Stone Soup

Title

en_US Stone Soup

en_US An Easy-To-Read Folktale

Description

en_US 16th printing

en_US Ann McGovern

Creator

en_US McGovern, Ann See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Pels, Winslow Pinney

Date

2016-12-01T20:16:51Z

en_US 2016-11

en_US 1986

Date Available

2016-12-01T20:16:51Z

Date Issued

en_US 1986

Abstract

en_US Ann McGovern's text is copyrighted in 1968, while Pels' illustrations are copyrighted in 1986. The protagonist here is a hungry young man. Pels does fine work with both characters, the clever young man and the "little old lady" whom he encounters. In this version, he talks this woman into adding each of the ingredients, each for a different reason. When she will give him nothing, he asks for a stone. When she will not give that either, he finds a stone and asks her for a pot. Onions will make it boil faster, and carrots will make it smell better. She flips carrots behind her into the wheelbarrow almost like a center in football! Her repeated line is "Soup from a stone, fancy that." A final step comes when he declares that the soup is fit for king. She says "Stop" and sets a table fit for a king. Together they eat all the soup. Then the young man takes the stone out of the pot. "Why?" she asks. "It is not cooked enough. I will have to cook it some more tomorrow." As he goes off, he says to himself "What a fine supper I will have tomorrow." This is a delightful version!

Identifier

en_US 11095 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/107823

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Scholastic

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ8.1.M173St 1986 See all items with this value

en_US One story See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole