Little Red Riding Hood

The art of storytelling dates back thousands of years, with the earliest discovery being a series of cave drawings found 36,000 years ago. To this day, stories remain an intrinsic part of our society and culture. Not only does the act of sharing experiences p…

This article from the Guardian (click on screenshot) reports that the Tàber public school in Barcelona is removing around 200 children’s books from its library because they have “hidden sexist content”: It may be hidden, but of course the censors consider it…

A schoolgirl's murder could finally be solved 73 years later thanks to one of the world's oldest pieces of forensic evidence. Police believe 12-year-old Muriel Drinkwater might have been a victim of a notorious serial killer when she was raped and murdered i…

Image copyrightDrinkwater family photoImage caption Muriel (centre) was brutally attacked as she made her way home from school in 1946 A schoolgirl's murder has gone unsolved since she was brutally slain more than 70 years ago. But a piece of forensic evid…

The gnarled and twisted trees in these tropical forests are cloaked in clouds and mist, much like the fairy tale forests drawn by British illustrator Arthur Rackham for the Brothers Grimm. But these are not the spectral woods traversed by Little Red Riding Ho…

Google Assistant on Android and iOS devices can now read out stories in English. This feature is available to people in India, US, UK, Canada and Australia. The available classic bedtime stories include Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood.

This is a bittersweet baseball season for me, and I would guess quite a few other Cubs fans. I'm in the older, dying-out section of the fan base, so not monetarily interesting to ownership. But I will comment anyway. I have been watching the Cubs since the l…

I wrote about MasterClass a couple of months ago in my review of James Pattersons course on Writing and this month, Ive been enjoying Margaret Atwoods course on Creative Writing. In case you dont want to head back to that post, Ill quickly recap the basics o…

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Children’s Book Week (April 29 to May 5, 2019), the Library of Congress has launched a unique online collection of 67 historically significant children’s books published more than 100 years ago. Drawn from the Librar…

Children’s Book Week is 100 years old this year, and there are a lot of cool things to do and see at your favorite national library. Here, let’s check out a handful of insanely popular titles that kids were reading in 1919, when the very first book week was l…