We’re hosting a photo contest on our Childrensbookstore.com Facebook page. Here’s How to Enter: Go to Facebook. Find the Childrensbookstore.com page. Just upload a photo of someone or something that is reading friendly (in good taste, of course). Our choice for best photo gets mailed a free book. We’ll message you via Facebook for your […]
The Artemis Fowl series, written by Eoin Colfer is coming to an end with the recent release of the last book, “Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian”. The science-fiction fantasy series follows the main character, Artemis Fowl II, known as a criminal mastermind at only twelve years old through eight books in a world wherein fairies, […]
Finding books that are both educational but still fun for the kids to read is a rather difficult task. It becomes even more difficult when they get older, about fourth or fifth grade. At that point, they’re way too old for the picture books that seem to teach morals even when you don’t want them […]
Well, the XXX Summer Olympics just finished up in London. Don’t pretend that you haven’t been watching them, because we know that you watched the US Men’s gymnastics team place fifth and the US Women’s gymnastics team take gold. We know that you cheered (loudly) when Missy Franklin won her first ever Olympic gold at […]
“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” – Victor Hugo Of course, Mr. Hugo was correct in that assessment. For what could be better than a mother’s arms wrapped around their child? Well, your child might have some other ideas, just ask any three-year-old and they will tell you–nighttime […]
“If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it’s pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.” “If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it’s pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.” It’s true, I am one […]
“It’s easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” Frederick Douglass Let’s face it. Not all of us grew up with rosy childhoods; some children never had the opportunities to share in memories of such idyllic lives, no long days of summer for them, of swimming with friends at the local swimming hole, or […]
What childhood is complete without embedded memories of bears and billy goats, of little red hens and lost sheep, of animal musicians and traveling to strange towns and places. What’s the common theme here? Easy, animals. If you haven’t noticed so far, the majority of children love animals. Why not bring those whimsical little tales […]
My kids were dancers, and we are a family of dancers. We boogied during dinner making, shook our stuff while getting ready in the mornings and had nightly living room dance parties. Nothing formal, mind you. If a danceable tune happend to be in play on the radio, we’d take the opportunity to make good […]
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke One of life’s most asked questions, I think, is, “Is magic real?” When children are young, most of us never hesitate to answer that of course it is real. How does Santa Claus get down the chimney without it or fly around the […]