A fun Disney retelling of the Stone Soup folktale. Daisy really shines as a clever main character. I remember loving the illustrations of Scrooge's "hidden" food stashes as a kid, and the whole story still holds up. ( )

Walt Disney's Button Soup has always been my favorite book from my childhood. I always ran this book to my mom to read it to me. To this day I still really love this book. This book is about the relationship between the grumpy, old Scrooge and his niece Daisy Duck. Scrooge's character is harsh and cruel which the whole town is aware of. They are shocked when Daisy comes into town to spend time with him. At the beginning of the book he did not even let Daisy into his house however, throughout the story, you see Scrooges personality change as he is curious about Daisy's button soup. He was stingy about letting her use his food as he said "he did not have any", but Daisy simply told him all she needed was a button and water. Daisy keept asking Scrooge for a single item at the time, by the time the soup is done he has not realized he had the ingredients all along. This book shows how Daisy is persuasive and sneaky with her uncle. The reason why she said she could make the soup with only a button was to intrigue her uncle and allow him to use his imagination. Daisy taught Scrooge a lesson without him even knowing it because by the end of the story, he had the whole town over for the delicious button soup. This can also teach children to be creative when it comes to anything, they just have to believe in themselves.

This is a retelling of the Stone Soup folk tale - in which a hungry stranger, in this case Daisy Duck, trick the local *people (*Scrooge McDuck) to add more and more items of food into a pot that turns plain water into nourishing soup: a good confidence trick that benefits the group from combining their individual resources.
In this story Scrooge is a victim to his own curiosity and ego which fools him into giving up ever more valuable items from a larder he initially refused to acknowledge even exists!
By the end, Daisy has enticed enough ingredients to make soup that will feed the whole town!

I have lost count of just how many times I was asked to read this book to my own children, who would have been content to hear it over and over again! ( )

One of my childhood favorites! Button Soup (a version of the fable Stone Soup) tells the tale of Scrooge McDuck, the stingiest fellow in the whole West, and his niece Daisy. Daisy convinces her uncle that she can create soup just with some water and a single button, after he claims to have no food in the house. By talking about ingredients, one by one, that would make the soup better, Daisy cleverly gets all of the ingredients necessary for her soup and gets her uncle to share the whole pot of soup with the members of the community because after all-this soup was made with just one button!