Stone Soup

Title

en_US Stone Soup

Description

en_US Second Aladdin edition

en_US Marcia Brown

Creator

en_US Brown, Marcia See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Brown, Marcia

Date

2016-01-25T20:05:40Z

en_US 2011-07

en_US 1997

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:05:40Z

Date Issued

en_US 1997

Abstract

en_US I know Marcia Brown from her lovely Once a Mouse. This book has some of the same charm. She first published Stone Soup in 1947. This telling gives color to the common story. Three soldiers are making their way home from war through foreign territory. The townsfolk see them coming and hide their food. Family after family, when asked by the soldiers, claims to have no food to offer. So the three proclaim that they will have to make stone soup. This claim makes the people curious, and they readily supply a large pot, lots of water, a fire to boil the water, and then three large smooth stones. After salt and pepper are asked for and provided, the soldiers say Stones like these generally make good soup. But oh, if there were carrots, it would be much better. Françoise thinks she has a carrot or two and brings an apron full. A good stone soup should have cabbage. But no use asking for what you don't have. Marie thinks she could find a cabbage somewhere and comes back with three. So it goes through sides of beef, potatoes, barley, milk. Soon there are tables in the square and torches, and the peasants ask themselves if a feast like this does not require bread and a roast and cider. They eat and drink and dance and sing far into the night. They even get to sleep in the priest's, baker's, and major's houses! Such men do not grow on bushes indeed! Art of two or three colors -- brown, orange, and red -- make for pleasant illustrations balanced with text all along the way.

Identifier

en_US 9780689711039 (pbk.)

en_US 7485 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82753

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Aladdin Paperbacks: Simon & Schuster

en_US New York, NY

Subject

en_US PZ8.1.B816 St 1997 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