Children Archive |
New Year’s Special for Kids and Adults (with NO sports): Matthew McConaughey - As a young actor, Mathew McConaughey had an unusual problem: too handsome. After small parts in comedies, he broke out as a stripper in "Magic Mike. He won an Academy
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat - The Times reports that there’s a show of 70 works by Basquiat at the new gallery of the Brant Foundation, through May 15. 421 East 6th Street. By appointment
Roald Dahl - Roald Dahl's books appeal to kids for the simplest of reasons. They're great stories --- and the author is firmly on the side of children. "Parents and schoolteachers are the enemy,"
Roald Dahl: The BFG - When “The BFG” was first optioned for a film, it was the early 1990s and Robin Williams was going to be the giant. But the technological challenge of filming a
Robert Sabuda - When Robert Sabuda was growing up in a small rural town in Michigan, his mother would read him bedtime stories. He loved them and learned early to read,
Shel Silverstein - TIME MACHINE: Today is the last day of school for the child. Her summer reading list: thick books she can read on her own. Once upon a time, this was
Stone Soup - My least favorite book for children is Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree, which has sold more than 5 million copies, has been translated into every language but Urdu, and is
Taro Gomi - “The most boring field of all is art,” says Taro Gomi, the Japanese artist who has illustrated about 300 books. That is, art that has been classified, analyzed, defined. He'll
The 13 Clocks - The younger generation has no idea who he was, but once upon a time, James Thurber was a god. He wrote “Talk of the Town” and dashed off cartoons for
The Adventures of Polo - We've been reading to the little one all her young life, so Flotsam was a huge hit. At last! A book that she could read to us. Or,
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - "The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse" is a British book that has sold millions of books in England, a great many in the United States, and has
The Dangerous Book for Boys - The Dangerous Book for Boys Conn Iggulden & Hal Iggulden
The Everything Kids’ Science Experiments Book: Boil Ice, Float Water, Measure Gravity — Challenge the World Around You! - It’s summer, and because it’s important that our kids help us in the fields… Oooops. Sorry. That was a while ago. The industrial farmers who grow our food have no need
The Hundred Dresses - This is the best book I have ever read for children about bullying. It doesn't preach. It doesn't talk down. It just tells a story. Teachers who read it to
The Little Engine That Could - So I’m walking on the rubberized track in the park near my apartment. And there, just ahead of me, is a tall man. His son is with him, on his
The Little Match Girl - “A Christmas Carol” was too long to read to children, so in 2013, I cut it in half --- just as Charles Dickens did when he read it in theaters.
The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children from Depression & Build Lifelong Resilience - I recently had coffee with a tutor who told me the kind of services that his Manhattan clients expect. These go way beyond helping a child understand thorny schoolwork. These
The Phantom Tollbooth - Guest Butler Barbara Finkelstein is the author of Summer Long-a-coming. Her pieces for Head Butler include In Defense of Long Books and The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. She
The Polar Express - What is the most interactive medium of all? A rich, wise man in Silicon Valley --- so rich he did not need to offer up the kneejerk response: “online
The Thief of Always - "I never get scared by books,” said our daughter, when she was 8, “but this is really scaring me.” From a kid who liked suspense, there's no higher praise. What freaked
