Help us get our forums going!
Posted: December 18th, 2009, Author: 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.
Stone Soup illustrator in the news
Posted: December 17th, 2009, Author: 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 Stone Soup.
Our best December, ever!
Posted: December 17th, 2009, Author: 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 ever before and it seems that you all like our redesigned website (launched mid-November). Last year’s sales had been poor and this year had been poor up to the holiday season. Then, suddenly, it was as if the sun came out from behind the clouds after a long winter storm. From sales being down compared with last year they are now up for the year! I can’t tell you how good that has been for our morale. The phones are ringing and the web orders are coming in as never before. Thank you!
If you are still thinking about a Christmas gift, it is never too late for Stone Soup. We are mailing gift announcements every day up until Christmas Eve. And if you are like me, and often wake up just about Christmas time to the awful realization that one has waited too long and there is no way to get a gift in time, just order a subscription and tell your young friend that you have done so. Stone Soup is the perfect gift for budding writers. It offers kids great pleasure throughout the year and is that rare gift that helps kids grow more expressive and creative.
We are looking for bloggers
Posted: December 7th, 2009, Author: admin
We are looking for teachers of creative writing to maintain a blog at the Stone Soup website. You will have your own separate blog, but located at our site. The web address will be yourname.stonesoup.com. We are aiming to get the first blogs up around the first of the year. We’d like you to write about what you do when you teach creative writing. We at Stone Soup believe in the usefulness of using writing by children in at least some part of the creative writing program, we are looking for teachers who share this philosophy.
Homeschooling Creative Writing Curriculum
Posted: December 2nd, 2009, Author: admin
Stone Soup is tailor made for parents who home school. One of the great benefits of homeschooling is individualized instruction. Rather than a one-size-fits-all creative writing curriculum, you can tailor lessons for your child. In this way, you build on your child’s strengths. But the disadvantage of working with one, or at most a few children at a time, is that instruction necessarily takes place isolated from other children. In the best classroom settings children working together on the same or similar projects inspire each other.