Imagine a world where slavery is common, arts and music are all but forbidden, and your only choices are marriage or military. That is what Marie Rutkoski gives us in her new novel, “The Winner’s Curse,” the first novel of the planned trilogy is set to be released on March 4. Winning what you...

The iStoryTime Library has officially landed on Android devices via the Google Play store and Amazon. iStoryTime is celebrating the release by giving readers a free storybook in addition to the four free books that the app already comes with.  If you get the iStoryTime Library, users will get the Rise of the...

It all started with Neil Gaiman. That seems like it should be the best beginning for a story in some kind of neo-Lovecraftian anthology. He wrote a blog post in 2010 suggesting that during the week of Halloween people should give each other scary books or comics. All Hallow’s Read has since...

When you walk around New York Comic Con for the first time you will likely realize that this event is focused on comics, but also has a bunch of other options going on at the same time. They have video games, books, movies and all sorts of other cool places to visit....

When you walk in for the firs time to the NYCC, you are overwhelmed by all that there is to do. First Person Shooter Video games, adult super heroes with adult problems, villains, and the zombies, oh the amount of zombies, are scattered all over the floor. Between all of this Comic...

Yesterday, I was treated like a stupid girl. I’m still fuming about it. It’s not just because I know that I’m not a stupid girl, it’s because the person who did it was a male co-worker who has known me for almost ten years. He’s probably twenty years my senior and has...

Sometimes you just get lucky, and the author that happens to have a show coming to Nickelodeon lives only a few miles away. So on a beautiful weekend day a few weeks ago my whole family had the pleasure to meet with Annette Cascone, one half of the author team that writes...

If there is one book my kids look forward to getting every year it is The World Almanac for Kids. It goes without fail that I start getting asked when it will come out early in the summer and this year was no different. The great part for us was that we...

Papercutz recently partnered up with Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products to introduce fans to the animated hit film, “RIO” through an ongoing series of graphic novels. Papercutz is the industry’s leading children’s graphic novel publisher. The series will become available in March 2014 with the first book serving as a bridge between the original animated...

WHEN MILES GOT MAD We love how the characters are drawn on real backgrounds, helping the children really relate to them. Miles and Max, two brothers, come across a problem that we have seen in our house as well. What happens when your younger brother breaks something by mistake? The book teaches...

iStoryTime has officially released their newest storybook based on the movie, Turbo, from DreamWorks. The storybook is available for  iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The Turbo Movie Storybook Deluxe lets fans ride along for the greatest under-snail story of all time.

Oceanhouse media has officially announced their release of a brand new Dr. Seuss storybook app. Perfect for children and parents, the storybook app will entertain your child in an exciting and engaging format. The new app, called, “Bartholomew and the Oobleck,” is currently available on both the App Store and Google Play.

Zendaya Coleman looks STUNNING on this cover of Jones magazine, and she is really growing into a respectable teenager with the way she interacts with the outside world. From her television show, to singing and dancing, another triple threat to come from the Disney Channel. You can check out the cover and...