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Stone soup brown marcia brown5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() The peasants seeing them coming, suddenly became very busy, for soldiers are often hungry. A French version of the story is available under the title 'Une Drole de Soupe.' Three soldiers came marching down the road towards a French village. ![]() So much goes on in the pictures that children who have once heard the story will turn to them again and again, retelling the story for themselves. Marcia Brown has made of this old tale a very gay book, a carnival of activity, of dancing and laughter. Stone soup? Why, of course, they could make a wonderful soup of stones.but, of course, one must add a carrot or tow.some meat.so it went. There followed a battle of wits, with the soldiers equal to the occasion. So all the food was hidden under mattresses or in barns. Three soldiers came marching down the road towards a French village. ![]()
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