Christmas Book of the Week

Today I have 50 Christmas Things to Make and Do. This inspiring book is bursting with fun, festive ideas for things to make and do in the weeks before Christmas.

Christmas Book of the Week

*NEW*

When I Love You At Christmas

Christmas time is giving time, baking time and singing time. But best of all, it's loving time!

Sharing the different ways families anticipate and celebrate Christmas - from wrapping presents to baking, decorating the tree to singing songs - When I Love You at Christmas reminds readers of what's most important during the holiday season: love.

Book of the Week

Wash Your Hands! Series: The Little Princess Author: Ross, Tony • Ages: 3 - 5 • Size of book: 8 x 8 inches • Pages: 24 • AR Level/Points: 2/0.5 • Earned the Learning Magazine Teacher's Choice Award • Earned the Parent's Choice Recommended Winner • Earned the Parents' Choice Recommended • Earned the Teachers' Choice Award Winner "Colorful germs and nasties enhance the pages without scaring young children. Useful and entertaining." - School Library Journal

Book of the Week- New Title

Do you have a wedding coming up, or is your daughter a flower girl? What a sweet gift for the little girls in the wedding party.

Weddings Coloring Book
with Stickers

16pp + 2 sticker pp

Paperback
$5.99

• Little girls will love bringing each wedding scene to life
  in this delightful coloring book.
• Pictures to color include the wedding cake, flowers, trying on wedding dresses, a garden wedding and an Indian wedding.

Book of the Week

Farmyard Tales Coloring Book

Ages 4 years and up

20pp + Stickers

Paperback

Usborne
$5.99

• Little children will love coloring in the characters from Apple Tree Farm, including Poppy and Sam, Woolly the sheep and all the other animals.
• Includes two pages of stickers to decorate the pages.
• With a little yellow duck to find in every picture.
• See inside this book!

Book of the Week

Easter Activities

This great book will keep children happily occupied during the weeks before Easter. It's packed full of exciting activities to make cards, pictures and presents. Bunny wrapping paper, potato-printed chicks and cress egg-heads are among the fun things to make. By following the really simple step-by-step instructions, even young children will be able to acheive some amazing results.

Book of the Week- New Title

Make a list of the signs of Spring with your kids - then take a walk and check off what you see. Seasons by Anne Crausaz is a wonderful picture book depicting the four seasons and how they are experienced through our five senses. Originally published in France. Ages 4-8.

"Exuding an overall serenity, the book should have children seeking out the sights, smells, and sounds of the passing seasons."

- Publishers Weekly (January 17, 2011)

Book of the Week

New for January 2011!

I lost my mobile at the mall

by Wendy Harmer

272pp

$16.99

Elly Pickering is dreading telling her parents that she's lost her mobile phone - again - what with the Global Financial crisis and everything. But losing her mobile is just the beginning. A series of technological happenings and manipulations leads Elly to question her priorities, her friendships, and Will, her fabulous - she thought - boyfriend. Is she facing certain social death? Or can a technological breakdown sometimes be kind of a good thing?

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Book of the Week

How Big Was a Dinosaur?

The Answer is on a Huge Poster inside!
by Anna Milbourne
Ages 3 yrs +
24pp

Pipkin is a little penguin who asks very BIG questions! Just how big was a dinosaur? As big as a car? As big as a house? This delightful picture book has the answers.

Pipkin meets all kinds of different dinosaurs: from little ones to big roaring ones with very big teeth!

• This fun book includes a huge fold-out poster, beautifully illustrated to show just how big a dinosaur was in comparison to little Pipkin.