For a book that engages your little one and helps to give you some much-needed bonding time, pick up Fanatical About Frogs by Owen Davey. Available in hardcover or paperback, this is the perfect book ...

An endangered species of frog named after Charles Darwin has been saved from extinction - thanks to the London Zoo. A deadly fungus was threatening to wipe out Darwin’s frog in its native Chile. But a ...

The next time you declare that you are “freezing to death,” spare a thought for the wood frog who gets so cold in winter that its heart stops beating – but it does not die. Once the spring thaw ...

The App Store has a number of (free) educational apps, and kids will be psyched about the iPad's games and augmented reality capabilities. There's even an AR frog dissection, if you want to ...

Seán Farrell’s tremendous debut novel is set in the late 1980s in Co Meath, but save for a few grounding details – mentions of Chernobyl and New Kids on the Block, trips to Trim and Kilmessan ...

To curate this list, he dives into Netflix’s catalogue every month to surface family-friendly titles both kids and adults can enjoy — using his taste and a lifetime of cinema study as his ...

We present an extract from Frogs For Watchdogs, the debut novel by Seán Farrell. After years of moving from place to place, a young family finds shelter in an isolated house in the Irish countryside.

Seán Farrell, author of Frogs for Watchdogs, on how writing is reading, re-writing, re-reading . . . Frogs for Watchdogs grew out of doodling. I was frustrated with the restrictions that are ...

Detecting how much toxin has been produced would be invaluable information for a frog to have, which could also potentially explain why they have so many bitter receptors on their skin ...

Encourage children to love science by showing them the world in miniature with some of the best microscopes for kids — here are our favorite models. The best microscopes for kids allow children ...