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Stone Soup Editors' Notes

Selfie Contest Winners, Fall 2016

Nathaniel Canon, 7, California Self Portraits These are the winners of our first Selfie Contest. Never in history have so many people taken so many photographs of themselves as we are doing now. I think many of us think of “selfies” as self-indulgent throw-away pictures. But that is not what you sent me. What you […]

Stone Soup Writer Interview: Isabel Folger, 12

Stone Soup author Isabel Folger, 12, talks about how she lets a story gestate in her mind for a couple of weeks before she starts writing. Isabel had four stories published in Stone Soup: “A Fortunate Soul” (January/February 2013), “A Special Present” (November/December 2013), “Hope” (January/February 2014), and “Believing” (July/August 2014). She also wrote a review of the book Counting by Sevens (November/December 2014).

Cat Pictures by Children!

These are three very different approaches to making pictures of cats. But, what they have in common are the dynamic personalities of the cats that were models for the pictures. Each looks at us, as cats do, with their unique expressions.  These pictures come from Oman, Lithuania, and Germany. Mother Cat with Kittens, Rafiaa Mouhamad Zaman, age […]