You Know, for Kids

Christopher Healy's   The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom — which I was unable to resist posting about several weeks ago, so e...

You'll notice at the right here a new feature on this blog—one I've essentially ripped off wholesale from my friend and former colle...

As huge fans of Brian Selznick's book The Invention of Hugo Cabret , our family was very interested in the film version. Its director, M...

I've written before about how new Hollywood kids' movies are probably not the best use of my time here: There's no shortage of p...

I am, I know, way behind the curve in my appreciation of Flip cameras, which I first remember hearing colleagues at Cookie rave about thre...

I suspect that most parents have seen Toy Story 3   by now, either in the theater this summer or on DVD since its recent release. (In the la...

Continuing from my recent post: favorite kids’ DVDs, non-Pixar edition. Wallace & Gromit. Another case in which the hype is entirel...

I haven’t posted much about kids’ movies since starting this blog, mainly because I haven’t felt I had much to say beyond the obvious. ( Pix...

If I’m honest, I have to admit I was resisting the movie of Where the Wild Things Are,  the DVD of which is really only new-ish by now .  M...

A friend writing a story about a backyard movie party asked me the other day for some good “summer movie” recommendations for kids—that i...