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With Stone Soup, Educators Can:

Provide students with thousands of examples of exemplary fiction, poems, and book reviews—all written by their peers;
Work toward a concrete goal—publication—with in-class writing projects;
Challenge students to create their best work;
Connect students to a community of other young creators;

Encourage students to write with urgency about topics they love—whether for the magazine or as regular bloggers for the website;
Motivate even reluctant and struggling young writers to express themselves in a style and genre that is meaningful to them; and
Access PDFs of recent issues (released bimonthly) and 20 years of fully searchable archival issues.

Bring Stone Soup to Your Entire Institution

Consider making Stonesoup.com available for students across your school or district, or for patrons in your library. [If a site license interests you, please contact us at subscriptions@stonesoup.com. We will answer your questions and help set you up with a free trial.]

You can also order Stone Soup for your school from magazine agencies such as EBSCO and WT Cox.

What is Stone Soup?

100% Authored & Illustrated by Kids Since 1973

Stone Soup is the literary magazine and website written and illustrated by and for kids through 8th grade. Stone Soup has been inspiring children to read, write and create their own pieces and artworks for publication in our magazine since 1973. Our young authors’ and artists’ work, including nonfiction, opinion, and reviews, is also published for subscribers on our blog.

Both our site license and reduced-price subscriptions for individual educators allow you to bring our whole archive of fiction and poetry, gorgeous art and photography, and thought-provoking memoir and reviews into your classrooms or library at an affordable rate. Inspire your students and patrons with Stone Soup!

Works & Activities That Inspire

Fiction, poetry, memoir, art & photography
Book reviews
Blog pieces by talented young writers
Contests
Creative prompts and projects
Interviews with Stone Soup authors
Curated interviews with Young Adult authors

Why the World Loves Stone Soup

“Her writing has been an outlet for everything she sees in the world …to be rewarded and honored for that has been a game changer for her confidence.”

Kris R., parent

“Stone Soup not only inspires, it changes lives one poem at a time. Thank you for lighting M's candle.”

NATALIE C., parent

“Stone Soup is a treasure for kids like me who love writing so much.”

Scarlet Song He, 8

“When I was younger, it was my dream to be published in Stone Soup, and now my dream has come true—twice!”

Yutia Li, 10

Stone Soup is published by Children’s Art Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. As an educational charity, we rely on subscriptions and donations to fund our work. Your support helps us continue our mission of supporting the writers and artists of the future.

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