Soup, and Gazpacho.

A father and child grow vegetables and then make them into a soup.

Josh tries to avoid eating the "mud soup" prepared by Rosa's abuela (grandmother). Includes a recipe for black bean soup.

Miss Bun, a rabbit who loves to cook, gets help from Bird, Cat, Frog, and Cow in making a very unusual veggie soup.

The friendship between an old man and his cat, both of whom like potato soup, is strained after he goes fishing without her.

Describes how to make a colorful, delicious vegetable soup. Includes recipe.

Murray the mouse goes into town for the carrot he needs to make Perfect Soup, and soon finds himself with a chain of favors that will work only if a friendly snowman can help him gets things started.

A father and child grow vegetables and then make them into a soup.

As Marla Little's pumpkin rolls away through town and its vegetable parade, she calls out to various people along the way, enticing them to help catch the rolling pumpkin.