Kids Reading Room

Kids' Reading Room: A caption accompanying the July 20 Kids' Reading Room said astronaut Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin was the first man to walk on the moon. Neil Armstrong was the first.

Fountain maker: An article in Business on Sunday about Mark Fuller said his project for the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas amounted to $2.7 million. His firm's contract was for $27 million. Kids' Reading Room: In the March 7 Kids' Reading Room, a review of the book "Friends" by Helme Heine appeared in Creativity Corner, a column of original writings by young readers. It should have appeared in Kids' Book Reviews. Classic Hollywood: The Classic Hollywood column in Wednesday's Calendar said that "The Goldbergs: The Ultimate Goldbergs" DVD set was available only on the Shout!

Starting this week, we are changing the order of the second and third pages of Section Gee! in order to put some distance between the Kids' Reading Room page and the advice columnists.

"Unicorns of Balinor" Mary Stanton Atalanta is a unicorn. She is a dreamspeaker. Atalanta is the color of the sky before moonrise. She is a soft blend of lavender, violet and shadowy grays. Arianna, sometimes called Ari, is the princess of Balinor. She has foster parents named Ann and Frank. Her horse is named Sunchaser, but he is mostly called Chase. He was a unicorn, but he lost his horn. Now he is a horse. Almost everything in the book happened to Ari. One problem that she faced is that Ann and Frank wanted to lease Chase to a girl named Lori to get money.

If you have questions for our experts, send them to Reading Page Editor, Los Angeles Times, Times Mirror Square, Los Angeles, 90053 or send e-mail to reading@latimes.com. For stories and activities, see the Kids' Reading Room in the Southern California Living section every Sunday through Friday.

THOUGH I am a childless senior citizen, I read the Kids' Reading Room page regularly. The thesis of last week's story was clear enough ["Boys Knitting? Awesome!," by Marjorie Flathers, May 1-5], but there is a corollary for an older audience. A boy (or man) knitting is a chick magnet. I learned that on many a flight some decades back, where pulling out a pair of knitting needles or a crochet hook attracted flight attendants (we called them "stewardesses" then) more quickly than pushing a call button.

Today The Times introduces a new comic, "Brevity," written and drawn by Los Angeles cartoonists Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rodd Perry. It runs at the top of this page. At the same time, "Pardon My Planet" moves to the next page and "Mutts" moves to the Kids' Reading Room page, replacing "Garfield."

As details of their work remained murky, two research teams Tuesday defended their plans to clone human beings in the face of growing concerns that the practice would lead to deformed or unhealthy babies. "I believe there is enough information today to proceed in human cloning. . . . It will be done. I am doing it," said Brigitte Boisselier, director of Clonaid, which claims to be the world's first human cloning company. A second team, led by an Italian fertility doctor and a Kentucky researcher, gave mixed signals on its own work.