Books

One of the first things toddlers become fascinated about are things that they can see, touch, and feel. Once their interest catches up, they start to explore and learn. Books like Colors With Ladybug can help kids explore their visual and tactile senses combined with engaging storytelling.
The Colors With Ladybug is a child’s book that contain colorful pages and visual treats. Not only that, each page also comes with a number of different textures that the kids can explore as they turn each one. Parents can help guide the kids as they explore page after page acting as the storyteller, guiding the young ones on what to do. Exploring the book becomes a wonderful early interactive learning experience for the kids.
The Colors With Ladybug book teaches kids about the colors of the rainbow accompanied by sparkles and textures that they can feel with their hands on each page. This book helps encourage kids to learn more about colors, textures, and help develop their early language skills. The book is ideal for kids as early as a year old. It is available at Fat Brain Toys for around $10.
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There are kids who are quite fascinated with science. Doing experiments is their idea of having fun. And when kids learn that they can do experiments with everyday things at home, it make them even more excited to discover more of what they can do. With this Recycled Science book, kids will learn how to conduct experiments with things they can find at their home recycling bin.
Recycled Science is a book that contains a number of science experiments using recycled materials. Kids can make an ice cream maker out of a discarded chips tube. While doing that, they can also learn how salt makes ice freeze faster. Kids can also learn how to create their own mini compost out of old food scraps. They can also transform a regular water bottle into a lava lamp and understand why oil and water molecules do not mix.
The Recycled Science book comes in an easy-to-read format with full-color photographs. Each experiment also features easy step-by-step instructions as well as list all the materials needed for each project. The book encourages kids to develop their logic, problem solving and critical thinking skills. It also helps them to further increase their interest in science. The Recycled Science Book is ideal for kids from 7 years old and above. It is available at Fat Brain Toys for around $10.
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Toys that kids now have today may be considered quite complex and sophisticated. They also provide kids with some added mental stimulation essential for their growth and development. A toy like the Kidz Robotix Spider Robot is one example.
The new Kidz Robotix Spider Robot is a construction kit that will enable kids to build their own robotic spider. This robot spider climbs up and down the string on its own. The set includes all the materials needed to build the robotic spider as well as the step-by-step instructions on how to build it, all except the screwdriver and the batteries needed, that is. There are 22 mechanical parts that kids will learn how to put together.
The Kidz Robotix Spider Robot provides kids with a good S.T.E.A.M. learning experience. It also helps them develop their fine motor skills, logic, spatial reasoning, and problem solving abilities. It also helps kids build their confidence in starting and completing such a project at a very early age. The Kidz Robotix Spider Robot kit is ideal for kids from 8 years old and above. It is available at Fat Brain Toys for $17.
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Kids have all the time in the day to have some fun. But sometimes the problem is that they can run out of ideas. Of course, it helps to have someone suggest different things and activities to do and enjoy, like this Klutz 101 Outrageously Fun Things to Do book.

If ever you have kids that are always in search for fun things to do, then having something in store for them will prevent them from getting bored. The Klutz 101 Outrageously Fun Things to Do book will ensure that they have something fun to do, no matter where they are. It comes with Klutz’s library of funny stuff, games, crafts, pranks, and more. Kids will surely have something interesting to do depending on what they wish to do at a certain time. The book comes with detailed instructions on how to do different fun things along with their friends. The book also comes with all the craft and game supplies needed. This 76-page book is small enough to bring along during trips, ensuring that kids will not run out of things to do while traveling.

The Klutz 101 Outrageously Fun Things to Do is the ultimate handbook for kids who always like to do something fun and interesting. The book helps kids to become more creative, more inventive, and help develop their critical thinking skills. This book is ideal for kids from 8 years old and above. The Klutz 101 Outrageously Fun Things to Do book is available at Fat Brain Toys for $19.

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Summer is fast approaching and kids may have more time in their hands to have fun and enjoy. While some prefer fun and games, it might also be a good time to develop the habit of reading. This is especially true for new and early readers just about to explore and discover the wonderful world of books. Here is a suggested summer reading list for early readers.

A CatFish Tale by Kathy Brodsky

This is a funny story with a cat, a penguin and a fish as principal characters. It is a story about friendship, responsibility, and learning how to overcome challenges. The story is wonderfully told in rhyme accompanied by hand-painted illustrations. This book is ideal for readers from 2 to 8 years of age.

Now It is Summer by Eileen Spinelli

This story about a young mouse eagerly waiting for autumn to come and the fun the season brings is a must read for kids from 4 to 8 years old. It is a story to remind readers that they can be content in the here and now and be able to find happiness wherever they may be.

Miss Maple’s Seeds by Eliza Wheelermiss

This is a story about helping those who are lost to find their place. Miss Maple gathers lost seeds who have not yet found a home to bloom. She takes them on field trips to explore different places where they can blossom. The interesting story coupled with beautiful illustrations make this chapter book quite interesting for kids from 3 to 5 years old to read.

Henry and Mudge by Cynthia Rylant  

This book is quite ideal for early readers just trying to get around the habit of reading. Ideal for kids on the first grade, they will get attached to the lovable characters, Henry and his dog Mudge as they go on their many happy adventures. It is a chapter book that should be in every first reader’s lists.

It is important for kids to learn how to read. They start by learning about distinguishing words and reading sentences. Then they move on to reading books. After discovering picture and early reading books, soon enough, they will be moving on to reading chapter book series.

Chapter book series are books that enable kids to read stories connected to each other but separated into different books. Once a child is finished reading the first book, his interest will grow to read the second book in the series. Chapter book series reading can provide kids with a number of benefits. Here are some of them.

They help ignite imagination in kids.

Reading chapter books help boost a kid’s imagination. It allows them to travel places, meet new friends, go on an adventure and many other things, simply by reading a book right at home. Their imagination can help them expand their thinking and develop their creativity.

It helps kids build a love for reading.

Reading a chapter book series helps kids gradually build a love for reading. In lieu of pictures, kids learn to appreciate reading and understanding words and how they are used to describe and “paint a picture”, so to speak.

It helps kids to develop patience.   

Chapter book series do not usually end when the book ends. Kids would need to read the next book in the series to know more about the story. This can help the kids develop patience in trying to finish a story. The payoff they get is when they finish reading a story and follow it through reading several books. This is where chapter book series has its benefits.

Many kids are quite fascinated with just about everything they see. Some even go as far as trying to know how it works. There are different ways helping your kids learn about how things work without  them dismantling things at home. Having this National Geographic Kids How Things Work book will be a good start.

The National Geographic Kids How Things Work book will help kids discover and shed light on how different things work. The book is filled with useful information, fun facts, and images that will fascinate the readers and allow them to discover just how things work. The explanations are easy to understand and help kids build up an interest in science and technology. It also helps encourage them to develop their reading skills and their knack for exploration and satisfying their curiosity about the world arounf them.

The National Geographic Kids How Things Work book comes with 208 pages of information and 210 color illustrations to help kids better understand what they read. This book is ideal reading for kids from 8 years old and above. It is available at Fat Brain Toys for around $15.

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Child development starts with letting the child explore and learn from his immediate environment. Even before any form of classroom learning, kids are already on their way to learning and understanding the world through their different senses. Eventually, kids need to begin some form of structured learning by the time they reach a certain age. But it should not stop them from still trying to learn using their basic senses. That is what the My First Touch and Feel Seasons Book aims to do.

The My First Touch and Feel Seasons Book aims to combine reading with tactile features in order to allow kids to associate words with a sense of touch or feel. In the case of the book, the aim is to associate a certain texture to the seasons. This book, written and created by Xavier Deneux, is a touch and feel book where kids can explore objects that match with the season. From the book, kids can associate a cotton t-shirt with summer, a fleece coat for the fall, a nylon jacket for winter, a rubber rain coat for spring. Kids can both learn and feel what clothing matches with the season.

The My First Touch and Feel Seasons Book helps encourage kids to develop their early reading skills as well as their sensory learning. It also helps them become more familiar with seasonal vocabulary. The book is available at Fat Brain Toys for $10.

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