The story of Shitou Tang tells us that you can gain more if you pay more, and you can gain a warm world if you pay more trust. If there is no trust between people, the world will be full of estrangement and indifference. We must know how to give and how to get, and learn to trust and gain the trust of others.

The Story of Stone Soup

Description of Stone Soup: Three monks came to a suffering village. The villagers have suffered for many years in the hard years, and their hearts have become hard and they are unwilling to accept anyone. But the monks used the method of cooking stone soup, which made the villagers pay a lot unconsciously and understood that the more they paid, the more they paid.

Joan Mutt uses gorgeous watercolors to lead readers to think deeply about the truth behind the story. He integrated his love of Zen and oriental culture into this ancient and clever story to promote the power of generosity.

The author of Stone Soup

The author of Stone Soup is American writer Joan Mutt. Joan Mutt 1960 was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. She enjoys a high reputation in the field of picture book creation and illustration with her beautiful and quiet painting style. He is good at combining clear and moist watercolors with thought-provoking philosophical stories, and his works reveal a distant Zen meaning and the charm of ancient oriental culture. Joan Mutt's The Story of Zen won the Cadic Prize, and Nikolai's Three Questions was praised by The New York Times as "silently changing life". In addition, he won the gold medal of the American Illustrator Association and the Shirley Taylor Award of the American Jewish Library Association.