![]() Then the young man takes the stone out of the pot. She says "Stop" and sets a table fit for a king. She flips carrots behind her into the wheelbarrow almost like a center in football! Her repeated line is "Soup from a stone, fancy that." A final step comes when he declares that the soup is fit for king. Onions will make it boil faster, and carrots will make it smell better. When she will not give that either, he finds a stone and asks her for a pot. When she will give him nothing, he asks for a stone. In this version, he talks this woman into adding each of the ingredients, each for a different reason. Pels does fine work with both characters, the clever young man and the "little old lady" whom he encounters. ![]() ![]() The protagonist here is a hungry young man. Ann McGovern's text is copyrighted in 1968, while Pels' illustrations are copyrighted in 1986. ![]()
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