Komal's Kool Korner

Some people say that blue is for boys, and pink is for girls. But there's also a controversy about fast food toys.  When you order a Happy Meal, for example, they always ask you if you want a girl or boy toy. Many people think that this is wrong. Leslie Love is a Democrat from Detroit. She believes that this shouldn't happen. So, she proposed a resolution for a change in the restaurant business. "It's a new day, and it's time for us to stop using that kind of language," Love says, "We would never want to gender-identify careers, but we still do it with our toys.". The aim is to erase the separation between boy and girl toys. Fast food chains give action figures and cars for boys and teddy bears and little dolls to girls. The solution is to ask what toy children want. "This practice can influence and limit children's imaginations and interests by promoting some toys as only suitable for girls and others only for boys, " reads the

What will Greg Heffley do when it's a snow day? He'll have a neighbourhood snow battle, that's right. Greg Heffley lives on Surrey Street and it's quite different from your average neighbourhood. On Surrey Street, you're either a hill kid or a non-hill kid. Greg and the hill kids can't stand the non-hill kids. In the summer the kids at the bottom never let the hill kids play down there. But in the winter the tables are turned. The hill is amazing for sledding and all the non-hill kids want in. Upper Surrey Street ambushing lower Surrey Street kids If you really want to enjoy and understand this book you have to know your Wimpy. In this book, there are a lot of callbacks to things that happen in previous books. So, to understand this book read a couple of the older Wimpy Kid books.  So I really loved this book. In fact, I really love the entire series. I would recommend this book to ages 10-12. Something I would love to see is this book in movie for

Climate change is impacting the word. Kids are taking action against it. A postcard approximately 2,500 square meters  Kids across the world have expressed their concern about climate change by making the world's biggest postcard on a glacier in the Swiss Alps. Over 125,000 kids have put in work to make handwritten postcards to make one big postcard, the size of half a football field. The Aletsch Glacier is in trouble. It is melting and will be non-existent by the end of this century if carbon levels continue to grow the way they are right now and the glacier could lose 90% of its ice volume.  Aletsch Glacier The postcard has messages from kids to fight climate change and help the environment. From a birdseye view the postcard says "stop global warming" and "#1.5C". "#1.5C" means a hope to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius. Organisers are hoping to launch a "Global Climate Change Youth Movement" this month.  Visit