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...

We'll get to the root of Petey's problems. Why he's the villain, in every Dog Man book. Well, this time it's different. Petey's the good guy. We'll also meet his childhood friends, who want their revenge with a giant Robo-Brontosaurus. And Petey will fight back with the power of knock-knock jokes, in Flip-O-Rama. Will the power of good arise or will Petey stay his rotten old self?  This book is very funny. Something I always enjoy about Dog Man books is Lil Petey (he's my favourite character). He always does this thing where he says "why" after everything. Here's an example from the book.  Lil Petey is never mad or angry. He is always happy and innocent. He makes many jokes that are always HILARIOUS!   I also really love Flip-O-Rama scenes,  Dav Pilkey always has Flip-O-Rama's in his books. Flip-O-Rama is when you flip a page very quickly and it looks like it is animated. I think that anyone, any age would laugh and learn some...

Before Jory's stepfather Caleb came along they used to live in the city, just Jory and his mom. His mom worked in a crummy coffee shop. She had met Caleb there when he defended her. They moved to an old farmhouse. They had found Jory's little sister in the fields eating pumpkins. Ansel, Jory's little brother, was born there.  Jory Birch has no ordinary life. He has a life full of secrets, danger, silent sister and signs.  Now he had to go to school too. Jory had always been home schooled by his mother.  Kit was a secret. So were the signs. School was school and home was home. Jory couldn't let them mix. Friends were school and family was home.  Signs were anywhere and everywhere, Caleb - Jory's stepfather says. Signs. They could be anywhere. They could be anything. They mean everything. Red leaves in the springtime. Pages torn from a library book. All the fishes in an aquarium facing the same way. A cracked egg with twin yolks. All signs.  Caleb tol...

A piece of art that challenged you to think about an issue The woman who is pouring water onto the girls face looks indigenous or aboriginal to me. I think that the police or SWAT team harmed the woman laying on the ground. I think that these women are protesters, they might be protesting for land or water. Kent Monkman 'Washing Mary's Tears' A piece of art that reflected someone’s identity I think that the photographer has a passion for basketball. The piece is called ‘One of The Boys’. I think that this photographer stands up for women's rights or is a feminist. I honestly love this photograph. It shows someone in a dress and holding a basketball. I feel like it has a deeper meaning than just a really nice dress. It shows that girls can do things that are usually defined as “boy” things. Esmaa Mohamoud 'One of The Boys' A piece of art from an Indigenous artist and why that piece might be important A wolf means strength, courage and loy...

Gender is how society defines if your a boy or a girl. It’s different from being biologically male or female. But in the United States, it might soon mean the same. On Monday, October 22nd the Trump administration wants to change the definition of gender. Lots of people spoke out to this memo, including Diana Flynn who is one of the leaders at Lambda Legal. Lambda Legal is a group which fights for LGBTQ rights.  "For years, courts across the country have recognized that discriminating against someone because they are transgender is a form of sex discrimination," Flynn says. Many other people also spoke out at a news event. Mara Keisling, a leader of the National Center for Transgender Rights, spoke with many other activists. She says that she feels like she’s in danger because of this memo. There have been many other attacks on the transgender community. They have been refused from joining the army, donate blood and in some cases buy a cake. The government threw out a ...