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Stella holding the review pile     A note from William Rubel We are back from the National Council Teachers of English (NCTE) convention in St. Louis. It was a very good experience for us. We spoke to lots of teachers—and we met a few old Stone Soup friends and made quite a number of new […]

Illustration by Max Strebel for his story, ‘A Gated Memory’, in Stone Soup Magazine, November/December 2003 A note from William Rubel This is a “hello” from St. Louis where the entire Stone Soup staff is at the National Teachers Convention, which I talk a little more about, below. None of us have been to St. Louis before. […]

  “What I saw in the classroom surprised me” Illustrator Elenia Henry, 11, for Rain Tears by Isabella Widrow, 11. Published May/June 2014. A note from William Rubel I can’t tell whether Elenia’s drawing of a classroom is from life or from memory. Whichever it was, this is an exceedingly well observed drawing. Look at the stacked […]