Why is Children’s Skiing Day to be held?

In conjunction with World Snow Day on Jan. 18, 15 ski resorts across China—from northwest Xinjiang to northeast Heilongjiang and to the southeast coastal provinces of Jiangsu and Zhe-jiang—will host Children’s Skiing Day for kids and their families to enjoy time on the slopes. Chinese organisers hope the event will help popularize snow sports in China and crank up support for Beijing’s bid for 2022 Winter Olympics.

Scottish writer All Smith’s inventive How to Be Both, which is divided into two parts, each starting with a different character, was named the winner in the novel category on Monday for Britain’s 2014 Costa Book Awards. The Costa Book Awards is the only major British book prize that is open solely to authors resident in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Smith’s novel will contend with four other books for the main Costa Book of the Year award, to be announced on Jan. 27.