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Analise Braddock, 9
Katonah, NY
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An update from our second Weekly Writing Workshop!
The Stone Soup Weekly Writing Workshop is open to all Stone Soup contributors and subscribers during the COVID-19-related school closures and shelte...
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The Virus
By Avah Dodson, 11
As I lie in bed I can hear
Mom sobbing into Dad’s arms.
They’re dying. What are we going to do?
Who? I wonder as I drift off. No one I know.
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Hope for Quaranteens
By Clara Kingsley Tripp, 12
As a global response to the rapidly spreading COVID-19, millions upon millions of people have been forced to retreat into their houses.
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corona virus
By Max Corthésy, 11
infected, undetected
putting people in quarantine
like a routine.
uncured, must endure
washing hands
a demand.
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Virus
by Chloe Deyo, 11
“Wash your hands.”
“Don’t touch your face.”
That’s what they say in every germy case.
All it has brought is pain.
I can’t get it out of my brain.
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Our first Weekly Writing Workshop!
The Stone Soup Weekly Writing Workshop is open to all Stone Soup contributors and subscribers during the COVID-19-related school closures and shelter-in-place arran...
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A COVID-19 POEM
by Cali Bennett, 11
I hate COVID-19
It is bad, bad, bad
It will not leave
It is as intense as
the cold water in
the ocean, like when
you are trying to
get out of the water,
...
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When the first person tested positive with COVID-19, the virus was only in China. But soon, as people traveled and spread germs and bacteria, the virus traveled all the way to the US.
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Contest based on Monday's Daily Creativity Prompt
Every weekday morning from March to late August 2020, we published a Daily Creativity prompt. We decided to get everyone focused by turning every Mon...
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There are a lot of science-based ideas expressed in everyday speech. This activity challenges you to identify some of those expressions, think about what they mean, research them to find out the scien...
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We're pleased to announce that Stone Soup contributor Sabrina Guo has won a number of medals from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards—and two for work that has (or will) appear in the magazine.
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by Sarah Lynn
“No Boundaries” is exploding with color, something I particularly love in artworks. The blues, purples, and greens of the piece are relaxing and seem to flow in and around the image...
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by Kat J.
As I was reading “Seeing Over the Side of the Boat,” a personal narrative written by Benjamin Halperin and illustrated by Kyle Trefny, I started to see myself in the author’s perspect...
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This activity is built around a story by 11-year-old Lena Boesser-Koschmann, first published in the November/December 1992 issue of Stone Soup, and more recently in the Stone Soup Book of Animal Stori...
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Juvenilia is the name given to creative work produced by recognized authors and artists when they were children and young adults. The late eighteenth and early nineteenth century was a fruitful time f...
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The Young Visiters sold 300,000 copies in 1919! And that was just in Britain!
The introduction to The Young Visiters was written by J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan.
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We at the Children's Art Foundation were very lucky to be given these extraordinary felt pen drawings by the Egyptian government in the late 1970s. Besides being unusually strong works of children's a...
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Ballet is an art in which adults partake in a fantasy world that is more often associated with children's stories. Nobody speaks in a ballet–the classic story ballets are performed silently–althou...
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Reading is the best preparation for writing. We are fortunate that through the internet it is possible to keep in touch with living authors through their blogs, twitter feeds, and their websites.
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