• Age: 0 to 5
• Grade: p to k
• Reading age: 2 to 5

At mealtime, Victor embarks on an unexpected and unlikely adventure through the turbulent waters of his fish soup. Pelted by peas and carrots, he barely makes it to the island where there is a dark woodland of celery sticks. There he battles a ferocious pepper dragon. Victor overcomes the onslaught of the ingredients he dreads with the help of minor interventions by his mother. He finally flees into the castle of a wicked fairy. But the danger is not over. The wicked fairy threatens to force him to eat her vile-smelling and poisonous soup!

Setting out to save him, Victor's mother meets the same treacherous trails as her son, yet overcomes them in a particularly charming way. After his exciting adventure, Victor is hungrier than ever and his mother's fish soup turns out to be the best he's ever tasted.

MIREILLE LEVERT, diplômée en Arts visuels de l’UQÀM, travaille en littérature jeunesse. Elle écrit et illustre ses propres textes. Elle a remporté deux fois le prix du Gouverneur général du Canada pour ses illustrations. Avec Quand j’écris avec mon cœur elle choisit une nouvelle voie, la poésie pour l’écriture et l’élaboration de ses illustrations. Pour elle désormais chaque jour est un poème qu’elle reçoit avec ses yeux, ses oreilles et son cœur. L’album est finaliste au prix du Gouverneur général du Canada et au prix TD. Elle vit à Montréal, Québec, et aime partager avec les enfants la joie de créer en mots et en images.

Mireille Levert's profile page

• Winner, Governor General's Literary Awards: Illustration

Sure to get some giggles.

Toronto Star

...another delectable concoction, amply displaying her fertile, transforming imagination, so visually and emotionally true in its representation of children's comic, scarily fanciful vision of the world. Levert, Mireille 's vibrantly-hued, Matisse-like illustrations are a scrumptious treat for the eye and imagination. All curves and contours, her warmly enveloping watercolours swirl with movement and mischievous invention.

Quill & Quire