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Heading to the Wild West with Cobblestone

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 at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, and what a gift that turned out to be! I always try to […]

Help Your Shelves

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. We all have e-Readers but tend to use them for things like working-out or taking on vacation. We are all old-school, holding books, smelling books, […]

Cricket Media Leads with Most Wins in the 2016 Parents’ Choice Awards

All 11 publications receive top honors WASHINGTON, DC – January 20, 2016 – Cricket Media, an education media company and global learning network, announced today that all 11 of its Cricket Media magazines were honored with gold medals in the 2016 Parents’ Choice awards. The Parents’ Choice Awards is the nation’s oldest nonprofit program created […]

Invent It Challenge Week 1: Think It!

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 the problem. Each entry must follow the seven step invention process spelled out by our partner, the Smithsonian’s Spark!Lab . For the next […]

Smithsonian and Cricket Media Launch the 5th Annual Spark!Lab Invent It Challenge for Kids Worldwide

This Year’s Focus is on Creative Solutions to Real-World Health Problems WASHINGTON, DC—January 15, 2016 – It’s that time of year again for all kid-inventors to put on their innovative thinking caps! The official launch of the 5th annual Global Spark!Lab Invent It Challenge is January 15th — just in time to celebrate Kid Inventors’ […]

Cricket Family Pets All Dressed Up for “National Dress Up Your Pet Day”!

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 recognized and illustrated this common childhood experience numerous times over the years. Here are two beautiful and very different Ladybug covers celebrating the joy of […]

5 Award-Winning Authors You Read First in CRICKET Magazine

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 pages of CRICKET magazine have been crammed with the type of writers who win national writing awards. Here are just 5 of the award-winning […]

ePals Launches New Version of Global Community with Digital Cultural Exchanges and Collaborative Projects for Classrooms Worldwide

Teachers and students in classrooms around the world can now connect with the click of a mouse! Free digital collaborative projects, teacher guides, and enhanced search capabilities are among the upgrades to the ePals Global Community. WASHINGTON, DC—January 13, 2016— How do the traits of hummingbirds, geckos, and other animals help scientists design robots? What […]

Building Strong Grandparent-Grandchild Relationships

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 how it’s not spoiling them when her grandkids are perfect little angels who deserve whatever they want. And of course she doesn’t mind waiting on […]

The Love of Reading: ADVICE FOR YOUNG PARENTS

“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 of the greatest gifts you can share with your babies and toddlers is your love of learning. That love often begins with the love of […]