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Cloth Books Binding: Cloth Book Target age range: 0 months + Price: $9.99- $16.99

Description: These cuddly cloth concept books for the very young are perfect for travel time, tummy time, or any time! They give baby a chance to explore a book on their own that will withstand tugging and chewing.

Key Features: - Soft Cloth - Short stories or bold pictures appeal to babies - Easy to handle for little hands - Some are great for teething, as well - Hand washable

Who would love it: - Expecting mothers - Parents of babies - Guests of baby showers - Grandparents

Baby's Very First Binding: Board Book Target age range: 1 year and up Price: $8.99-$14.99

Description: Brightly colored, high-contrast, touchy-feely books for babies. Delightful to share, these books will engage even a tiny baby's attention and, as babies grow, they will love to trace their fingers around the tactile finger trails.

Books contain a number of interactive elements including textures, flaps, and peek-a-boo windows.

Slide and See books have dimple slider mechanisms that allow for lots of surprises along the way!

Key Features: - Durable binding, many with rounded corners - Reading to young babies is a great way to interact & communicate & encourages a lifelong love of reading - Bright colors & fun illustrations - Images & textures stimulate sensory & language awareness

Who would love it: - Expecting mothers - Parents of babies & toddlers - Guests of baby showers - Grandparents - Preschools & Day Cares

That's Not My Binding: Board Book Target age range: 9 months and up Price: $9.99

Description: Touchy-feely books with textures to touch and feel on every page, plus simple, repetitive text and bright, colorful illustrations. Babies and toddlers love sharing books with an adult, and as they are introduced to the characters in each story, they will also be developing vital pre-reading and sensory skills.

Key Features: - High contrast illustrations outlined in bold black to capture attention of developing eyes - Simple and predictive text improves language development and appeals to the very young - White mouse to seek and find on each page - Different textures on each page

Who would love it: - Expecting mothers - Parents of babies and toddlers - Guests of baby showers - Grandparents - Preschools and Day Cares

Dual Readers Binding: Board Book Target age range: 3 + Price: $12.99-$24.99

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Key Features:

These delightful picture-book editions have padded covers, two levels of text and charming Stephen Cartwright illustrations throughout. The easier text on the top of the page is perfect for beginning readers. It tells the main point of the story, while the more complicated text at the bottom for parents or older siblings to read expands the tale and improves oral vocabulary of the child.

- Dual layers of text, for parent and child to read together increases confidence of beginning reader while promoting reading as a family - Hidden yellow duck on each page to seek and find - Combined volumes with multiple stories in each book - CD's in Farmyard Tales -3 layers of activity with simple text, more difficult text, and hidden duck

Who would love it: - Preschools, Day Cares and Kindergartens - Home schooling families - Parents with multiple children

Muddle and Match Binding: Board Book Target age range: 3 + Price: $8.99

Description: Readers will make up their own funny stories and create new characters as they flip through the split pages and muddle things up! Each page is split into 3 distinct sections which can be opened separately or together to create endless stories. Alliteration in each mini story helps readers learn sounds and improve vocabulary!

As you work your way through the story you can match picture, letter, or color sounds, depending on the skill level your child is at.

Key Features: - 3 way split pages to mix and muddle up the story - Alliteration improves vocabulary while developing language - Inspires creativity as kids create their own stories

Who would love it: - Toddlers through elementary age - Great birthday gifts - Speech Therapists - Teachers and home school families

Reusable Sticker Series Binding: Board Book Target age range: 3 + Price: $12.99-$14.99

Description:

Key Features:

Follow these animal friends on their everyday experiences that little children can relate to. The fully reusable, thick plastic stickers in the books are great for practicing fine motor skills and if they get dirty and don't stick, anymore they can be rinsed under cold water and air dried.

- Short stories that young kids can relate to - 5 + reusable and repositionable stickers - Bright colors and fun illustrations - Great for fine motor skills - Stickers can be rinsed under cold water if they lose stickiness

Who would love it: - Preschools, Day Cares and Kindergartens - Parents of toddlers - Grandparents

Phonics Readers Binding: Paperback Target age range: 3 + Price: $6.99+

Description: Humorously illustrated picture books for beginner readers and great fun to read aloud together.

These books have simple rhyming text and phonic repetition specially designed to develop essential language and early reading skills. Also includes guidance notes for parents at the back of the book.

All the newer titles come with QR codes on the back, so you can listen along to the audio file. The older versions are slowly rolling out the QR codes, as well.

Save money with Combined Volumes that include multiple titles in one book, or see even bigger savings with the Box Set of My First Phonics Reading Library made up of 20 individual phonics readers in one set.

Key Features: - Phonetic repetition of sounds within books - Rhyming text - Guidance notes for parents in back of book - Excellent early reader books - QR code for audio files

Who would love it: - Preschool and Kindergarten teachers - Home school families - Perfect bedtime stories for parents

Story Books Binding: Paper and Hardback Target age range: 3+ Price: $6.99-$16.99

Description: These books contain simple text and lots of pictures to explore people, places, and first experiences.

With a variety of authors and illustrators, readers are sure to find a story that connects with their little ones.

Whether you're looking for rhyming text with a sing-song sound, tales to help teach important principles like sharing and seeing from another's point of view, or bedtime stories full of love and caring, our story books can help!

Key Features: - Variety of topics and interests - Written in consultation with early literacy specialists - Authors and illustrators from all over the world - Teach core values such as sharing, listening, and confidence

Who would love it: - Toddler through elementary age children - Schools and libraries - Preschools and Day Cares - Doctor's offices and therapists

Sound Books Binding: Board Book Target age range: 2 + Price: $15.99- $19.99

Description: Experience a whole new concept of sound books. Each page has a sound patch embedded on their thick, flexible pages.

The Sound quality is outstanding and provides an array of options from animal sounds to classical music and even a read along of the stories.

Key Features: - Sound patch embedded in the page - Beautiful sound quality - On/Off button to save battery - Beautiful illustrations

Who would love it: - Parents of toddlers and preschoolers - Great gift option - Grandparents - Preschools and Day Cares

Shine a Light Binding: Hardback Target age range: 3 + Price: $12.99

Description: Fantastic books designed to help young readers learn more in an engaging and hands-on way.

Each page contains a beautiful picture with hidden images found only by holding it up to a light or window, or by holding a flashlight behind the page. Readers young and old alike will be fascinated and enchanted with these unique and inspiring books!

Key Features: - Hidden images on each page seen only by back light - Educates and inspires while entertaining - Pair with flashlight for a great gift

Who would love it: - Toddler through elementary - Home schooling families - Teachers and educators - Grandparents

First Chapter Books Binding: Paperback Target age range: 4 + Price: $4.99

Description: The Billie B. Brown and Hey Jack series are fantastic first chapter books. Both series were written with reluctant readers and learning disabilities in mind. Each book has no more than 50 words per page, occasional illustrations, large font, and no hyphenated words between pages or lines.

Billie and Jack even appear in each other's books throughout the series. Once your reader advances beyond this series they can come continue the fun with the Billie B. Mystery Series with a slightly higher difficulty level.

Key Features: - Easy beginner chapter books - Written specifically for reluctant readers and kids with learning disabilities in mind - Books can be read as a series or stand alone - Perfect first chapter book series

Who would love it: - Early elementary classrooms - Home schooling families - Developmental specialists

Chapter Books Binding: Paperback Target age range: 7 + Price: $4.99-$8.99

Description: Find a fantastic variety of chapter books ranging in age and reading level. Both series and stand alone books are available from a variety of genres including fantasy, mystery, dystopian, and adventure. Reading fiction helps children discover and experience societies and lives that may be different from ours, and recognize struggles and triumphs that help develop empathy and compassion.

Key Features: - Large variety of interests, genres, and reading levels - Low price range - Series can inspire reluctant readers to continue with the story

Who would love it: - Grades K-12 - Price point makes them great gifts and stocking stuffers - Parents of school age children

Illustrated Stories Binding: Padded Hardcover Target age range: 7 + Price: $19.99

Description: Discover classic tales and new adventures in this delightful collection of illustrated stories. Books range in difficulty with easier ones containing simpler text and more images, to more advanced reading with fewer pictures. New artists are found throughout the books to keep the images fresh and engaging.

Introduce children to famous classic authors and storytellers. Some stories are available as stand alone books.

Key Features: - Padded hard covers with ribbon book mark - Introduce children to new stories, cultures, and societies they might otherwise not have been exposed to - Learn classic tales in an easy to read format now for better understanding when reading full text when older

Who would love it: - Younger children for reading together - Older children for independent reading - Fans of Greek and Norse Myths and Fairy Tales - Makes a beautiful collectors series

Graphic Novels Binding: Paperback Target age range: 10 + Price: $9.99

Description: These graphic novels are a great first introduction to some classic stories, including Shakespeare and Greek Mythology. Their colorful illustrations make them fun to read and help readers encode the context, improving reading comprehension. They are often times a great way to get reluctant readers to pick up a book.

Key Features: - Bright and colorful illustrations - Great for reluctant readers - First introduction to some great classics

Who would love it: - Parents of reluctant readers - Upper Elementary and Middle School Classrooms

Beginner Nonfiction Binding: Hardback Target age range: 5 + Price: $4.99

Description: Beautifully designed books that provide education and information on a variety of topics. With lovely, large illustrations and small chunks of text, the information is given to the child in a straight forward, easy to understand way.

Children are sure to find a book that captures their attention and the price point is low enough to appeal to any family.

Key Features: - Excellent picture to text ratio for easy reading - Large variety of topics covered - Available individually or in sets - Some include Internet References or links

Who would love it: - Home schooling families - Teachers and educators - Make great small gifts or stocking stuffers - Perfect for book fairs

Homework Helpers Binding: Varies Target age range: Varies Price: Varies

Description: Educational books can help continue the learning at home, or become a primary source of curriculum for home schooling. With topics covering art, music, math, science, reading, and more, it's easy to find just the right book to engage and educate.

Bright pictures, illustrations, small chunks of text, internet links, and coordinating activities bring the books to life and making learning fun!

Key Features: - Variety of topics covered - Engaging and educational - Make learning fun - Great to supplement traditional schooling or for homeschool curriculum

Who would love it: - Teachers - Parents - Home schooling families

References Binding: Varies Target age range: Varies Price: Varies

Description: Excellent reference books on a variety of topics. These books are jam packed with information, illustrations, photographs, and even activities and observations to carry out.

Materials are available not just on a variety of topics, but also a variety of ages with age appropriate amounts of information on a subject and approachable text that allows the child to discover more about a specific topic.

Key Features: - Provides excellent back ground information on variety of topics - Many books are internet linked and some even include QR codes to scan - Information given in an age appropriate text

Who would love it: - Home schooling families - Teachers and educators - Excellent resources for research

Lift-the-Flap Binding: Board Book Target age range: Varies Price: $9.99-$14.99

Description: Lift-the-Flap books are great interactive books for children of all ages. Lift-the-Flap books are great interactive books for children of all ages. Very young children will be introduced to a picture underneath a flap, which helps with predictability, and older children can learn about topics like different kinds of environments or the periodic table.

By lifting the flaps, children actively participate in the reading process, which helps with retaining the information. Lift-the-Flap books can be read one page at a time or just a few isolated flaps at a time, making these perfect for reluctant readers.

Key Features: - Durable flaps - Interactive - Colorful - Educational

Who would love it: - Parents of children that don't sit still - Reluctant Readers - Nonfiction fans - Classrooms

Activity Binding: Varies Target age range: Varies Price: Varies

Description: Children of all ages (adults, too!) will find plenty of fun and adventure in the many activity books offered. Enjoy a variety of interests including cooking, fashion, design, outdoors, origami, crafting, and more!

Many books include step by step instructions, making them easy to follow along. Activities use common household ingredients and encourage children to interact with and explore the world around them.

Key Features: - Variety of interests represented - Step by step instructions - Encourage hands-on activity and learning - Perfect for vacations and breaks from school

Who would love it: - Babysitters - Grandparents - Day cares and preschools - Work at Home parents

Mental Health Binding: Varies Target age range: Varies Price: $6.99-$12.99

Description: There are various reasons why mental health can be unbalanced. These books provide excellent activities to work on these unbalances. While they are written with children in mind, they are truly ageless.

Key Features: - Activities to focus on different subjects around mental health - Hands-on - Positivity

Who would love it: - Teachers - Social Workers - Therapists - Parents

Coloring Binding: Paperback Target age range: Varies Price: $4.99 +

Description: Coloring books are beautiful and therapeutic at any age.

Usborne Books & More offers beautiful coloring books to appeal to kids of all ages, including adults! Larger poster size books are available right along with smaller pocket sized books. The Magic Painting books allow children to create a masterpiece with nothing more than a brush and some water. A variety of interests and difficulty levels are available.

Key Features: - More than coloring books, introduces to history, fashion, and patterns - Therapeutic and helpful for stress relief - Improves motor skills, stimulates creativity, and helps prepare children for school

Who would love it: - All ages, including adults!

- Great for travel - Add to busy bags for church or appointments - Lower price point makes them great for gifts, stocking stuffers, and Easter baskets

Sticker Binding: Paperback Target age range: 3 + Price: $6.99- $9.99

Description: Sticker books for a wide variety of ages and interests engage children in active learning. The colorful scenes and characters are engaging and help with word association and vocabulary building. Stickers also help with fine motor skills, hand eye coordination, visual discrimination, sorting and classifying, and counting skills.

Key Features: - Promote creative thinking, reasoning, and understanding through matching - Develop fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination - Help develop children's areas of interests

Who would love it: - Excellent books for travel and busy bags - Where applicable, historically accurate and informative books are great for home schooling families and classrooms

Wipe-Clean Binding: Paperback Target age range: 4 + Price: $6.99- $7.99

Description: These fun and engaging books are sure to help children enjoy learning about a variety of subjects. The wipe-clean pages are designed to work with any brand of dry erase marker or crayon and are easy to use over and over again.

Children can practice their alphabet, numbers, learn how to write cursive, or simply have some fun with the activity books. Wipe-Clean books are perfect for learning early writing skills as mistakes can be made without worry.

Strengthen hand muscles and improve dexterity while learning the best and most classic skills of early education.

Key Features: - Easy, wipe-clean texture - Works with any dry erase marker or crayon - Improves writing skills - Develop dexterity and strength in hands - Improve early educational skills

Who would love it: - Preschool and Elementary teachers - Doctor's offices and reception areas - Home schooling families

Busy & Wind-up Binding: Board Book Target age range: 3 + Price: $24.99- $29.99

Description: These adorable and interactive books are sure to please any child! Busy books include 4 large pages with tracks and a simple story on each page. Toys are activated by pulling the toy backwards- perfect for younger children who work on their gross motor skills and don't have the finger strength and dexterity to wind up a toy. Wind-up books include typically 3 large double pages with tracks. Each book has a special feature, such as two race cars, moving train tracks, pop out figures to build the story, or pages that pop out to puzzle together as the London map.

Just wind up the small toy, place it on the track, and watch it whizz around the page.

Toys can be ordered separately in Order Pro.

Key Features: - Interactive - Book and toy in one - Encourages reading in fun environment

Who would love it: - Grandparents - Excellent gift choice - Great for older and younger children - Great for children that don't sit still to read

Puzzles & Games Binding: includes book Target age range: 3 + Price: $12.99- $14.99

Description: Puzzles help develop basic skills such as shape recognition, concentration, goal setting, patience, and a sense of achievement, which will stand children in good stead for school. They also help develop hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills due to the precise nature of matching each piece exactly. All of the puzzles and games come with a book to the subject.

Matching games increase short-term memory, increase attention to detail, and improve the ability to find similarities and differences in objects.

Key Features: - Puzzles for all ages - Include paperback book to the subject (3x9 pieces includes board book) - Games include nonfiction book - Great for fine motor skills and and hand-eye coordination

Who would love it: - Parents of young children - older children who like a challenge

Spanish Titles Binding: Varies Target age range: Varies Price: Varies

Description: The top sellers from Usborne Books & More have been translated into Spanish. You can find books for all ages and interests that will be great for Spanish-speaking children as well as for those that are learning the language.

Key Features: - Best Sellers from Usborne Books & More in Spanish

Who would love it: - Classrooms - Spanish-speaking children - Children that learn Spanish

Learning Tools Binding: N/A Target age range: K-4th Grade Price: Varies

Description: The learning palette base and cards are used together to create an interactive and fun learning experience. Cards are placed question side up with corresponding colored disks in the slot with the answers! They are self-correcting, classroom tested, and allow children to work at their own pace.

Learning Wrap-ups are a unique tool that utilizes visual and tactile learning senses. The key shaped Wrap-ups are locked together and have a string that wraps from question to answer. Immediate, self-correcting feedback helps children master skills.

Key Features: - Interactive learning environment - Self-correcting - Classroom tested - Uses tactile feedback

Who would love it: - Elementary classrooms - Home schooling families - Preschool through 4th grade age children

Reading Programs Binding: Paper and Hardback Target age range: 4 + Price: Varies

Description: These incredible reading sets help guide your child through the first stages of reading. The Very First Reading Set is 15 hardback books. The first 7 are dual readers which walk the child through all letters of the alphabet, the following 8 books grow in difficulty, helping with the child reading on their own.

My First Reading Library includes those 15 books plus an additional 35 more, ranging in difficulty for 50 total paperback books.

Read with Usborne is a series of leveled books ranging from easy level 1 to more difficult level 4.

Key Features: -Leveled reading programs with varying degrees of complexity and difficulty - Parent guides to help with reading development - Some books have puzzles and the end to reinforce comprehension

Who would love it: - Teachers - Home schooling families - Reluctant readers

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