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Skipping Stones is a nonprofit magazine for youth that encourages communication, cooperation, creativity and celebration of cultural and environmental richness. It provides a playful forum for sharing ideas and experiences among youth from different countries and cultures. We are an ad-free, ecologically-aware, literary magazine! We publish five bimonthly issues during the school year.
Founded in 1988, Skipping Stones is a timely and timeless award-winning resource in multicultural education. Skipping Stones welcomes art and original writings in every language and from all ages. We invite you to participate in this exciting forum with your submissions, subscriptions, suggestions and support.
In a typical issue of Skipping Stones, you will find poems, stories, articles and photos from many regions of the United States and the world: Native American folktales, photos from kids in India or the Ukraine, poems from students in Hawaii or Pennsylvania, letters and drawings from South Africa and Lithuania, cartoons from China, and more might await you. Each issue also contains book reviews, news, and a guide for parents and teachers. Non-English writings are accompanied by English translations to encourage the learning of other languages.
Download a PDF file of the 2010 Skipping Stones Youth Honor Awards In addition to the Youth Honor Awards (ten outstanding creative entries--art, poems, stories and nonfiction--by youth, 17 and younger), Sept - Oct 2010 issue, also featured ten ways we can work to bring lasting peace in the world. We have reproduced ten full-color portraits of many women working to improve the lives of people in the feature: "Daughters of Earth" by artist Janet Essley. The issue also contained an assortment of many interesting submissions and our regular departments.
Download a PDF file of full reviews of the 2011 Skipping Stones Honor Award Winners
 Our 23rd Anniversary Special:• 23 back issues (one from each of our 23 years) for just $69)! Send your back issues order by 23 June 2012.
You can download the list of winners and/or reviews of the winners or order a copy of the Summer 2011 issue featuring the honor awards.
With your help, we have already embarked on our 24th year. Skipping Stones January- February 2012 issue features photos of children in Mexico, a Sketchbook Journey in Mexico, Mali's Mud Cloth and Changing Climates in Public Schools. Our Jan-Feb. 2011 issue had featured a portrait of the First Lady of the United States, Mrs. Michelle Obama, a perfect role model for all girls, by artist Jon Bush of Massachusetts and contains a photo essay on Mali with many full-color photos and introduces artist/illustrator Lori Eslick.
Skipping Stones editor Arun N. Toke' was honored with the 2011 Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Leadership Award, for his "outstanding contribution to furthering the principles and vision of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." on the annual M.L.K. Day (Jan. 17, 2011) in Eugene, Oregon. To sample the content of Jan-Feb 2010 issue click here!
Take a look at samples previous issues.
One of our previous issues of Skipping Stones is available online in its entirety! Read it here. Announcing the 20 Role Models for Our 20th Year. Download a PDF file of the 2009 Skipping Stones Book Awards Press Release
Announcing the 2008 Skipping Stones Honor Awards.
Check out our BLOG at skippingstonesmagazine.blogspot.com.
Skipping Stones is the winner of the 2007 N.A.M.E. Children's Publication Award.
Honors and Recognitions
Skipping Stones has been honored with a number of recognitions including the:
We continue to receive numerous of letters of appreciation from parents, teachers and students alike. Over the years, we have been reviewed in many publications such as the Utne Reader, School Library Journal, Multicultural Education, Multicultural Review, Book Report, Reading Today, NewsLinks, Rethinking Schools, Creative Classroom, Earth Island Journal, Green Teacher, Learning, East-West Journal, The Writer, and several international and regional periodicals.
In January 2003, our executive editor Arun Toke' was honored by The Writer magazine with their Writer Award, and in January 2011, with the Dr. Martin Luther King Community Leadership Award of the City of Eugene. Similarly, our former president of the board and a regular columnist, Hanna K. Still aka Dear Hanna was honored in Montreal, Canada, with the Helen Award in 1999.
As a tax-exempt, nonprofit, educational and charitable organization, we receive grants and donations from foundations and individuals each year to continue our global service work. Let us know how we can help you.
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Are you looking for a speaker for your school's Graduation Ceremony or a presenter for an upcoming forum/ workshop/conference that you are helping organize? Consider: Arun Narayan Toke', the founder and executive editor of Skipping Stones magazine.
Arun, born and raised in India, came to the United States to work on his graduate studies in engineering. He attended UWM, Notre Dame and UVM and has worked as a design engineer in South Carolina and taught at a state college in Vermont before founding the multicultural magazine in Oregon. He has published two books, including a co-authored text-book: Energy, Economics and the Environment. His articles have appeared in several newspapers and magazines.
As the editor of Skipping Stones for the last two decades, Arun has attended numerous conferences and spoken at various venues. He has been honored with the EDPRESS, NAME and the WRITER Awards. He is active in the local interfaith community as well as helps organize the Eugene Multicultural Storytelling Festival. He has served on the board of the National Association for Multicultural Education as the Region 10 Director.
Arun has traveled extensively in Europe, North America, Central America and Mexico as well as in his homeland of India. An avid nature lover, Arun has hiked and camped in dozens of national parks, climbed many peaks over 10,000 feet high in Canada, the United States, Mexico and Central America. Arun has bicycled over 3,000 kilometers in Northern Europe and walked 500 kilometers as a part of a peace walk in Central America. He speaks four languages, including Spanish. He tries to live by his multicultural, ecological and spiritual values.
Arun can talk from his own experiences and about various themes related to his work. These include: Multicultural Issues in Today's World, Energy Conservation and Ecology, Transportation Systems, International Understanding, Community and Multilingual Living, and of course, How to Get Your Students Published in a Magazine. His talks are light-hearted yet with substance, entertaining and educational. Arun has also offered storytelling sessions at elementary and middle schools. The honorarium for Arun's time is modest and it helps our nonprofit work. We will work within your budget.
Arun is the 2011 recipient of the Dr. Martin Luther King Community Leadership Award of the City of Eugene.
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