Tag: Childrens

The 2021 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books Winners at Work

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“When I first decided to become an illustrator, I practiced drawing on a regular basis. One of the most frequent exercises I would do was quick character drawings of the passengers in my car during subway trips. The more I drew these random characters, the more I wondered who these people were and what their lives were like. These seemingly inconspicuous characters whom

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Waterstones shelves are bulging with woke children’s books

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From Little House On The Prairie to Dr Seuss, bedtime reading for children is rapidly becoming a battlefield with classic stories slapped with ‘trigger warnings’ for ‘harmful content’ or popular authors such as Enid Blyton ‘cancelled’. 

But waiting on the shelves of a bookshop near you to replace them is a whole raft of suitably ‘woke’ literature for children, ranging from feminist fairytales to tomes teaching children about white privilege and subverting gender roles. 

Waterstones, for instance, is currently displaying

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Warum ist das St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital an der Einführung von SpaceX beteiligt?

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Als er Inspiration4 im Februar ankündigte, sagte Isaacman, er wolle, dass es mehr als ein außerirdischer Ausflug für reiche Leute wie ihn sei. Er wandte sich an das St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, das Kinder kostenlos behandelt und Heilmittel für Kinderkrebs und andere Krankheiten entwickelt. Herr Isaacman bot an, die Mission als Mittel zur Mittelbeschaffung für St. Jude zu nutzen, und setzte ein Ziel von 200 Millionen US-Dollar.

“Wenn Sie all diese großartigen Dinge im Weltraum erreichen wollen,

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