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Stone Soup

Contributor(s): Muth, Jon J (Author), Muth, Jon J (Illustrator)

ISBN: 9780439339094

Publisher: Scholastic Press

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Pub Date: March 1, 2003

Dewey: E

LCCN: 2002003776

Lexile Code: 0560

Features: Dust Cover, Illustrated, Price on Product

Target Age Group: 04 to 08

Physical Info: 0.47" H x 9.31" L x 10.32" W ( 0.90 lbs) 32 pages

Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000068587 ( Stone Soup)

Reading level: 3.60

Interest level: LG

Point value: 0.5

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Description: An award-winning artist adds a Zen twist to a favorite tale. As three monks travel along a mountain road, they encounter villagers ravaged by harsh times, making them cold to strangers. When the monks entice them to make soup from stones, the villagers discover how much they have to give. Full color.

Review Quotes: "Delicious and satisfying." -- The Horn Book* "With the same aesthetic grace he displayed with Tolstoy's The Three Questions, Muth here transports a classic tale to rural China. The setting not only allows his evocative, impressionistic watercolors to play over mist and mountains but also affords an opportunity for Buddhist underpinnings. ... And while the tale of "Stone Soup" can be told to make fools of the villagers, here it becomes an offering as generous as Muth's villagers turn out to be. -- Publishers Weekly, starred review

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