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Bao Bao Learns Chinese Back to top
Age
0-6 yrs.
Brain Child

This delightful musical nursery rhyme book is an enormously fun way for little ones to learn Mandarin Chinese. Youngsters can flip open the sturdy board book to any page and read, listen, and sing along with the nursery rhyme presented there. Each pair of pages covers a different song/nursery rhyme, with the words written out in English and Mandarin Chinese as well as a widely-used phonetic approach to pronunciation known...Read more

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beanz Magazine
Price $ 29.99 per year
By beanz Magazine
Age
8 - 12 yrs.
Brain Child

This marvelous print and online magazine is a hugely enjoyable and impactful way for kids (and adults) to learn about coding, computer science, and technology! Each issue comes packed with diverse, fascinating articles that are as entertaining as they are enlightening, computer and tech-related content that spans past, present and future. The quirky playfulness and skilled writing that pervades every page leaves young rea...Read more

Curious Baby Activity Cards Back to top
Age
0-12 months
Brain Child

Curious Baby Activity Cards provide an easy-to-follow and highly enjoyable road map for making the most of your baby's first 12 months with respect to sharing quality time, forging playfully intimate connections and maximizing the fun and learning that take place during this precious period of rapid development. The educational benefits extend not only to the infant but to parents and caregivers who, as a result of these ...Read more

Drop the Puck: Hockey Every Day, Every Way! Back to top

The warmth and caring on display throughout this beautifully written and illustrated hardcover book spreads quickly to the reader, carrying with it a sense of the rich possibilities available to us when our heartfelt values and priorities align. This fifth installment in Jayne J. Jones's popular Drop the Puck series tells the story of Lila, a child with cerebral palsy who moves to Hockeytown, USA and plays for the Minneso...Read more

Dylan's Birthday Present Back to top
Age
3 - 8 yrs.
Brain Child

The warmhearted story in this charming picture book awakens young readers to the superpower-like wonders of multilingualism. The story revolves around Dylan, an American boy whose parents' international origins have exposed him at home to Portuguese and Ukrainian in addition to his native English. These verbal skills prove quite handy when Dylan and his bilingual best friend Emma (who speaks English and Zulu) go in search...Read more

Grandpa Kevin's...ABC Book Back to top
Age
3-6 yrs.
Best Children's Products

The playfulness and creativity on display throughout this delightful stroll through the ABCs goes a long way towards instilling in youngsters a genuine love of words and language. Each pair of pages addresses a different letter of the alphabet and kicks off by presenting a dazzlingly multisyllabic word (A is for Adventuresomeness, B is for Bureaucratization, . . . ), the rhythms and mysteries of which kids respond to with...Read more

Grandpa Kevin's...The Three Little Pigs Back to top

This wonderfully revamped version of the classic story hooks youngsters from the start and keeps them eagerly engaged, page after page, with cries of "let's read it again!" at the end. The finely-detailed illustrations have an unusually enticing warmth and energy about them that goes perfectly with the lilting, lighthearted rhymes through which the tale is told. Parents of pre-reading kids relish reading the story aloud w...Read more

How To Do It Now Because It's Not Going Away: An Expert Guide To Getting Stuff Done Back to top

Procrastination could well become a thing of the past if every young person were to read this dynamic, enjoyable and effective book. The author, Leslie Josel, packs the pages with energizing insights, tips and strategies that give students clarity as to why they procrastinate and teaches them how to develop smart study habits and organizational skills that go a long way towards freeing them from this common behavior and i...Read more

Little Learner Board Book Set Back to top
Age
0 - 5 yrs.
Brain Child

This delightful boxed set includes 4 visually appealing, quality-crafted board books, each with a different learning focus - first words, colors, shapes and numbers! The vividly colorful illustrations that grace each and every page exert a powerful pull on little ones' attention, a fascination that leads to many repeat viewings that reinforce the concepts being learned. Given this high-traffic appeal, parents are grateful...Read more

Little Polyglot Adventures (Vol. 2): A Wild Day at the Zoo Back to top

In this sequel to the first installment in the Little Polyglot Adventures series, readers again have the pleasure of spending time with multilingual siblings Dylan and Isabella, their loving parents, and Dylan's pet chicken Kiki as they enjoy a very special trip to the zoo. As with the previous entry, A Wild Day at the Zoo exposes readers to six new words in several languages and includes a link (and QR code) with which t...Read more

Little Polyglot Books (Animals) - Bilingual Spanish/English Vocabulary Picture Book - with audio! Back to top

This Spanish and English version of the Little Polyglot Books (which is also available in over 30 other languages) incorporates several elements that elevate its efficacy above that of other language learning books for children. Each page displays a vivid, full-color photograph of a different animal (38 familiar animals in all) along with that animal's name printed in both Spanish and English. Accompanying the names on ea...Read more

Longest Hidden Pictures Puzzle Ever Back to top
Age
7 - 12 yrs.
Best Family Fun

With a whopping 280+ objects to find, this nearly 16-foot-long puzzle delivers unparalleled delights in the realm of hidden pictures! The gargantuan puzzle comes in the form of a compact, highly portable 8.5 x 11-inch book that can be explored a page or two at a time or be unfurled, accordion-style, into one continuous 22-page spread. The detailed imagery depicts a relay race traversing an entire city, through cozy neighb...Read more

My First Science Textbook: Atoms Back to top
Age
2-7 yrs.
Brain Child

This delightful book conveys an impressive amount of scientific information in terms that young children find relatable and thus easy to understand. Atoms, protons, neutrons, electrons, the strong force, ionic and covalent bonds, molecules, elements and quite a few other seemingly complex concepts are concisely explained using gorgeous, playful illustrations and lilting rhymes that hold youngsters rapt. That the author an...Read more

My First Science Textbook: Electrons Back to top
Age
2 - 7 yrs.
Best Children's Products

Young children find the characteristics of electrons to be utterly fascinating, particularly when told from that selfsame particle's point of view. Electrons charmingly portrays the title particle as a cute and cheery character who narrates her distinctive scientific attributes in a series of playful and informative segments. In this highly engaging context, young readers easily absorb details such as the electron's mass,...Read more

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