There's something exciting and satisfying about collecting the year's work, alongside the best from our excellent young bloggers, into one fat tome. Alone, each issue seems small. Together, they are big enough to be a doorstop. You can think of the making of the Stone Soup Annual as being a little like making a pot of stone soup in the kitchen. Each issue, online book review, and blog post are the ingredients. It isn't until we bring all the issues and a selection of online material into t...

The 42 stories and poem in this volume were written by authors between the ages of seven and 14, selected for publication in Stone Soup magazine. Since its beginning in 1973, Stone Soup has published art, poetry, and short fiction springing from the imaginations of young writers and artists. It's hardly surprising that so much of that creativity is devoted to thoughts on friends and friendship.Friendship has a special place in our lives as we grow up, and the deve...

The Stone Soup Annual brings together the complete versions of every issue of the magazine in 2017, in one publication. In addition to the year's eight edited collections of poetry, stories, art and reviews, the Annual includes bonus materials--blog posts, music and contests--from the year on our website, stonesoup.com. Contributing authors and artists are all aged 8-13 years.Stone Soup, the magazine by and for kids, has been in print since 1973, publishing the best in children's w...

Stone Soup is the international literary magazine and website publishing writing and art by young people under the age of 14. Founded in 1973, we have published more creative work by children than any other publisher, selecting the very best from thousands of submissions every year. The stories in this volume–one in our series of themed anthologies–were written by authors between the ages of 9 and 13, selected for publication in Stone Soup magazine. Since its beginning in...

Stone Soup is the international literary magazine and website publishing writing and art by young people under the age of 14. Founded in 1973, we have published more creative work by children than any other publisher, selecting the very best from thousands of submissions every year. This volume of stories about Festivals and Holidays is part of a series of books in which we bring together some of our young writers’ finest work on particular themes.The 53 stories and three poems in ...

Stone Soup is the international literary magazine and website publishing writing and art by young people under the age of 14. Founded in 1973, we have published more creative work by children than any other publisher, selecting the very best from thousands of submissions every year.The stories and poetry in this volume were written by authors between the ages of eleven and 13, selected for publication in Stone Soupmagazine. Since its beginning in 1973, Stone Souph...

Stone Soup is the international literary magazine and website publishing writing and art by young people under the age of 14. Founded in 1973, we have published more creative work by children than any other publisher, selecting the very best from thousands of submissions every year.The 120 poems in this volume were written by authors between the ages of four and 13, selected for publication in Stone Soup magazine. Since its beginning in 1973, Stone Soup h...

The stories and poetry in this volume were written by authors between the ages of 11 and 13 and selected for publication in Stone Soupmagazine. Since its beginning in 1973, Stone Souphas published art, poetry, and short fiction springing from the imaginations of young writers and artists. For the under-14s, family—or the lack of it—is not only at the center of their world; for the most part, family istheir world.In this collection, we encounter all sorts ...

Stone Soup is the international literary magazine and website publishing writing and art by young people under the age of 14. Founded in 1973, we have published more creative work by children than any other publisher, selecting the very best from thousands of submissions every year.The 41 stories and poem in this volume were written by authors between the ages of seven and 13, selected for publication in Stone Soup magazine. Since its beginning in 1973, Stone ...

Stone Soup is the international literary magazine and website publishing writing and art by young people under the age of 14. Founded in 1973, we have published more creative work by children than any other publisher, selecting the very best from thousands of submissions every year. This volume of Historical Fiction is part of a series of books in which we bring together some of our young writers’ finest work on particular themes.The 35 stories and poem in this volume were written ...