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When Fall Hands You Apples, Make Applesauce

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. If that were actually true, we would have a much easier time with universal health care! But we shouldn’t let that untruth diminish the benefits of juicy, delicious apples. The motivation for this post was a super-cute story called “Apple Day” by Kimberly Long Cockroft in […]

Cricket Media and Smithsonian Launch the 2nd Annual Global Folklorist Challenge

The Challenge invites kids 8-18 globally to explore and share cultural traditions and learn professional folklorist investigation, interview and reporting skills. WASHINGTON, DC—September 22, 2015 – Cricket Media, an education media company and Global Learning Network, today announced the launch of the 2nd Annual Global Folklorist Challenge, produced in partnership with the Smithsonian’s Center for Folklife […]

The 2015 Global Folklorist Challenge: Explore a Tradition in Your Community

The 2015 Global Folklorist Challenge invites kids 8-18 globally to explore and share cultural traditions and learn professional folklorist investigation, interview and reporting skills. Click on the image below to find out how to get involved…

Teenage Drama…Handled!

As the mom of a tween who is already on the cusp of sass, attitude, and near-constant hysteria, I found the “Disaster Drill” in a recent issue of Cicada to be immensely helpful. Obviously, disaster has many different interpretations, depending on the context or the person for whom it is occurring. For most people, a […]

6 Easy Ways to Celebrate Talk Like A Pirate Day

Want to turn a regular Saturday into something special? A good chance is coming up on September 19, which is also known as International Talk like a Pirate Day. It may sound a bit silly, but it is just this type of silliness that often inspires the best family fun and fires a child’s imagination. […]

Happy 25th, Ladybug!

Ladybug celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary this month. For twenty-five years, the magazine has tried to reflect the world of young children—and make it a little broader—through stories, poetry, art, and activities. Each issue encourages kids to take a closer look at the people and places around them. Ladybug invites children to bring their whole selves—their […]

The Louisiana Purchase Uncovered

One of the best things about being the editor of Cobblestone is the opportunity for my knowledge of a subject to deepen when I work on an issue. Take the September issue where we focus on the Louisiana Purchase, for example. It is easy to think of the Louisiana Purchase as simply the sale of […]

An Archeological Find that will Blow Your Mind!

My day went from “ho-hum” to “wow” in the space of about 15 seconds this morning when I heard this story on NPR about how archaeologists have discovered the bones of an early human-like species buried deep in a cave in South Africa. Making the story even more interesting was that the cave can only be reached […]

Reaching for Distant Stars

As editor of Cricket, I look to publish a balance of stories in each issue—contemporary fiction and fantasy, history and true adventure, longer and shorter stories—that provide variety and also complement each other. In planning Cricket’s September issue, my thoughts naturally turned to school stories. This month, Cricket begins a two-part story about a […]

Cricket Media Partners with ThinkCERCA to Provide Standards-Based Content Offerings to Students and Teachers across the Curriculum

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 8, 2015 – Cricket Media, an education media company and global learning network, announced a three-year extension of its partnership with ThinkCERCA, an online literacy platform that empowers teachers to personalize literacy instruction across disciplines. This extension will deepen the two companies’ existing partnership, adding significant value to teacher offerings and continuing […]