January 11th, 2010 by William Rubel
We have our first forum post. It is by a parent writing about her Tween daughter’s difficulty finishing stories. It is posted in the forum for questions to the Stone Soup editors. The forums still need help getting started. If you are a parent, teacher, or a kid and you have a question for us, [...]
January 11th, 2010 by admin
The Stone Soup archive has hundreds of stories, poems, and book reviews. The purpose of the online archive is to offer free resources for students, parents, and teachers who are interested in writing by kids. One feature that I would like to call your attention to is that the 322 stories published on the site can be sorted by subject. By selecting the subject you can create your own anthology so you can read stories that are on subjects that interest you.
December 18th, 2009 by admin
We have just put up three forums for teachers and parents. Getting forums started is the hard part. You can help us by visiting the forums and making those all important first posts. Thank you.
December 17th, 2009 by admin
Getting published in Stone Soup can be a terrific motivational tool. Because of its reputation for quality, publication in Stone Soup is often newsworthy. Here is a recent article published in the Greater Media Newspapersof Middlesex, Mounmouth and Ocean Counties, New Jersey about the publication of Athena Gerasoulis’s artwork in the November/December 2009 issue of [...]
December 17th, 2009 by admin
All of us at Stone Soup would like to thank all of you for making this the best holiday season at Stone Soup, ever! The best in 37 years! Our ads in the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, Atlantic, Harpers, and the New York Review of Books are all doing better than [...]
Posted: July 8th, 2009
Raindrops fell from the dark velvety sky, dropping delicately onto the world below. A few clouds drifted
through in the gloom, covering the moon and few stars that had escaped the light of the city that flourished down theriver.
Posted: July 8th, 2009
My father had been working on his book for as long as I could remember. In total, it took seven years. Much more time then he had been allotted by his publishers. The book had somewhat
Posted: July 8th, 2009
As the notes take me
I try to remember
The ocean
Mom and Dad stand by me
Deeper we go
Jumping big waves
Posted: July 8th, 2009
Her pudgy feet ran through the grass
Sparkling in the morning dew
Her footprints left a trail behind her
Impressions on the cold ground
She ran
Her feet stumbling on unfamiliar territory