MANILA (XINHUA) – More than one million children in the Philippines have yet received a single dose of routine vaccine, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said yesterday. UNICEF said nearly 1.5 million Filipino children have yet to receive or complete their polio vaccine, making 67 provinces in the country at high risk for polio […]
UTHAI SAWAN, THAILAND (AP) – Grief-stricken families prayed yesterday morning at a Buddhist temple filled with children’s keepsakes, flowers and photos of the smiling toddlers who were slain as they napped on blankets at a daycare centre in northeastern Thailand. Coffins containing the 36 killed, 24 of them children and most of them preschoolers, were […]
Alicia Rancilio AP – One of Netflix’s most popular children’s series, CoComelon, a giggly, musical series with repetitive lyrics, dropped a new special on Monday, providing many parents, like Arinze Odira, of Windsor, Ontario, a reprieve. “I had a lot of stuff I wanted to do and my wife was sleeping,” explained Odira, whose daughter, […]
LONDON (AP) – A nine-year-old girl was killed on Monday night in northwestern England when a gunman fired three shots at a man who forced his way into her home as he sought refuge from the attacker, police said. Olivia Pratt-Korbel died at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool shortly after the shooting, which occurred […]
NEW YORK (AP) – Children’s author Angeline Boulley will soon return her many readers to the world of her prize-winning debut novel Firekeeper’s Daughter. Henry Holt Books for Young Readers announced that Boulley’s Warrior Girl Unearthed will come out in May 2023. Like its predecessor, Warrior Girl Unearthed will be set in an Ojibwe community, […]