Reviews for Stone Soup

The average rating for Stone Soup based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-04-22 00:00:00 John Connell Stone Soup by Marica Brown is a book about three soldiers. They are hungry and tired. After visiting a village where every peasant declined them food or a place to sleep, the soldiers come up with an idea. They decide to make stone soup. They ask the peasants to help. They exclaim that the soup would be better with carrots, so the peasants run and gather carrots. They continue to hope for other items as the peasants run to gather them. After adding many ingredients, the soup is finally done. The peasants decide that soup isn't enough. They must have roast, bread, and cider. Together they feast, dance and sing! I read this book to my 6 year old sister. Halfway through the book, she commented that she liked the book so far. She tried to anticipate what would happen, and thought the soldiers were funny for adding the stone to the soup. I vaguely remember making stone soup when I was in preschool. I assume that we read the book and made the soup as an activity. I thought this was a fun idea, although I am not sure I could implement it in a elementary school. I would use it for younger students, K-1. The students could do many activities, using pretend ingredients to make the soup, each student contributing a new ingredient, teaching the students that team work produces more than individuals can. The illustrations were fairly simple. They looked almost Japanese or Eastern Europe. The drawn pictures with splashes of orange, the only color. The faces were sketched and shaded. They contributed to the story with a picture on every page.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-10-29 00:00:00 Scott Daniels After some problems with one Christmas book (which I had to delete), I found myself under the spell of this book. It amply deserves all the praise it got and is getting. Going in, I didn't have many expectations and the first chapter seemed tepid. But then that direction the story took enhanced its quality. For a feelgood book, it was never sentimental. It was realistic, wise, funny even. I didn't get any cheap vibes coming from the ending. Those villainous little children didn't seem to change for the better. But the Christmas pageant, was truly a miracle that was rooted in realism. I think the author caught lightning in a bottle. I fully recommend it.