Easter Books For Babies and Toddlers

I came across this Karen Katz book that is perfect for Easter. It is called Where Are Baby's Easter Eggs?.

It is a board book and the pages have flaps for our kids to lift. My first Karen Katz book was Where Is Baby's Belly Button? . My kids loved that book and I enjoyed reading that book to them. This Easter book is just as colorful and entertaining as all her other lift-the-flap books. Yes I admit, I'm a big fan of Karen Katz books.

Here are some other Easter themed books you might want to check out.

Co-Creator of Berenstain Bears Passes Away

Are you familiar with the children books called Berenstain Bears?

I have quite a few of these books at home and my children loves it. Jan and Stan Berenstain created those books and the stories teaches values in a wonderful way. Children read about how the Bear family deal with common family problems such as eating healthy, telling the truth, cleaning up your messy room, stopping bad habits like nail biting, sibling rivalry etc....

Well, the sad news is Jan Berenstain recently passed away last Friday at age 88. It is reported that she had a severe stroke. Her husband Stan passed away in 2005.

So, will there be anymore Berenstain Bear books?
Sure there will. Their children will continue to run the business. Their son Mike had been working with his mother as an illustrator. Another son Leo, is a writer and takes care of the business side of things.

Well, I hope they keep those books coming. It is a joy to read and has given me inspiration and ideas on how to handle certain parenting problems.

Rest In Peace Jan Berenstain! And many thanks for the wonderful stories.

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One of the best way to teach your children values is by reading stories that promote it. It is not nagging or a lecture. It doesn't attack them. They enjoy the stories and when you read it over and over again, the lesson will eventually stick in their head and heart.

Free Audio Stories For Kids

No time to read your children stories? Someone can do it for you: Storynory.
They have free audio stories for your kids to listen and enjoy. They publish a new story every week.

What kind of stories can you find?

• Fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, Aesop, Perrault and 1001 nights. A few examples are Snow White, Rumpelstiltskin, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, The Princess and the Pea, The Ugly Duckling, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Beauty and the Beast and many more.
  
• Tales and legends from around the world. Listen to stories like The 12 Dancing Princesses, The Blind Man's Daughter, My Lord Bag of Rice, The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor and lots more.
  
• There's also many original stories. Follow the stories of Bertie, who once was a prince but now is a frog that tells stories. Or you might enjoy the stories of Katie, an ordinary girl but with also a witch that can do magic spells.
  
• Not forgetting Classic Tales by Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling and Dickens.
  
• Educational stories e.g. Greek Myths, Knights of the Round Table, Tongue Twisters, Bible Stories.

So many stories to choose from. You can download them and play them in the car or on an iPod.
Make story telling time a part of your daily activity.
Happy Story Days to you and your children.

Cheap Children Books

Just to let you know that I saw some really cute books for toddlers over at BookCloseOuts.com. They have a brand new selection of books by Castle Street Press. The books are bright, easy to read and sure to captivate young children.

You'll find concept board books to help children with their ABCs, 123s and shapes. Non-fiction books on baby animals, farm words, transportation, tractors and trucks, spiders, bugs and insects, dinosaurs will improve your children's vocabulary and increase their knowledge.

There are also reference books such as "My First Picture Dictionary" and "My First Picture Encyclopedia".

If you prefer to indulge them in fiction books, check out classic tales such as Three Little Pigs, The Elves and the Shoemaker, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Gingerbread Fred and Little Mermaid., Sleeping Beauty and Three Billy Goats Gruff.

Hurry over and check out their vast collection of wonderful and cheap children books. Just click the affilate link below:

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p.s. I spotted Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox in their New Arrivals section. That is such a great story to tell the kids. I remember reading it to my kids and they sat through the entire reading without losing interest. That is some feat for my kids who always act like they have ants in their pants. Really good book, that's all I can say. Better click the affiliate link below to see if it is still available.

Clearance Sale!

There's a CLEARANCE SALE!
Where? Where?
At my bookshop-lah.

You see, I've decided to take a different direction with my Value Bookshop. So, no more selling children's books after this. I've marked down the books tremendously. This is the best time for you to stock up your home children's library. Really CHEAP! Oh, there are some parenting books as well. Not many, but they are there.

I realized I still have some books that I failed to post online. I'm currently working on getting that up. I'll be busy with this so you might see me MIA here for a while.

Please drop by and grab all these fun children's books before they are gone. Don't jusy buy toys for your children. Books are better investments.

Please help me spread the word to fellow parents. I'm trying to clear the books by the end of the year so act fast.

Mucho Gracias!
Click here to zap over to the CLEARANCE SALE now!

Book Review: It Could Have Been Worse

I love children books. I enjoy looking for books for my children to read, be it at a bookstore, book sale or library. And scouting for books have been even more interesting the day my children decided they wanted to choose their own books. This is where you see what sort of stuff they are interested in. For example, at one time K would look for books about going to the doctors. D still looks for dinosaur and dragon books. I usually go for whatever books with a good story line and captivating illustrations. Of course I also try to look out for books that have won awards or recommended by teachers.

Well, I've been wanting to blog on books that we've read and enjoyed. Now that blogger allows for labels, what better time to start. Keep track of our favorite books filed under the label "Children Books".

Let me start off with this book. It's called "IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE".
A little mouse is on his way home but he seems to have some bad luck falling off branches, dropping into a hole, sitting on some prickly stuff, falling into the water etc.... Sounds like a bad day right? Well, what the mouse doesn't know is that his bad luck was actually his good luck. You see, if he hadn't fallen off the branches, he would have been eaten by a cat. Or if he didn't fall into a hole, an eagle would have gotten him. So you see, it could have been worse.
This story isn't just for kids. It was a good one for me too. I had some bad luck that week with the car battery going dead several times and then having a punctured tyre. Well, as the book says, "it could have been worse".

Special Book Review Video: The Cat in the Hat

Ok, finally decided to make my boy's "show & tell" into a Special Book Review video for my bookstore instead. You can watch it here . Enjoy!