A road‑weary fox stops at a farm gate, but his request for a little food meets with flat‑out refusal from the farm animals. Not to be put off, he calmly pulls a large pot from his backpack and sets out to make stone soup. The animals are taken in by fox's ploy, and eagerly provide him with a turnip, a carrot, a cabbage, and a sprinkling of corn, all the necessary ingredients to complement the flavor of a simmering stone. As expected, the end result is a pot of delicious soup, which fox shares with his unwitting benefactors. Vivid colors and cartoon‑like animals add to the fun of this traditional tale. The language is simple and repetitive, well matched to the telling, and retelling, of a trickster on the make. (Ages 3‑7)