Historical

Editorial·William Rubel — The Young Visiters sold 300,000 copies in 1919! And that was just in Britain! The introduction to The Young Visiters was written by J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan. In...

Curriculum· — A Brief History of the Vietnam War Note: This is background history for people reading the story My Country and the Way to America written by a child who escaped...

Curriculum· — We know from the letters we receive from prospective book reviewers that many of our readers enjoy historical fiction. That’s one reason we’re always on the lookout for good historical...

Curriculum· — Many Stone Soup readers tell us that historical fiction is their favorite genre. We think we know why. Realistic characters, whose feelings and concerns are similar to our own, can...

Curriculum· — A girl growing up today can join a baseball team if she wants to. In the past, things were different. “Katie’s League,” the featured story from the March/April issue of...

Art· — Originally published in Stone Soup Magazine, September/October 1994 Special thanks to Sheila Crane, who taught in Emil’s school in Rundu, for sending us his work.

Art· — First published on the cover of Stone Soup Magazine, March/April 1993 “Divided Island,” by Sofia Kakoulli, age 11, of Cyprus, is part of the Children’s Art Foundation’s permanent collection. Sofia was...

Memoir· — I live in Vietnam. I went to school in Saigon. I has one cat. I has four brother, no sister. My mother selling in her own store. My father was...

Memoir· — I was born on October 31, 1972 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. I was very young when my country was in trouble in 1975. In 1975, the Khmer Rouge (the Communist...

Memoir· — I have been through an experience that I will never forget. When I was about six years old, my family and I escaped looking for freedom in America, because the Viet Cong took...