Friday November 21, 2008
Children's Books: Sports & Activities
Displayed below are the top selling items for today, Friday November 21, 2008 along with the review customers have voted "most useful".
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- Fancy Nancy Loves! Loves!! Loves!!! (Fancy Nancy) by Jane O'connor
- Where Is Baby's Belly Button?
- New Junior Cookbook (Better Homes & Gardens Test Kitchen) by Better Homes and Gardens
- Knuffle Bunny : A Cautionary Tale (Bccb Blue Ribbon Picture Book Awards (Awards)) by Mo Willems
- Peek-A-Who? : Board book by Nina Laden
- Paula Deen's My First Cookbook by Paula Deen
- Paper Fashions : Design Your Own Styles (Klutz)
- Everything Kids' Cookbook : From Mac ' N Cheese to Double Chocolate Chip Cookies-All You Need to Have Some Finger Lickin' Fun (Everything Kids Series) by Sandra K. Nissenberg
- Encylopedia of Immaturity (Klutz) by Editors of Klutz
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Fancy Nancy Loves! Loves!! Loves!!! (Fancy Nancy)
by Jane O'connor
(based on 17 customer reviews)
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(Paperback)
Author: Jane O'connor
Publisher: HarperFestival
Price: $6.99
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Most useful review as voted by customers:
21 out of 22 people found the following review helpful.
Review Date: 12/1/07
A sticker book with nice art
If your girl loves Fancy Nancy, she'll love this sticker book. It includes more than five dozen stickers to place on six large scenes, which illustrate the exuberent girl preparing for and then hosting a tea party. Unlike some sticker books, this one works because the illustrator put as much care drawing the stickers as she did the backgrounds. Each one is a vibrant little watercolor, outlined in black. A nice extra touch: The words "Fancy Nancy" on the front cover have a sparklely texture, as do the little strings of pearls around its border.
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Where Is Baby's Belly Button?
(based on 178 customer reviews)
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(Board book)
Publisher: Little Simon
Price: $5.99
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Most useful review as voted by customers:
88 out of 89 people found the following review helpful.
Review Date: 10/9/01
Great fun for baby and parents!
This is a nice sturdy book with colorful drawings of babies with some part of their body hidden. Each page asks, "Where is baby's ...?" Toddlers delight in lifting the flaps to find the hidden pictures. The pictures are bright and cute with eye-catching fabric and wallpaper patterns. A very attractive book, and perfect for that stage when toddlers become fascinated with their belly buttons! My 17 month old has really enjoyed this book. It can be very helpful in getting kids to name body parts, and it's fun for both the baby and the parents to read. Highly recommended.
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New Junior Cookbook (Better Homes & Gardens Test Kitchen)
by Better Homes and Gardens (based on 41 customer reviews)
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(Spiral-bound)
Edition: 7
Author: Better Homes and Gardens
Publisher: Better Homes and Gardens
Price: $11.53
You save: $5.42 (32%) off the list price!
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Most useful review as voted by customers:
72 out of 72 people found the following review helpful.
Review Date: 7/2/03
Let the Kids Cook!
I picked up this cookbook in the hopes that I could teach my 7-year-old some basics about cooking that would last him well into his life. (And that it would hopefully prepare him for cooking in his single life, and possibly even encourage him to cook for his wife when he gets married someday!) I loved the bright graphics and beautiful pictures of the recipes, and the easy-to-follow format was great for my son. There was a lot of helpful information included regarding cooking basics, planning a menu, setting a table, how to eat healthy, reading food labels, and great pictures of different types of equipment used for cooking.Some of the recipes that we enjoyed making together included Eggceptional Breakfast Bake, Tom Thumb's Tacos, Tangled Twisters, Chicken Dippin' Sticks, and Chocolate Pudding Bottoms Up Cake. He was really proud to be able to make something for the family to eat, and I thought he learned good lessons about shopping, food preparation, and clean-up. This is a great book to share with your kids! Enjoy!
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Knuffle Bunny
A Cautionary Tale (Bccb Blue Ribbon Picture Book Awards (Awards))
by Mo Willems (based on 152 customer reviews)
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(Hardcover)
Author: Mo Willems
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH
Price: $10.87
You save: $5.12 (32%) off the list price!
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Most useful review as voted by customers:
96 out of 111 people found the following review helpful.
Review Date: 11/22/04
Doing the bunny hop, skip, and jump
Okay, right off the bat I'm going to do a little exercise with you. Now, as you may or may not know, author Mo Willems based the name Knuffle Bunny after a Dutch term for something cute and cuddly. Therefore, the pronounciation of the title, according to him, should not be "nuffle" bunny but instead "k-nuffle" bunny. So let's all say it together, shall we? K-nuffle Bunny. K-nuffle Bunny. K-nuffle Bunny. Got it? Good. Because this book is so well written and so much fun that it deserves to be pronounced correctly when being read to screaming hoardes of children. Not since Willems' grandiose, "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus" (still my favorite read-aloud book of the century) has an author so perfectly attuned himself to the hopes, dreams, and fears of the toddlers and early readers of the world. This book is a fun fabulous romp.
Trixie and her pop are off to the local neighborhood Laundromat one bright and sunny day. They get there, load the clothes, and take off for home when little Trixie comes to an awful realization. Knuffle Bunny, her beloved favorite toy, is missing. Unfortunately for her, she has not yet learned to talk. After some valiant tries (my favorite being the single tearful "snurp") she feels she has no alternative but to burst into a full-blown tantrum. This doesn't make her father any happier and since he hasn't realized what the problem is, he takes her home as she kicks and screams. Once home, however, her mother quickly asks, "Where's Knuffle Bunny"? Back runs the whole family to the Laundromat where, at long last, the beloved bunny is recovered and Trixie says her first real words.
I haven't read any of the other reviews of this book yet, but I can already predict a potential objection to this tale. Some parents, and similarly ridiculous adults, feel that unless a temper tantrum is disciplined immediately within a book then it is sending a negative message to children everywhere. They feel that such books encourage children to engage in naughty behavior to get their way. This idea is, of course, hogwash. At least it is in this particular case. Trixie does engage in less than socially acceptable fits, but that's only because she lacks any other means of communication. Honestly, if she was endowed with a perfect 6500 word vocabulary she would not have a fit. It is obviously a last resort on her part. So to all of you who would object to such a book merely because a child in it acts like something less than an angel I say "pfui".
The construction of this book is very interesting. Mo Willems (according to secondhand sources) once said that he initially gave the pictures photographed backgrounds so as to make it easier on himself. However, he had a great deal of trouble lining up with drawn figures with the photographs so that they'd seem to be the same size. It's worth it though. This book is a kind of love story to Willems' own native Brooklyn and he's peppered the images in it with familiar landmarks here and there. If you live in the area then you won't be surprised to suddenly realize that "That's my Laundromat!". So that's nice. The human characters are as simplistic as the pigeon was in "Don't Let the Pigeon Ride the Bus". Just big ole eyes and geometric forms. Still, there's something perfectly entrancing about the hairless Trixie. And I for one was very attached to the early picture of mom and dad standing before their home as infant Trixie hangs with arms and legs akimbo from the dad's carrying pack.
Kids love this book too. There are some wonderful ways to read it to them. For example, when Trixie, "went boneless" (and what parents amongst us haven't dealt with THAT once in a while?) have the kids in the audience do it too. They really get into the search and rescue aspects of the tale. And then of course there are the pictures. The lovely lovely pictures.
"Knuffle Bunny" has it all. A weird title to pronounce. A likable (in spite of her tantrum) main character. And a completely realistic situation placed against a true-to-life background. It's a story that will be beloved for years to come. A big round of applause for Mo Willems, ladies and gentlemen! He's written a great picture book that everyone can love.
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Peek-A-Who?
Board book
by Nina Laden (based on 108 customer reviews)
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(Board book)
Author: Nina Laden
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Price: $6.95
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Most useful review as voted by customers:
28 out of 28 people found the following review helpful.
Review Date: 12/27/06
An instant favorite!
I got this book as a gift for my daughter who was 8 months old at the time. From the first time we read it she was hooked! For the last month, we have read this book daily at least 15 times! She loves turning the pages and the rhyming really keeps her attention! The awesome thing is the she knows to turn the page after the rhyming word! So we dont have random page flipping! She loves the mirror at the end and looks into the peek a boo window so she can see her eyes then when we reveal the full mirror she gives herself a kiss! I love this book because my daughter can't get enough of it! I feel sorry for the rest of my book collection but I figure they will get their due attention in time.
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Paula Deen's My First Cookbook
by Paula Deen (based on 15 customer reviews)
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(Spiral-bound)
Author: Paula Deen
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Price: $13.34
You save: $8.65 (39%) off the list price!
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Most useful review as voted by customers:
13 out of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Review Date: 10/8/08
Very kid friendly
Paula's personality shows in this cookbook for kids. I think it is very practical for kids that are familiar in the kitchen and even for youger ones with help. I love the recipes in here. They are practical and its not complicated. I look forward to having this book in my collection for years to come.
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Paper Fashions
Design Your Own Styles (Klutz)
(based on 38 customer reviews)
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(Spiral-bound)
Publisher: Klutz
Price: $14.93
You save: $7.02 (32%) off the list price!
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Most useful review as voted by customers:
55 out of 55 people found the following review helpful.
Review Date: 8/31/06
Budding fashion designers will love it!
This is an excellent book that my 12 year old daughter, and ALL her friends have truly enjoyed. The book comes with stencils for outfits. It also comes with patterned paper to use for the outfits. It has a great selection of paper. The paper is similar to scrapbook paper but seems specially designed for the small outfits as the patterns on the paper go well with small outfits. Finally, it has some wire hangers - sized to fit the outfits. The girls have had hours of fun with this book. My daughter glues all the outfits into a notebook, and the friend who designed it "signs" the page. My only wish is that there was an address or phone number where you could order additional paper packs. While Klutz is generous when they give you the paper, my kids are using it a LOT! Her 8 year old sister enjoys it too. It is suitable for any age that is very good with scissors. The outfits are quite small. I plan to purchase some of these to use as birthday gifts to have on hand. This is one of the best activity books we've purchased.
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Everything Kids' Cookbook
From Mac ' N Cheese to Double Chocolate Chip Cookies-All You Need to Have Some Finger Lickin' Fun (Everything Kids Series)
by Sandra K. Nissenberg (based on 22 customer reviews)
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(Paperback)
Author: Sandra K. Nissenberg
Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
Price: $7.95
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Most useful review as voted by customers:
148 out of 148 people found the following review helpful.
Review Date: 5/8/06
Looking to Get the Kids Involved? This is the book!
I am not the biggest fan of the Everything books: I have found their text to be over-simplified. However, here, it plays in their flavor tremendously. Like the fantastic Mom and Me Cookbook by Annabel Karmel, (which I can't recommend enough if you are looking to cook cutesy-crafty items with your kids, especially younger ones) this book gives illustrated utensils needs (like if it needs an oven to make, then there's a little picture of an oven at the top of the recipe) and starts with a glossary of cooking terms and safety guidelines. It's got a great little guide for how to set a table, and is full of puzzles for the older kids to do and tips about any number of things that have to do with the meal. It also includes a difficulty level which is terribly handy when you're cooking with younger children or children spaced far apart (like mine). It also has a very handy conversion chart (you know, how many cups in a gallon sort of thing) that for me, is worth the purchase price alone.
But what I love about this book most of all is that it is REALLY full of kidcentric recipes. I didn't find a single recipe that would not appeal to my children, plus in the end, it included a chapter entitled "Let's Play Some More" which had five craft recipes including making bubbles and edible finger paints! I was especially pleased to see a chapter entitled Lunches, Sandwiches, and Brown Bag Ideas for which my nine-year old is extremely grateful-- "Bologna and Cheese, or peanut butter and jelly?" is the most asked question in our house besides, "Did you use the blowdarts on the kids again? They're awfully quiet."
Anyway, this book truly gives you what you are really looking for-LOTS OF EASY DINNER IDEAS constructed around your children joining in. I have found that most children's cookbooks (even the aforementioned Mom and Me Cookbook) have a majority (or at least half) of sweets as opposed to really good dinner fare, and this includes both working together without leaving the most difficult meal to come up with out of the picture. I mean, if you want to make a dessert with your kids, almost all of them are thrilled with a roll of pre-made cookie dough or a boxed cake mix-are they not? Dinner is another matter, and I think it's important to be able to include them on such an important daily chore. Imagine the gap-toothed happy grin when you point out to your spouse that they did a great deal of work on dinner knowing that you are instilling the importance of working as a team to provide a meal for the family-it's priceless. This book helps you do this without strapping you or the children with a hard-to follow recipe that doesn't appeal to the children.
I also want to note that I highly recommend this book for the ten or eleven year old that has expressed a desire to learn to cook-if they love to read then this is the book for them, and the book covers safety in detail so I would have no problem letting them loose with the easy recipes by themselves-with supervision, of course, but in the hands of a mature 12-year-old, you could sit and read the paper while they work at dinner (just the thought makes you giddy, does it not???) They will be well-educated and also enjoy the puzzles as well-it would make a great gift for the inquisitive and studious tweenager who loves to help out around the house.
I have to honestly say, this cookbook is in my top two for children. It's a good purchase by half.
Chapters Include
Lets get cooking
Wake up to a good breakfast
Lunches Sandwifches and brown bag ideas
Snack Time
Soothing Soups
What's for Dinner (By far the largest with 24 entrees)
Desserts
Smoothies
Let's Play Some More
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Encylopedia of Immaturity (Klutz)
by Editors of Klutz (based on 15 customer reviews)
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(Spiral-bound)
Author: Editors of Klutz
Publisher: Klutz
Price: $13.57
You save: $6.38 (32%) off the list price!
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Most useful review as voted by customers:
24 out of 24 people found the following review helpful.
Review Date: 12/30/07
What a riot!
I wish I had known how to do some of the silly tricks and pranks in the "Encyclopedia of Immaturity" when I was growing up! Not only does it teach you how to do interesting skills like juggling, but you'll also learn foolish stuff like how to make your co-worker's mouse stop working, how to make all kinds of noises with parts of your body, paper fortune tellers, play creatively with your food and so on. It's a big book. The pictures and diagrams and the text are presented in a mock serious, deadpan style. The activities themselves can't be any funnier than their presentation.
I'm decades older than the target audience for the "Encyclopedia of Immaturity," and female, and most of these activities are aimed at boys -- at least boys are the ones I've seen doing these things over the years. But a younger brother received it for Christmas and I thumbed through it out of curiosity, and found myself rolling on the floor with laughter. Life is too short to be as serious and stodgy as I've always been. This fortysomething is going to get a copy for herself and try to have some harmless, giggly fun in the New Year!
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