Soup by Robert Newton Peck

When it came to getting the two of us in trouble, Soup was a regular genius....Soup was my best pal. His real and righteous name was Luther Wesley Vinson, but nobody called him Luther. He didn't like it. I called him Luther just once, which promoted Soup to break me of a very bad habit before it really got formed. As soon as the swelling went out of my lip, I called him Soup instead of Thoop.
Here are the stories of that friendship, and of the troubles--stories from a boyhood filled with barrels to roll in, apples to whip, windows to break, ropes to bind prisoners, acorn pepes, and ten-cent Saturday movies.

Stichley's Rating:
Based on the suggestion of our Librarian when I was a kid my family discovered the whole Soup series (now it's hard to find all of them in print).  They became some of our favorite books to have read to us before we went to bed at night.  For an adult or teen the just over 100 page book of Soup is an extremely fast read, but if you are going to read them to your kid it is worth it--Kids love them and you'll find yourself laughing.

Additional Soup books: Little Soup's Birthday, Little Soup's Bunny, Little Soup's Hayride, Little Soup's Turkey, Soup 1776, Soup Ahoy, Soup & Me, Soup for President, Soup in Love, Soup in the Saddle, Soup on Fire, Soup on Ice, Soup on Wheels, Soup's Drum, Soup's Goat, Soup's Hoop, Soup's Uncle

Instances of Swearing:

• Hell: 1
• Ass: 1