The 2016 Spark!Lab Invent It Challenge is finally off and running. This year, kids ages 5 to 21 need to identify a real-world health problem and come up with a solution to
For the January issue of Cobblestone I chose to focus on Buffalo Bill and Wild West shows. While putting this issue together, I was able to work with the experts
If your family is anything like mine, the holidays resulted in a lot of new books. GREAT. And also: NOT GREAT. My whole family loves reading books. Real books.
The 2016 Spark!Lab Invent It Challenge is finally off and running. This year, kids ages 5 to 21 need to identify a real-world health problem and come up with a
Hooray, it’s National Dress Up Your Pet Day! Little kids (and, ahem, some big kids too) have always loved dressing up their pets and the Cricket family of magazines has
If you were lucky enough to grow up as a CRICKET reader, than you were lucky enough to have been exposed to quality literature every month. From its inception, the
My mom tells me all the time how great grandkids are. And how if she could do it all over, she’d skip having kids and go straight to grandkids. And
“If children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re eight.” —Mem Fox One
Go ahead and get your kids thinking about a real world health problem because the Invent It! Challenge is back and better than ever! This 5th annual challenge, a partnership
Two separate stories this week reminded me that archeology is not just for Indiana Jones. It’s relevant, it’s literally under our feet, and it is an easy way to get
