Sopa de piedras

Format:

Audio disc

Title:

Sopa de piedras

Uniform Title:

Stone soup. Spanish

Author:

Brown, Marcia.

ISBN:

9780962516214

9780962516245

9780833578860

9780606105101

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

40 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Summary:

When three hungry soldiers come to a town where all the food has been hidden, they set out to make soup of water and stones, and all the town enjoys a feast.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader AR.

Subject(s):

Folklore -- France.

Spanish language -- Readers.

Spanish language -- Vocabulary.

France -- Juvenile fiction.

Geographic Term:

France -- Juvenile fiction.

Francia -- Novela juvenil.

Genre:

Readers (Publications)

Folk literature.

Added Author:

Mlawer, Teresa.

Holds:

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Salem Main Library	J 398.2 Brown 1991	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Woodburn Public Library	398.2 Brown 1991	Searching... Unknown

This old French tale tells the story of three weary soldiers on their way home from war. While passing through a town, the hungry men ask for something to eat. When the selfish villagers hide all their food, they find a clever way to get a meal.

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)

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