Little Red Riding Hood

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BID FOR SURVIVAL: Charawi, a Thai traditional massage shop in Bangkok's Mengjai area, has been so badly hit by the lack of Chinese customers due to the Covid-19 outbreak, that it is now offering free massages just so its masseurs can survive on tips. The recent wave of shootings and…

Whether dating apps or texting, it's all too common for women to receive random, unsolicited sexual images from men. Scientifically, cyberflashing hasn't received much attention, but initial studies offer some answers. A sex scandal is shaking up French politics these days. Parisian mayor candidate Benjamin Griveaux has abandoned his campaign…

Tex Avery animation. Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer Do not binge-watch Tex Avery Screwball Classics, Volume 1, strongly recommends cartoon historian Jerry Beck, who co-curated the first-ever Blu-ray collection of Avery’s MGM cartoons. “It’s too much for your brain,” he cautions. Avery cartoons were meta before meta was cool, Beck notes…

If there’s one thing that can be said about readers (or at least the readers at Book Riot), it’s this: many of them are also avid crafters. Chances are good that many choose to make things while also listening to an audiobook, thus creating reading time while also making something.…

At a recent conference on children's books, one of my favorite writers confessed to having an inner 11-year-old who just wanted to read books all day and wear cat print dresses. This inner 11-year-old was why the adult author was comfortable writing fiction for middle schoolers. Looking at the author,…

For over a thousand years, the tale of Little Red Riding Hood has taught children and adults that wolves can’t be trusted. They are cunning, vicious apex predators at the top of the food chain that have even taken down grizzly bears and mountain lions in Yellowstone. In the pioneer…

Have you ever walked around on Valentine’s Day feeling like a mutant? The crinkly assault of Mylar heart-balloon clusters; the blood-red tunnel of Hallmark cards at Walgreens and CVS; the couples eating overpriced appetizers at bistro tables with their faces twisted into that Desperate Restaurant Stare—it can all make an…

WORLD’s Picture Book of the Year is Home in the Woods by Eliza Wheeler (Nancy Paulsen Books, ages 5-8), a hope-filled, true story of a family that survives and prospers despite tragedy. Adults will appreciate the enormity of the challenges the mother faces. Children will appreciate the simple story and…

Creative writing exercises are a great way to train your writing muscles. Ready to flex? Read on. Wouldn’t you love to smash your content out of the ring every time? To always land that knockout blow, just like your writing idols? Imagine having the same audience of cheering fans, clamoring…