Animal Hide and Seek - A Must for Every Child's Bookshelf!

After The Farmyard Tales, Animal Hide and Seek is my favorite book to share with people who are purchasing a book for a small child.  This is the perfect gift for baby's first birthday!

Animal Hide and Seek incorporates the best of a board book, touchy feelie book and lift the flap book all into this oh so fun book for babies and toddlers.  Each page has a different sensory touch to it as well as a thick flap to lift.  This is an awesome book to introduce young children to flap books as the flaps are larger and thicker.  And, as the book is illustrated by Stephen Cartwright, it has his signature little yellow duck to find on each page!  Kids of all ages love to find the little yellow duck!

This is also a book the little ones will go back to over and over again.  And as your child becomes more mobile it will be a book that he or she will sit down with to look at and work with on their own.

At only $15.99, this book makes such a great gift and needs to be on every child's bookshelf.

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Fall is The Best Time To Start Your Usborne Books Business!

Did you know this time of year, the fall, is THE BEST time to start your Usborne Books business? Why? Because schools are starting and Christmas is coming! Usborne isn't just home shows and online marketing. We also can work with schools and preschools. And with Christmas coming, our books make fantastic gifts! 

Back in the fall of 2005 is when I started my Usborne Books business.  It was one of the best decisions I have ever made.  By immediately setting up my business kick off show to share these fine books with friends and families, and by calling a couple preschools to set up a few small book fairs - I had my business up and running in no time.  It was SO simple to get this business started.  There is also HUGE support from consultants, your upline(s) and especially the Usborne home office.  Having built a large, successful Usborne business, I will be there for you with whatever you need to help you build a successful business as well.

As a New Consultant you can earn a full refund of the price of your kit along with free books, cash, and Success Kits!  Success kits are fun surprise boxes full of books, supplies and other fun Usborne goodies.  It's so much fun to receive them!

How do you get your Usborne business started?  It's simple! Click JOIN.  Fill out the form and select which kit you want.  There are two kits to choose from (pictured below).  Each kit contains everything you need to get started, including books, supplies and even your own website!

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Looking forward to having you join my team to help spread literacy one book at a time!

*Of course if you have questions, please email me at kglasusb@yahoo.com.  We can converse via email or set up a time to chat over the phone.  Facebook users can also message me at www.facebook.com/UsborneActivities

It's Best Friend's Day!

It's Best Friends Day! What better book to share on this great day than A Friend by Anette Bley.  

"I wish I had a friend to play with on grey and rainy days. Someone to get in trouble with when I feel like playing tricks. Someone to dance and laugh with when I am happy. A friend who is quiet with me when I feel sad."

This is such an awesome book that teaches children about all the different friends they will have throughout life. It's a fantastic book for those children who are just setting out on their adventure of gathering friends and even for those who have had a life long venture with their friends.  It's such a happy and uplifting book!

"Friends are an important part of anybody’s life, and this book encourages children to see the importance of their friendships." Oneota Reading Journal (2010)

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Literacy Tip: Point Out Print

Literacy Tip ~ Point out print everywhere!

Talk about written words you see in the world around you and respond with interest to your child's questions about words. Ask him or her to find a new word every time you go on an outing. Street signs, billboards, license plates; words are all around us!

50 Things to Draw and Paint ~ One of Usborne Books Greatest Craft Books!

50 Things to Draw and Paint is such an awesome craft book!  It walks kids step by step through the process to either draw or paint what it on the page.  There are 50 different drawing and painting activities ranging from horse painting, fingerprint dinosaurs, wax resist fish to a watery picture.  These are activities that kids of all ages can do.  

One of the reasons why I love Usborne's art and activity books so much is that they are instilling some great art principals for my kids.  Each of them are developing a talent to draw.  My older son, who grew up with these fine books has developed an incredible drawing talent. So much so, that he is now studying art in high school and plans to pursue it more in college.  And where did he get his art foundations from? Usborne activity books!

This book, along with some paper, paint supplies and drawing utensils make a great gift!  I have these made up into gift baskets at my booth events and they are always the first to go!  Definitely makes for a different and useful gift.

Here is a Fairy Picture drawing my daughter made from this book:

And here is the page out of  50 Things to Draw and Paint that it came from:

So simple and fun!  This book has created hours of joy for my kids.  

Other books in this series include:  50 Rainy Day Activities, 50 Science Things to Make and Do, 50 Easter Things to Make and Do.

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Literacy Quotes

I don't know about you, but I love a good quote.  I post quotes around the house, in my car, I even have a Day Book that I have made specifically for all my beloved quotes.  I got that idea from Robert Kennedy.  He always carried a day book with him to put important quotes in.  You can tell a lot about a person by the quotes they cherish.

So what are your favorite quotes about reading?  Here are some of mine ...

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” ~ Carl Sagan


“As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!
~ Jan Karon

 “There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.” ~ Frank Serafini

"Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read." ~ Marilyn Jager Adams

"So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall." ~ Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

And my all time favorite reading quote:
 

"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents." ~ Emilie Buchwald

 

Usborne Activity Books for Kids

One of the top reasons I love Usborne Books so much is that they produce such a fun activity book series for the kids.  My kids have loved each and every one of the activity books from Usborne!  My daughter particularly likes the Sticker Dolly series and my son (who is now in high school) loved the drawing and craft books.

Usborne's activity book series range from games, sticker books, coloring books, how-to-draw books to even paper plane books.  I have not seen a single activity book by Usborne that hasn't been a hit!  I remember Peter Usborne himself stating at the Usborne Books & More 2011 Convention that Usborne came out with a line of coloring books because he knew Usborne could do them BETTER!  He's RIGHT!  I may be biased as I have been an independent consultant for almost eight years now, but children's enthusiam does not lie ... I see kids from all walks of life who LOVE these Usborne activities!

Take a look at Usborne's Activity Book collection yourself:  Uborne Activity Books
I'm sure you will find a wide array to satisfy the creative aspects of the children in your life.  

If you're children have used any Usborne Activity Books, I'd love for you to share their experience.