Button Soup by Doris Orgel illustrated by Pau Estrada

When a young girl and her grandfather exit a grocery store, Rag-Tag Meg proclaims to a young girl that she is hungry.  The grandfather apologizes and walks away.  The young girl feels sorry for Rag-Tag Meg and leaves her city apartment without telling her grandfather to see if she can help her.  Together she and Rag-Tag Meg make a delicious soup, starting with a button, to share with everyone.
A more modern version of Stone Soup which takes place in the city.
My overprotective attitude cringes at a young girl leaving an apartment in the city without telling an adult and spending the day with a stranger.  Times have changed!!
Strategies: Inferring opportunity-where is the girl's mother? What happened to Rag-Tag Meg?, compare/contrast between this one and the original, T-T connections
Borrowed from the library.