Candace Dipsey

TIME for Kids senior editor Candace Dipsey is a former elementary school teacher who brings her love for teaching and learning to the TIME for Kids team. She has the pleasure of working on both the education and edit team at TFK, and loves that her job lets her learn something new every day.

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Family Artists

February 5, 2026

You’ve probably read a book by author and illustrator Jerry Pinkney. He wrote more than a hundred of them. Now his granddaughter has written one about him. CHARNELLE PINKNEY BARLOW is an author and illustrator, too. Her book is called…

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Science

Stealing Stings

September 5, 2025

Below the ocean surface lurks a thief. The animal is called a nudibranch (noo-dih-brank). It is found in all the world’s oceans. These colorful sea slugs do not have a shell. They are not spiny. So how do they stay…

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Entertainment

Same Same

November 6, 2024

Author Jennifer E. Smith and illustrator Leo Espinosa are the team behind The Creature of Habit. Readers of the book meet a large creature and a small one. The large creature does the exact same thing every day. He likes…

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United States

Unwelcome Object

October 10, 2024

Carlsbad Caverns National Park is a system of caves. It is in New Mexico. In September, a bag of Cheetos was dropped there. It caused problems for cave life. Food and drink are not allowed in the caves. A spilled…

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Underwater Discovery

November 30, 2023

In early November, a diver was swimming off the coast of Sardinia. That’s in Italy. The diver spotted pieces of metal on the ocean floor. He alerted authorities. More divers were sent to look. The pieces turned out to be…

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History

The Mother of Women's Judo

January 19, 2023

In 1959, Rena “Rusty” Kanokogi won a judo competition in New York. Her award was taken away. That’s because she was a woman. She had pretended to be a man to compete. Kanokogi set a goal to help women in…

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