Stone Soup: The Comic Strip by Jan Eliot, 192 pages

Stone Soup is funny, irreverent, sympathetic-and read by more than 7 million people every day. The all-too-real humor mirrors much of today's family life while cheering us on. Stone Soup tells the story of a blended-by-necessity family, starring two sisters, Val and Joan, who share their house with Val's daughters Holly and Alix, Joan's toddler Max, Gramma who lives upstairs, and the "active breed" family dog. It's a household of barely controlled chaos. Wally, the ultimate nice guy next door, Officer Jackson the motorcycle cop, and a variety of neighbors and friends round out the cast. Working -parent hassles, the terrible twos, middle-school angst, love and the single mom-it's all here in Stone Soup. Enjoy!