{"product_id":"stone-soup-magazine-july-august-2020-9780894090974","title":"Stone Soup Magazine: July\/August 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Stone Soup | Analise Braddock | Tatiana Rebecca Shrayer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Children's Art Foundation - Stone Soup Inc.\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Children's Art Foundation - Stone Soup Inc.\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Poetry (see also Stories in Verse)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe July\/August 2020 issue of Stone Soup, the literary magazine 100% written and illustrated by kids age 13 and younger. Stone Soup has been inspiring young readers and celebrating the brilliance of its young creators since 1973; we currently publish eleven issues a year, each filled with short stories, memoir, poetry, and artwork.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn our double summer issue, we are thrilled to share not one but two books of poetry that placed second in our 2019 Book Contest: \u003cem\u003eThe Golden Elephant \u003c\/em\u003eby Analise Braddock and \u003cem\u003eSearching for Bow and Arrows \u003c\/em\u003eby Tatiana Rebecca Shrayer-two equally talented yet entirely distinct young poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBraddock's \u003cem\u003eThe Golden Elephant \u003c\/em\u003eis a wild circus of a book populated with elephants, mice, space beasts, clowns, teachers, strongmen, lion tamers, and planets. Her poems are profound, contradictory (\"You are always never alone\"), dark, strange, and always playful (\"Tigers are boss. \/ Leave them alone.\"). Reading her poems makes me acutely aware of the mysterious relationship between language-grammar, rhythm, rhyme, and word choice-and thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShrayer's \u003cem\u003eSearching for Bow and Arrows \u003c\/em\u003eis about the weight of history-one's own personal, familial history as well as the history of politics and nations-and a nostalgic longing for a homeland that both is and isn't home. In her spare, formal poems, Shrayer probes the thin veil between the past and present, focusing on the natural world as a bridge between the two: \"Drops \/ of saltwater \/ arranged \/ like letters \/ on an ancient scroll.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46418754338967,"sku":"9780894090974","price":933.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780894090974.webp?v=1769072073","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/stone-soup-magazine-july-august-2020-9780894090974","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}