Stone Soup

Title

en_US Stone Soup

en_US Flip Up Fairy Tales

en_US CPFUFT4

Description

en_US Jess Stockham?

Creator

en_US Stockham?, Jess

Contributor

en_US Stockham, Jess

Date

2017-05-15T20:34:01Z

en_US 2016-12

en_US 2006

Date Available

2017-05-15T20:34:01Z

Date Issued

en_US 2006

Abstract

en_US "Flip Up Fairy Tales" is an extensive series including some twenty-eight books, including several fables. The special character of this series lies in its flaps, which one can lift to find a little revelation. Sometimes these show characters behind windows or doors. Other times they show the next action of a character. My prize among them goes to one villager's purse, which turns out to have only a moth inside. The characters in this version are all animals. A band of them shows up in a wagon at a village that seems deserted. As they pitch camp, they are urged to go away, since this village has, after a hard winter, no food. The leader of the band, a dog, then offers to make stone soup. "All we need is a little wood." One by one he puts ingredients in, starting with small things like salt and parsley. We see the parsley hidden under a bed when we lift one of the flaps. A key turning point in this version comes when the villagers all put their wood together. Then they have enough. The dog brings out the stone, previously well wrapped. Soon everybody in the village contributes something, down to one last holdout, who finally yields a large onion. The delicious feast has the village, as we lift up a flap, playing their instruments and dancing. The next day as they break camp, the travelers present the village with the stone, which, they say, works only if they all cook together. As they get a good distance away from that village, the band's wagon stops and the dog picks up an ordinary stone from the roadside. "Just in case!" The CD inside the front cover tells the story very well with a pleasing variety of voices.

Identifier

en_US 11184 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/113027

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Child's Play (International) Ltd.

en_US Swindon, UK

Subject

en_US PZ8.1.S763St 2006

en_US Stone Soup

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole