You Know, for Kids

I'll get back to my final toys wrap-up post shortly, but I'm going to insert my video-of-the-year post first. It's not precisel...

My experience of toys and games these days differs from that of the other categories of kids' entertainment. I manage to keep some sembl...

     The last of my trends relating to books I encountered last year builds on a discovery from my Cookie magazine years: Australian author...

Any parent with boys of the age to be reading chapter books can hardly help becoming aware of a genre aimed squarely at their kids: gross-ou...

As an adult reader, I go for relatively little new fiction, in favor of older writing. I figure the cream of the crop has had more time to r...

Another trend in kids' books last year was a continued surge in works either about or inspired by ancient Greek mythology. Much to my de...

I wrote about most of my favorite kids' books of 2010 in individual posts during the year, of course, and especially in this category, a...

As I've mentioned before, I don't feel confident that I'm seeing absolutely everything out there in kids' music, books, etc....