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Reading in Wonderland: Devoted Review

2015-01-22T18:32:00.001-08:00

Reading in Wonderland: Devoted Review: Devoted (Angel Academy #1) by Emery Skye Read: PDF from author 386 pages Publishing: Lemon Press Publishing 7/26/2014 Genre: Romance, Fa...

Christmas Pumpkin, A Children's Book by Lynn Hubbard

2014-12-23T21:31:00.001-08:00

Chosen By You Book Club: Blog Tour Spotlight - Devoted by Emery Skye

2014-10-08T20:33:00.001-07:00

Chosen By You Book Club: Blog Tour Spotlight - Devoted by Emery Skye: Devoted Angel Academy Volume 1 by Emery Skye Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Publisher: LemonPress Publishiing Date of Publ...

Free E Books, reading and bonding with your child.

2014-02-19T21:47:00.002-08:00

In today’s market finding free is good. What is even better is letting that free bring you and your child(ren) together. Let's face it, we have moved into the "electronic age" where devices, like the kindle, are becoming a necessity in school settings and our kids are getting use to electronic reading. You can buy a used kindle for $100 or up to $380 for a new one but is it worth the price to invest in?

Absolutely!

What if I told you there is a place where you can choose from over one million e books for FREE!

Imagine reading with your child, how happy they are that you have set aside time for them. You are initiating critical thinking, expanding their attention span, opening up their imagination and most importantly- bonding with each other.

Oh yes, and aside from the cost of the kindle if you do not have one, let's not forget- reading books for free!

Free is a great way to start, to help ignite the passion of reading in your child.

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What's not to like about that?

The Defiant Fox: The Inner workings of Highschool

2013-08-17T09:36:00.001-07:00

The Defiant Fox: The Inner workings of Highschool: So far this is my second year in Highschool and my last one as I have finally made it to my Senior year. I was home schooled prior to joinin...

$260 Children's Book Giveaway

2012-05-03T13:10:00.000-07:00

Barron's Educational Series is teaming up with Blog it Forward to bring you an amazing promotion!They are giving away $260 worth of children's books!Barron's is known for their test prep books (SAT, ACT, AP, GRE, etc.). They are also a major publisher of children's books with hundreds of books in their inventory.View their online children's catalog.Hold on tight, here's the HUGE list of books they're giving away!The Awesome Activity Adventure BookKow Kapow and the Bonsai Kid are two silly cartoon animals who go off on a series of wild and wacky adventures to find the Monkey Nut of Moo! As their madcap escapade unfolds, kids are provided with puzzles to solve, pictures to draw, riddles to answer, mazes to find their way out of, a treasure map to decipher, and a creepy castle to explore. Boys and girls are also encouraged to READ MORE.The Dragon Creativity BookLittle boys love stories about dragons, and here's an activity book designed to keep them busy with dragon-related activities. They can create uniquely fearsome dragon heads, count dragons, eggs hidden in dragon illustrations, read dragon maps as they play dragon games, and generally enjoy hours of dragon-hunting fun. This big book features READ MORE.Emily's Ice Dancing ShowThis magical picture book tells the story of Emily, a little girl who watches graceful skaters on an icy pond and wishes she could skate with them. She gathers her courage and gives ice skating a try, but quickly finds out how difficult it is. She struggles and wobbles, and finally loses her balance and has a fall. But Emily doesn't give up. Read More.EyePad 123Available in June 2012Preschool boys and girls will have fun learning basic skills and concepts with this eyePad, solving puzzles, and playing games, while they pretend they're working on a tablet computer that looks just like Moms or Dads. Barron's eyePad Activity Books for younger children have features that READ MORE.EyePad ABCAvailable in June 2012

Preschool boys and girls will have fun learning basic skills and concepts with this eyePad, solving puzzles, and playing games, while they pretend they're working on a tablet computer that looks just like Moms or Dads. READ MORE

EYEPAD ANIMAL FACES TO COLOR

Available in June 2012

EYEPAD FUN WITH TIME

Available in June 2012

Preschool boys and girls will have fun learning basic skills and concepts with this eyePad, solving puzzles, and playing games, while they pretend they?re working on a tablet computer that looks just like Moms or Dads. Barron's eyePad Activity Books for younger children have features that READ MORE.

EYEPAD AMAZING GAMES & PUZZLES

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EYEPAD SHAPES AND SIZES

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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF YOUR BODY

Detailed, scientifically accurate color illustrations are complemented with a lively text that explains the many ways a typical healthy child's body functions at different times of a typical day. The book's narrative depicts a child waking up in the morning, eating breakfast and digesting food, using the body's muscles to ride a bike, and performing the many normal activities that make up a child's READ MORE.

Where's the Meerkat?

A meerkat family is on a round-the-world vacation trip, and kids who open this book are challenged to locate those roaming animals in a series of large, colorful, detail-packed street scenes. The meerkats' travels take them to Moscow's Red Square and New York's Times Square. The friendly but elusive creatures also show up in Venice at carnival time, at a floating farmer's market in Bangkok READ MORE.

The Wheels on The Bus

Kids can sing along with this book's funny animal characters as they turn each page. The big, colorful illustrations that fill every page present a Wheels on the Bus verse, while more and more animals climb aboard for a bus ride. The weight of those many animals finally flattens the bus's tires and it takes big puffs from the elephant's trunk to READ MORE.

The Kid's Summer Fun Book

Cheerfully illustrated and designed to inspire family fun, The Kids Summer Fun Book deserves a place in every family's home library. Parents will find ideas to recapture their childhood as they join with their kids in dozens of fun-to-do summer activities. Ideas include summer beach parties with a sand castle building theme, hiking and camping READ MORE.

Sophie's Ballet Show

This delightful story about a little girl who joins a ballet class comes with big color illustrations and all kinds of interactive features on every page. There are tabs to pull, flaps to lift, wheels to turn, and a wonderful pop-up ballet scene on the book's final two-page spread. When kids pull the READ MORE.

The Princess Creativity Book

Certain to please every little princess who enjoys crafts and activities, this big, fun-packed book has pictures to color, sticker sheets for decorating a gate, folding sticker scene, stencils for drawing, decorated paper for fashioning crafts items, mazes and puzzles to solve, directions for making a princess crown, princess games to play with friends, and much more. Every little girl wants to be a princess READ MORE.

Off To School

Younger children who will soon be starting school will see this attractive board book as their introduction to an exciting new experience. It presents bright illustrations and simple text that sum up a typically happy school day. READ MORE.

Let's Lace

Toddlers will enjoy learning how to lace up and tie their own shoes when they get help from Mom or Dad and this color illustrated board book. The vivid front cover is really a double cover that opens from spines on both sides of the book. The left-side front cover is decorated with a large, eye-catching READ MORE.

Left Hand, Right Hand

In this newly formatted version of a popular children's title, preschool boys and girls discover how their left and right hands are different, and how together they perform different tasks. Kids also learn to tell left from right as ways of giving READ MORE.

HOW THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WORKS

A fine classroom supplement and a solid information source for kids writing social studies reports, this updated, easy-to-read book explains the federal system as it works in the United States today. It also discusses some ways in which the government has changed since the framers of the Constitution brought it into existence in the 18th century. Described are the Legislative body, composed of Senate and READ MORE.

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND OTHER COOL FACTS

Young readers will be fascinated by attention-catching facts as they read about major presidential campaigns, from George Washington's election in 1789 to Barack Obama's victory in 2008. Questions answered include: Who can run for president? ... Who can vote? ... What is the Electoral College? ... What is a third-party candidate? READ MORE.

THE U. S. CONSTITUTION AND YOU

Written in terms kids can understand, this revised and updated book explains what the United States Constitution does, and describes how it affects and protects people today. Boys and girls discover how that great document gives citizens many rights, including the right to vote, as well as to enjoy freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom to worship or not worship READ MORE.

TEACH ME TO DO IT MYSELF

Based on the key Montessori principle that children learn best through active experience, Teach Me to Do It Myself presents simple activities through which children explore and develop their skills. These skill areas include sensory perceptions, body coordination, language, understanding of numbers, and movement. This practical, color-illustrated parenting book is filled with activities and instructions for READ MORE.

PUSS IN BOOTS

he very popular cat from the animated Shrek film series comes vividly alive in this brand-new book. Scheduled for publication this Fall to coincide with the release of the latest Shrek spin-off movie, Puss in Boots, it's the story of a quick-witted, feline - the pet of Peter, a good-natured but shiftless orphan boy. As the story begins, Peter's father, READ MORE.

LEAVE ME ALONE

Help raise awareness at home or at school with this important story about stopping bullying. A little boy is feeling sad because every day he has to face a bully. But this story's little boy also has friends. A frog, a cat, a rabbit, a cow, and other animal friends insist on helping him, even after READ MORE.

THE FASHION TWEEN CREATIVITY BOOK

Little girls who love pretty clothes and all the fashion items that go with them will adore this activity book. It's packed with pages to color, puzzles to solve, quizzes, mazes, and games to play. Girls can color in a model's hair, draw their own fantasy wardrobe, design pretty fashion accessories, and let their imaginations run free, as they discover something new to create on every page. Attractive features include READ MORE.

THE PIRATE CREATIVITY BOOK

Here's an activity book to keep kids entertained during quiet times. Its theme is pirates and their high-seas adventures, and it's packed with pictures, fun things to make and do, and puzzles and mazes to solve. Kids will find Pictures to color. Two sticker sheets plus a large gate, folding sticker scene. A pirate theme stencil sheet. Decorated craft paper with pirate designs. READ MORE.

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One A Day Y.A.: NYSC: List: Top 10 Reads of 2011

2012-01-06T07:53:00.000-08:00

One A Day Y.A.: NYSC: List: Top 10 Reads of 2011: Here are my Top 10 young adult reads of 2011. I've just made a simple list. Click on the book title to read my full review. Please feel fre...

Trixie Belden Lives!

2012-01-01T08:26:00.001-08:00

Oval Edition Cover

Growing up I was bed bound much of the time with Asthma. Some days I barely had the energy to hold my book up to read. Not being able to run around outside with the other kids, I had my own friend. Trixie Belden.

Trixie, a girl sleuth, gave me the chance to escape and be brave and healthy. Written in 1948 by Julie Campbell, Trixie was brought to life along with her annoying brothers and devoted friends. Kathryn Kenny took over and the series ended in 1986.

Trixie Belden is a set of Mystery Books written for girls, many compare her to Nancy Drew or the Hardy boys series. There are 39 in all and I am tickled to have them all. I have even begun a quest to acquire first editions of each one. Hey, it's my vice, some people smoke, drink, or whatever. I collect Trixie Belden books.

New Trixie Cover

I was thrilled when Random House began reprinting them in 2003. I was dismayed to see what they did to Trixie on the cover. They glamorized her. In the series, Trixie was a “sturdy girl” with freckles and short curly hair that frizzed when it was humid. She was not perfect. No one is. Except, perhaps Nancy Drew, but we’re not talking about her.

Nevertheless, the stories are the same. Trixie takes you to places around the country you could never dream of seeing. However, thanks to Trixie I have been there. As have millions of other young girls who love to read.

The modern Trixie is even available as an ebook. That’s fine for some but I’m gonna go read my faded dog eared copies on the self.

Original Trixie Cover

So if you know Trixie, leave a comment. Let’s make everyone say “Nancy who?”

2011-12-28T18:07:00.000-08:00

Interview with YA Author Melissa Smith

What inspires you?
My imagination. My dreams. My kids. I am a wife and mother that simply loves the written word. All the places you get to visit by simply separating some pages. The people you get to live through and love. All the adventures you get to have. The worlds you get to visit and travel.

How long have you been writing?
I've been writing off and on since I was in High school but started writing professionally a little over a year ago.

How many books have you written?
I have three that are currently available with a short story in an anthology that should be out by October 2011. Then I'm working on a novella and another paranormal romance that should be ready to go by late November!

What are the names of your books?
Cloud Nine and Thunderhead are a part of the Guardians of Man series; The Heir Apparent is from the Waiting Throne series

I was looking through Heir Apparent and I love the maps. How difficult was it to create a map from your fantasies?
It was really easy! I could see what the land looked like in my mind so drawing it out was just putting pencil to paper.

Who is your favorite character and why?
So far, I would have to say its Ariana from Cloud Nine. She's just so much fun. The kind of friend you want to have, always.

Who is your target audience?
Everybody who loves a good love story!
I'm teen friendly so everyone can read it.

Is there anything else you want people to know about you or your books?
I just want people to take the chance and open one of my books. I know they'll end up loving them just as much as I loved creating them!

How can your fans contact you?
Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/Melissa.Smith.Books

Twitter
https://twitter.com/Melissa__Smith_

My blog
http://melissasmithbooks.wordpress.com

My website
http://melissasmithbooks.zoomshare.com/

Thank you for your time Melissa and I wish you the best of luck!

2011-12-23T04:16:00.000-08:00

Interview with Author Julia Crane:

I am thrilled to have fantasy

Author Julia Crane with us today!

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When did you first consider yourself a writer?

Honestly, it still surprises me. It’s something I always dreamed of as a child.

What inspired you to write your first book?

My family has strong Irish roots, and my grandmother often told tales that involved elves. I also took a lot of inspiration from my teen daughter and her friends.

Tell me about your book series.

Coexist is a tale of elves and destiny, the struggle between light and dark, and the consequences of war. The sequel, Conflicted, is Keegan's battle to recover her lost identity after the events of the first book, while Rourk struggles to survive without her.

What are you currently working on?

I’m currently working on Consumed the third book in Keegan’s Chronicles. I’m also working on a short story for a Christmas anthology. I have many projects in mind it’s just finding the time to get to them.

Do you have to travel much concerning your book(s)?

I’m lucky living in Dubai it’s pretty cheap to travel. We have visited many countries and I love to incorporate the locations into my books.

Who designed the covers?

I got extremely lucky with the covers. I found Kadri Umbleja on deviantart.com. I can't speak highly enough about her skills. I told her about the book and in minutes she came up with the idea for the design. I had as much say as I wanted, but I didn't need it because what she came up with was perfect. Christine DeMaio-Rice found the perfect font to pull it all together.

What is your favorite scene in the book?

I really enjoyed the scenes in Conflicted between Thaddeus and Anna. It was fun to see their personalities come out more.

Do you have anything specific that you want to say to your readers?

Thank You!! I know there are countless books out there. I am honored that you would take your time to read mine.

www.juliacraneauthor.com

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