Rod Ross
3) Stone soup
Author
Series
From the book by Marcia Brown Aladdin volume c1947
Publisher
Live Oak Media
Pub. Date
p1987
Formats
Description
Marcia Brown has made of this old tale a carnival of activity, dancing, and laughter
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,...