Attention page folders, there’s a better way to mark your spot in a book. Sure, you can use a cheap bookmark, but why not try something more adventurous.

British designer Duncan Shotton has created a set of inventive sticky paper tabs let you create tiny landscapes on the top of your books. There are 10 themes, ranging from natural landscapes to outer space to cities like London, NYC and Tokyo. Here are a few of the coolest options:

Mars

New York

Nessie

Choose from the following sets:
Mars (aliens, galactic party rock and space buggies)
Sky (fluffy clouds and a juicy little rainbow)
Ocean (curly wurly waves, icebergs and a couple of (friendly) sharks)
Polar (icebergs, igloos, snow covered trees and penguins)
Desert (sand dunes, cacti and skulls)
Forest (pointy, bubbly and perfectly round trees, and tufts of grass)
London (skyline including big ben, the gherkin, St Paul’s cathedral, London eye, red buses, houses and tower-blocks)
New York (skyline including the chrysler building, the statue of liberty, the empire state (inc. king kong), yellow cabs, tower blocks and apartments)
Tokyo (skyline including Godzilla, Tokyo tower, tochoō, sky tree, thundergate, ‘mansions’ and tower blocks)
Hong Kong (skyline including the international finance centre, peak tower, bank of china building, boats and tower blocks)

Each marker type comes in a stack of 20 sheets.

Think you know what famed playwright William Shakespeare looked like? Traditionally, he’s been described as a slender man with dark hair that billowed down his shoulders and a carefully manicured mustache. The truth is, we have no idea. There’s never been a verifiable portrait of the writer.

Until now. Experts recently discovered what could be the only known portrait of William Shakespeare made in his lifetime. It shows Shakespeare at age 33, and is the only known verifiable portrait of the legendary writer.

How was it discovered it? In a 400-year-old botany book that contains an engraving on the title page of four famous figures — one of whom is supposedly Shakespeare.

Learn more at The Guardian.

The Maze Runner series by James Dashner was one of the most popular young adult novels of the last decade. The dystopian fantasy series followed the adventures of a group of kids called Gladers, led by the fearless Thomas. BL named The Maze Runner one of the 100 Best Books for Boys, too.

Since then, the bestselling series has been adapted into an equally successful film series. The second movie in the series, The Scorch Trials, hits theaters Sept. 18.

In the next chapter of the epic Maze Runner saga, Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD’s vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all.

The first trailer dropped today. Check it out below:

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak is a classic children’s book, and one of the most respected stories ever written.

In Sendak’s 1963 book, Max, a little boy in a wolf costume, is sent to bed without supper. So he sails on a boat to a faraway land where he tames the Wild Things, becomes their king, and leads them on a wild rumpus.

Mental Floss recently posted a cool list of Wild Things facts. Here’s a couple of them:

WHERE THE WILD HORSES ARE?

Sendak was working as a children’s book illustrator when editor Ursula Nordstrom (who also did Charlotte’s Web and Goodnight Moon) offered to let him write his own book. He came up with the title Where The Wild Horses Are, which Nordstrom thought was “so poetic and evocative,” according to Sendak. Then Sendak, who was a self-taught artist, discovered that he couldn’t draw horses. When he told Nordstrom his problem, she said in an icy tone, “Maurice, what can you draw?”

“Things,” he replied.

THE BOOK WAS ABOUT SENDAK’S CHILDHOOD

Sendak repeatedly said he didn’t try to write for children, he just tried to write about himself and people he knew. The books were a form of self-expression for him. Where The Wild Things Are was based on his experiences living as a child in Brooklyn with his hard-working father and emotionally unbalanced mother.

“That’s what art is. I mean, you don’t make up stories, you live your life,” he said, adding, “I was not Max. I did not have the courage that Max had, and I did not have the mother that Max had.”

Click here to see the rest of the list.

In the May 2015 issue of Boys’ Life magazine, we featured an incredible story about storm chaser Reed Timmer.

Want to learn more about Meteorology? Here are a few book options:

• Meteorologist (Cool Careers) by Geoffrey M. Horn. $10.50 softcover.
• National Geographic Kids Everything Weather: Facts, Photos, and Fun that Will Blow You Away by Kathy Furgang. $12.95 softcover.

Here are more cool meteorology links:

• Video of Timmer and the Dominator chasing down twisters
• For information about meteorology careers
• Learn more about hazardous weather safety rules
• Meteorologist (Cool Careers) by Geoffrey M. Horn
• Everything Weather by Elizabeth Carney