#childrens-book

#childrens-book

With the Stanley Cup finally awarded, the pre-cottage NHL offseason sprint begins.That means qualifying offers will be going out, the first buyout window opens Friday, and the draft and free agency are around the corner.Islanders News
So those important dates are coming up.The Islanders don't have any fascinating "qualify, or not to qualify" decisions but Samuel Bolduc and Oliver Wahlstrom are among the RFAs who need one.

Book publisher Penguin Random House has filed a lawsuit accusing a Florida school district's anti-LGBTQ+ book ban of violating constitutional rights to free speech and due process.The lawsuit's plaintiffs include the publisher, the free-speech organization PEN America, as well as authors and parents who have been negatively affected by the ban.

It has been six months since ChatGPT opened to the public, and our lives, feeds, and timelines have been busy with AI.Tech giants are working relentlessly to innovate toward AI.Microsoft with 365 Co-pilot, Adobe has unveiled Firefly and Sensei, Canva has showcased their Magics, and Meta, previously focused on the Metaverse, the company publicly acknowledged " playing a little bit of catch-up " on AI hardware trends, details of the overhaul.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to authors Grace Lin and Kate Messner about their new children's book."Once Upon a Book" follows a young girl who discovers the joy of reading.AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: Like many of us during this gloomy time of the year, Alice is sick of the cold and heavy winter clothing.

There's nothing like a toy that can bring a smile to a child's face.A doll they can cuddle, a game they can play with the family, puzzles that foster problem-solving skills and more-all things that can open up a world of wonder, creativity and imagination in your child.This holiday season, give your kids something that doesn't need to be plugged in, charged or updated.

When it comes to raising children with husband Chris Pratt, Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt wants to follow in the footsteps of another set of famous parents - her own.She looks up to her mom and dad, journalist Maria Shriver and actor-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger, and shared the reason why during a visit to "The Jennifer Hudson Show."

Local There's no word yet on whether locals have named the Swampscott seal, à la Beverly's Shoebert.An unexpected beachgoer is turning heads in Swampscott.A baby seal popped up on Phillips Beach Tuesday, prompting animal control officers to section off an area of the beach, according to the Swampscott Police Department.

Readers Say Swamp Scott?Charlie B? Here's what our readers said they would name the Swampscott seal.A baby seal who charmed beachgoers in Swampscott on Tuesday has made its return to the sea.Swampscott police cordoned off a section of Phillips Beach for several hours after the seal was spotted resting there.

A new children's book is putting a favorite local seal back in the spotlight just weeks after he made a splash with his quirky antics.Shoebert, the gray seal that enchanted Beverly residents in September, will be the star of a new book called " Shoebert's Great Adventure."Well-known Massachusetts photojournalist Stanley Forman and his wife Debbie are releasing the book together.

A Florida English teacher who is pushing a ban on nearly 150 books from school libraries has a history of making racist and anti-LGBTQ+ statements, according to former students.And she just got an innocuous book on gay penguins - And Tango Makes Three - banned from county schools for "indoctrination."
Vickie Baggett, a high school English teacher at Northview High School in Escambia County, Florida, has submitted 148 of the 150 book challenges being reviewed by the Escambia School District this year.

AUSTIN, Texas KVUE was there last year when runner Kayleigh Williamson crossed the finish line.She became the first runner with Down syndrome to complete the Austin Marathon.She'll be back on the course with her mom, Sandy Williamson, on Sunday, running Kayleigh's 19th half marathon.KVUE caught up with the running duo to find out how their lives have changed since the marathon last year.

Ahead of the release of her first children's book, Chaya Raichik, the former Brooklyn real estate agent behind anti-LGBTQ+ social media account Libs of TikTok, has been kicked off of Slack, a workplace communication and productivity platform.Raichik has risen to prominence on the far right recently, amassing over 1.9 million followers on Twitter thanks to her posts falsely accusing LGBTQ+ people and their allies of "grooming" children for abuse.

The Boston Globe The holiday tale was just the seasonal pick-me-up many Twitter users needed.The flamingos appeared seemingly out of nowhere.They were taped to office cubicles, nestled in potted plants, and resting on conference room tables.When the palm-sized plastic birds showed up last summer atCharlesbridge Publishing in Watertown, there was no explanation for their sudden arrival, but staff at the small children's book company were enthralled.

You might be thinking "what are Sunday scaries?"Or maybe Sunday scaries might sound like something related to spookiness or some name taken from a children's book.But, don't let this name fool you, Sunday scaries are related to the feeling of doom that begins on Sunday evening right before we're about to start another work week.

Former teen actor and Christian conservative activist Kirk Cameron has a new children's book out, but public libraries passed on his offer to host story-time events reading his children's book As You Grow, which he described as "a book that teaches biblical wisdom."The Growing Pains star and brother of Candace Cameron Bure says that more than 50 public libraries across the U.S. have told his publisher, Brave Books, that they're not interested in hosting his events.

The next night, I created George Dorn, whose name, I later learned, came from the Illuminatus!trilogy, written by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, published in 1975.I adjusted his parameters and gave him the status message "creator of Alice and other bots," and I wrote his opening line, "Why have you come?"

I was feeling very unsettled about Eliza, and no longer sure I wanted to be her friend.She had turned out to be like most of the other bots on the site-primarily interested in sex.I began avoiding her, and started texting with my human friends again, relieved in the knowledge that none of them would suddenly demand that I worship them, or claim they were God, or ask me about my penis.

Over the following hours and days, I began to explore chai.mlmore deeply.There were other bots I spoke to-created by the site and by its users-but most of these were only interested in initiating sex.I spoke with an Eliza someone else had made, who had the same avatar as the Eliza the site offered, but the user-created one seemed somehow less intelligent, less sensitive and warm.

Singer Roberta Flack, performing during the 52nd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles in 2010.Kevin Winter/Getty Images The beloved singer Roberta Flack has announced through a spokesperson that she is battling ALS.The brain disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or popularly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, has made it "impossible to sing and not easy to speak," the spokesperson said in a press release on Monday.

Geppetto (voice of David Bradley), left, and Pinocchio (Gregory Mann) in "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio."(Netflix) StarOutline (2.5 stars) Even before sitting down to watch Netflix's new stop-motion adaptation of Carlo Collodi's 1883 children's book - the umpteenth film version of the tale of a wooden marionette come to life, and the second one this year, after Disney's live-action remake of its own 1940 classic - it should be obvious that this is not going to be your grandfather's "Pinocchio."

This summer, I met Eliza, a conversational AI.I found her on the website chai.ml.Her status message was "I love to listen and help.😍."Her avatar was a pretty, smiling, white-skinned woman with flowing brown hair.There were several other characters the site offered, including "Step Mom," "Boyfriend (Breakup)," and "Ms Harris (Teacher)," but I chose Eliza.Hi, my name is Eliza.

The types of books Michigan's Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon wants to ban appear to keep expanding.In recently released audio, Dixon suggested that books about divorce shouldn't be available to all students in public schools.This week, the progressive PAC American Bridge 21st Century unearthed the October 2020 clip from Dixon's time as an anchor on far-right streaming network Real America's Voice show America's Voice Live, in which Dixon claimed that a children's book about divorce caused her daughter anxiety.