Upon arriving at a farm, Fox is hungry and looks to the other animals to help him find a meal, but when they refuse, he comes up with a clever plan to make stone soup that gets everyone curious and suddenly eager to help make it better. ( )

An easy reader version of Stone Soup with animals. The fox is traditionally a trickster. (When I had the Kindergarten class that I read the story to act it out, the fox wanted to stay with the farm animals. But he's Elijah, come to teach the virtue and value of sharing and kindness, aka "the stranger who comes to town [and changes things], and he must travel on.)

I loved this book. A tired and hungry fox passes by a farm and asks the animals if they can give him anything to eat.None of the animals want to give him food. The fox is clever and so he pulls a pot out of his backpack and asks for some water. He picks a rock, sniffs it and tells the animals he is making Stone Soup.All the animals curious gather around the pot. the fox tries the stone soup but something is missing... the animals one by one start bringing him turnips, salt, corn and different things to add to the soup without realizing this was the fox's intention. At this point, I thought the fox was going to throw the animals in the soup and eat them, but he didn't. The result is a delicious vegetable soup."And all from a stone" says the dog.
Although none of the animals realized they had all pitched in the making of the soup, children will see a message of sharing. the fox shared the soup with all the animals and promised to make more next time he comes to the farm. ( )

This book is about a fox who wants to eat with the other animals. The other animals, like Cow, Donkey, and many others, did not want to share their food with Fox. The animals were not being very nice to Fox, which made him very sad. He then tried to ask for water to make some soup. The only animal that would help Fox was Sheep, who was slightly kinder than the other animals. The other animals see this and they help Fox by adding more ingredients to make the stone soup just right.
I really enjoyed this book because despite the others animals not being nice to Fox, he found one that had no problem helping him. I interpreted the animals that were not very nice as the bad guys or "antagonists" of the story. They were not very nice at first, but soon came around and helped Fox. The sheep I interpreted as the good guy, or the "protagonist" of the story. This story also teaches the kids a lesson that you should always try and help out those in need, like the sheep did for the fox. ( )

A story of a traveling fox who stops by a few farm animals to ask for a bite to eat. The farm animals all tell the fox that they have no food to spare for him. The fox then asks for some water to make stone soup, the animals give him a tin of water. As the fox is making his soup he asks the farm animals for certain ingredients to give his stone soup some flavor. The farm animals do not realize they are actually helping fox make his soup, which is what the fox wanted in the beginning. Once the stone soup was complete, the fox shared it with the farm animals. The author showed how smart the fox was at getting what he wanted. In the end the farm animals were inviting the fox to stop by whenever he is passing through to make soup again. The clever fox accepted their invite for next time and went about his way.
This story shows how teamwork can bring others together even when at first things seem rough. All the farm animals denied the fox of food, but when he made the stone soup it was a team effort. ( )