Stone Soup - What People are Saying

What People are Saying About Stone Soup for the World Leader's Guide

Stone Soup for the World provides the hope. The Leader's Guide provides the how. The combination is very powerful.
- Marty Rogol, former director, USA for Africa (We Are The World, Hands Across America)

The Stone Soup Leader's Guide is a terrific tool for teachers who want to shape the lives and characters of young people. It is accessible, friendly and encourages thoughtful reflections on service that will move the whole field of service-learning forward.
- Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Lieutenant Governor, Maryland

Stone Soup .for the World is full of real life stories .for people of all ages. The Leader's Guide provides excellent ideas and activities that bring the stories to life. For many of our YMCAs, these books are effective reflection tools, enabling them to engage participants in important community service activities.
- David R. Mercer, National Executive Director, YMCA of the USA

The Stone Soup Leader's Guide is a remarkable textbook which personalizes history for young people while teaching them character, courage and consideration for others key ingredients for building community.
- Linda Forsyth, California Commission on Improving Life Through Service

Our mentors found the Stone Soup far the World Leader's Guide to be a fabulous resource. It gave them a very practical way of showing their young people how others their age are doing something positive in the world - so they can too!
- Frank Kortwright, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of New York City

The Stone Soup for the World Leader's Guide is a magnificent tool combining the experiential with the intellectual. It will help people everywhere who are working with youngsters, teachers, social workers, Americorps, Teacher Corps and Peace Corps - to spread the Stone Soup message around the world.
- Martin I. Scherr, Child Welfare League of America

As the field of service-learning continues to grow, it is important that teachers have resources like the Stone Soup Leader's Guide to develop quality service-learning initiatives. I have used the Stone Soup story as a metaphor for service-learning -people joining their collective energy to create resources and strengthen all who serve.
- Marilyn w. Smith, Ph.D. Director of Service-Learning, Corporation for National Service

If you are a mentor and are committed to kids, you will find the Stone Soup for the World Leader's Guide an indispensable handbook. It teaches young people how we can reach beyond the boundaries of our own communities and make a difference on the other side of town or on the other side of the world.
- Randi Vega, Executive Director, Martha's Vineyard Chamber of Commerce

Whether you are 12 or 24, Stone Soup for the World and the Leader's Guide are both entertaining and educational, giving you a balanced view of the world and its problems --and the tools we can use to make things better.
- John Scott Johnson, 17, The Field School, Washington D.C.

By researching Stone Soup for the World stories, my students had an opportunity to become heroes themselves, answering a call to action. They accepted the risk of leadership and found their own niche to see what it takes and how it feels to make the world a better place.
- Joyce Brownell, Department of Languages and Literature Ferris State University, MI

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