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Summer Break
Please note that Puddle Jump Quarterly is on vacation for the summer. You can still send your submissions, however, for consideration for our Fall edition.
If you're wondering when the official website will be up and running...well...someday soon, I hope!
Have a wonderful, relaxing summer! -
Spring 2007
Welcome to the first edition of Puddlejump Quarterly, the new, fun journal featuring fiction, poetry and art by and for children!
Our featured contributors this season include:
Art by Ms. Wendy Wagener's Kindergarten-Fifth grade art students. Wagener is a teacher, artist and business owner from Dayton, Ohio.
Art and fiction by Leah Huabing, age 11. ( Read more... ) -
Leah Huabing, "The Battle, The Warrior, and The Brother"
If you have read a "Warriors" book, you will understand this story. if not, I will explain.
The reason the animals in this story have weird names is, as the warriors go through their lives, their names may be changed at least three times.
For example, a young cat would be named something like, "Tawnykit," or anything that ended in "kit." When the ( Read more... ) -
Amie Rose Rotruck, "Why Mara Never Grew"
Way back when the earth wasn't as old as it is now, magical beasts roamed all over. The most magical beasts of all were the dragons. Lots of dragons. Millions of dragons. Migrating dragons blacked out the sun. Fire dragons swam in lava like it was water. Star dragons flew to the moon and back for a vacation. Water dragons dove to ( Read more... ) -
Meredith Ackroyd, "Watching On The Mountain"
There’s a high quiet ( Read more... ) -
Meredith Ackroyd, "Apples"
In winter,
the school room smelled like apples
-browned and shriveled discs
dangling
from knotted strings
over the radiator,
warm
and toasting. -
Meredith Ackroyd, "The Lesson of Knitting"
There was something so tender
about the lesson of knitting,
the boys and the girls together,
wooden needles clicking
like the beaks of birds,
the warm hum of classroom chatter
rising like the song of locusts
and weaving itself,
soft and warm,
into the strings of many long,
woolen scarves. -
Meredith Ackroyd, "Doughnut Days"
You could always tell the doughnut days ( Read more... ) -
Nate Smith's "A Complete and Accurate Scientific Account of Moon-Fruit"
The scientists could not reach an agreement, and therefore settled the dispute by calling the fruit/vegetable/penguin something that both groups could agree was scientifically without merit; hence the name “moon-fruit.” This method of mediation replaced the traditional scientific naming ceremony which involved a dartboard, a Latin- ( Read more... )
