Here are a bunch of unique books that would be good for gifts.

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

We have too many things to tell you about and what if you want to order them off the internet before Christmas? Then we have to tell you a bit about them all at once right now! So here are a bunch of things you should know about. And order today!

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

We picked a winner! Get ready to rock and roll, Rachel! Random.org randomly chose #18.

Now just send us your snail mail address and let us know if you want the Camp Rock acoustic guitar or the Hannah Montana electric guitar.

Liberty

We’re out of town right now and the children can not be bothered with Kids Know Stuff nonsense, so I went to Random.org all by myself and I even made a screenshot for you:

The winners are:

1st Place: Number 15, Jackie (The Frog Bride, Aesop Bops!, Shrek the Halls, Tropic Thunder, Kung Fu Panda Two-Pack, Enzoology: Enzo’s Radical Reptiles, Enzoology Season One. And our friends at Brighter Minds are giving away Top Chef the computer game and a coupon for $10 off any $15 purchase)

2nd Place: Number 42, Heather C (The Frog Bride, Aesop Bops!, Shrek the Halls,Tropic Thunder, Kung Fu Panda Two-Pack, Enzoology Season One, a sample of Top Chef, and a $10 coupon from Brighter Minds)

3rd Place: Number 36, Noah (Enzoology Season One, wrapped-and-ready copies of Kung Fu Panda, Iron Man, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, a sample of Top Chef, and a $10 Brighter Minds coupon)

4th Place: Number 5, Stephanie (Enzoology Season One, High School Musical DVD game, a sample of Top Chef, and a $10 Brighter Minds coupon)

5th Place: Number 35, Lynne (Enzoology Season One and a $10 Brighter Minds coupon)

Thanks for playing everybody! Winners, please send your snail mail address to info@kidsknowstuff.com so we can get your awesome prizes out to you!

Abby

These DVDs are Aesop Bops! and The Frog Bride. David Gonzalez is a storyteller and we saw him do The Frog Bride at the Wexner center! It was funny! And you should see him in person too! The Aesop Bops! DVD has the Aesop’s Fables, The Lion and the Mouse, The Fisherman and His Wife, and The Turtle’s Shell. David Gonzalez and the musicians make them so funny! The musicans on Aesop Bops! are Daniel Kelly (keyboard), Dave Hertzberg (bass), and Chris Michael (drums). On The Frog Bride, the musicians are Christian Howes (violin and electric violin) and Daniel Kelly (piano, keyboard, electronics). And we have some copies of both DVDs to give to you! Also, if you click this link, and then click “shows” there are interesting things about each show like study guides and answers to interesting questions and things. These DVDs are great and they’re different than any DVDs you’ll ever see. We love them. Storytelling is awesome!

We’ve been watching regular DVDs, too, like Shrek the Halls and the Kung Fu Panda two-disc set. They’re so funny and the DVD extras on the Kung Fu Panda are awesome! Except for the games. They’re not very good. But the second disc is another show called Secrets of the Furious Five. And you could win that too! We also have copies of Tropic Thunder to give away, but we didn’t watch that movie. Our dad did and he said it’s not for kids and it’s only for adults. And even some adults might not like it. But some people will think it’s funny. You should look here to decide if you will like it or not.

Also, on November 25th, Paramount Home Entertainment will release “wrapped and ready” DVDs, which means they’re already wrapped up for Christmas! And we’re giving some to you. We have wrapped and ready versions of Iron Man, Kung Fu Panda, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

And, because it’s Thanksgiving week, we’re having a huge giveaway. There will be five winners:

First place: The Frog Bride, Aesop Bops!, Shrek the Halls, Tropic Thunder, Kung Fu Panda Two-Pack (Kung Fu Panda & The Secrets of the Furious Five), Enzoology: Enzo’s Radical Reptiles, Enzoology Season One. And our friends at Brighter Minds are giving away Top Chef the computer game and a coupon for $10 off any $15 purchase.

Second place: The Frog Bride, Aesop Bops!, Shrek the Halls,Tropic Thunder, Kung Fu Panda Two-Pack, Enzoology Season One, a sample of Top Chef, and a $10 coupon from Brighter Minds.

Third place: Enzoology Season One, wrapped-and-ready copies of Kung Fu Panda, Iron Man, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, a sample of Top Chef, and a $10 Brighter Minds coupon.

Fourth place: Enzoology Season One, High School Musical DVD game, a sample of Top Chef, and a $10 Brighter Minds coupon.

Fifth place: Enzoology Season One and a $10 Brighter Minds coupon.

Here are the new and improved rules: Anybody can enter by leaving a comment. But if you link to us on your blog, facebook, myspace, twitter, or other forum, you are automatically entered twice (you can still only win once, though). We want everybody to be able to enter our contests even if you don’t have a place to link to us. But we also want links because that helps us get more free stuff to give to you! You have until Sunday, November 30th at 4:00pm to enter. Good luck!

Lena