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All the papers have been raving about the new Wallace & Gromit movie. For myself, I wasn’t so convinced. The three short films were wonderful, but a full-length feature seemed to be pushing the concept. True, the animation was great, and there are some brilliant details. Yet I’m not sure it had any real emotional [...]

Do you want to get the kids the new Sony PSPthis Christmas? Or would you rather have the re-vamped Nintendo DS? Nintendo is making a big push with its electronic puppies, and the software is pretty impressive. Anyone coming under heavy pressure from the kids to get a dog may well conclude than a hundred [...]

For anyone who hasn’t yet sampled Horrid Henry, then Horrid Henry’s Wicked Ways is as good a place to start as any. Henry is up to all his usual tricks in this compedium of stories. He tricks his friends, drives his Mum and Dad crazy, plays around at school, and never misses a chance to [...]

Many parents will feel an understandable shiver at news that yet another Barbie DVD has just been released – and just before Christmas as well. Actually, however, The Magic of Pegaus is pretty good. It’s a nice simple tale, with good music, and a return to form for the seriies after the slightly wierd Fairytopia. For [...]

The only person I’ve ever come across who didn’t like Pooh, was Dorothy Parker. As “Constant Reader”, she reviewed “The House at Pooh Corner” in 1928 and famously concluded, “And it is that word “hummy,” my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader Fwowed up.” The [...]

Everyone else is publishing their picks of the year, so we felt Bertie should have his say as well. Even better, tell us what you thought were the best DVD’s. books, games, or toys for children this year. Of the films this year, plenty were over-rated. Wallace & Gromit did not quite live up to [...]

Shocking news. Disney is banishing Christopher Robin from its new series of Pooh. Even the Bear of Little Brain will take second billing in the new series, to be called, “My Friends Tigger and Pooh.” Christopher Robin will be replaced by a Tom-Boy girl. “We got raised eyebrows, even in-house, but the feeling was that [...]

A Norwegian company called Easybits has developed a verison of Skype for children. You download the software, and they can chat away to their friends, and play online games. I haven’t tried it yet, but everyone at Storynory is very interested in free software for children, so if anyone has given it a go, let [...]

“As to whether there are really any fairies or not, that is a difficult question. Professor Huxley thinks there are none. The Editor never saw any himself, but he knows several people who have seen them — in the Highlands — and heard their music.” Andrew Lang, preface to The Yellow Fairy Book. Andrew Lang [...]

King Kong has returned to the big screen this Christmas. I probably won’t go to see him in his latest computer-generated incarnation – unless Storynory readers can recommend that I do. For me, the one and true King is the original 1933 version. The plot takes its robust structure from a fairy tale – Beauty [...]