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Stone Soup : an Old Tale by Marcia Brown; Charles Scribner's Sons,; Atheneum Books for Young Readers is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Stone Soup : an Old Tale about?

<p><P>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. <P>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. <P>A French version of the story is available under the title <i>Une Dr&#244;le de Soupe.</i></p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>This old French tale about soldiers who trick miserly villages into making them a feast won a Caldecott Medal when Brown retold and illustrated it in 1947. (4-7)</p>

Who reads Stone Soup : an Old Tale?

Author

Marcia Brown; Charles Scribner's Sons,; Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Publisher

Charles Scribner's Sons/Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division

Published

1975

Language

EN

ISBN

9780684922966

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Folklore, Children'S, Education

Rating

4.23 / 5 (166 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14