Most children don’t get to interact with people with special needs on a regular basis. Few schools are equipped to teach differently abled children alongside typically developing children, and so the two are often separated, which only leads to this 

Gone are the Scumbags, Lowlifes, Dimwits and Nincompoops. The houses at Horrid High have been renamed. The school is no longer horrid. Ferg Gottin and his friends Fermina Filch, Immy Tate and Phil Fingersmith are back for another year at Horrid High, and 

We’re born blank slates. As we grow older, we imbibe what is taught to us: The Earth is round. Leaves are green. Dogs are cuddly. Monsters are evil, and evil people are monsters. And somewhere along the way, we stop believing 

We’ve seen some excellent adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes mystery stories (and, indeed, the character) ever since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous creation entered the public domain. Elementary has taken the character out of London and created new mysteries 

There wasn’t much Indian children’s books to read when I was growing up. I read a lot of Enid Blyton, Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, so I was well acquainted with the ins and outs of being a teenage sleuth 

The year is 1931; the city, Paris. Hugo Cabret is an orphan with no one in the world for company except a broken automaton, a robot-like machine his father found in a museum before dying in a fire. Hugo lives 

“Leaving you and the kids. Khudahafiz.” Maria Sulaiman’s world collapses when she finds the note meant for her father. Her mother has gone, leaving behind only a message on a Post-It note that doesn’t offer an explanation. Her father is 

People seem to think female friendship is complicated, especially when one woman has kids and the other doesn’t. This, they say, is when your friendship will change dramatically. For the new mom, the friend supposedly becomes an afterthought whose existence 

“I looked at the trash and the rubble. I thought. Every pile of rocks could hide another bomb, every mound of dirt could conceal a land mine. Every plastic bag could be a trip wire. Every step could be my 

Greg Heffley is your average kid. He goes to middle school, hangs out with his best friend, Rowley, and tries not to get into trouble. But trouble seems to find Greg, and he has a big, embarrassing secret from the 

When Johanna Spyri wrote Heidi, life was nothing like it is today. The world in this story for kids, first published in 1881, is an almost alien one, largely unimaginable for us, if it weren’t for history books, classic literature and 

Imagine harboring a secret that’s so embarrassing you can’t tell even the people closest to you. You live a normal life that’s tinged with the constant fear they’ll find out and judge you for something you cannot control. Now, imagine 

One year ago, while sitting between two old friends at Goa airport, waiting for my flight home, I thought, “I just can’t do this anymore.” “This” was living a life I needed to escape from every few months. I was 

Arlo Jervis is pondering a very important question: Is life really worth living without candy? It’s Halloween, A.J.’s favourite holiday —  the one day, after all, when people just give you free chocolate and your parents let you eat it. 

For years it was enough for me that my skin care products did their jobs well. I didn’t give much thought to the ingredients my skin was absorbing. This shampoo will make my hair shiny and frizz-free? Yes, please! But 

What has tons of energy, can’t sit still, hates taking direction, and gets bored easily? When it comes to getting a good photograph of their kids, parents everywhere despair. But with these simple photography tips, you can take professional-looking pics of 

The Orange Marmaladies from the Black Hole of Time are upset. As the Original Timekeepers of the Universe, they have existed for thousands of years and used to enjoy a warm relationship with humans. But when humans built the first 

Pushkin loves to eat. He’s not fussy either – if it’s edible, he’ll eat it. Pushkin’s friends – Jatin, Sachin, Kiran and Nitin – know this, but even they’re baffled when Pushkin returns from his summer holiday so ravenous that