Team races are also held ; in long track speed skating, the only team race at the highest level of competition is the team pursuit, though athletics-style relay races are held at children's competitions.

Lewis ' exploration of themes not usually present in children's literature, such as religion as well as the book's perceived treatment of issues including race and gender, has caused some controversy.

A 19th century children's book informs its readers that the Dutch people | Dutch were a very industrious race, and that China | Chinese children were very obedient to their parents ( implicitly, relative to the British people | British ).

A 19th century children's literature | children's book informs its readers that the Dutch people | Dutch are a very industrious race, and that China | Chinese children are very obedient to their parents.

The children's games include a decorated bike contest, lollipop scramble, ball on spoon race, leapfrog, wheelbarrow and sack races, and a water balloon toss.

The event draws crowds of 4, 000 and includes a children's race through the mud.

) is a popular children's construction project on wheels, usually pedaled, but also intended for a test race.

The Indiana State Tricycle Derby was first run in 1963 as a 10-lap race around the sidewalks of the Quadrangle on children's tricycles.

There is also a children's race, run by children from the local schools.

They were known for their 1940s experiments using dolls to study children's attitudes about race.

Originally litigated by NAACP lawyer Robert L. Carter, the Briggs case was notable for introducing into evidence the experiments of Kenneth and Mamie Clark, who used dolls to study children's attitudes about race.

For instance, as an alternative to the race week at Preston they organised a Sunday School children's parade and a " frugal feast ".

People hold annual kor-kor races in the lagoon at Majuro, along with events such as a children's riwut race.

Today a core volunteer committee of 30 work year-round planning a multitude of activities: the big Saturday parade, the kid's parade, the Newark Mile race, multi-stages of entertainment, arts & crafts booths, food and game booths, carnival, special theme areas, contests, children's activities, senior's dance and bingo.

Although Batroc felt no compunction about abducting children, upon learning Jakar's true nature and his intent to use the children's souls to revive his comatose race, he felt his " sense of honair " had been violated by the deception, and he again switched sides, aiding Captain America and the Falcon to rescue the children.

The mass race and children's competitions attract hundreds of participants each year.

* Nuclear weapons have even featured in children's works: The Butter Battle Book, by Dr. Seuss, deals with deterrence and the arms race.

The festival features fireworks, many types of traditional food, souvenir shops, ice cream stands, and a children's kayak race.

incidentally so-called " magic animal "- based " trilogy " of original character sets was going to be Disney's Fluppy Dogs ( which premiered only as an hour-long TV movie pilot on ABC on November 27, 1986 ), itself loosely based a series of children's books and line of toys about a race of anthropomorphic pastel-colored dimension-hopping alien ( fluppy ) dogs.

The HBO pay-per-view revenues from the race will go to four children's hospitals in: St. Louis, Dallas, North Carolina and Atlanta.

Despite his retirement, Carpentier stated in January 2012 that he would be willing to compete in the Montreal Nationwide Series race in 2012, to raise money for children's charities.

Dr. Brodie has 30-year records of head growth, started 20 minutes after children's births.

In addition to the interlibrary loan service and the children's program, headquarters has a public relations director who seeks to get wider grassroots support for quality library service in the county ; ;

* Barbara Younger has written a children's book about the writing of the song: Purple Mountain Majesties: The Story of Katharine Lee Bates and " America the Beautiful ".

Aberdour has a very popular yearly festival, which runs from late July to early August and features musical events, shows, sporting events and children's events.

The story has an interesting interpretive history ( see below ) and has become well-known through popular children's stories.

Charles has presented children's television programmes, including What's That Noise?

In 1922, Arvid Paulson and Clayton Edwards published a now-forgotten expurgated children's version printed under the title The Story of Don Quixote which has nevertheless recently been published on Project Gutenberg.

This has been found to be true, once the threshold has been breached, even if the potential economic value of the children's work has increased since their return to school.

The word has become more prevalent, and now features in children's literature, such as the Walter the Farting Dog series of children's books, Robert Munsch's Good Families Don't and The Gas We Pass by Shinta Cho.

In modern times, while the fable has been trivialized in children's books, it has also been fully adapted to modern adult literature.

His oldest son George survived a rare form of leukaemia as a baby in the early 1990s ; Lineker now supports children's cancer charity CLIC Sargent and has since appeared in adverts encouraging people to give blood as a result.

Its magnificence has impressed heads of state, and it has witnessed many different types of events, from formal civil ones to record launches, fashion shows, children's Christmas parties and private functions.

" God's custom has wisdom but human custom does not, and yet both humans and God are childish ( inexperienced ): " human opinions are children's toys " and " Eternity is a child moving counters in a game ; the kingly power is a child's.

The Afra Mall has a supermarket, retail outlets, coffee shops, a bowling alley, movie theaters, and a children's playground.

In children's literature, Maurice Sendak has said that this strip inspired his book In the Night Kitchen, and William Joyce included several elements from Little Nemo in his children's book Santa Calls, including appearances by Flip and the walking bed.

The approach has several features that make it unique: the models are implemented as computer programs, which enables clear-cut and quantitative predictions to be made ; they learn from naturalistic input, made of actual child-directed utterances ; they produce actual utterances, which can be compared with children's utterances ; and they have simulated phenomena in several languages, including English, Spanish, and German.

The Afra Mall has a supermarket, retail outlets, coffee shops, a bowling alley, movie theaters, and a children's playground.

He has written over 24 novels and numerous children's and non-fiction books.

Linearly arranged board games have been shown to improve children's spatial numerical understanding.

They also provide a popular form of recreation, and have been adapted for such uses as children's toys, adult fitness, military and police applications, courier services and bicycle racing.

* Kurtis Scaletta's 2009 children's novel, Mudville is about a town where it's been raining for 22 years, delaying a baseball game between two rival towns.

In Britain, there have since 2001 been created a number of fanzines pastiching children's comics of the 1970s and 1980s ( e. g. Solar Wind, Pony School, etc .).

Replicas of real things in a smaller scale go back to prehistoric times, as small clay " dolls " and other children's toys have been found near known population areas.

The elder Beatrice, in order to protect her children's inheritance, married Godfrey the Bearded, a cousin who had been Duke of Upper Lorraine before rebelling against the Emperor Henry III.

She assumed that children's songs were a peculiar form of coded historical narrative, propaganda or covert protest, and rarely considered that they could have been written simply for entertainment.

Many shows have been produced for youth and children's markets, including Deepwater Black and MythQuest.

* Argentina During the military dictatorship in the 1970s, a great number of children whose parents had been abducted and murdered by the Regime were given to adoptive parents who ignored or decided to hide those children's true identities.

Apple-giving in much of Canada, however, has been taboo since the 1960s when stories ( almost certainly apocryphal ) appeared of razors hidden inside Halloween apples ; parents began to check over their children's " loot " for safety before allowing them to eat it.

Flood has been certified platinum and their children's music album Here Come the ABCs has been certified gold.

There have been a small number of children's leagues.

In addition, Jon has stated that they are " in talks " regarding ensuring the children's happiness, and that there is no truth to any reports that the children have been hurt by the series.

Williams has been the Patron of the children's charity the Donna Louise Trust based in his home town of Stoke-on-Trent, for the last 8 years.

The report does address the question of why children's reading and writing ( especially for boys ) have not been meeting expectations.

The writing has been compared to that of Jane Austen, one of Rowling's favourite authors, of Roald Dahl, whose works dominated children's stories before the appearance of Harry Potter, and of the Ancient Greek story-teller Homer.

Many writers since the 1970s had been hailed as his successor, but none had attained anything near his popularity with children and, in a poll conducted shortly after the launch of Philosopher's Stone, seven of the ten most popular children's books were by Dahl, including the one in top place.

Although originally children's literature was often a re-writing of other forms, since the 1400s there has been much literature aimed specifically at children, often with a moral or religious message.

The product range has more recently been extended into children's toilet training phase with the introduction of training pants and pant diapers, which are now undergarments.