A television series was produced in the 70s and 80s and was loosely based on Ingalls’ books- it starred Melissa Gilbert as Laura and Michael Landon as her father, Charles. She is still celebrated today all across the USA, with museums and honouring her, and her name marking her previous homesteads throughout the country.
BY DOING IT IN SPACE!
The awesome nature of the universe and space travel, combined with one of the most every day events like reading a bedtime story, has produced something truly wonderful. From Kathleen (Kate) Rubins to the UK’s very own space hero Tim Peake, astronauts have been picking up children’s books and sharing them with us on Earth.
Patricia Tribe, the former director of education at Space Center Houston, came up with the concept along with Alvin Drew, the first NASA astronaut to read a story in space. The pair were hoping to encourage reading with children while simultaneously promoting STEM education: science, tech, engineering, and mathematics, and where is the best place to that? IN SPACE!
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Today we hear more about the diary, giving further insights into Anne Frank’s character as researchers uncover several more pages that were originally stuck together. Read More
The Harry Potter fandom knows this all too well… The world of witches, wizards, and magical creatures is often fraught with clashes and strong opinion, much like our own. Occasionally this particular literary world has been seen to reflect our own in such a way that many fans cannot help but make comparisons, no matter how obscure, hilarious, or downright ridiculous.
Author KC Land, aged 24, recently wrote and self-published her debut storybook Negan The Stardust, which attempts to explain one of the first and most important questions we ask: what are we made of, and where did we come from?
Land’s story is of a brave stellar atom named Negan who wanders with her friends Carbon and Hydrogen towards Earth after her own home is destroyed in a catastrophic explosion called a supernova.
The idea first came about when the author-whose real name is Casey Keene Stakland- was dealing with intense questions from her son.
“My son started asking some big questions such as ‘Why are we real?’ and ‘How did we get here?’ at the tender age of three. I tried at first to explain simply that we are real because we can make choices and that we all came from our mothers’ tummies, but he was obviously not satisfied with these answers and continued to ask.”
US Amazon Prime members can now take advantage of the Prime Book Box which sees a box of books delivered to your doorstep every one, two, or three months for $22.99 per box. The books are selected by Amazon book editors and endorsed by customer ratings. Read More
Today we hear the news that there’s a fourth book coming, and we’re sure those who loved the trilogy will be thrilled. Out on 2nd October, A Map of Days is going to take Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children in a new direction and we can only hope it’s as thrilling as the previous books were. Read More
On an average day in Australia one parent went to K-Mart and was not expecting to find this interesting book in the children’s section. Unlike some children’s books about sex and reproduction, this one was particularly graphic in its descriptions. Some Facebook users were up in arms about the content of the book, while others were not fazed by the language used and saw it as totally appropriate.
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Ok so maybe she didn’t use magic- she is a muggle after all- instead she used a projector and a steady hand… and she has some tips for anyone who may want to try something similar.
