http://www.stonesoup.com Web site for Stone Soup magazine Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:07:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When a new issue of Stone Soup is published, editor Gerry Mandel selects a story to feature on our website and asks the author to record a reading of the story. Over the years, we have built up a large archive of stories read by Stone Soup authors. We are ... http://www.stonesoup.com/spoken-word-recordings-by-children/ 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: Dylan Sauder wrote his first story when he ... http://www.stonesoup.com/teens-in-prin/ The most remarkable part of Lena's story is the last quarter where four characters respond to a traumatic event. This section, beginning with the "No!" spoken by the narrator and continuing to the end, depends heavily on dialogue. It could almost be a play. Notice that, although the lines spoken ... http://www.stonesoup.com/working-with-dialogue/ 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 ... http://www.stonesoup.com/first-forum-post/ 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 ... http://www.stonesoup.com/stone-soup-archive/ 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. http://www.stonesoup.com/stone-soup-forums-are-up/ 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 ... http://www.stonesoup.com/press-for-stone-soup-illustrator/ 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 ... http://www.stonesoup.com/our-best-december-ever/ 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. ... http://www.stonesoup.com/blog-for-stone-soup/ 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, ... http://www.stonesoup.com/homeschooling-creative-writing-curriculum/