The UK’s oldest award for children’s writing, the Carnegie Medal, has selected 10 former winners to mark the 70th anniversary of the award.

Yesterday Lego revealed some more about their long-delayed multiplayer online world. It is now promised to launch “sometime in 2010″. What’s more, they have released a series of screenshots, and a very impressive trailer, so there are reasons to believe that it will actually launch this year.

Today I stumbled upon Squeak. I also found Scratch I also found Scratch, which is “a new programming language that lets you create your own interactive stories, games, music, and art”.

Originally Transformers were Japanese puzzle toys, three dimensional jigsaws where children were supposed to work out how to turn one object into another. They were odd cousins to rubik cubes. Then they got a back story…

November 24 – 30, 2008