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Stone soup

Retells the old folktale of the wily soldiers who got their meal by hoodwinking a whole village of peasants.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Brown, Marcia
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers , 1975.
Subjects:	Folklore > Juvenile fiction. Caldecott honor book.
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Summary:	Retells the old folktale of the wily soldiers who got their meal by hoodwinking a whole village of peasants.
Physical Description:	unp. : ill. ; 29 cm.
ISBN:	0684922967 0808563874 (econo-clad)
Author Notes:	Marcia Joan Brown, 1918 - 2015 Marcia Joan Brown was born in Rochester, New York on July 13, 1918. She graduated from New York State College for Teachers (the University at Albany's predecessor). She taught at Cornwall High School in New York City, where she began her writing career with the publication of The Little Carousel in 1946. She authored and illustrated more than 30 children's books. She won the Caldecott Medal three times for Cinderella, Once a Mouse, and Shadow. Brown died on April 28 at her home in Laguna Hills, California, following complications of congestive heart failure. She was 96. (Bowker Author Biography)