I have two toddlers at home. And the littler, at 18 months, is finally eager to sit through a book, or seven, if they engage her. She climbs up next to me on the couch while I drink my morning coffee, ...

Sixty-five million years after the Mesozoic, we entered a new dinosaur era: Barney. The green-bellied purple dinosaur modeled kindness in educational direct-to-video movies and a 1992-2010 PBS series, ...