News Bites for Kids
The everyday life of everyday kids...all over the world!
- BELIEVE THIS! A
Chinese cartoon cat tells kids in Vienna, USA, to read newspapers!
We couldn't agree more: Read the news...Tell your news - Did you know a
book could become a bookseller even before it is in the shops? Guess which
one!
- The United
Nations come together in this family in USA
- Australian
Children's Band Wiggles Its Way to Asia
- The 7-year old
car mechanic in Lebanon who just started school
- This guy in
Florida dreams about...smoke detectors?!
- The talent
show in India
- And let's end
as we began...with a kitty!
If you don't see news from your corner of the
world- guess what you should do?
That's right- you tell us!
Now read the news.......share it
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The Cat's Out of the Bag Newspapers Inspire Young Minds Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat
featured in Literacy Ad |
children's animated public television series "Sagwa,
the Chinese Siamese Cat"
are the latest family-entertainment "stars" to encourage young people
to read
by appearing in a literacy ad from the Newspaper Association of America. The
new ad is part of NAA's continuing literacy campaign,
but is the first
featuring characters from a TV show rather than a movie. The show, based on
the children's book by best-selling author Amy Tan and illustrated by Gretchen
Shields, is produced by CineGroupe in association
with Sesame Workshop.
The ad shows Sagwa and her younger sister Sheegwa reading a newspaper
called "The Chinese Siamese Daily." The ad's headline reads
"Reading a
newspaper every day is the cat's meow!" The copy continues
"Newspapers
introduce children to the people, cultures, and events that shape our world.
Share the newspaper with your child and open their window to the world."
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http://www.news24.com/News24/Entertainment/Abroad/0,6119,2-1225-1243_1308264,00.html
New Harry
already a best-seller
The long-awaited fifth book in the Harry Potter
series has become an instant best-seller less than 24 hours after the June
publication date was announced, online book stores said on Thursday. Amazon.com
said it took only two hours after becoming available for pre-order for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
to reach the top-selling spot
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http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/014/living/Embracing_difference_in_a_changing_worldP.shtml
NOW AND THEN
Embracing difference in a changing world
By Donald M. Murray,
Globe Correspondent
Most grandparents seem to want similarity, saying how much a child
looks like the father, the mother, the grandfather, the grandmother, the
family. In one family I know in which one parent is Chinese and the other is
Caucasian, the Chinese family talks about how Chinese the grandchildren look
while the other family points out how white they appear.
The significant and exciting fact is not how similar they are but
how different they are from one another and from their families.
Of course I see hints of Minnie Mae's ancestors and my own in
Josh, Sam, and Michaela, but the most wonderful thing is that they are so
different. They grow and become themselves - individuals, not clones.
Each day I am surprised by a world that does not resemble the
world to which I was born, and each day I celebrate the difference, good and
bad, fascinated by the perpetual drama of change.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030113/people_nm/people_wiggles_dc_3
Australian Children's Band Wiggles Its Way to
By
Belinda Goldsmith
The Wiggles' business
manager Mike Conway told Reuters.
"We've worked hard to build The Wiggles' branding in
The Wiggles' success among the under-6 age group in
WIDE APPEAL
The winning formula? Four men in different colored shirts in a big red car, a dinosaur,
a musical octopus, and a friendly pirate singing catchy, children's songs about
food, dancing and animals with simple dance movements and a bit of slapstick.
Children related to different Wiggles who have all developed their
own colors and characters.
Anthony Field (blue shirt) likes to eat. Greg Page (yellow shirt)
does magic. Murray Cook (red shirt) pulls funny faces and Jeff Fatt (purple shirt), keeps falling asleep in the middle of
things, prompting audiences to shout "Wake Up
Jeff."
The group hit the spotlight in the
"We'll see how
these (countries) move along but it would be great to see a
Wiggles in
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http://www.dailystar.com.lb/18_01_03/art15.asp
When school can transform young lives
Nayla Assaf
Daily Star staff
LEBANON-Ali Saqr, 10, and his brother Bassem, 7, were working as car mechanics last year when
they were picked up by officials from the Social
Affairs Ministry.
Their lives have not been the same since.
“I am able to go to school now like all the other children my age,” Ali said
with a shy smile on his face.
Ali, Bassam and some 250 other children aged
The three-year-old project, funded by the Save The
Children Fund, a British non-governmental organization, and administered here
by members of the Social Affairs and Education Ministries, has transformed the
lives of many “street” children, most of whom had been out of school for years
and had lost hope of ever re-enrolling.
Fatmeh Hamiyeh, 13, had
been out of school for five years when she was picked up.
“I used to stay home all day; my parents were unable to send me to school,” she
explained.
Although Hamiyeh is now in class with children four
years younger than her, she says going back to school is the best thing that
has ever happened to her.
“I’m like everyone else now, I can learn new things, make new friends and I am
the first in my class.”
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Talking
smoke detector seen in dream
The Associated Press
Eddie Fray was one of four inventors of the KidSmart
Vocal Smoke Detector who shared an award last week at the International
Consumer Electronics Association's 36th annual show in
"I dreamed there was a fire in the house and the smoke alarm told the kids
to get out," said Fray, a 42-year-old father of three. "I almost went
back to sleep, but I decided to get up and write it down."
Fray said he believes such a detector, with a message in a familiar voice
recorded on it, will be less confusing to a child than a standard smoke alarm.
He said young children often panic and hide when they hear a
conventional smoke alarm, sometimes fearing they have done something wrong to
set it off.
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Twinkle, twinkle
little stars!
Nisha Nambiar
INDIA-Pune, January 14: THEY are
charmers all the way. As six-year-old Aishwarya Kalyani smiles and dances to You
are my Soniya, there is Akshay
Gham, the 10-year-old, who dances on his knees just like
the dwarf in Appu Raja starring Kamal
Hasan, while 13-year-old Saishwary
Shetty sways to another popular number.
All child prodigies, their talents have been displayed at various
shows. The kids are all raring to go on stage. Aishwarya,
the youngest, dressed in a flashy red costume says, ‘‘I have been learning kathak from my granny and now my dance teacher Datta Sakat helps me,’’ says this
student of AW Sindhu Vidya Bhavan, Aundh gaon
smiling sweetly. Her proud mother, Rohini Kalyani
says, ‘‘she has been dancing since she was two years old. She would dance at
family functions and was appreciated a lot. My husband Satish
too realised that she was talented and encouraged
her. That’s how she participated in many programmes
and has over 50 trophies.’’
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http://www.stockhouse.com/news/news.asp?tick=THQI&newsid=1470060
"With more than $1 billion dollars in sales worldwide, Hello
Kitty has captured the hearts of girls and women like few other brands,"
states Bruce Giuliano, Vice President of Licensing,
at Sanrio(R). "Now with the release of this game, they can interact with
Hello Kitty like never before."
Hello Kitty Cutie World is a collection of 8 entertaining
mini-games including a memory match game, Hello Kitty picture creation, and
even a game of Mahjongg. Players will be able to interact with Hello Kitty and
other familiar characters from the Hello Kitty world
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News for Kids Editorial Team
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