The handbook for humanitarians, completely revised and updated with 5 new stories
Stone Soup for the World is a blueprint for building a better world. Its heroes are legendary people and ordinary folks who, by conviction, imagination, innovation, persistence, frequently hard work, and not infrequently moral or physical courage, have lifted their neighbors and their communities. They challenge each of us to respond in kind.
—Walter Cronkite, from the Introduction
My father used to say that one person could make a difference and each of us should try. This book tells the stories of people who have made that difference, and they are an inspiration to us all.
— Caroline Kennedy
The inspiring stories featured in this book are wonderful testaments to the ideals of good citizenship. Citizen service reflects one of the most basic convictions of our democracy: that we are all responsible for one another.
— Former President Bill Clinton
The Stone Soup for the World’s Education Curriculum is full of real life stories that will interest people of all ages – and from which they can learn. It provides excellent ideas and activities to help bring those stories to life. For many of our YMCAs, these publications have become effective reflection tools, enabling them to engage participants in important community service activities.
David R. Mercer, National Executive Director, YMCA of the USA
Stone Soup for the World tells many inspiring stories and reinforces a favorite quote of mine, 'From now on in America any definition of a successful life must include service to others.
— Former President George Bush
Wonderful . . . Young and old alike will be inspired by the hundreds of ideas for how we can help our children, our schools, our communities, and our country to be the best we can be.
-- Retired General Colin Powell,
Founding Chairman of America's Promise—The Alliance for Youth
The dramatic and heartening stories in Stone Soup for the World immediately immerse readers in other cultures and countries, and engage them in the struggles of real heroes who fight battles against violence, disease and hunger within their individual lives, their communities and nations. The Educational Curriculum provides stimulating questions for students, values and qualities exemplified in the stories, lessons gleaned from the narratives, activities for language arts and social studies classes, and project ideas for community service. The self-paced curriculum emphasizes improving young people’s reading and higher-order thinking skills, ensures that the Stone Soup selections can support discussions on global interdependence, cross-cultural issues, cultural and ethnic diversity, conflict management, and universal human rights. Through the narratives of these individuals’ intimate struggles and final successes, the young reader takes away a vision of victory and, hence, a greater willingness to engage the struggles in life. For, if these real people in their real stories can live such vibrant lives, accomplish so much, and in the end prevail, could not the young reader find comparable courage to face the inevitable challenges in his life? If Stone Soup can accomplish that feat, even for only one young mind, it would truly have been worth its place in our classroom.
Global TeachNet, National Peace Corps Association;
Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development
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