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Kids Input 

 

Kids are the ultimate editorial advisors. While some kids magazines include reader letters 

and art submissions inside the publication, 

Stone Soup: The Magazine By Children

, is unique in 

taking reader creativity to another level.  

Created in 1973, 

Stone Soup

 is the leading publication written and illustrated by children 

for children eight to 13 years old. Its circulation of 8,000 is vastly increased to 80,000 readers 

with multiple school and library readers and adults interested in children’s artistic work. “It 

offers support to children thinking of themselves as writers and artists; by printing such material 

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it shows its readers the lives and versions of life available to those who want them.”

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The magazine contains writing—letters to the editor, book reviews, jokes, poems, stories, 

autobiographical musings—as well as artwork—drawings in crayon and finger paint. In contrast 

to some magazines for children by adults who publish single-issue periodicals, 

Stone Soup

 offers 

a variety of subjects. The magazine’s contents reveal diversity with no single regional, political, 

economic, social, or intellectual bias predominating. Published by the nonprofit Children’s Art 

Foundation, an organization that collects children’s art from around the world and lends it to 

libraries and schools for a small amount of money, two editors direct this creative outlet for 

children and glimpse at children’s art for people of all ages.