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Stone Soup
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Stone Soup Hardcover - 1947

by Brown, Marcia

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Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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  • Title Stone Soup
  • Author Brown, Marcia
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 48
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1947-01-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP93749381
  • ISBN 9780684922966 / 0684922967
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.4 x 7.9 x 0.5 in (26.42 x 20.07 x 1.27 cm)
  • Ages 04 to 07 years
  • Grade levels P - 2
  • Reading level 550
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: French
  • Library of Congress subjects Folklore - France
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002003776
  • Dewey Decimal Code 398.210

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Summary

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 Drôle de Soupe.

First line

Three soldiers trudged down a road in a strange country.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 06/01/1996, Page 1726

About the author

Marcia Brown (1918-2015), one of the most honored illustrators in children's literature, was a three-time Caldecott Medalist and six-time Caldecott Honor illustrator, as well as winner of the Children's Literature Legacy Award (formerly known as the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award) for the body of her work. She lived in Laguna Hills, California.

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