The quiet crisis facing U.S. public libraries Jun 28 2024 According to most recent data from the Institute of Museum and Library services annual Public Library Survey, released earlier this month, gate... Read more »
Elmer and the climate crisis: lost story by David McKee set to be published | Children and teenagers
From the depths of his extraordinarily vibrant imagination, he famously conjured up Mr Benn, Not Now, Bernard, King Rollo and Elmer the patchwork elephant. Elmer and the White Bear, by David McKee,... Read more »
Lack of support for early years language and communication development is leading to a “literacy crisis” that could be costing the economy £830m for each school year group, according to new research.... Read more »
In Charlie Kaufman’s puppet animation Anomalisa, everyone looks and speaks the same. It’s as though a scene in an earlier Kaufman-penned film, Being John Malkovich, in which Malkovich surveys a restaurant from... Read more »
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts. Now that the border crisis has migrated... Read more »
In 1946 a young atmospheric scientist named Bernard Vonnegut made a significant discovery. It had already been shown that clouds could be made to produce snow or rain by “seeding” them with... Read more »