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Stone Soup

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Stone SoupThree soldiers came marching down the road towards a French village. The peasants seeing them coming, suddenly became very busy, for soldiers are often hungry. So all the food was hidden under mattresses or in barns. There followed a battle of wits, with the soldiers equal to the occasion. Stone soup? Why, of course, they could make a wonderful soup of stones but, of course, one must add a carrot or tow some meat so it went. Marcia Brown has made of

Three soldiers came marching down the road towards a French village. The peasants seeing them coming, suddenly became very busy, for soldiers are often hungry. So all the food was hidden under mattresses or in barns. There followed a battle of wits, with the soldiers equal to the occasion. Stone soup? Why, of course, they could make a wonderful soup of stones...but, of course, one must add a carrot or tow...some meat...so it went.
Marcia Brown has made of this old tale a very gay book, a carnival of activity, of dancing and laughter. So much goes on in the pictures that children who have once heard the story will turn to them again and again, retelling the story for themselves.
A French version of the story is available under the title Une Dr le de Soupe.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 01/01/1947
ISBN: 9780684922966
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 10.40h x 7.90w x 0.50d
Award: Caldecott Medal - Honor Book

Review Citations: Booklist 06/01/1996 pg. 1726

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 5491 / Stone Soup
Reading Level: 3.3 / Interest Level: Lower Grade / Point Value: 0.5
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