Posters by Child Artists Now for Sale
If you enjoy the artwork on the covers and inside Stone Soup, you are going to love our new posters. Stone Soup’s parent organization, the Children’s Art Foundation, has assembled a world-class collection of children’s art from 36 different countries. We’ve selected some of the finest examples from the collection and prepared them as museum-quality prints. Colorful, expressive, inspiring—these gorgeous prints will look beautiful in your child’s bedroom, in your own living room, and even in office settings.
To order posters, please visit our new online store. Order three posters and the shipping is free.
Emma T. Capps Creates an Illustration for Stone Soup Magazine
Multiple Subscription Discounts!
Our 20% discount on multiple subscription orders has proven so popular we’ve decided to extend it. Can you think of more than one young reader who would enjoy a subscription to Stone Soup? How about your local school or library? Stone Soup makes a great gift for birthdays, holidays, or just because. We appreciate your support!
How do you use Stone Soup?
We started publishing Stone Soup in 1973. We were college students. The magazine grew rapidly for the first few years and then it leveled off. We’d like to see it grow again and are thinking that it might help us tell the Stone Soup story if we could hear from you how you use Stone Soup in your classroom or how your child responds to Stone Soup when it arrives in your home. We’d like to hear from you in writing — and if you might feel inspired ot make a video that you wouldn’t mind us positing on our web site — then we’d like to hear from you in video, too.
Thank you,
William
People of the Crow, a tale of the fantastic
Angela’s story takes place in a very specific place: Cranford, New Jersey. And yet, it not exactly Cranford. Things happen in this story that don’t take place in Cranford – or any place on earth. Things happen in this story that only happen in imagination.
Two Stories about Friends
Two stories. Short. Simple. Each story about two friends. In one, two boys walk along the beach and look at a starfish. In the other, two boys shoot off fireworks on a vacant lot. Each of these very short stories is, in its own way, complex. Not only do the stories provide a vivid picture of where they take place, but they also each reveal a great deal about the characters, their relationship to each other, and their relationship to the world.
Journal Times Article about Stone Soup Teen Author
The Racine, Wisconsin, Journal Times ran an article about Dylan Saunder’s story in the January/February issue of Stone Soup. Stone Soup is one of the few outlets for young teens to be published. The entire story from the Journal Times is reproduced, below:
Stone Soup Archive
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.
The subject selection is also useful for teachers of creative writing. Creative writing assignments are often thematic. For every theme you will find that Stone Soup writers have taken very different approaches. This can help you develop projects for your own classroom. More simply, you can send your students to our web site for inspiration.
Help us get our forums going!
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
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.
