Feature stories
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Zoo’s baby panda dies
Week-old cub was probably a girl, zoo officials say.
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I spy ... barn art
Quilt squares decorating barns become a scavenger hunt from a simpler time.
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Trick-or-treat hall of fame
KidsPost’s homemade costume contest kicks off.
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Latest KidsPost stories
- A safe leap
- Zoo’s baby panda dies
- Trick-or-treat hall of fame
- The barn quilts of Garrett County
- Barns make fine frames for quilt squares
- Rock festival enlivens Smithsonian
- ‘Lone Bean’ tackles third grade
- Which player helps a team the most?
- First day of school, again, in Chicago
- ‘Sherman’s Lagoon’ gets serious
Parents won’t object to these comics
From learning grammar to drawing comic book characters, these graphic-novel-themed books pack a superhero punch.
- ‘Lone Bean’ tackles third grade
- Parents won’t object to these comics
- Girls + math > Girls - math
- Author doesn’t want to really scare kids
- Making a list
- Welcome back, Captain Underpants
- Dav’s faves
- Books tell back-to-school stories
- KidsPost Summer of Reading: ‘Absolutely Normal Chaos’
- KidsPost Summer of Reading: ‘Daisy Dawson on the Farm’
Drawing up a storm
KidsPost weather art
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A showcase of daily weather art illustrations from KidsPost readers.
The Score by Fred Bowen
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Which player helps a team the most?
Key players who are great at their position can make a huge difference.
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For football players, honor may be curse
Calvin Johnson of the Detroit Lions is the latest player to test the idea of the “Madden Curse.”
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Redskins preview: RGIII and hope for the best
Redskins hope Griffin has a good rookie year, but the team also needs help from many other players.
Games & Puzzles
I spy ... barn art
Quilt squares decorating barns become a scavenger hunt from a simpler time.
- Kids design $150 bill
- Paralympians display hearts of champions
- Summer of KidsPost
- White House hosts kids ‘state dinner’
- National Zoo cheetahs on display
- Baby crocs surprise, delight at zoo
- Tiger cubs get puppy love
- Two male lions leaving National Zoo
- Toys, apps to make time fly
- ‘Hunger Games’ puts archery in the bull’s-eye
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