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Greenland offers grim take on how humanity will respond to a comet impact Space 17/12/2020 Elizabeth Howell © Provided by Space Morena Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd and Gerard Butler as seen in a still from the movie "Greenland." Watch out: Spoilers ahead for "Greenland." If a threatening comet was bearing down on Earth with no hope of deflection, what would happen next? The Hollywood film "Greenland," which will premiere on video on demand on Dec. 18, looks at the effects of ...

High Rise Mystery series, which updates the children’s detective genre for our times. Children’s literature has a long relationship with the uncanny. My very favourite 2020 book was a little bit Addams Family, and a little bit metaphysical. The Monsters of Rookhaven (Macmillan) by Pádraig Kenny imagined a village where the resident monsters keep to themselves in exchange for what scarce meat the villagers can tithe to them in wartime. When a human girl and her injured brother accidental...

on social media Ss Covid-19 tightened its grip in March, forcing schools, bookshops, and libraries to close, so the children’s book world responded in characteristically generous style, producing an explosion of free online content to educate, entertain and support children and families. Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler created a series of Covid-related cartoons featuring beloved characters (“The Gruffalos stayed in the Gruffalo cave’”) and children’s laureate Cressida C...