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Title: Stone Soup: An Old Tale (Aladdin Picture Books) by Marcia Brown, Marica Brown ISBN: 0-689-71103-4 Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The kindest con
Comment: It's funny how a single story changes with the telling. These days the classic tale of how to make stone soup has been told in a myriad of different tellings and versions. But if you harken back a little to Marci Brown's 1947 concoction, you see clearly that the story can be a little more sardonic than its alternate versions. In this tale, villagers are tricked out of their greed and fear into sharing and enjoying life with their neighbors. And it's all thanks to a soup that doesn't even exist.
Three soldiers make their way home from an unnamed war in an unnamed country. Passing a village, the men ask the townspeople for some food and warm beds. Unsurprisingly, the peasants (who, one presumes, have been violently scared into this state of distrust through years of misuse at the hands of soldiers such as these) feign a lack of food or room for the men. Thinking on their feet, the soldiers proclaim that there is nothing for it then but to make stone soup. The astonished town watches and aids the men in their task, providing them with a huge soup cauldron, water, and whatever ingredients the soldiers casually mention. By the end of the evening everyone sits down to a hearty meal and after a good night of carousing the men are given the best beds in town. "And fancy, made from stones!"
The soldiers in this tale are jovial fellows, just as comfortable fooling foolish peasants into acts of selflessness as they are dancing with pretty maids and drinking. That so much joy can come simply from sharing with your fellow man is a moral insinuated from the tale, rather than explicitly spelled out to the reader. Brown's accompanying illustrations encompass roughly four colors; red, black, white, and grey. Though a subtle palette, the figures readily express all the emotions, fears, and energy of the people and their soldier guests. I was charmed by the final throwaway line in the book, written below the peasants as they wave goodbye to the three men. "Such men don't grow on every bush". You could say the same for this book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Stone Soup
Comment: The story is about three soldiers who are hungry and very tired and are looking for a place to stay.
Then, they come across a village one day. The people of the village have plenty of food and places to say, but they don't want the soldiers staying there so the people of the village hide there food and say their beds are all full. Well, that same day, the soldiers get an idea. Why! stone soup of course!
The message that this book sends is that even though you think that some people are bad, you should always try to see whats on the inside of them, not the outside. I think this book is fit for five to eight years of age.
I recomend this book to any child who has a judjment problem, and even to adults who want to show their children a lesson.
Rating: 5
Summary: The captain and ten eels make soup
Comment: I just loved this book when I was a hooligan, I can remember Captain Kangaroo reading this one to the camera back in the day. There's many a valuable lesson lurking in here, and tricksterism galore. Coyote would be proud (as was Mr. Moose). Plus, you'll find a generic but decent recipe for vintage village stew...er, stone soup.
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Title: Stone Soup by Ann Mc Govern, Winslow Pinn Ey Pels ISBN: 0590416022 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: 01 September, 1986 List Price(USD): $3.50 |
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Title: Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business by Esphyr Slobodkina ISBN: 0064431436 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 31 October, 1987 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Story About Ping (Picture Puffin Books (Paperback)) by Marjorie Flack ISBN: 0140502416 Publisher: Puffin Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1977 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel: Story and Pictures (Sandpiper Books) by Virginia Lee Burton ISBN: 0395169615 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 09 September, 1939 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey ISBN: 0670451495 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1941 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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