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Winner of Parents' Choice Award & Bank Street College: Best Children's Books of the Year Two hungry travelers arrive at a village expecting to find a household that will share a bit of food, as has been the custom along their journey. To their surprise, villager after villager refuses to share, each one closing the door with a bang. As they sit to rest beside a well, one of the travelers observes that if the townspeople have no food to share, they must be "in greater need than we are." With that, the travelers demonstrate their special recipe for a magical soup, using a stone as a starter. All they need is a carrot, which a young girl volunteers. Not to be outdone, another villager contributes a potato, and the soup grows as others bring corn, celery, and other vegetables and seasonings. In this cumulative retelling of an ancient and widely circulated legend, author Heather Forest shows us that when each person makes a small contribution, “the collective impact can be huge.” Susan Gaber's paintings portray the optimism and timelessness of a story that celebrates teamwork and generosity. This story about community teaches readers the importance of sharing, generosity and vegetables! August House Publishers offer an animated version of Stone Soup as well as free lesson plans! Review: Wonderful - Read this book to my kids when they were little and we made stone soup together now reading it to my grandbabies and making stone soup with them perfect grandma grandkid activity, and beautiful story Review: Well written for all - I really like this book. It’s such a good lesson on sharing. Travelers to a little town somewhere in your imagination. The artwork is really nice, big colorful pictures especially for the little ones. I highly recommend this book.

| Best Sellers Rank | #168,844 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #84 in Mythology & Folklore Encyclopedias #169 in Children's Multicultural Tales & Myths #7,846 in Children's Literature (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 431 Reviews |
T**Y
Wonderful
Read this book to my kids when they were little and we made stone soup together now reading it to my grandbabies and making stone soup with them perfect grandma grandkid activity, and beautiful story
A**.
Well written for all
I really like this book. It’s such a good lesson on sharing. Travelers to a little town somewhere in your imagination. The artwork is really nice, big colorful pictures especially for the little ones. I highly recommend this book.
A**R
Quality Book, Wonderful Story
There are several versions of this story, I like this book and illustrations the best. It is the story of people working together and how a wonderful soup is made with a "magic stone", due to the fact that all the people in the town contribute just one vegetable each to improve the flavor. I got to know this story because a teacher at my children's elementary school entered a contest put on by Paul Newman's food company for best recipe using one of his products - won $10,000 for items for the school!! RECIPE: Boil a small stone in 2 cups of water for 5 minutes to kill the germs. In an 8 quart soup pot, put the stone, 2 lbs. beef stew meat, 10-11 cups water, 1 large chopped onion, 4 tsp. salt and 1 tsp. pepper, simmer on low for two hours. Add 26 oz. jar Newman's Own "Sockarooni" Spaghetti Sauce, 4 sliced carrots, 3 sliced celery stocks, 10 small red potatoes cut in chunks, 1 small pkg frozen Italian green beans, and 1/2 cup uncooked ABC pasta. Simmer until done. Serve with warm bread and butter. Makes 12 servings.
M**N
Great book!
I wanted to use this version of Stone Soup in a lesson that I did with my 2nd and 3rd grade music students. I needed it sooner rather than later and opted to purchase the digital version instead of the paper version like I normally would have in my music classroom. I loved using the digital book to be honest! I'd never done that before but the kids could easily see the words and pictures no matter where they were in my room. Great story, great illustrations!
M**.
Love this book
I purchased the book for my grandchild. I enjoyed reading the story to my children when they were young and love the new look of the book even more for my grandchild.
C**R
Stone soup story
I was attracted to this book because I thought this book had a black main character. I like to read different versions of Stone soup to my students. However, as I looked through the pages, the guy on the front cover only looks that complexion on the cover. Still a good story.
R**A
As Good As It Ever Was
I bought this book for my young great niece for Christmas. This is a classic tale that, surprisingly, I read when I was in elementary school. The theme of the importance of sharing that the book is about remains relevant to this day. I wanted to share a classic story with my niece and Heather Forest' update of this classic was perfect. The illustrations are beautiful and I can't imagine any child or parent who would not love this book.
D**E
Delivery time. Great book
Loved sharing this book with our youth and young adults.
P**E
Really good story.
Lovdd reading this with my grandsons. Really good story.
C**L
The joy, and simplicity, of sharing.
Wonderful story about sharing. Stone soup recipe at the back is an added bonus.
A**I
Ein Klassiker.
Schönes Buch. Sowohl der Text als auch die Bilder sind einfach schön gemacht. Ich werde das Buch im Kindergottesdienst einsetzten und freue mich darauf.
K**N
Five Stars
Brilliant book
A**R
"Do you care? Will you share?"
A book that needs to be read and re-read to people of all ages. She also has created audio for this story.
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