Marcia Brown

Marcia Brown has made of this old tale a carnival of activity, dancing, and laughter

Three soldiers came marching down the road towards a French village. The peasants, seeing them coming, suddenly became very busy, for soldiers are often hungry. So all the food was hidden under mattresses or in barns. There followed a battle of wits, with the soldiers equal to the occasion. Stone soup? Why, of course, they could make a wonderful soup of stones...but,...

In her first book, Marcia Wilson Brown brings a fresh new approach to devotionals as she narrates the story of our need as humanity to transform and be transformed, constructed through the intersection of biblical theology and pertinent social analysis.

Presents three Caldecott Award-winning folktales, including the title work in which Big Anthony, left alone with Strega Nona's magic pasta pot, runs into trouble when he decides to show the townspeople how it works.