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In high school, a teammate on my track team told me about the big oak tree in his backyard when he was growing up. One day, his older brother climbed way up into its branches and then called for him to come over. Happy that his bigger brother wanted to include him in the activity, [...]

Great groups have shaped our world, from the gathering of young geniuses at Los Alamos who unleashed the atom, to the youthful scientists and hackers who invented a computer that was personal as well as powerful. That should hardly surprise us. In a society as complex and technologically sophisticated as ours, the most urgent projects [...]

An Illustrated Guide is a review site of notable picture books. For almost a decade we have collected a library of offbeat, fantastical illustrated children’s books and now we enjoy reading them to (and protecting them from!) our two pre-school-age daughters. The books reviewed here are our personal favourites because, as Thumper says, “If you [...]

Businesses find they can’t grow without branding – The Washington Post. By V. Dion Haynes, Published: July 31 “These days consumers are driving the public perception of companies, offering their sometimes not-so-flattering reviews of products and services through blogs, Web sites and social media. Companies are responding to the public’s demand for transparency; in this era [...]

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Leo Cullum, a cartoonist whose droll images of dog doctors, businessmen in sombreros and lions in therapy helped define the style of The New Yorker magazine in recent decades, has died, his brother said Monday night. Thomas Cullum told The Associated Press that Leo Cullum died of cancer Saturday in Malibu, five years after he [...]

Due to the influx of all the new players in the publishing industry and all the new platforms for publishing, even the most established publishing houses, have to adapt. Ultimately, the quality of the children’s book will continue to determine its success – however, it seems that the consumer may be taking over the Editors spot, at center stage.