Cracks and Fissures by Sage Millen, 12 (Vancouver, Canada) Published in Stone Soup December 2020 A note from Jane It’s always a good week when a new issue of Stone Soup comes out, and there is so much great work in the December issue—all 48 pages of it! One of the things I love about the […]
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The Lost Girl, Reviewed by Pragnya, 12
The Lost Girl is the kind of book you’d want to write but thought you wouldn’t do well enough. Luckily, we have Anne Ursu who skilfully spins us a thoughtful, emotion-provoking yet engaging tale. The Lost Girl by Anne Ursu is a weirdly beautiful Magical Realism novel about Iris and Lark Maguire, twins who are […]
Book Club Report: The War I Finally Won, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
An update from our twentieth Book Club meeting! Last Saturday, September 26, was the Stone Soup Book Club’s first Book Club meeting at its new meeting time: 9am PST on Saturdays. The Book Club ran for around an half-and-a-half and was attended by thirty participants from across the US, as well as in the UK. […]
Summon the Mammal
With the ability to summon any mammal, I was safe. So, my adventure started in the Mystic Woods. That was a warm, breezy day when the soil opened in a fold and I fell in. When I landed on some concrete, the unnatural purple color told me straightaway where I was—Professor Haunter’s course. He traps […]
Book Club Report: Harbor Me, by Jacqueline Woodson
An update from our fourteenth and fifteenth Book Club meetings! Over the past two weeks, the Stone Soup Book Club has been reading Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson. The story is about six children in Brooklyn, NY, who end up talking to each other in the old art room without any adult supervision (they end […]
Saturday Newsletter: July 18, 2020
A Wish for a Brighter Tomorrow (IbisPaint on IPad)By Chloe Mancini, 9 A note from Jane Book Contest countdown has commenced! We can’t wait to receive your manuscripts, and we’re sure many of you are taking this part of the summer to work hard on your books—maybe revising, adding some finishing touches, or even adding a whole […]
Flash Contest #12: A World Without Color. Our Winners and Their Work!
Weekly Flash Contest #12: What would the world be like without color? What if there were a few select people who could see colors? Write about the effects of not being able to see color, or of there being no color, and how that affects people and society in a good or bad way . . […]
Flash Contest #8: What Superheroes & Supervillains Do On Their Days Off. Our Winners and Their Work!
Weekly Flash Contest #8: Write about what super-heroes and super-villains do in their spare time or on their days off. Feel free to make it funny: maybe Voldemort enjoys yoga, or Wonder Woman writes a blog. Molly Torinus, 11 Middleton, WI The week commencing May 18th (Daily Creativity prompt #41) was our eighth week of […]
Saturday Newsletter: May 9, 2020
Artist Mark Wallinger standing behind his work, The World Turned Upside Down (2019) London, April 2020 A note from Jane A couple of weeks ago I took my daily walk in central London (walking at a two-meter distance from Stone Soup’s designer, my neighbor Joe Ewart). All of you who live in big cities will know how strange […]
Saturday Newsletter: May 2, 2020
JellyfishBy Heloise Matumoto, 13 (Quebec, Canada), iPhone SE photograph, the cover image from Stone Soup, May 2020 A note from William First, the news and some updates I would like to thank all of you who have recently subscribed. Sales are up for the month. Thank you! It is probably best to think of Stone Soup as […]
