Today marks the last day of Children’s Literature Week and while we can easily recall the milestone books of our own developmental years, authors continue to produce prose of exceptional merit. Anushka Ravishankar, commonly referred to as India’s Dr Seuss, has long been a master of silliness—from her debut “Tiger on a Tree,” which was translated into eight languages and sold 50,000 copies globally to …
Though Theodor Seuss Geisel—best known as Dr. Seuss—passed away in 1991, his spirit lives eternally through his imaginative characters and tongue-twisting rhymes that have delighted children and parents alike for decades. Today, “Horton and the Kwuggerbug and more Lost Stories” is released from Random House, featuring four stories that originally appeared—and were subsequently forgotten about—in Redbook magazine in the early ’50s. Now republished in book …
1. A View From The Shard No longer do you need to climb to the observation deck of London’s tallest building for a view of the city, thanks to a new online app put out by The Guardian. Created using two high-res, 360-degree images taken by panoramic photographer Will Pearson, the app—complete with landmark information—delivers the stunning panorama from The Shard’s 68th floor to your …
