Hilltown Families

Ramona and Beezus at Greenfield Garden Cinemas A Red Carpet Fundraiser Greenfield, MA Saturday, July 24th @ 6pm Hilltown Families and the Community Coalition for Teens (CCT) have partnered up to...

Food, Inc.: Discover What “Big Agriculture” Doesn’t Want Farmers to Tell You Tomorrow, Monday June 29, at 7:00pm at the Amherst Cinema there will be a special screening of Food, Inc....

SUGGEST AN EVENT If you have a family-friendly event or educational program happening in Western Massachusetts that you’d like to let us know about, post your event on our “Suggest An...

Treasury of 25 Storybook Classic: Dinosaurs, Trucks, Monsters and more! DVD 4-Disc Collection Scholastic/Weston Woods debuts two new DVD collections in their Storybook Treasures series this month, aimed to appeal to...

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood New Documentary Film Premiering in Northampton (2009) “The consumer embryo begins to develop during the first year of existence.  Children begin their consumer journey in...

Leni Fried of Cummington, MA writes: The Bagshare Project is ramping up. I’ve been researching a movement called PBF. This stands for Plastic Bag Free. The first town to do this,...

Books, Movies & TV Shows with a Green Message Common Sense Media has compiled a list of “green” books, movies and TV shows, just in time for Earth Day: Best Green...

Earth Day on BrainPop Earth Day falls on April 22 this year, but BrainPop is celebrating our home planet all month with a free mini-site showcasing movies about the environment and...

THE SHOPOCALYPSE IS UPON US … WHO WILL BE $AVED? There’s a new documentary film out that I’d like to catch, What Would Jesus Buy, produced by Morgan Spurlock (the same...

Have Toy, See Movie? Not This One. Your little kids want Transformers. How could they not? According to The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, no fewer than 129 different Transformers tie-in...

Moviemaking Program Can Raise a Girls’ Self-Esteem New research by Mount Holyoke professors has found increased self-esteem in adolescent females who participated in improvisational moviemaking designed to build confidence and character...

Meet the Robinsons Gives Negative Adoption Messages By Vicki Peterson, E.D. of External Affairs Wide Horizons For Children We feel that it is important to warn you about a Disney movie...