Stone Soup by Marcia BrownThree clever (conniving?) soldiers manage to make an entire village contribute their prized (and hidden) crops to create Stone Soup.
Mom's Review: This can be looked at a couple of ways, I'm going to go with the not-so-cynical view (surprising, I know.) Three hungry soldiers manipulate the greedy villages into feeding them. I'm going with the less cynical view because the soldiers shared the soup they had the villagers create with them. I think the meaning of this book was lost on Abby.
Daughter's Review:* I liked it. I never had stone soup.
*I would like to point out that the daughter is much more interested in the books than she leads on by her reviews. I ask her open-ended questions in the hope of more information, but she knows that I want more details and purposely withholds. Thus is the nature of the mother-daughter relationship.
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