Turn the Key: On the Farm is an incredibly fun way for children to discover life on the farm - the animals, the sounds, the thriving life and bustling activities! This board book's super thick pages are graced with playfully descriptive sentences, stunning full color photos, and a special feature that lets kids take each mini-adventure a step further! A yellow plastic key attached to the book's cover can be used to open b...Read more

This utterly charming tale of Santa's efforts to find animals to help deliver gifts during his ailing Reindeers' (chicken pox!) absence is as amusing as it is heartwarming. That the droves of applicants for the job must pass a test produces wildly hilarious results. It turns out that having elephants land on your roof leads to unpleasant complications. Skunks, too, turn out to be less than optimal, as anyone with a nose w...Read more

Scribfolio Dry Erase is an ingenious approach to creativity, artistic expression and fun! Each page contains an abstract art-like scribble in which the eye of the beholder is assured of seeing all kinds of possibilities. The magic lies in choosing one of those mental visions to embellish and evolve into something all your own. Add lines, shapes, eyes, wings, claws, create your own characters and critters - whatever strike...Read more

Delving into this excellent workbook quickly reveals the pleasures and benefits of sentence diagramming. Not least among these are the ways in which the puzzle-solving or game-like nature of the activity engages students at a very high level. Both the activity itself and the resultant diagrams convey a great deal of information with elegant, almost math-like brevity that gets students' brains working in new and different...Read more

In addition to helping children build academic skills over the summer, this fabulously fun and engaging workbook nurtures fundamental life skills that can yield a lifetime of benefits. This Whole Child approach includes Academics, Fitness (health, exercise and nutrition), Character Education and a focus on being planet friendly. Along with plentiful activities in reading, writing, math, language arts, science and geograph...Read more

This charming book delights readers with its exuberant illustrations, engagingly playful storyline and, most of all, with its loving depiction of the title character, a sweet, headstrong child named Tabitha Marion Evelyn. The writing is top-notch, with deeply satisfying rhymes and a natural-feeling rhythmic flow that effortlessly carries readers forward and keeps them wanting more. The exceptionally playful language follo...Read more

This highly entertaining book offers up a feast of fun, vocabulary-boosting riddles for readers to decipher. Each of the cleverly constructed riddles incorporates four vocabulary words, many of which appear on ACT and SAT vocabulary lists. Each riddle is followed by a series of questions through which the reader is led to analyze the vocabulary using definitions, synonyms, antonyms, and parts of speech. The final question...Read more

'What Would You Do?' presents 30 separate moral dilemmas, the exploration of which elicits surprisingly nuanced listening and communication skills from children. Even more striking is the depth of critical thinking and analysis kids bring into play as they ponder and respond to these carefully crafted scenarios. Each stated dilemma is one or two sentences long (for example, you learn that someone you know has stolen somet...Read more