<p class="krtHeadline">Playtime for Kids Pads are a series of clever activity prompts for kids. Each one comes with 40 tear-off checklists, meaning lots of repeat play. And with eight themes to pick from, there’s a plethora of creative choices: sketch and display artwork with ...

Like a graceful tree frog, Arabella Jariel clings to the climbing wall and pulls herself up, up, up with astonishing ease and speed. A competitive rock climber, the sixth-grader at the Montessori School of Northern Virginia trains five days a week, including workouts with her youth team.Most ...

<p class="krtHeadline">Aggressive layaway programs by retailers, combined with conservative ordering by store chains trying to keep inventories tight, are expected to increase the number of sold-out toys during the coming holiday season, toy industry experts predicted recently at ...

<p class="p1">Even though Pillywiggins gets top billing, Natasha is the real heroine of this book. When Natasha and her family move to The Deepings, she feels the magic of the place, but it's a frightening magic to begin with when she sees a tree who is also a witch, and meets ...

What are President Barack Obama and his election opponent, Mitt Romney, doing this weekend? They probably are studying for one of the biggest tests of their lives: the debates between the two candidates for president. Debates — where people running for office are asked a lot of tough ...

Every week, the National Football League issues a report of injured players. And lots of players — 266 of them last season — suffered an injury called a concussion.A concussion happens when someone's brain is shaken inside his skull so hard that he may feel dizzy or sick. Someone with a ...

Bean Gibson's school year doesn't start out great. Bean (no, that's not her real name; it's the family nickname for her flowery real name, which is really hard to spell) is starting third grade, and it seems too much for her.Her older sisters pick on her. Her best friend, Carla, has found a new ...

Why would a cartoon shark want to save an underwater lab?Because Jim Toomey, the man behind the syndicated cartoon strip "Sherman's Lagoon," wants ocean exploration to be taken seriously.The Aquarius Reef Base, the world's only underwater marine lab, is set to close because the National Oceanic ...

<p class="krtHeadline">The family cat was the first to discover the Painted Lady butterfly that was flitting around in our Insect Lore Butterfly Pavilion. Within the next two days, we had six butterflies in our netted cages and I had two daughters fighting over whose butterflies ...

Captain Underpants and "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" led the way for a whole new type of fiction for kids: graphic novels. Of course, your parents may not like to see you reading books that have more pictures than words. They may complain, saying, "They're just comic books!"But what if your mom saw ...