Short reviews of recent releases.

And then he started writing, all the time, prompting his Grade 2 teacher Sandy Heeley to give him a doodle book ... Life on Earth is about a boy who is the only human left on earth because ...

But when Joe Whale got told off by teachers for drawing all over his maths book, his parents decided to nurture his creative talent and enrolled him into an art class. After some of his pictures ...

People with a wicked sense of humor are a rare breed. They can turn life's most boring moments into laugh-out-loud ...

The pygmy hippopotamus, now 6 months old, is Thailand’s biggest celebrity, and the crowds keep flocking. What explains her charm?

The birthday boy wasn’t much impressed by the artful ... She draws inspiration from illustrators of vintage children’s books (like Beatrix Potter and Roald Dahl); the Impressionist artist ...

One of the male sexual organ’s main roles is to make procreation happen, but the penis also has cultural significance. Here ...

In his book The ... Yankee Doodle by ear before taking lessons from Ms. Milligan on Richmond Street.” Ms. Milligan was piano teacher Nellie Milligan. Although he sang with the boys’ choir ...

Mostly, Moo Deng ignores the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims who have schlepped to an out-of-the-way zoo for one reason: her. She is, somewhat unaccountably, Thailand’s most famous creature in ...

The best "SpongeBob SquarePants" villains include existential threats, local bullies, a serial killer, and the owners of a ...

23 February PIG HEART BOY: Malorie Blackman's novel Pig Heart ... 26 January-22 February THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR: Beloved children's book The Very Hungry Caterpillar is another one coming ...