Stone Soup by Ann McGovern - Illustrated by Winslow Pinney Pels (1986)

A young boy tricks an old woman into making him soup by making her believe that he has a magical stone which makes stone soup. As she attempts to make this soup, he encourages her to add numerous ingredients - eventually making a real soup.

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