Stone Soup Magazine

Book Review·Elizabeth Bishop, Reviewed by Kate Choi — “One Art” from POEMS by Elizabeth Bishop. Previously published in THE COMPLETE POEMS 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop. Copyright © 1979, 1983 by Alice Helen Methfessel. Reprinted by permission of Farrar,...

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Book Review·Frances Hodgson Burnett, Reviewed by Vandana Ravi — What does a person really need in order to be happy? If you were to lose every tangible thing which gives you joy now, what intangible things would make life...

Book Review·Betty Smith, Reviewed by Claire Rinterknecht — A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith is the story of a Brooklyn girl with Irish ancestors who grows up at the beginning of the 20th century with all...

Book Review·E.L. Konigsburg, Reviewed by Nina Vigil — Raise your hand if you like art. Yes? Good. Raise your hand if you like adventure. Excellent. Now raise your hand if you like books. Spectacular! As it happens, there...

Book Review·Roald Dahl, Reviewed by Marilena Korahais — My mother always told me tales from her childhood. Most were happy stories that made me laugh. Others were sad and made me worry about her. Sometimes she told me...

Book Review·Lois Lowry, Reviewed by Maya Viswanathan — Number the Stars is about Annemarie Johansen, a Christian girl living in Denmark during World War II. She is best friends with Ellen Rosen, a Jewish girl. When the Nazis...

Book Review·Markus Zusak, Reviewed by Ananda Bhaduri — A snow-clad cemetery in Germany, a few months before World War II. A girl cannot believe her brother has just died, as she and her mother witness the burial. A...

Book Review·Emily Dickinson, Reviewed by Kate Choi — “Hope” is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson, from THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON, edited by Thomas H. Johnson, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright...

Book Review·Robert Frost, Reviewed by Alicia Xin — “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, from THE POETRY OF ROBERT FROST: THE COLLECTED POEMS, COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED, edited by Edward Connery Lathem, New York: Henry Holt and Co.,...