What a fun story! I got borrowed this book from a 1st grade teacher that had put together a catalog of books that were on cassette. It is a great way to hear a folk tale retold. I forgot what a great story Stone Soup is. There is a lot to it and is humorous how they cook the stone soup.

I think that this would be a great book to go over different food with students and discussing sequencing of events.

Stone Soup is a book about a young man who had been walking for days and comes upon a house where a little old lady lives. The young man was wanting food from the old lady but she did not have any to spare. Then young man than asked for a stone so he could make stone soup. The lady let him have a stone and they began to make stone soup together using vegetables out of her garden. The soup turned out fantastic and they ate the yummy soup. At the end of the story the young man takes the soup to make some more tomorrow. I like how the book brings an element of suprise at the end.

Stone Soup is a book I can personally relate to because when I was in the fourth grade my family decided to make our own stone soup. It was delicious, I can remember it to this day.

In my classroom, I would have my students write out what they would want to put into there stone soup. We would also dicuss how the young man made the woman believe he knew what he was doing with the stone. ( )