Over 175 WWII bombs were found under a children’s playground. Construction to refurbish an inclusive playground by England’s Wooler Parish Council had to halt when workers found what officials called a “suspicious object.” The UK’s Ministry of Defence found practice bombs weighing between nine and over 11 pounds. Even though the bombs aren’t live, they […]
“If you excuse me — I can show you my deck,” Arthur says, darting upstairs. Moments later, he returns with a stack of Pokémon cards 5 inches high. “This is Code Breaker,” he explains. “It puts two of any card on top of your deck. It’s handy.” As he shuffles through the stack, explaining each […]
The star took pictures with young fans and staffers while giving out autographed copies of the Eras Tour book Taylor Swift paid a visit to a children’s hospital in Kansas City on Thursday, just days after wrapping up the Eras Tour. Several staffers and patient family members at Children’s Mercy in Kansas City posted pictures […]
This past summer, while having dinner with longtime friend Kristi Reed, the Peabody and Emmy-winning creator of Doc McStuffins, Chris Nee, found herself once again ruminating on the challenges of making content in the kids and family media as a queer creator. “We were bemoaning how hard it is for people to understand our space […]
Norse toys redrawn from various literature. a: bird figure (Berglund 2020); b: toy sword (Vebæk 1993); c: doll (Roussell1941: 265); d: cooking pot (Berglund 2020); e: knife (Berglund 2020); f: disk for spinning top (Archive of the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen); g: ship stem post (Roussell 1936); h: fish figure (Berglund 2020); i: […]
Getty Images Nila Ibrahimi beat 165 other nominees to be named this year’s International Children’s Peace Prize winner When Nila Ibrahimi set out to build a website telling the stories of Afghan girls, it wasn’t just to give them a voice. The 17-year-old Afghan refugee was also determined to remind her fellow Gen Zs in […]
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has pulled his new children’s book from the shelves after complaints it stereotyped Indigenous Australians. The 400-page fantasy novel, Billy and the Epic Escape, features an Aboriginal girl with mystical powers living in foster care who is abducted from her home in central Australia. First Nations leaders have said the book […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Adultism: a form of discrimination against anyone who isn’t an adult. It stems from the belief that children—but also the elderly—are less capable and have less valid views because of misconceptions about their ability to think and act in complex, nuanced ways. But what if children were just as capable as […]
