HEALTHY BOOK KITS
After many requests, Book Kits have been developed. Below are the best of the best.
Farm to Table Kit: Ages 4 - 8
Includes FOUR Hard Cover story books List Price $61.97
Farm to Table Kit Price $49.00
A Garden for Pig By Kathryn K. Thurman Is a humorous tale of a patient pig with a love of vegetables and a very special gardening technique. The book comes with tips for kids on planting, mulching, and fertilizing an organic garden, instructions for making your own compost bin and advice on how to fight weeds and insects without pesticides.
HOW DID THAT Get in My LUNCHBOX? The Story of FOOD By Chris Butterworth
Who made the bread for your sandwich? What about the cheese inside? Who picked your fruit?... Just how DID all that delicious food get in your lunchbox? Take a tasty trip to farms, dairies, and factories, and find out!
Bring Me Some Apples and I'll Make you a Pie. A Story about Edna Lewis By Robbin Gourley What a GREAT book, this is another wonderful Farm to Table selection! Families can talk about where food comes from and how it grows. If they don't have their own backyard garden to visit, they can head to the farmer's market or to a pick-your-own farm and then try their hands at some of the recipes in the back of the book.
An Edible Alphabet By Carol Watterson Bouncing blueberries, eager ewes, and giggling geese! Join this lively bunch on an alphabetical tour of today’s farm. With families and schools thinking more than ever about fresh, healthful choices for the table, kids want to know about the foods they see and eat every day: Where does it come from? How is it grown? Of course there are far more than 26 reasons to love the farm. What are yours?
BEST BOOKS FOR BABIES
EIGHT of the Best Board Books for your little one.
Market Day includes FOUR BOOKS and a game in one carrying case!
Plus Mealtime, I like Fruit, and Yummy Yucky!
List Price for these books is $44.00 Your Cost $ 35.00
Market Day! By Victoria Roberts Four 12-page board books are housed in a carrying case that doubles as a foldout, pop-up bazaar, with punch-out characters to play with. Each book takes readers to different market stands to introduce a concept. At Mr. Pig’s produce stall, animals emphasize the colors of their purchases 'Red cherries, please, and may I have/some strawberries to much' while shapes, opposites, and numbers are discussed in the other books.
I LIKE Fruit...Do You like shiny apples or lumpy bumpy oranges? This appealing board book offers so much for your baby and toddler to touch and feel. Explore pictures, colors, and textures and encourage your little one to explore the fruit around them!
Are you eating something RED?
Meet Greenie, a new mealtime mascot for young readers and eaters! A juicy red apple? A sweet yellow banana? A crisp green pepper? How about some orange carrots? Greenie helps kids choose from a rainbow of different fruits and vegetables, each healthy and nutritious. This sturdy board book is easy for kids and parents to take along for healthy mealtime fun.
Wiggle
Can you Slither? Can you Swoop and Sway? Move, Move, Move, there are lots of ways! This rhythmic text will have young readers waddling, wiggling, swaying, and swooping with delight. This sturdy board book with lenticular artwork on the cover will get kids on their feet and keep them moving.
Picky Eaters Pack
Do you have a picky eater? You need this Picky Eaters Pack to tame your picky eater. These three fun books will get any child to try new foods.
Three storybooks (includes Fussy Freya and Tales for Picky Eaters in hard cover and I will Never not Ever Eat a Tomato in soft cover. List Price $38.93
Picky Eater Pack Price $32.00
I Will Never NOT EVER Eat a Tomato By Lauren Child
Lola is a very fussy eater and after a list of unacceptable foods Charlie has an idea...can they use their imaginations and make these foods appealing to Lola? In the end will she EVEN try a Tomato?
Tales For VERY Picky Eaters By: Josh Schneider James is a very picky eater. His dad has to get creative to get James to Eat Food. He presents James with outlandish scenarios packed with gross and kid-friendly details in an effort to get James to EAT.
Fussy Freya By: Katherine Quarmby One day Freya declares that the food is NOT nice and she won't take a single bite. Mum and Dad are at their wits end but Gran and Grandpa know what to do...they change Freya's mind and Fussy Eating Habits for GOOD in this fun tale.
NUMBERS and NUTRITION
Teach your preschoolers healthy eating habits while they learn their numbers
by using this teaching pack. FOUR Storybooks that will
get your preschooler EXCITED about food, numbers, and counting!
List Price for these storybooks is $38.84 YOUR COST $28.50
Eggs and Legs: Counting by Two's Introduces counting by twos by counting the number of legs coming out of eggs. Readers are invited to find hidden numbers on an illustrated activity page.
Ages 4-8 By Michael Dahl
Piglet's Picnic By Jessica Souhami A cleverly-designed lift the flap counting book, with six flaps and one full page fold-out, weaving fascinating food and simple numbers into an appealing story with lively collage illustrations.
My Very First Book of Numbers
Can you tell how many cherries there are? How many apples? In the brilliantly colorful My Very First Book of Numbers, children can find the number of fruits in the bottom half of a page that matches the number of boxes and numerals in the top half. Children will love solving the puzzles of these clever, vibrant books. Eric Carle
From the Garden Introduces the numbers from one to twelve as family members pick a variety of vegetables from the garden. Readers are invited to find hidden numbers on an illustrated activity page. By Michael Dahl
Table Manners Kit for PRESCHOOLERS 18 months - 4 year olds
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See our We Have Table Manners page.
Now is the best time to start teaching Manners. For $41.00 you will get FOUR storybooks, one includes a Music CD, AND SIX BONUS Handouts on a reproducible disk!
Handouts on reproducible disk include: Set the Table Activity Sheet, Table Manners Stickers, FOUR DESIGNS of Family Meal Placemat Coloring Sheets and a two page Family Newslettter.
We Love the Company By Angela Russ-Ayon
Join this diverse group of children as they explain table manners from their point of view. The meal the children eat also encourages healthy choices. This book comes with an audio book, companion song, and instrumental version on an included CD.
Please is a Good Word to Say
It puts a smile on your words. And that’s not the only advice curly-burly-haired Harriet has for you. Asking, taking, interrupting, eating, answering the phone—if there’s a nice way to do it, Harriet can tell you just how to do it. Jennifer Plecas’ infectious illustrations bring Barbara Joosse’s hilarious heroine to life in this offbeat and adorable approach to manners. Kids will be (very politely) clamoring to hear it over and over again . . . and parents will be pleased to oblige.
Say Please! By Tony Ross
The little princess forgets - and then remembers - her manners, and learns that "please" and "thank you" are important words for everyone. A great book of manners for young children.
Manners Time By Elizabeth Verdick This board book gives toddlers a head start on manners,
setting the stage for social skills that will last a lifetime. "Manners start with a smile—then you add the words." For the youngest students, learning manners is easy!
Handwashing Kit for PRESCHOOLERS Ages 18 mo - 4
For Handwashing products for PreK- 5th graders see our Handwashing Page
Preschool is the best time to enforce handwashing habits for $22.50 (Storybooks alone are a $22.90 list price) you will get two wonderful story books and FOUR BONUS handouts on a reproducible disk.
Handouts on Reproducible Disk Include: Handwashing Chart, Handwashing Door Knob Hanger, Sudsy Scrubber Stickers, Black and White GERM paper, and a two page family newsletter.
Those Mean Nasty Dirty Downright Disgusting but...Invisible Germs. Encourage the formation of good health habits in children. Through playful and colorful illustrations, this popular children’s book shows the germs that cause illness and how important hand washing is to good health. Kids LOVE it!
Germs Are Not for Sharing Board Book By Elizabeth Verdick Achoo! Cough! What to do? Rather than focus on what germs are, this book teaches the basics of NOT spreading them...cover up a sneeze or cough, and most of all wash your hands!
MOVE Kit
Includes FOUR Hard Cover story books List Price $30.00
MOVE Kit Price $24.00
Wiggle
Can you Slither? Can you Swoop and Sway? Move, Move, Move, there are lots of ways! This rhythmic text will have young readers waddling, wiggling, swaying, and swooping with delight. This sturdy board book with lenticular artwork on the cover will get kids on their feet and keep them moving.
My Very First Book of Motion Feast your eyes on the latest split-page board books from Eric Carle. In My Very First Book of Motion, children can match each animal with the way it moves. Whichanimal hops? Which one waddles? Only you can match them.
Skippyjon Jones Shape Up
Skippyjon has an overactive imagination. And he is pretty active himself. Here he shapes up with shapes: he runs in a circle, tap-dances on a square, orbits an oval.
Move!
By Steve Jenkins & Robin Page
This board book contains action words and animals. Gorgeous vibrant actions teach your students to waddle, float, slide, slither, dance, run...animals move in different ways.