Catagory Index: News
Category: News
Let's Talk About Me...
College students are more self-centered and narcassistic than ever, according to a new study released last week.
The authors of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory say that while these characteristics may help young people meet new people -- and shine on reality shows -- they can hurt their relationships with others.
What's to blame?
Send Us Your Questions
Ever wonder what you'd ask the big media executives if you had the opportunity? Now's your chance.
Common Sense Media, in association with the Aspen Institute, will be hosting a national conference on Feb. 5-6 to explore media's impact on kids.
ALA Announces Winning Books
David Wiesner's Flotsam won this year's Caldecott Medal yesterday, while the Newberry Medal went to Susan Patron's The Higher Power of Lucky. These are the two highest awards in children's literature, awarded by the American Library Association; the Caldecott is for picture books and the Newberry is for children's literature.
The ALA announced these awards, and several others, at its midwinter meeting in Seattle (click here for the complete list).
Prize-winning titles are likely to generate more interest -- and more sales. The picture books are pretty safe, but other books on the ALA's list feature references to drugs and sex (Small Steps) or deal with slavery and war, (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party).
How can you decide if any of this year's winners are right for your kids?
Technology -- and Hope -- Can Empower Kids to Save the Earth
Penguin Young Readers Group & Rodale will be co-publishing a young adult adaptation of Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth in April. It's subtitled “The Crisis Of Global Warming” and includes "kid-friendly" changes, photos galore, and fun new chapter titles like, “Denial Ain’t Just a River in Egypt.”
The "inconvenient truth" for Gore is that Generation M (media/millennials) need a huge dollop of HOPE upfront and some new media next steps if his tome’s going to fly with his intended 11 & up crew.
Common Sense News
Check out what the San Francisco Chronicle is saying about Common Sense Media -- right on the front page:
"Remaining nonpartisan is necessary to being relevant in this politically charged media culture, even if that requires Common Sense editors to sometimes check their Bay Area sensibilities about issues like homosexuality and progressive politics. But Common Sense's staff members haven't tamped down the tone of their 5,200 ratings, which are more snarky than schoolmarmish."
