The six middle-grade books and series on this list span different eras, but all of them offer a sense of warmth and nostalgia ...

Excerpted from The Art of Governance, autobiography of MDD Peiris) This concludes some of the main events of the first two decades of my life. But this autobiographical interlude would not be complete ...

Sri Lankan children in Bahrain launch a compilation of short stories “Api Hayai – Katha Godai” News - Newswire ...

A special Children’s Day programme organised by Sirasa TV was held aboard SLNS Vijayabahu and SLNS Gajabahu at the port of Colombo on, 3 October 2026, marking World Children’s Day.

A live-action Mary Poppins TV series is in development, but it will not retell Disney's 1964 film. Instead, Deadline reports that the project will draw from P. L. Travers' eight original books. In the ...

At the Lyric, Gary McCann’s set design positions Hazel and Robin’s cottage bang-slap inside a giant industrial concrete tunnel. It’s visually striking but signals that their existence is an unusually ...

"Over the past seven years, StudioCanal has invested close to $29 million into the 4K restoration of nearly 1,000 classic feature films," the Canal+ unit says. By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor ...

There is an image from Ethel Turner’s 1894 Australian children’s classic novel, Seven Little Australians, that has stayed with me for more than 50 years. Judy Woolcot, third of the seven children, in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chris Walter/Getty Images Acting-wise, country music icon Dolly Parton, who passed away in August 2026, was best known for films ...

Storm Boy, Colin Thiele’s much-loved classic, has never been out of print. Its iconic 1976 film version, with David Gulpilil as Fingerbone, turns 50 this year – and it has long been hailed one of ...

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The film is based on a series of classic children's books by British author Enid Blyton. "I knew of 'The Magic Faraway Tree,' but I hadn't read them as a child," says Foy. "And so I came to this ...