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Using Silence to Create a Mood

by Gerry Mandel

Published September 1, 2015

Every once in a while a story comes along that is unlike any other. Dancing Birds, the featured story from our September/October 2015 issue, is such a story. What makes it so special? Yes, the...

Free Verse and Kids’ Poetry

by William Rubel

Published August 8, 2015

Most of the poetry we publish in Stone Soup is free verse. Free verse is the most prose-like form of poetry. It is very popular amongst adult poets and it is also very common in...

Join the Stone Soup Social Media Team

by William Rubel

Published July 23, 2015

Poem by a Child, Age 12, Published in 1913 in St. Nicholas Magazine

by William Rubel

Published May 30, 2015

This poem, A Song Of Home, is a poem written by a child age 12. Originally published in 1913 in the children's magazine St. Nicholas it is a poem from another time. The poem...

Writing Activity: Adapting Story to Film

by William Rubel

Published May 25, 2015

Teaching Detail in Creative Writing by Kids: Observational Writing

by William Rubel

Published May 21, 2015

In the Collected Maxims of the German writer, W. G. Sebald (1944 –2001), he is credited with offering this advice to writers: ‘Significant detail’ enlivens otherwise mundane situations. You need acute, merciless observation. Observation provides a...

Historic Photography by Kids

by William Rubel

Published May 20, 2015

The Kodak box camera, first produced in the 1880s, became the iconic camera for the amateur photographer. The camera was as easy to use as our phone camera's. Point and shoot. Even a child could...

Taking a Stand Through Fiction

by Gerry Mandel

Published April 29, 2015

Let’s say you have a strong opinion about something you see happening in the world. You know it is wrong, and you want to speak out. The most direct way to make your point would...

Creative Writing Formulas for Teachers

by William Rubel

Published April 20, 2015

Using Silence to Create a Mood

Post Published September 1, 2015 by Gerry Mandel

Every once in a while a story comes along that is unlike any other. Dancing Birds, the featured story from our September/October 2015 issue, is such a story. What makes it so special? Yes, the characters and setting are exotic. A Welsh girl named Glas lives with her family in a French-speaking village in Quebec. Glas makes mechanical animals in her attic.

Free Verse and Kids’ Poetry

Post Published August 8, 2015 by William Rubel

Most of the poetry we publish in Stone Soup is free verse. Free verse is the most prose-like form of poetry. It is very popular amongst adult poets and it is also very common in American schools. Free verse may by rhymed or unrhymed. What defines it is that it is unmetered. Walt Whitman was the American poet who popularized the form. Here is an example by Whitman.

Join the Stone Soup Social Media Team

Post Published July 23, 2015 by William Rubel

Contact William Rubel: william@stonesoup.com Stone Soup was founded in 1973. Through our magazine, Stone Soup, and through anthologies of children's writing, we are the leading publishers of children's creative work for homes and schools. We are now tying to increase our social media presence in order to reach a broader audience for the children we publish.

A Touching Story by a Boy

Post Published June 18, 2015 by Gerry Mandel

Maybe you’ve noticed. Stone Soup publishes more writing by girls than by boys. This is not intentional. We would love to include an equal number of contributions by boys and girls in every issue. We can think of two reasons for the imbalance: 1) we receive more submissions from girls than from boys, and 2) many of the stories we receive by boys contain violence, which makes them inappropriate fo...

Poem by a Child, Age 12, Published in 1913 in St. Nicholas Magazine

Post Published May 30, 2015 by William Rubel

This poem, A Song Of Home, is a poem written by a child age 12. Originally published in 1913 in the children's magazine St. Nicholas it is a poem from another time. The poem starts, "Oh, pretty mate of the crimson breast,/Do you remember your little nest...." The poem goes on to speak of the robin living and loving in the cherry tree.

Writing Activity: Adapting Story to Film

Post Published May 25, 2015 by William Rubel

I found a project through Twitter for teaching students to think like a filmmaker. The project, for grades 6 to 8, is written by Judy Storm Fink and is published at the NCTE website, readwritethink.org. The project title is You Know the Movie is Coming—Now What?. This is a complex project with lots of supplementary material.

Teaching Detail in Creative Writing by Kids: Observational Writing

Post Published May 21, 2015 by William Rubel

Historic Photography by Kids

Post Published May 20, 2015 by William Rubel

The Kodak box camera, first produced in the 1880s, became the iconic camera for the amateur photographer. The camera was as easy to use as our phone camera's. Point and shoot. Even a child could do it. And even children did. The best source of historic photographic images by children is in St. Nicholas Magazine (1871-1940).

Taking a Stand Through Fiction

Post Published April 29, 2015 by Gerry Mandel

Let’s say you have a strong opinion about something you see happening in the world. You know it is wrong, and you want to speak out. The most direct way to make your point would be through a nonfiction article or essay. But you could also convey your message, perhaps even more powerfully, through fiction. In the May/June 2015 issue of Stone Soup, 12-year-old author Evelyn Chen did just that.

Creative Writing Formulas for Teachers

Post Published April 20, 2015 by William Rubel

I recommend this blog post, What Kids Have Taught Me About Writing, by children's book author Kathleen McCleary. Those of us who read a lot of writing by children produced in schools -- and I certainly speak for the staff here at Stone Soup -- get tired of reading writing by children that is so obviously constrained by creative writing formulas. "Stop!

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