Join the Stone Soup Book Club!
The new Stone Soup Book Club was just featured on teen girl website Heart of Gold. Read what they have to say about the club, then start enjoying it. Read reviews by kids of the latest children’s… read more »
2 Comments »Equal rights for girls!
A girl growing up today can join a baseball team if she wants to. In the past, things were different. “Katie’s League,” the featured story from the March/April issue of Stone Soup, chronicles the struggles of Katie, a girl growing up in the 1940s. Katie loves baseball, and she’s really… read more »
2 Comments »A horse story with a twist
We hope all our subscribers have had a chance to read the new January/February 2013 issue of Stone Soup. There are so many great stories in this issue, it was hard to choose one to feature on our website. We finally settled on “Friends Forever,” by 11-year-old Naomi Vliet,… read more »
1 Comment »The Stone Soup Book of Poetry
We are pleased to announce the publication of The Stone Soup Book of Poetry, the fifth volume in our series of anthologies of writing from past issues of Stone Soup. I confess, the Poetry anthology is my favorite of the five. While it’s nice… read more »
1 Comment »Animal stories and poems in Stone Soup
Some of the best writing we receive at Stone Soup is about animals: dogs, cats, horses, birds, wolves, dolphins, even a pet gecko! Animals have a special place in the hearts of many children and adults, and we love to read and write about them. The new November/December 2012 issue of Stone Soup… read more »
No Comments »Former Stone Soup author starts her own magazine
Did you ever dream of starting your own literary magazine? Former Stone Soup contributor Madelyne Xiao, whose story “Mung Bean Noodles and French Bread” appeared in the May/June 2010 issue of Stone Soup, is making her dream a reality with the founding of a literary magazine for creative high school students (ages 13 to 19)… read more »
3 Comments »Back to school with Stone Soup
School has started, the days are getting shorter, and the September/October issue of Stone Soup is arriving in mailboxes all over the world. Did you have a chance to read yours yet? The beautiful cover, by 13-year-old Rajib Roy of Calcutta, India, depicts a fall scene of people going to market… read more »
2 Comments »Martha Payne: One little girl makes a difference in the world
Our favorite Internet story of the past two months is the story of 9-year-old food blogger Martha Payne, of Scotland. With her dad’s help, Martha started a blog called NeverSeconds on April 30. Every school day she takes a picture of her school lunch, posts it on her blog, and writes about… read more »
6 Comments »We’re blogging again!
Welcome to the brand new Stone Soup blog. This is the place where we’ll tell you what’s new at Stone Soup. It’s also the place where you can post your comments — on the featured story from the current issue, on a poem you just wrote, a picture you just drew, an idea you just… read more »
2 Comments »Emma T. Capps creates an illustration for Stone Soup
Emma T. Capps was a regular illustrator for Stone Soup from 2009 to 2011. Emma and her dad created this wonderful time-lapse video, showing Emma creating an illustration for Stone Soup from start to finish. The story she illustrated, “Working for Sparkle,” appeared in the May/June 2011 issue of Stone Soup. Emma continues to make… read more »
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