MIMIS CAFE Generous portions in a calm atmosphere Hands down, Mimis has the best kids activity and coloring sheet of any restaurant my family has visited. Between the word scrambles, math games and hidden picture challenges, I had to insist my daughters look up from the fun long enough to decide what they wanted to [...]

The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore has made room for two rather large additions to its family. Visitors can meet Tuffy, a 23-year-old male elephant, and Lil’ Felix, a 24-year-old female, when the zoo reopens after its winter hiatus this month. The new elephants will join zoo fixtures Anna and Dolly in the elephant habitat. “We [...]

It’s every children’s writers dream to win the John Newbery Medal, according to Laura Amy Schlitz, but she never expected to actually win it. And then the Towson resident got the call. “When the telephone rang and those dear librarians on the committee told me I’d won the Newbery Medal, I was dumbfounded,” said Schlitz. [...]

Do you have fond memories of playing at Enchanted Forest as a child? More importantly, do you have photographs you’re willing to share? Martha Clark, owner of Clark’s Elioak Farm in Ellicott City — which acquired many of the pieces from the now defunct amusement park — is assembling a photo and memory album of [...]

A KidsHealth KidsPoll of 1,154 children ages 9 to 13 found that participants claimed to worry “a lot” about these top eight subjects: Schoolwork or grades 40 percent Making mistakes 35 percent Friends and their problems 33 percent The future 33 percent Health of a loved one 31 percent Looks or appearance 26 percent War [...]

Comic daredevil Bellow will take center stage at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s “Bellobration” circus March 12 to 23 at 1st Mariner Arena in Baltimore. “Bellobration” is an interactive and high-energy circus that will include Asian elephants, royal Bengal and exotic white tigers, acrobats, trapeze artistes and, of course, Bello — a clown known [...]