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New Audiobook Version of 'The Phantom Tollbooth' Is Fantastic

By George Lopercio

The New Nancy Drew is Relieved She’s Not Covered In Buckets of Blood

Anthropomorphic Trucks Need to Unionize

Rhett Miller On Going From Country Star to Kids Book Author

By Joshua David Stein

The Last Great Children's Book Pirate

By Joshua David Stein

Most of New 'Scary Stories' Monsters Don't Come From the First Book

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Is Youth Football Child Abuse? Dr. Bennet Omalu's research triggered a crisis in NFL-world. Today, he's more focussed on saving kids from the physical trauma of America's most popular game.

5 Great Books That Help Babies Sleep There are a lot of factors that make a good bedtime book, and you can't rely on Amazon reviews to pick these books for you. Here are ones that actually work, and most importantly, are easy to hold.

'Goosebumps' Legend R.L. Stine Gets Real The author talks his latest projects, why he thought Bandersnatch was dull, and all the crazy stuff he bought with his Goosebumps money.

How the Superhero Movie Industry Is Finally Doing Right by Girls My daughters, unlike the generations that went before them, know that girls can save the day, too.

Fatherly Voices

Count Olaf's Last Words Are From a Famous Poem About Parents Fucking Up Further proving the 'Lemony Snicket' books are subversively awesome, the dying words of Neil Patrick Harris's Olaf reference a Philip Larkin masterpiece.

The Unbearable Darkness of Grover 'Sesame Street' is a nice place, but the sweetest monster in town is having a rough time.

Old Friends

What Is in the Sugar Bowl in ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’? One thing the books left mysterious has been outright explained in the last season of the popular Lemony Snicket kids show.

Explaining Allison William as Kit Snicket in 'Unfortunate Events' She's different than she was in the books. But not by much.

'Unfortunate Events’ Didn’t Really Change the Ending of the Books. It Just Seems That Way If you’ve only read the 13 books in the main series, you might think the show changed the ending of the story. It didn’t. There’s another book.

Who Is Beatrice in 'A Series of Unfortunate Events'? In both the Lemony Snicket books and the Netflix show, Beatrice is actually two people, but it’s a little confusing at first.

Best Magazine Subscriptions for Kids to Encourage Learning These magazines make learning so much fun!

The Best Children’s Books of 2018 The books that made us and our kids laugh, think, dream, wonder, and forget about the world for a while.

The Cat in the Hat is Not a Cat No one is saying that Dr. Seuss's opus isn't an excellent book. But there's a lie right there on the cover and it's time to call it out.

Is 'Mary Poppins Returns' Setting Up a Sequel? Disney loves post-credits scenes in Marvel movies, but it looks like Poppins (probably) isn't creating a shared cinematic universe, for now.

Scrooge Made Some Good Points Ebenezer has been the go-to holiday villain since the Victorian era. That makes sense. He was a prick. He was also kinda smart.

Opinion

This Concept Art for 'Incredibles 2' Is Gorgeous All the little details are what makes it special.

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