Stone Soup
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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 a
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Manufacturer: Charles Scribner's Sons
Release date: 1 January 1947
ISBN-10 : 0684922967 | ISBN-13: 9780684922966
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Release date: 1 January 1947
ISBN-10 : 0684922967 | ISBN-13: 9780684922966
