Welcome to the Stone Soup Honor Roll! We receive hundreds of submissions every month by kids from around the world. Unfortunately, we can’t publish all the great work we receive. So we created the Stone Soup Honor Roll. We commend all of these talented writers and artists and encourage them to keep creating. – The Editors Scroll down to see all the names (alphabetical by section), including book reviewers and artists. ART Christian Goh, 12 Nolan Mealer, 10 Sage Millen, 12 FICTION Antara Gangwal, 12 Celia Miller Pitt, 13 Kai Wells, 11 Miles Wright, 12 Jiaji Yang, 12 NONFICTION Leon Bui, 11 Sunshine Mitchell, 12 Renee Shi, 10 POETRY Laurel Aronian, 12 Benjamin Ding, 8 Mackenzie Duan, 13 Quinton Fitzgerald, 9 Anya Geist, 13 Oisin Stephens, 10 Andi Jo Wroblewski, 9
July/August 2020
THE GRADUATES
I was ten. I stayed on the Upper West Side, An old hotel with dusty paintings in gilded frames. My father kept telling me not to lose anything And not to be on my smartphone all the time. I was on the third floor, not too far from the ground, A view of a bird’s nest and dark alleyways Cluttered with trash cans and filled With loud music for the graduates. As the day unfolded, aging parents woke up And came down to take their coffee At the French bistro Nice Matin, Where croissants were warm and omelets runny. As I watched these parents at breakfast, I thought they looked both anxious and glad And I wondered if they too felt like graduates Starting a new adventure. Soon these graduates will dissolve Into a big new world, a hidden one Beneath the water’s edge— That I have yet to see, have yet to love. Tatiana Rebecca Shrayer, 13Brookline, Massachusetts
MOPING ALONG MUDDY RIVER
On a cold winter morning I have a class At the Museum of Fine Arts. The frosty wind awakens me. I turn to the river and there, Like a still life created overnight: Muddy ice, shaped like dirty brushes, A mallard crossing to the other side, A plastic bottle floating in the water hole. As I run up the granite steps I know what to paint today. Tatiana Rebecca Shrayer, 13Brookline, Massachusetts
