Stone Soup Magazine

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...

Artwork·Meredith Rohrer

Artwork·Hannah Parker — Editor’s Introduction Since November 2017, we have published 15—and, with this issue, now 20— of Hannah Parker’s photographs. This issue also marks her fourth Stone Soup cover. Hannah lives on...

Poetry·Ivy Cordle, age 9 — A child discovers that the scary monster outside their door is actually lonely and scared, shrinking smaller with each act of kindness until it disappears.

Artwork·Alicia Xin

Artwork·Sloka Ganne

Story·Andrew Wu, age 11 — A philosophical narrative following four reincarnated beings—seed, insect, fish, and bear—each discovering Nature's cyclical patterns of creation, destruction, and renewal through their brief lives.