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Weekly Creativity #303: Make a Reading List for Your Favorite Character

Post Published April 28, 2024 by Molly Torinus

Make a reading list for your favorite character. Do they like fantasy, sci-fi, or cozy mysteries? The books don’t even have to exist. Try making up your own titles!
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Stone Soup Author Interview: Lucy Rados

Post Published February 15, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

Stone Soup contributor and 2020-21 intern Anya Geist, 14, talks with Book Club facilitator and member of the Stone Soup Honor Roll Lucy Rados, 13, about the Writing Workshop, the process of submittin...
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Weekly Writing Workshop #13, Friday June 26, 2020: Writing About Someone Reading

Post Published June 30, 2020 by Anya Geist

An update from our thirteenth Weekly Writing Workshop! A summary of the workshop, plus some of the output published below The Stone Soup Weekly Writing Workshop is open to all Stone Soup contributor...
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Book Club Report: Out of My Mind, by Sharon M. Draper (cont.)

Post Published May 29, 2020 by Anya Geist

An update from our seventh Stone Soup Book Club meeting! This week, during our 7th meeting of the Stone Soup Book Club, we were very lucky to have Adam Gidwitz, the author of The Inquisitor's Tale c...
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Book Club Report: The End of the Wild, by Nicole Helget

Post Published April 24, 2020 by Laura Moran

An Update from our Second Stone Soup Book Club meeting! The Stone Soup Book Club is open to all Stone Soup contributors and subscribers, age 9-13, during the COVID-19-related school closures and shel...
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Juvenilia: an introduction via Jane Austen, the Brontës and others

Post Published September 28, 2018 by Stone Soup Editors

Juvenilia is the name given to creative work produced by recognized authors and artists when they were children and young adults. The late eighteenth and early nineteenth century was a fruitful time f...
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New Year, New Books

Post Published January 23, 2018 by Sarah Cymrot

There is a certain joy that comes from a pile of new books waiting to be read, especially going into the new year. Whether they are on the shelf at a library or bookstore or sitting on the shelf at ho...
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6 Steps to Raising a Bookworm

Post Published October 1, 2015 by Sara Keagle

My daughter loves to read. She does it all on her own, with no coaxing at all from me. Well … OK, that’s not exactly true. The thing is, she just doesn’t REALIZE she’s been coaxed into reading...
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Book Review: “Models for Teaching Writing-craft Target Skills” by Freeman and Koehler

Post Published March 1, 2014 by Jenn Stefaniak

No doubt about it, reading positively affects writing; however, educators often struggle with how to integrate the former into writing instruction. Freeman and Koehler seek to meet that need with Mode...
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Using Stone Soup to encourage students to produce inventive, creative writing

Post Published October 20, 2009 by William Rubel

Creative writing, as a term, was invented in the 19th century to express the idea that there was writing, and then there was creative writing. With use, the expression has lost meaning and now creativ...
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