NewsBites for Kidz™ June 29 –
Take a Bite ~ Friends Will Call You Bright!
This is what kids all over the world did this week:
Roddy Hogg talks to kids who are Dicing
with Death: Scotland
Children enjoy the sounds of Oz: U.K.
Jonny “The
Crawfish Killer” Schultz.-Casting Kid:
Kellie Knows Her Terrapin: Kentucky, U.S.A.
Wages of Harry Potter:
Kids Stretch Dollars: Arizona, U.S.A.
The New Prince of Ayodhya , U.P.,
The Rainbow of Kids : Dubai, U.A.E.
Ashley Gearing sings to the heart: Massachusetts,
U.S.A.
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-A North Korean girl looks out of a bus after arriving in
Iraqi girls speak, in broken English, with Cpt. Mark Miller Karbala
Thursday, July 3, 2003.
Romanian children cool
off in a fountain in downtown Bucharest, Romania, Thursday July 3, 2003.
Pakistani children jump from a boat into the
Indus River to beat the heat in Sukkur, 480 km (300 miles) from
Picking
them up : Two girls living in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanun
collect clothes they had left to dry on a fallen tree in their property.
Palestinian children swim in the Mediterranean Sea, Gaza
City, Thursday July 3, 2003
Held up in his parents
arms, a young boy looks in on a three-inch long baby green sea turtle swimming
in his aquarium at Sea World, in
Girls with painted faces react
Two young boys watch a bagpiper play the
Scottish Lament during a Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate, in
http://hoovnews.hoovers.com/fp.asp?layout=displaynews&doc_id=NR20030705670.4_43300025fd07883b
BY ROBERT Dunbar,
Allan Ahlberg’s The Cat Who Got Carried Away (
As the opening sentence of Sandra Saer’s The Giant and the
Mouse (SMH Books) reminds us, it may not be easy to ‘imagine a giant and
a mouse living together’ - but once we have suspended our disbelief we should
soon find ourselves absorbed in a gentle fable about the gentlest of giants and
the mouse who shares his kneesock-shaped home.
Dick King-Smith’s Clever Lollipop (
Gillian Cross’s The Tree House (
Adele Geras’s Goodbye, Tommy Blue (Macmillan) is a splendidly
atmospheric ghost story for beginners, involving a young girl’s discovery of a
ghost boy in the house to which she has just moved and her subsequent
understanding of his connection with the old lady living next door.
With Megan McDonald’s Judy Moody Predicts the Future
(
When we leave Danny
Allbright at the end of Jean
Ure’s Dazzling Danny (Collins), it is not totally clear if his
particular future will lie in the world of dance but it is certainly the case
that he has overcome his own prejudices about it not being a proper pursuit for
boys, even less for one with athletic parents.
The Lion Storyteller Bedtime Book, Bob Hartman’s
anthology of ‘world folk tales especially for reading aloud’ (Lion). Offering
some 40 ‘tales’ from a wide diversity of localities, this will serve as an
excellent introduction to the full-length fictions which lie ahead for the
‘newly independent’ reader.
http://www.thisisnorthscotland.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=84106&command=displayContent&sourceNode=83936&contentPK=6260553
DICING WITH DEATH
FIONA MACLEOD
The Evening Express spotted
a string of youngsters risking their necks on the route yesterday morning.
One lad came within feet of
a truck as he crossed the road.
Grampian Police are taking
action by warning new pupils about to start at the school after the summer holidays.
First year pupils starting
at Hazlehead in the new term will also be visited by a drama group who will
address road safety choices.
Called The Nine Lives of
Roddy Hogg, the play has been specially created for the age group and will be
performed by the Baldy Bane Theatre Company.
Grampian Police senior road
safety officer Leslie Harrold described the play as being in language pupils
can relate to.
He said: “The play addresses
the reasons why youngsters are taking risks and not using the crossings.
“We are trying to make them
think about why they do it. Is it to save time or is it because it isn’t seen
as cool to use the crossing?”
http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/content_objectid=13145934_method=full_siteid=50060_headline=-Children-enjoy-the-sounds-of-Oz-name_page.html
Children enjoy the sounds of Oz
By The
Children at the New Mill
school learned to play the instrument during a special creative week based on
Australian and Aborigine culture.
Head teacher Chris Wood said
the children had been learning about Australian culture, history and wildlife.
During the week children
also enjoyed storytelling based on traditional Aborigine folklore, drama and
mask-making.
The week ended with an
exhibition of children’s work and the chance for parents to buy pictures.
http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/wdhlocal/279844950159654.shtml
Jonny “The Crawfish Killer”
Schultz.
Casting
kid hopes to reel in national title
Steve Hannah, Columnist, Daily
Herald
[Photo courtesy Mi-West Bass
magazine]
EST BEND, Wa, U.S.A., Jul 5-
Jonny Schultz is a champion and, like so many of the great ones, he would much
rather be doing what he’s famous for than talking about it. 
In his own way, he makes
this abundantly clear to me shortly after our interview commenced at the Jansen
family pond last Wednesday morning.
The two-time
“Aren’t you enjoying this
interview?” I ask him, cleverly, when it’s obvious that the champ would prefer
a root canal to this idle chit-chat.
“No,” sighs Jonny, who
became the youngest state casting champion in Wisconsin history when he took
his first title in 2002, then repeated earlier this year. “I mean, there’s my
fishing rod and there’s the pond with the fish and, well, we’re not fishing,
are we?”
Touche. On the other hand,
since he is 4-feet 6-inches and all of 8 years old, while I am considerably
taller and older by a multiple of more than six - I choose to ignore the kid’s
discomfort.
Incidentally, the
“CastingKids” competition is sponsored by the Bassmasters professional fishing
league. In virtually every state in the union, Bassmasters holds a casting
tournament for kids in two age groups - 7-10, where Jonny reigns supreme, and
11-14.
“I don’t get nervous. The
thing I like best about these tournaments is the pressure.”
“I dislike sitting around. I
don’t like the waiting. I’m impatient like that.” “Do you think you could teach
me?” I ask.
“Sure,” says Jonny, who is a
much happier champion when he is in motion.
He shows me the flip, the
pitch and, finally, the cast. At one point, Jonny asks, “Have you ever actually
held a fishing rod in your hand before?” Jonny Schultz is a serious competitor
and, as I’ve personally learned, he does not suffer bad casting gladly. On the
other hand, turns out that beneath that titanium exterior beats the heart of a
sweet, 8-year-old boy. He senses that he might have overestimated my
resilience.
“You’re better than some
I’ve seen,” he says, removing the rod from my hand. “There was one TV guy that
was a lot worse than you. I know you could be good at this. All you need is
practice.”
This year’s state
championship, in fact, came down to a “castoff” between Jonny and another kid.
They got one cast at the target, which is sort of a big dartboard with a
bullseye surrounded by circles that have different points attached.The winner
and still champion: Jonny “The Crawfish Killer” Schultz.
http://www.bgdailynews.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?/200307/05+terrapins20030705_news.html+20030705+news
Kellie Knows Her Terrapin: Kentucky, U.S.A.
Terrapins
– not turtles – race for bucks
By
Alicia Carmichael, Daily News
MORGANTOWN, KY, U.S.A. July
5 — The children were lined up behind the banana boxes, which were being filled
with their terrapins Friday.
It wouldn’t be long before
the big race began during the 23rd annual
Kellie Durbin, 3, was
excited.
“Daddy, let her see her
turtle real quick,” Kellie’s mom, Dawn Durbin, told her husband, Brad.
But before Brad could reach
into the box, Kellie had lifted her terrapin out from the mass of other
creatures preparing to race.
She knew it was hers because
it was carefully marked with stickers the Durbins had brought from home.
Kaylea Pharris, 6, was
petting her contestant.
“We found him on the (
Her tiny terrapin – at less
than two inches across his small shell, the smallest of the dozens to race –
was named Squirt, in honor of a turtle in the film “Finding Nemo.”
Mason Barks, 5, stood nearby
and looked perplexed.
“What box is my turtle in?”
he asked.
A few minutes later, he was
still looking.
“I can’t find my turtle,” he
said.
But soon enough, Mason had
found his racer, and seemed to be somewhat relieved as he stood next to his
sister, Courtney, 6.
The children watched
intently as the racing began on a circle in the middle of the ball field.
The race was won by the
terrapin belonging to 11-year-old Bryanda Neighbors.
Bryanda said she was pretty
excited with winning $15 in the championship, which she got to add to her $5
from winning an earlier heat.
It more than doubled her
savings.
“I’ve already got $15 from
other things,” she said. “I’ve saved it up, mainly.”
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030701/ts_afp/lifestyle_britain_film_030701172024
Wages of Harry Potter:
Children lose Harry Potter
wages to Scottish school
AFP
EDINBURGH, United Kingdom
Jul 1 - A school in Scotland has made
students who acted as extras in the next Harry Potter movie turn over their
earnings to the school fund, officials said.
Warner Brothers hired 14
children from Lochaber high school, in Fort William in the Scottish Highlands,
to appear in “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” due for release next
year.
They earned 35 pounds (50
euros, 58 dollars) a day for a four-day shoot, but under school rules their
earnings had to go straight into a fund used to pay for school activities.
“The school has a clear
policy that when pupils work during school time, and when a teacher goes on set
to school them, it is deemed to be work experience and we do not charge
employers for the use of pupils during school time,” local council spokesman
Gordon Fyfe told AFP.
There was no such rule for
young extras from another school where 22 students also hired as extras were
allowed to pocket their earnings by their headmaster.
Lochaber has an established relationship with
Warner Brothers, as its pupils have appeared in past Harry Potter films.
Click
on the picture to read more
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/tempe/articles/0705onthecheap05Z10.html
Kids learn to stretch their
dollars
Jul. 5- What’s a guy to do
when allowances don’t go very far on $50 video games and $500 motorized
scooters?
We asked three
Before Sean Dannenberg
decides to part with his cash, the computer-savvy 14-year-old said, “I look
online, read reviews, see how good it is . . . I want details on the good and
the bad, not just the good stuff.”
And you won’t find him
bidding on Gonzo’s gum. “I don’t shop on eBay,” he said, “I don’t trust it.”
Some youngsters don’t buy
online at all, Sean said, “because you have to use a credit card,” and that
involves parents. But although he has made a few online purchases with parental
help, Sean said he uses the Web mostly for product research.
“Something may be $2 cheaper
online, but after you pay postage, it’s not,” he said.
It helps to be on the good
side of parents, whom Sean said are usually willing to chauffeur him as he
compares prices. “That’s why I want a (motorized) scooter, so I can get there
on my own,” he said. Experience has taught him, “If it’s something simple, just
go to Target. They usually have it at the best price.”
Derek Marquez, 12, said he
and Sean joined forces recently to fortify their cash reserves. The two started
“Handy Boys,” a neighborhood yard service, and printed business cards to spread
the word. Their most unusual assignment? “A man paid us $5 to pull a weed,”
Marquez said.
“But it was a very big weed.
It looked like more than one and was about 5 feet tall,” Sean added.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/uncomp/articleshow?msid=60680
The New Prince of Ayodhya , U.P.,
Nine-yr-old’s reign as ‘Prince
of Ayodhya’
MANJARI MISHRA TIMES NEWS
NETWORK
LUCKNOW, U.P., India, JULY
05: This sanctum sanctorum of Lord Ram, built 75 years ago, is totally
non-controversial, easily accessible and, what is perhaps most intriguing,
houses a living deity.
Bibhuti Bhavan, a stone’s
throw from Ram Janmabhoomi complex, is a major draw for devotees who come from
far off places to have a sneak peek or tete- a- tete with the reigning ‘Prince
of Ayodhya’.
And the lord never fails to
oblige. Fawned over by two attendants who had just finished bathing and
dressing him, he looked a little tired the last Saturday afternoon. A beatific
smile, however, ironed out all traces of the journey, as he prepared himself to
bless a group of devotees from Muzaffarpur who lay prostrate before him.
Sujeet Kumar Pandey, the nine-year-old lad
from Dhanbad, anointed six months ago for the next three years, has surely
matured much beyond his years. “I have never heard him laugh aloud or giggle
like other children of his age ... a perfect specimen of restrained behaviour
much like the Maryada Purushottam,” says a proud Shringeriji, his personal
trainer-cum-tutor.
This retired Sanskrit professor from
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=91826
The Rainbow of Kids: Colour
Surprises begins at Airport Expo
By Mildred Fernandes, Staff
Reporter, Gulf Times
Dubai, U.A.E., July 4- A
rainbow of colourful national children danced and sang their way into the third
week of Dubai Summer Surprises last night, at the opening ceremony for Colour
Surprises at the Airport Expo centre.
Close to a hundred children
from four government schools enacted a mini-play about the origin of colours in
the world, with guest appearances by DSS mascot Modhesh, two dragons from the
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20030701/en_usatoday/5287094
Ashley
Gearing sings to the heart
12-year-old’s
song stirs charts, listeners’ hearts
Brian
Mansfield
When Can You Hear Me When I
Talk to You? made its debut on Billboard’s country singles chart June 8, Gearing
had been 12 for barely three weeks, which made her the youngest female singer
ever to have a country record on the charts. Her record, in which a child sings
to her dead father, nearly hit the chart without a record contract. Gearing’s
biological father died from a brain tumor when she was 9 months old, so she
identified closely with Can You Hear Me When I Talk to You?
“I didn’t really know him,”
Gearing says, “so (singing the song) makes me feel curious about what he was
like.”
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