35,000 copies in print, Full color throughout - 48 pages - Hardcover, jacketed

"Alphabet Soup is a joyful alphabet banquet with Otter as host, who invites all his animal friends (26 of them) who bring potluck ingredients for the alphabet stew. If you can imagine, this reviewer went to ''U'' right away to find that ''Unicorn upon his unicycle carried unusual (yet useful) utensils in an upside-down umbrella.'' And the illustrations are dynamic, exciting, full-blown and complete with a whimsy and fantasy one could never have imagined but Gustafson Does. A wonderful children''s book for the child in all of us - and a great housewarming gift too!" —Umbrella News Letter