Get the Usborne Books Business Builder Kit for Half Price in January 2010 - Only $99 to Get Started!

What better way to start off a new decade and a new year than with a NEW business! If you are looking for a way to make extra money, a new career, or just something fun to do in your spare time - consider becoming an Usborne Books and More consultant. This is a rewarding business that lets you help spread literacy in your own community with award winning books that children LOVE to read.

I've always known this, but this year I've learned first hand how this business transforms as your life transforms. That is the glory of this business! It changes for you as your own family and life circumstances change. We homeschool our children, and it was because I loved the books so much that I started dabbling with Usborne. Actually it was my son that liked the books so much, that I had to get him more of them. Luckily I've been slowly building a strong Usborne books business over the past 4 years. Even though I homeschool, I am able to fit Usborne into our family schedule quite nicely. In Nov. when my husband was laid off, we were fortunate that I have this great business. It sure kept our anxiety down, and I have the opportunity to keep our family afloat!

What do you do as an Usborne consultant? There's a whole lot of different things you can do. You can do as many or as few of what I am about to tell you below:

-You can help families earn FREE books for their kids by doing in-home book shows (like a Tupperware party or Pampered Chef party, but with children's books).

-You can help schools and organizations earn FREE books and cash by doing Usborne book fairs for them.

-You can help schools and organization get FREE books with Usborne's 50% matching grant program, Literacy for a Lifetime.

-You can help get kids excited about reading with, Reach for the Stars, Usborne's reading incentive program.

-You can build a nice web business online or add to your online business. Your January Half Price Starter Kit includes your own website so people can order online.

-You can promote Usborne Books out in your community at local festivals, fairs, and trade shows.

-You can sell to schools and libraries and help teachers and media specialists make informed decisions on books for their classrooms and libraries.

-You can build a team of people who are excited about promoting literacy and make a HUGE impact on the children in your community.

The sky is the limit with Usborne. Take a look at the Usborne Books business opportunity. For only $99.00 plus shipping and tax, you can get the full Usborne Books Business Builder Kit. You get 31 books, all the supplies you need to get started - order forms, flyers, catalogs, etc., great training and support from the Usborne home office, and your own website so people can order on line. Oh! And you get me as your supervisor, who will help you ever step of the way to build your own successful Usborne Books and More business.

Questions? Email me at kriste@usborneactivities.com.

Looking forward to having you on my team of Usborne Success Builders!

Kristie Glascock

Executive Supervisor

Usborne Books and More

What Do You Call A Crate Full Of Ducks? Hundreds of Silly Jokes by Usborne Books Will Keep Kids Giggling With Good, Clean Fun!

A box of quakers! That's what you call a crate full of ducks.

You can find this and hundreds of other silly jokes in Usborne's box of Hundreds of Silly Jokes. What I love about this is the jokes are good, clean fun for the kids. The way jokes were when we were kids. My kids love them because they are just plain silly! It's nice to see them get the pack out when their friends come over. They all pick out their own cards and start telling jokes, and then you can hear them giggling away in the other room. Again, the way kids should be.

At just 9.99 these cards make a great gift for that hard to buy for kid, or you can even use the cards individually in birthday party goody bags.

"What do you find in the middle of Japan?"

The letter "p". Ha!

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MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM USBORNE ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS!

Conspiracy 365 Series Gets Kids Excited About Reading!

Twelve exciting books in twelve exciting months. This is what the Conspiracy 365 series brings to readers aged 11 - 15, and even above that age range. If you are looking for something to get teenage boys and even teenage girls interested in reading this series will definitely work for you! I know. I have an 11 year old boy who is a fantastic reader, yet has no interest in reading on his own. As soon as I got this book in, he couldn't put it down. If fact he and his dad were even fighting over it!

Conspiracy 365 is an action packed story that takes Callum Ormond on a major adventure for an entire year (hence the 365 - it takes place over 365 days). Each book takes place over a specific month. The book is broken down into days and different times of the day, so there aren't long chapters to read. The page numbers also go backwards. That's the first thing my son noticed about the book. He thought that was so cool! "It tells you how many pages you have left to read!", he said. That's pretty important information for boys his age.

So many kids are excited about this series! I love it because it got my boy, who didn't like to read chapter books to read them!

Read the first chapter of the first book.

Don't blink. Don't forget to breath.

Save! With Usborne Books Black Friday Sale - Thanksgiving Day - Mon., Nov. 30th

Get the BEST deal of the year on the BEST children's books in the world! Usborne Books Black Friday Sale begins at noon (CST) on Thanksgiving Day and runs til noon (CST) on Monday, November 30th. You can preview the sale here. Make sure you stop back while the sale is running to get these great deals!

Usborne Books Make Great Gifts For Christmas! That's Not My Reindeer and Tha'ts Not My Angel Make a Great Gift for Infants and Toddlers.

Kids love books! So what better gift to get them than Usborne Books! Usborne Books has created some great holiday gift sets. Whether you are looking for gifts or even just fun books and activities for you kids to have and do during the holidays, these sets are aimed to please!

Baby's First Christmas Set will make the new little tyke in your life very happy. Geared towards kids 2 and under, these books will delight even the youngest in that age group. The touchy-feely books are great for the little one's to touch all the different textures. They will keep themselves entertained for quite some time with them. They make great books for the restaurant bag. Christmas Lullabies is a beautiful book which includes a soothing CD to help get baby to bed. Christmas Baby Jigsaw is a first puzzle book. It has both touchy feely elements AND each page has a two-piece puzzle. It makes a great introduciton to puzzles! For just $27.99 , you can't go wrong. Purchasing these books as a set saves you $17.93!

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Christopher Columbus for Kids - Usborne's In-Depth Biographies Gets Kids Interested in Hisotry

Who knew an 8 year old girl could become mesmerized by Christopher Columbus. That's exactly what happened when my daughter read Usborne's Christopher Columbus for school last week. Now she can't wait til Columbus Day, which is Oct. 12th this year. She has all sorts of activities planned along with a special Italian dinner that she plans to cook for us that evening.

I just asked my daughter why she likes this book so much. She said "Because it's cool." "Why is it cool?", I asked her. "Because it tells you about somebody back in the olden days.", she said. Kids love history, and if you make it fun for them they love it even more. They also retain the information even more. I have learned more about Christopher Columbus from my daughter this week, than I remember learning in school when I was a kid.

What sets this book apart is the way the information is presented. It has 8 short chapters and is 64 pages long. The book begins with Columbus' childhood. Rarely is his childhood presented in books for kids. The book also has vibrant illustrations, and some of them have dialogue in them. The kids love to read the dialogue among the characters in the book. The book contains colorful maps and shows exactly where the ships The Nina, The Pinta, and the Santa Maria went. It also has maps of Columbus' other voyages. Did you know his crew got stuck on an island and he had to go back to Spain for help? The writing in this book also keeps the kids on the edge of their seat, so that when they get to the end of a chapter they want to continue on until they finish the book.

Another neat thing is Usborne's Christopher Columbus is Internet-Linked! What an extra treat! What does Internet-Linked mean, you ask? That means if you go to www.usborne-quicklinks.com you will be directed to all sorts of kid approved sights based solely on the topic in that book. My daughter just ate dinner with Christopher Columbus and earned herself some fish. Yum!

Other biographies by Usborne Books are Alexander the Great, Cleopatra, William Shakespeare, Leonardo DaVinci, Captain Cook, Florence Nightingale, Anne Frank, Winston Churchill, and Martin Luther King, Jr. They are all just as exciting as Christopher Columbus, and kids will become just as enthralled with these historical figures.

If you would like to purchase multiple copies of any of these biographies for your classroom or school, please email me at kristie@usborneactivities.com for a price quote. If you have grant or donation funds, you can utilite Usborne's Literacy for a Lifetime Program and receive a 50% match of FREE books with your purchase. Contact me at kristie@usborneactivities.com for more information on Usborne's Literacy for a Lifetime Program.

I am so thrilled to watch first-hand how Usborne books impact children's lives.

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