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Fun Fact #1 Over 2000 years ago, Eratosthenes estimated the Earth's circumference and was accurate to ...

 Q: We're expecting to see lot of Sondheim in the song list. What do you think ...

 Broadway legend Mandy Patinkin returns to Auckland with globally in-demand opera baritone Nathan Gunn for a ...

Fun Fact #1 About 85% of people breathe out of only one nostril at a time. ...

The authorised biography of Brendan O'Carroll, based on extensive interviews with the hugely popular star of Mrs Brown's Boys.

Once upon a time, in a world not so different to ours, a little blue man decides to create a machine to control the weather. It all goes terribly wrong.

In this folk tale from India, a wily jackal tricks his best friend crane into catching 12 fish. He selfishly scoffs the lot then gobbles up crane as well.

In this funny, and somewhat surreal adventure story, a boy asks a bear to row him to the other side. They set off equipped with a suitcase, a ukulele, and a comic book.

When toddlers look outside and see the inky blackness, they might well imagine that night is nothing but a dark, empty and scary place.

This is an extract from Maeve's Times, a collection of Maeve Binchy's writing.