Stone Soup

Type

Book

Authors

Brown ( Marcia Brown )

ISBN 10

0684922967

ISBN 13

9780684922966

Tags

France-Fiction, Folklore, Soups-Fiction, Sharing-Fiction, Soldiers-Fiction, Hunger-Fiction

Description

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.

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