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Game Changers

October 8, 2025

Some museums display art. Others focus on science. But the Strong National Museum of Play is all about fun. The museum’s Toy Hall of Fame honors toys. Each one has “inspired creative play” over many years. That’s according to the…

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Rooms to Explore

October 8, 2025

If you need space for small things, like insects, and big things, like dinosaur bones, what building do you need? That is one question in Rebecca Donnelly’s What’s That Building? The book gets readers thinking about architecture. They learn by…

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A still image of Gabby from Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie. Inset: actress Laila Lockhart Kraner dressed as Gabby holding a white plush cat

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Play with Gabby

September 25, 2025

Gabby is headed to the big screen. Laila Lockhart Kraner stars in Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie. It’s based on the animated series Gabby’s Dollhouse. The film is about Gabby’s trip with her Grandma Gigi. Their trip is turned upside down…

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Homemade Pals

September 10, 2025

Tomasso is new at school. He has trouble finding friends. So he makes some, instead. There is a ball named Roland. And a milk carton called Coco. That is the story of Make New Friends, by Joshua David Stein. …

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Thinking Differently

September 10, 2025

Lynda Mullaly Hunt has a new book out called Wish in a Tree. Its main character is Oliver. His brain works differently from his classmates’ brains. He wishes he were like everybody else. But he learns to love himself. Hunt…

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Carl’s Collections

May 1, 2025

Meet Carl! He’s a raccoon who loves collecting. Carl is the star of a new PBS Kids show called Carl the Collector. It’s the first PBS Kids series with a main character who’s autistic. That means he sees, feels, and…

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Bugs for Lunch?

May 1, 2025

Bug Snacks was written by Jess French. She’s an author and a veterinarian. Her book explains that eating bugs could help the planet. Many people in the U.S. think eating bugs is icky. “But in the rest of the…

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Summer Reads

April 25, 2025

What’s your favorite genre? Do you like fantasy? Realistic or historical fiction? These graphic novels have it all. Which will you read this summer? Magic Tree House: Sunset of the Sabertooth Mary Pope Osborne’s best-selling books have been turned into…

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Animals

Diving Deep

April 18, 2025

There are trillions of pieces of plastic in the ocean. This is dangerous for deep-diving whales. They mistake the plastic for food. But why do whales mix up plastic and prey? A team of marine biologists wanted to find out.…

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Finding Home

April 1, 2025

Paddington is back in his third movie. The polite bear started as a storybook character. In his third film, Paddington in Peru, he and the Brown family travel to see his Aunt Lucy. In Peru, they learn she’s missing. They…

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