There was once a little girl named Alizabeth. She lived up in the mountains where there was snow and woods with her mother and father and her older brother John. Alizabeth always walked to school by herself every morning. One morning when she was walking to school, she tripped and fell. She looked up and [...]
“Chessie, look what I found.” I was lying on the rug in my room, watching the rainbow that my mirror makes on the floor at the same time every day. I was wishing that it weren’t Thursday, and that Mom wasn’t at the hairdresser, and that I could be at Beth’s working on my history [...]
This whole thing started two days before Halloween. I was biking home from my paper route when I heard this terrible howling. AAAAAAAAAHHHOOOOOOOOO! I slammed on the brakes and skidded to a stop. This was definitely NOT a dog howling. It was a weird sound that rose and fell in the twilight. It made the [...]
According to the American Obesity Association, about 30% of children ages 6 to 11 are overweight and 15.5% are obese.’Hie latest data from the Center tor Disease Contn)l reports that the number of children considered overweight lias tripled since-19H(). Hiere’s a growing demand for plus-size children s apparel, and according to a recent report from [...]
The 7–11 market has never been more attractive; British children in this age group are estimated to have a personal disposable income (pocket money, gifts, odd jobs) of around $2.7 billion and their US counterparts $20 billion. They influence family purchases to the tune of ?30 billion in the UK and $300 billion in the [...]