Tikki Tikki Tembo (Paperback w/ CD)

by Arlene (RTL) Mosel (Author), Blair Lent (Illustrator), Marcia Gay Harden (Narrator)

Tikki Tikki Tembo is a great repetetive book for all kids but especially those preschoolers that love to repeat.  Peyton walks around saying “Tiki tiki tembo, no saw rembo, cherry berry ruchy, …” all day.  He also loved having me turn the pages when the gong sounded.

Erin

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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (Paperback w/ CD)

by Bill Martin Jr. (Author), Eric Carle (Illustrator), Gwyneth Paltrow (Reader)

Peyton loved this book and as each animal appeared on the next page, he lets outs a cute little gasp and has a delighted expression on his face.  He loves listening to it on the CD, it is somehow much more exciting than listening to Mom or Dad read it to him.

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The Jon & Jayne Doe series is like an advice guide. They have all different kinds of advice and they write it kind of funny. It might be better for older kids. I liked the one about making friends because it talks about how to talk to people and make new friends and not believing rumors.

Adventures with PawPaw is about a little puppy who travels all over. Our books are France, Costa Rica, and China. They show you little bits about each country, like their food and special landmarks and what the people do. They’re for little kids. And a portion of the money you spend on them goes to children’s charities around the world.

Lookman’s Children of the Sea and Mihte’s Quest and Henri and the Alien are really good books, but they’re very meaty and maybe a little old for us. Maybe 12 and up would be better for these books, but they’re good adventures.

We have some audio books, too: The One and Only Shrek and Brown Bear & Friends are fun to listen to in the car or at home when you’re doing chores or something. Maya really likes the Brown Bear books, so she likes that one better. The One and Only Shrek was really good and different than I thought.

The last one is Picture Yourself Cooking with Kids and it’s good because, besides the good recipes, it has lots of tips about being safe in the kitchen and how to help kids be safe in the kitchen. And we have a free one for you! And we also have a pair of Loud Enough earphones for you! I know they don’t really go with this review, but they sort of do because you could buy the audiobooks and listen to them with your new earphones. We reviewed them before and they’re awesome! One winner, two prizes!

You can enter the contest by leaving a comment, but if you link to us on your blog, facebook, twitter, or message board, and leave the link in the comments section, then you are entered an extra time for every time you link to us. But! You must leave a link to where you linked to us in the comments section or else you will not get the extra entries. This contest will end on Sunday, December 21st at 4:00pm EST.

Lena

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Girl Mogul has a lot of cool stuff.

We tried out the Girl Power Self-Esteem Kit, which has Catherine Dee’s The Girls’ Guide to Life book in it. It is a super good book for making strong girls. The kit comes with a journal, pen, pencil, highlighter, and goal notebook. We love this kit! We also talked aboutGirl Mogul’s Conversations to Go conversation starter game in our review here.

Also, Girl Mogul sent Maddie an awesome shirt. It says “Future Leader of the Free World” on it. Maddie’s mom said it faded after one wash, but it’s still cute. They have lots of other cool shirts too.

Manifest Your Magnificence is a bunch of cards that say affirmations like, “I am proud” on them and then you think of something that you’re proud about. It’s really cool. The pictures on the cards are awesome and it comes with a cd of somebody reading the affirmations, too.

Wett-Giggles soap would be a really cute stocking stuffer. They smell good and they have little animals that are really scrub brushes once the soap goes away. The soap is handmade with glycerin, shea butter, and essential oils. Fun!

The Dot Girl’s First Period Kit might be good if you have a girl who is just about to go through puberty.

They’re cute kits with lots of helpful information and products to help with a girl’s first period. And one dollar from every kit you buy goes to The Central Asia Institute, which helps provide schools for girls in remote parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

If you know someone who appreciates treats, but wants to be healthy, you should get Crispy Cat organic candy bars (mint coconut is my mom’s favorite) and La Vita All Natural Cruncy Cookies for their stocking!

Also, it might be fun to order some very cute and tasty Tennessee T-Cakes and have them sent to somebody special.

Oh, I almost forgot. You have to have band-aids, right? Kids like having cool band-aids, right? You could put Sticker Sisters’ Brave Girl-Aids in your child’s stocking along with some of Sticker Sisters’ other cool things.

There. Lots of ideas for last-minute internet shopping.

Liberty

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Ruthie was so entertained by eebee’s Peek-a-Boo Adventures, she couldn’t wait to try out eebee’s Have a Ball! Adventures, but her twin brother Warren was reading it. The soft books are cute and cuddly and Ruthie and Warren both liked them. If you have a baby, they might like them too.

Lena

PS GIVEAWAY!

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This is Coraline by Neil Gaiman. It is very creepy and scary. We listened to it on the way to Michigan. WARNING: do not give to kids that can get easily scared….and have nightmares…and don’t give it to kids who don’t like scary books. It is a cd that you listen to and also a graphic novel and it’s a regular book too. And it’s going to be a movie in February! The movie might be a little less scary then the cd the book and the graphic novel. Some kids like scary stuff. I don’t like scary stuff. I only like this.

Lena

PS our giveaway ends at 4:00 on Sunday. We’ll announce the winner on Monday.

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Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope is by Nikki Grimes and illustrated by Bryan Collier. It’s about Barack Obama’s childhood and life up to when he decided to run for president. In his family, education was the most important thing so he studied hard and now he’s going to be our first black president. I think that’s important. He wants all people to have a better chance at life.

The book is kind of boring to me, but it’s good because it tells you about our new president.

Don’t forget! You still have time to enter this week’s giveaway! We’ll announce the winner Monday morning, so that means you have until Sunday morning to enter.

Liberty

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Our cousin Riley did a review of the Naruto books when we were visiting her in Michigan. They’re written by Masashi Kishimoto. She looooves Naruto. We looooove Naruto. The books have action and they’re funny sometimes. You really care about the characters. For Halloween, I dressed as Naruto, Liberty dressed as Sakura, and Riley dressed as Hinata. If you think you’ll like these books, start with the first one or else they’re really confusing. We heard that some adults don’t like graphic novels like this, but lots of kids like them. And we read them! So buy them! They have hard words in them! But it’s ok!

P.S. There’s still time to enter our drawing for The Bill Martin Jr. Big Book of Poetry.

Lena

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The Secret Identity of Devon Delaney by Lauren Barnholdt is really good. It teaches you to not lie. It also teaches you that being popular is not super awesome. Because sometimes popular friends aren’t really nice. And you shouldn’t lie to your friends because people always find out and then they think you’re lying every time you say something. It’s better to tell the truth and be yourself.

Don’t forget about this week’s giveaway! Go to this post and tell us what your favorite children’s book is and you could win a big, beautiful book of poetry for kids. It’s called The Bill Martin Jr. Big Book of Poetry.

Liberty

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It’s November! That means you have to think about what to buy for a bunch of kids for the holidays. We celebrate Christmas, but our friends Noah and Madison celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah and other people do Kwanzaa and other people don’t do holidays, but still buy their kids things. So we’re going to try to post a review every weekday in November to help you with your gift lists. Also, we have tons of things to give away like books, DVDs, and games.

Here is our first pre-holiday book review (I think we’re going to try to do books all week long, but I can’t remember if that’s true or not). It’s a huge book called The Way We Work by David Macaulay. It’s not the kind of thing we like. But watch the video because my mom says it’s a really good book and lots of people might like it.

And now for our giveaway!

We’re giving away a different big book. It’s called The Bill Martin Jr. Big Book of Poetry. It’s a huge book filled with poems that were picked by Bill Martin Jr. To enter the contest, just leave a comment telling us what your favorite book is. If you’re a grown-up, tell us what your favorite book was when you were a little kid. We’ll announce the winner on Monday, November 10th.

Lena

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Post tags: Ages 9-12, books, David Macaulay, giveaways, holidays, Stuff We Don't Like, The Way We Work