Children's literature can play a significant role in integrating math and science concepts into real-world applications. One particularly delightful selection is "Cucumber Soup" (Krudwig, 1998). This book can create a context--making cucumber soup--for weighing and for a real-life on adding fractions. This kind of learning context takes children away from viewing math and science as rules and formulas, and encourages them to explore ideas in a more natural and informal manner that will help them discover connections and interrelationships among content and concepts. This article describes the use of "Cucumber Soup" as a powerful tool for teachers at the elementary level to engage students in actively doing math and science, and in investigating and exploring measurement and number concepts.