Kate Sequeira is the audience editor for the Los Angeles Times early childhood education initiative. She worked previously as a production specialist for The Times’ Reading by 9 literacy program.

Grundy County Land Use Director Heidi Miller shares the success of the December Toy Drive, and shares information on the events her department has coming up in 2025.

her attachment to the beloved stuffed toy could be due to its novelty, according to a November 2012 study conducted with Labrador retrievers. The study, published in Animal Cognition, said that ...

But firefighters aren’t always willing to ask for help. A spreadsheet allows families to describe stuffed animals they lost in the LA fires, and connect with volunteers who’ll try to replace them.

Sanrio's Pochacco is one cool pooch in a new Build-a-Bear collaboration, coming complete with adorable clothes for dunking hoops and scoring goals.

For a few brief evenings around February 28, every planet in our solar system will be visible at once, with Mercury making a cameo in the planetary parade which is running all this month and next.

Such an event is commonly known as a "planet parade," though NASA noted that the moniker is not a technical astronomical term. What is a planet parade, and what will be visible? Planet parades are ...

That means the Sun and the "Red Planet" are directly opposite from each other with Earth in the middle. According to NASA, this is around the time when the planet is closest to Earth, making it ...

“Every comic creator has their own personal white whale — that singular property they’ve been itching to make their mark on — and for more than a decade Captain Planet has been mine ...

Toys sold for less than £15 accounted for nearly ... Falls since 2021 high The Squishmallows Plush 8" Assortment, which typically sells for about £8.50, retained its position as the top-selling ...

Alice Gibbs is a Newsweek Senior Internet Trends & Culture Reporter based in the U.K. For the last two years she has specialized in viral trends and internet news, with a particular focus on ...

Also known as a planet parade, six planets will line up in a row across the night sky from about 21 January. Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will be visible to the naked eye and Neptune and Uranus ...