Sunset SilhouettesAnya Geist, 12 (Worcester, MA)Published in Stone Soup September 2019 A note from William Rubel Congratulations to all the winners in our book contest! We are excited this week to announce the winners of Stone Soup’s first annual book contest, and we can’t wait to share their work with you in 2020. First Place Three Days Till EOC by Abhimanyu Sukhdial, 11 (Novel) Second Place (joint) The Golden Elephant by Analise Braddock, 8 (Poetry) Searching for Bow and Arrows by Tatiana Rebecca Shrayer, 11 (Poetry) Third Place Elana by Hannah Nami Gajcowski, 9 (Novel) Honorable Mention Leather Journal, Abhainn Bajus, 14 (Poetry) The Hidden Key, Peri Gordon, 9 (Novel) Frozen Nocturne, Sabrina Guo, 13 (Poetry) The Demisers, Zoe Keith, 11 (Novel) Last Birthday Boy, Olivia Ladell, 13 (Novel) Family of Spies, Micah Lim, 10 (Novel) Escape the War, Priyanka Nambiar, 13 (Novel) A Brief Encounter with Chaos, Anyi Sharma, 11 (Stories) Congratulations to our worthy winners, and well done to everyone who entered. We have been amazed and delighted by the quality and quantity of long-form work our contributors are producing and want to make this contest an annual feature. Meanwhile, we are getting to work on the publishing process with our 2019 winners. We will let you all know when you will be able to read them! Last weekend I had a surprise visit from one of our recent contributors! Tristan Hui, who wrote “Coconut Pudding,” this week’s featured story from our September 2019 issue, couldn’t resist taking a look at the Stone Soup offices on a trip to Santa Cruz, California. I think she and her father were probably quite surprised to see just how “virtual” the Stone Soup office really is (and, perhaps, how messy my house is—but that’s another story!). We moved out of our formal office space two years ago, and all of us work on the magazine from home or wherever we happen to be traveling to (which ranges from London to Vancouver to Santa Cruz!). With the magic of technology, we can work anywhere and “meet” by phone and video. But it was really nice to meet one of our recent writers in person. Thanks for dropping by, Tristan! Until next time, Highlights from the past week online Don’t miss the latest content from our Book Reviewers and Young Bloggers at Stonesoup.com! On Monday we published Lauren’s moving story “The Cold Winter,” on the blog. Read what happens when a teacher at the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota reaches out to her college alumni group to explain that the power company has turned off the heat in her students’ homes. We published part 2 of Himank’s guide to playing Kabaddi. In this blog post, learn more about the different ways to score, the different roles of players, and the warning card system. Lastly, we shared a poem from 1993 entitled “Amazon” on our Twitter and Facebook this week, unfortunately still timely and worth a read. From Stone Soup, September 2019 Coconut Pudding By Tristan Hui, 12 (Menlo Park, CA) Illustrated by Anya Geist, 12 (Worcester, MA) I used to be Grandma’s favorite. She told me it was because when I was born, she was the first to hold me. “No one can replace you, Thu,” she would say, taking me onto her lap and stroking my dark hair. “No one.” Bao, my older brother, was Grandpa’s favorite. Grandpa’s life had been centered around him, and sometimes it seemed like I was Grandma’s only cháu trai, her only grandson. I loved it. One humid June day, the gentle waves rocked our house as I docked the sampan boat and skipped inside. “I’m home from school!” “Good!” Grandma was sitting in the rocking chair, repairing a fishing net. “Thu, come here.” …/MORE Stone Soup is published by Children’s Art Foundation-Stone Soup Inc., a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit organization registered in the United States of America, EIN: 23-7317498. Stone Soup’s Advisors: Abby Austin, Mike Axelrod, Annabelle Baird, Jem Burch, Evelyn Chen, Juliet Fraser, Zoe Hall, Montanna Harling, Alicia & Joe Havilland, Lara Katz, Rebecca Kilroy, Christine Leishman, Julie Minnis, Jessica Opolko, Tara Prakash, Denise Prata, Logan Roberts, Emily Tarco, Rebecca Ramos Velasquez, Susan Wilky.
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Congratulations to our Book Contest 2019 Winners!
First Place Three Days Till EOC by Abhimanyu Sukhdial, 11 (Novel) Second Place The Golden Elephant by Analise Braddock, 8 (Poetry) Searching for Bow and Arrows by Tatiana Rebecca Shrayer, 11 (Poetry) Third Place Elana by Hannah Nami Gajcowski, 9 (Novel) Honorable Mentions Leather Journal, Abhainn Bajus, 14 (Poetry) The Hidden Key, Peri Gordon, 9 (Novel) Frozen Nocturne, Sabrina Guo, 13 (Poetry) The Demisers, Zoe Keith, 11 (Novel) Last Birthday Boy, Olivia Ladell, 13 (Novel) Family of Spies, Micah Lim, 10 (Novel) Escape the War, Priyanka Nambiar, 13 (Novel) A Brief Encounter with Chaos, Anyi Sharma, 11 (Stories) We are excited to announce the winners of Stone Soup’s first annual book contest, and we can’t wait to share their work with you in 2020. Although we are only able to give official recognition to a handful of writers, all of us were blown away by the care and effort put into these manuscripts. Writing a book takes time, patience, and dedication, and these writers proved to us that they have these qualities in spades. Once again, as with previous contests, we were moved by how many of these manuscripts dealt with climate change in one way or another. Our winning novel by Abhimanyu Sukhdial, Three Days Till EOC, takes a powerful, creative approach to this topic, as does Analise Braddock in many of her poems in her collection. The Golden Elephant. Meanwhile, in her poetry collection, Tatiana Rebecca Shrayer explores themes of historical and political loss alongside the enduring beauty and solace found in nature. Finally, in Elana, Hannah Nami Gajcowski takes us on a mad, magical adventure through an alternate universe. All of the books will be forthcoming in 2020. We can’t wait for you to read them!
How to Play Kabaddi: Part 2
Hello again! When I left off my last blog post (Kabaddi: Part 1), I had just finished explaining a bit about Kabbadi. Well, I’m back! In this blog we will cover how to score in Kabaddi, and how scoring is kept, as well as how to be a Kabaddi referee. Here we go! We left off with some special terms. Now, the following table shows the different ways to score. Kabaddi is a contact sport, however, you can’t just barge in like a rhino, or try to touch someone in haste, and get out; no, you have to be quick, like a ninja. Just a small touch counts! Toe Touch/Kick: Where you thrust your foot toward the defender and lightly brush him. A kick uses the entire foot, but they are practically the same. Hand Touch: When a raider lunges toward a defender and touches them with their hand. Escaping a Tackle: When the raider just drags the defender and touches the midline without losing their breath. You can make many combinations of these techniques like kicking a defender, using the same kick to get to the bonus line, get someone with a hand touch, and drag someone back to the midline. That would get you 4 points! Now, you will learn how to referee a Kabaddi game. Whenever someone scores, the ref must thrust their hand up in the air with the amount of points scored counted by the fingers. At the same time, they hold their other hand sideways and point it to the side of the team that scored, and then say how many points they scored, and say the team that scored. When the game ends, the ref must point both hands straight ahead and say, “match completed.” There are six officials: 1 Referee, 2 Umpires, 1 Scorer, and 2 Assistant Scorers. Duties of the Referee: -Take the toss. -Supervise the match. -Announces the score of each side before the last 5 minutes of the match. -Takes care of recording the time. -Warns about the time remaining at last 5 minutes of second half of the match. Duties of the two Umpires: -The Umpires conduct the match and give decisions according to the rules of the game. Duties of the Scorer: -Fills in the score sheet. -Announces the score with the permission of the referee at the end of each half. -Complete the score sheet in all respects and get it duly signed by the Umpires and Referee. Duties of the two Assistant Scorers: -Maintains record of the players who are out. -Sees that the players are seated in the order of being out. -Will help referee regarding any player who goes out of boundary. Just like in soccer, Kabaddi also had the warning card system. Here it is: -Green card: It is a warning sign. If a green card is given twice to a player or coach or manager twice, the next card shall be directly a yellow card. -Yellow card: That member is temporarily suspended for 2 minutes. If a yellow card is given twice to a player or coach or manager, the next card shall be directly a red card. -Red card: Suspension from match or debarred from tournament. Each team shall score one point for every opponent out or put out. The side which scores a special term shall score two extra points. The out and revival rule will be applicable. Each team shall score one point for every bonus point awarded. So, that’s it! I have shared with you all that I know about Kabaddi, and anything you would need to stage a Kabaddi game. Leave your thoughts in the comment section, and see you in October.
