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Stone Soup is a European folk story in which hungry strangers convince the people of a town to each share a small amount of their food in order to make a meal. In varying traditions, the stone has been replaced with other common inedible objects, and therefore the parable is also known as axe soup, button soup, nail soup, bolt soup, and wood soup.
1947. Publication place. United States. Stone Soup: An Old Tale is a 1947 picture book written and illustrated by Marcia Brown and published by Charles Scribner's Sons. [1] It is a retelling of the Stone Soup folk tale. Three soldiers make a soup using water and stones. Each villager contributes an ingredient to the soup, creating a feast. [2]
Dutton Books for Young Readers. Publication date. January 18, 2007. Publication place. United States. ISBN. 0525474935. The Real Story of Stone Soup is a picture book written by Ying Chang Compestine and illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch. The stone soup folk story is often associated with European folklore, but Compestine retells it set in China.
Publication date. December, 1908. "The Third Ingredient" is a short story by O. Henry, notable for its ironic take on the "Stone Soup" theme. The story was originally published in the December 1908 issue of Everybody's Magazine with illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele. [1] The next year it was included in O. Henry's collection Options.
Ann McGovern Scheiner (née Weinberger; May 25, 1930 – August 8, 2015) was an American writer of more than 55 children's books, selling over 30 million copies. [1] She may be best known for her adaptation of Stone Soup, as well as Too Much Noise, historical and travel non-fiction, and biographies of figures like Harriet Tubman and Deborah Sampson [2] and Eugenie Clark.
Stone Soup is an American newspaper comic strip. It was created by cartoonist Jan Eliot as Sister City, and was renamed after being syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate in 1995. The strip originally ran daily until 2015, when it switched to Sunday strips only before ending in 2020. The strip centers on a single mother named Valerie Stone ...
Stone Soup is syndicated to more than 300 newspapers, mostly in America but also across the world. [ 3 ] The strip's characters, widowed single mom Val and her children Alix and Holly, were based on Eliot's life and the lives of those around her, [ 6 ] but she also considers each character a reflection of herself. [ 2 ]
[2] [better source needed] Taylor Megan Potasky, an 11-year-old reviewer for Stone Soup Magazine, added, "I would highly recommend this book to anyone who knows someone who is a foster child, someone who loves nature like me or anyone who likes a story about love (in this case love for family and nature)". [3]