Posts Tagged ‘kids’
One of the great moments of my adulthood was my discovery -- courtesy of Mark's posts here on Boing Boing -- of the incredible work that Ernie Bushmiller did on Nancy from 1933 until his death in 1982. He was succeeded by a series of station-keeping cartoonists, some of whom were very adept at ...
Sesame Street continues its run of excellent, empathetic new muppets to help kids deal with a changing world: after introducing muppets experiencing homelessness, living with autism, and explaining marriage without recourse to gender norms, the show has introduced a muppet whose mother lost custody of her after becoming addicted to drugs.
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Firstsecond (publishers of In Real Life, the bestselling middle-grades graphic novel Jen **** and I made) have just revealed the cover for Poesy the Monster Slayer, my first-ever picture book, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller and scheduled for publication in July 2020.
Poesy is a book about a little girl who is obsessed with monsters, ...
Japan Airlines is giving passengers as much information as possible to help them decide where they want to sit on a flight.
On Tuesday, a frequent flyer noticed a kid icon on the seating chart for his 13-hour flight on JAL, as the Japanese airl... ...
Losing your favorite toy is every kid's worst nightmare. But losing it to a vindictive moose? The results are pretty hilarious.
In the above clip, which came out of Kenai, Alaska, a man and his three kids watch as a roaming moose takes an interes... ...
Amazon has faced questions about whether or not its kid-friendly Alexa devices violate children's privacy, but that hasn't stopped it from making another one.
During its annual hardware event on Wednesday, the Jeff Bezos e-commerce empire announced t... ...
Jen **** (previously) is several kinds of excellent comics person: from her debut graphic novel Koko Be Good (a complex and heartfelt take on "manic pixie dream girls") to her award-winning, bestselling, brilliant genderqueer fairy tale The Prince and the Dressmaker, to In Real Life, the middle-grades comic she adapted from ...
Raffi Cavoukian (AKA "Raffi") is best known as a beloved children's singer -- I vividly remember attending one of his concerts as a child -- and possibly secondarily as the brother of former Ontario Privacy Commissioner and excellent privacy advocate Ann Cavoukian, but in recent years, he's emerged as a smart, acerbic political ...
This is the second story in a four-part series on how to find the safest places on the internet for kids.
Being a parent means living with constant guilt. Just when the anxiety ebbs thanks to a parenting victory, it inevitably comes crashing back in... ...