This morning, Paramount released the first trailer children of blood and boneHis exhilarating adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi’s best-selling young adult novel. Set to a Beyoncé soundtrack and teasing a killer line-up of our best living actors – including Viola Davis, Regina King, Amandla Stenberg, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Idris Elba and Cynthia Erivo – the trailer depicts
This year the FBI issued an urgent warning to parents about 764, a global online community where children are recruited to commit acts of violence. Hundreds of investigations are underway around the world, including Australia, accusing 764 and groups like it of using coercion to turn vulnerable minors into victims and, in some cases, predators.
Image copyright © Phoebe Wahl 2026 / Courtesy of Little, Brown Books for Young Readers There is a braiding craze in the second grade class. They’ll knit anything: shoelaces, hair, friendship bracelets, the tails of their toy ponies. But Noah has nothing to braid. So his teacher takes a whiteboard cloth and tears it into
Hello my little elder amber! In today’s round-up of recent science fiction and fantasy links, I have an update to share about a tabletop game being created by Adrian Tchaikovsky. children of timea look monsters and diplomacy by Megan Frampton, and the opening of a new sci-fi and horror bookstore in Alexandria, Virginia. My SFF
No one forgets the birth of their first child. That fortunate event for me happened on 21 November 1969. I did my best to train my wife through the Lamaze breathing techniques we learned in our childbirth classes. Now it was time to go to the delivery room to complete the birth process and welcome
A 75-year-old Gainesville man has been charged with multiple criminal charges after police say he pepper sprayed five adults and attempted to arrest a four-year-old boy during a confrontation inside a Florida pet store. This case was first reported Alachua ChronicleCiting an arrest report from the Gainesville Police Department. Controversy increased after comments on children
United States Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Tim Gick joined the military in 2007, but his commitment to country and connection to service can be traced back to his childhood. His father served in the Navy, his grandfather was in the Army, and one of his uncles was in the Marines and another uncle was also
As a new parent of a very fast-growing little girl, I’ve come to realize that children have a remarkable ability to make expensive purchases obsolete. One day they are completely happy in a comfortable environment; Next, they’re too tall for their bicycle, and before you know it you’re shopping for another set of riding gear.
A British craftsman came under fire this weekend after parents discovered his handmade elephant Was assembled with pages from an erotic novel. As Guardian informedThe unknown hobbyist often created his own “little creations” from donated books, in order to raise money for charity. The apparently friendly man also liked to hand out his paperwork to
Children’s book fans, I have a quick challenge for you: Close your eyes, clear your mind, and imagine an illustration from a picture book you loved as a child. (Please open your eyes again, so you can read the rest of this column.) Ok. How’d it go? Do you remember the colors of your illustration