Do you love reading? Do you love art? Do you love history? We're betting, since you're reading KidsPost, that you can honestly answer "yes" to at least one of those questions. If that's the case, you'll definitely want to check out "Hands Around the Library." With amazing collage illustrations ...
Maya Barlev doesn't remember when she decided to study the universe, but she said the idea crept up on her when she was an elementary school student in Silver Spring, Md."I liked the stars and moon, and I liked math," Barlev said. "I liked the way you could figure math things out with just a ...
Sun, stars, compasses, sextants, clocks, charts, maps, GPS devices . . . we humans have used them all to help us find our way around. None of these navigation aids is built into our bodies, though. These methods all depend on reading nature’s signs and using tools.Many other creatures on our ...
WASHINGTON — If you go to a Washington Nationals game this season, you might notice some new faces at Nationals Park.Denard Span is now the Nats' super-fast center fielder and leadoff hitter. Dan Haren is a new starting pitcher. Rafael Soriano is a hard-throwing reliever.And there's one more ...
KidsPost almost never writes about coloring books, because, let's face it, coloring books are for little kids. You probably haven't used a coloring book in three or four years, right?But these coloring books are so beautiful, so intricate and so artistic that we predict you'll have a hard time ...
It's fewer than 250 miles from the New York City apartment building where Sonia Sotomayor grew up to the Washington offices of the United States Supreme Court where she now works.But if you asked her how she went from being a sick little girl whose father died when she was just 9 years old to ...
Do you dream about books of enchantment? Do you know the difference between sandstone and cobblestone? Does the word "creeper" give you, well, the creeps?If you answered yes to any of the above, you are probably a Minecraft kid. And you're not alone. More than 9.6 million people have downloaded ...
Do pennies make sense?That might seem like a strange question, but for some countries, including Canada and Australia, the answer is no.Those are just two of the countries that have stopped making one-cent coins, and last month, President Barack Obama indicated that it might be time for the ...
In the world of insect migration, monarch butterflies rule the sky. Every fall, hundreds of millions of these black, orange and white insects migrate thousands of miles from the eastern United States and Canada to the mountains of central Mexico, where they spend the winter. By late February, ...
When "The Golden Rectangle" begins, Lucy Moon is hiding in the barn on her father's farm in Puddleville, Ga., while snow swirls on a 90-degree day.Yep, you read that right. The snow has been created by crushing 40,000 pounds of ice in honor of the wedding of Lucy's sister, Nell. The wedding ...
