“I envied the owl. It could go wherever it wanted, and I was trapped in a ghost’s boat on the river” Illustrator Noel Lunceford, 9, for A Lasso for Adagio by...

“Just then the Rose appeared with her rosellas” Illustrator Cameron Osteen, 13, for Fort Cuniculus by Ralph Kabo, 11. Published September/October 2005. A...

“Ligiri’s only comfort was a fifty-foot baobab tree, which reminded Ligiri of her kind grandfather” Illustrator Rita Rozenbaoum, 10, for Ligiri, a Dogon...

Stone Soup, October 2017, Volume 45 #8. Cover photograph: ‘Scrapes of Light’ by Delaney Slote,...

“100 Me’s”. Sophia Lee Bartolini, 11 A Stone Soup selfie contest winner, Spring 2017 A...

““Potatoes again?” groaned Jasper, Sam’s eight-year-old cousin”. Illustrator Anton Dymtchenko, 13, for ‘Shepherd of Stonehenge‘ by...

Guiseppe Arcimboldo, ‘Vertumnus’, the Roman God of the seasons, c. 1590-1. Skokloster Castle, Sweden. A note from William Rubel Our...

September issue now online! read it here Cover Photograph for the September, 2017 Special Poetry issue. ‘Satyrs’, by Laura...

  Deadlines, recipes and a September poem… A note from William Rubel   “OK, Francie, finished changing my...

“Letting out a sigh of relief he began to fill his basket” Anna Welch, 13 Published In Stone Soup March/April...