Editing Stone Soup (section)

====Literature====

Gerald P. Murphy's stage adaptation of "Stone Soup" was published by Lazy Bee Scripts in 2008 and has had successful productions in US, UK and France.

[[Gerald Griffin]] wrote "The Collegians" (1829) which includes a version of limestone soup in chapter 30.

[[William Butler Yeats]]' play ''The Pot of Broth'' (1904) tells a version of the story in which a clever Irish tramp uses his wits to swindle a shrewish medieval housewife out of her dinner.{{sfn|Yeats|2010|pages=109–119}}

The story is the basis of [[Marcia Brown]]'s 1947 children's book ''[[Stone Soup: An Old Tale]]'' (1947),<ref>{{cite book |last=Brown |first=Marcia |author-link=Marcia Brown |title=Stone Soup (1947) |year=2005 |isbn=978-0689878367 |publisher=[[Aladdin Paperbacks]] |location=New York City}}</ref> which features soldiers tricking miserly villagers into cooking them a feast. The book was a [[Caldecott Honor]] book in 1948<ref>{{cite web |title=Stone Soup, 1948 Caldecott Honor Book |date=3 July 2013 |url=http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecotthonors/1948honorstonesoup |publisher=Association for Library Service to Children |access-date=November 23, 2019}}</ref> and was read aloud by the Captain (played by [[Bob Keeshan]]) on an early episode of ''[[Captain Kangaroo]]'' in the 1950s, as well as at least once in the 1960s or early 1970s.{{sfn|Spicer|Disbrowe|2007|page=9}}{{sfn|Bradbury|2010|page=66}}

In 1965, [[Gordon R. Dickson]] published a short story called "Soupstone", where a headstrong pilot is sent to solve a problem on a planet under the guise of a highly educated and competent official. He succeeds by pretending to understand everything, but actually merely making the locals apply their already present knowledge and abilities to the task.

"Stone Soup" (1968),<ref>{{cite book |title=Stone Soup (1968) |date=1986 |publisher=[[Scholastic Corporation|Scholastic Inc]] |isbn=978-0590416023 |last=McGovern |first=Ann |author-link=Ann McGovern |edition=Reissue |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/stonesoup00mcgo }}</ref> written by [[Ann McGovern]] and illustrated by Nola Langner, tells the story of a little old lady and a hungry young man at the door asking for food, and how he tricks her into making stone soup. The book was reprinted and reissued in 1986 with Winslow Pinney Pels as the illustrator.

In 1975, [[Walt Disney Productions]] published a Wonderful World of Reading book titled ''Button Soup''. Daisy Duck tricks Scrooge McDuck to share his food to help flavor her Button Soup.

Canadian children's author Aubrey Davis adapted the story to a Jewish context in his book ''Bone Button Borscht'' (1996). According to Davis, he wrote the story when he was unable to find a story that he liked for a [[Hanukkah]] reading.<ref>{{cite book |last=Davis |first=Aubrey |title=Bone Button Borscht |year=2002 |publisher=Turtleback Books |location=[[St. Louis]] |isbn=978-0613991032}}.</ref> [[Barbara Budd]]'s narration of ''Bone Button Borscht'' traditionally airs across Canada on [[CBC Radio One]]'s ''[[As It Happens]]'', on the first day of [[Hanukkah]].

French author and illustrator Anais Vaugelade published a children's picture book, ''Une soupe au caillou'', in which the tramp from the original folktale is replaced by a wandering wolf, and the old woman by a curious hen. All characters in the story are animals, gathering to help making the stone soup, each of them carrying an ingredient for the final dish.

[[Jon J. Muth]]'s children's book based on the story, also called ''Stone Soup'' (2003),<ref>{{cite book |author-link=Jon J. Muth |first=Jon J. |last=Muth |title=Stone Soup |year=2003 |publisher=[[Scholastic Corporation|Scholastic Press]] |location=New York City |url=https://archive.org/details/stonesoup00muth |edition=1st |isbn=978-0439339094 |url-access=registration}}</ref> is set in China, as is [[Ying Chang Compestine|Ying Chang's]] ''[[The Real Story of Stone Soup]]'' (2007).<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-3107728801/stone-soup-a-story-about-using-story-for-research |title=Stone Soup: A Story about Using Story for Research |last=Kimmel |first=Sue |date=July 2013 |journal=School Libraries Worldwide |volume=19 |number=2 |access-date=November 23, 2019 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

[[Robert Rankin]]'s book [[Nostradamus Ate My Hamster]] features a version of the story introduced as an old Irish tale.