Win $260 in Children’s Books!

Barron’s Educational Series is teaming up with Blog it Forward to bring you an amazing promotion!They are giving away $260 worth of children’s books!Barron’s is known for their test prep books (SAT, ACT, AP, GRE, etc.). They are also a major publisher of children’s books with hundreds of books in their inventory.View their online children’s catalog.Hold on tight, here’s the HUGE list of books they’re giving away!The Awesome Activity Adventure BookKow Kapow and the Bonsai Kid are two silly cartoon animals who go off on a series of wild and wacky adventures to find the Monkey Nut of Moo! As their madcap escapade unfolds, kids are provided with puzzles to solve, pictures to draw, riddles to answer, mazes to find their way out of, a treasure map to decipher, and a creepy castle to explore. Boys and girls are also encouraged to READ MORE.The Dragon Creativity BookLittle boys love stories about dragons, and here’s an activity book designed to keep them busy with dragon-related activities. They can create uniquely fearsome dragon heads, count dragons, eggs hidden in dragon illustrations, read dragon maps as they play dragon games, and generally enjoy hours of dragon-hunting fun. This big book features READ MORE.Emily’s Ice Dancing ShowThis magical picture book tells the story of Emily, a little girl who watches graceful skaters on an icy pond and wishes she could skate with them. She gathers her courage and gives ice skating a try, but quickly finds out how difficult it is. She struggles and wobbles, and finally loses her balance and has a fall. But Emily doesn’t give up. Read More.EyePad 123Available in June 2012Preschool boys and girls will have fun learning basic skills and concepts with this eyePad, solving puzzles, and playing games, while they pretend they’re working on a tablet computer that looks just like Moms or Dads. Barron’s eyePad Activity Books for younger children have features that READ MORE.EyePad ABCAvailable in June 2012 

EYEPAD AMAZING GAMES & PUZZLES

Available in June 2012

Preschool boys and girls will have fun learning basic skills and concepts with this eyePad, solving puzzles, and playing games, while they pretend they’re working on a tablet computer that looks just like Moms or Dads. Barron?s eyePad Activity Books for younger children have features that READ MORE.

EYEPAD SHAPES AND SIZES

Available in June 2012

Preschool boys and girls will have fun learning basic skills and concepts with this eyePad, solving puzzles, and playing games, while they pretend they’re working on a tablet computer that looks just like Moms or Dads. Barrons eyePad Activity Books for younger children have features that READ MORE.

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF YOUR BODY

Detailed, scientifically accurate color illustrations are complemented with a lively text that explains the many ways a typical healthy child’s body functions at different times of a typical day. The book’s narrative depicts a child waking up in the morning, eating breakfast and digesting food, using the body’s muscles to ride a bike, and performing the many normal activities that make up a child’s READ MORE.

 

Where’s the Meerkat?

A meerkat family is on a round-the-world vacation trip, and kids who open this book are challenged to locate those roaming animals in a series of large, colorful, detail-packed street scenes. The meerkats’ travels take them to Moscow’s Red Square and New York’s Times Square. The friendly but elusive creatures also show up in Venice at carnival time, at a floating farmer’s market in Bangkok READ MORE.

The Wheels on The Bus

Kids can sing along with this book’s funny animal characters as they turn each page. The big, colorful illustrations that fill every page present a Wheels on the Bus verse, while more and more animals climb aboard for a bus ride. The weight of those many animals finally flattens the bus’s tires and it takes big puffs from the elephant’s trunk to READ MORE.

The Kid’s Summer Fun Book

Cheerfully illustrated and designed to inspire family fun, The Kids Summer Fun Book deserves a place in every family’s home library. Parents will find ideas to recapture their childhood as they join with their kids in dozens of fun-to-do summer activities. Ideas include summer beach parties with a sand castle building theme, hiking and camping READ MORE.

Sophie’s Ballet Show

This delightful story about a little girl who joins a ballet class comes with big color illustrations and all kinds of interactive features on every page. There are tabs to pull, flaps to lift, wheels to turn, and a wonderful pop-up ballet scene on the book’s final two-page spread. When kids pull the READ MORE.

The Princess Creativity Book

Certain to please every little princess who enjoys crafts and activities, this big, fun-packed book has pictures to color, sticker sheets for decorating a gate, folding sticker scene, stencils for drawing, decorated paper for fashioning crafts items, mazes and puzzles to solve, directions for making a princess crown, princess games to play with friends, and much more. Every little girl wants to be a princess READ MORE.

Off To School

Younger children who will soon be starting school will see this attractive board book as their introduction to an exciting new experience. It presents bright illustrations and simple text that sum up a typically happy school day. READ MORE.

Let’s Lace

Toddlers will enjoy learning how to lace up and tie their own shoes when they get help from Mom or Dad and this color illustrated board book. The vivid front cover is really a double cover that opens from spines on both sides of the book. The left-side front cover is decorated with a large, eye-catching READ MORE.

Left Hand, Right Hand

In this newly formatted version of a popular children’s title, preschool boys and girls discover how their left and right hands are different, and how together they perform different tasks. Kids also learn to tell left from right as ways of giving READ MORE.

HOW THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WORKS

A fine classroom supplement and a solid information source for kids writing social studies reports, this updated, easy-to-read book explains the federal system as it works in the United States today. It also discusses some ways in which the government has changed since the framers of the Constitution brought it into existence in the 18th century. Described are the Legislative body, composed of Senate and READ MORE.

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND OTHER COOL FACTS

Young readers will be fascinated by attention-catching facts as they read about major presidential campaigns, from George Washington’s election in 1789 to Barack Obama’s victory in 2008. Questions answered include: Who can run for president? … Who can vote? … What is the Electoral College? … What is a third-party candidate? READ MORE.

THE U. S. CONSTITUTION AND YOU

Written in terms kids can understand, this revised and updated book explains what the United States Constitution does, and describes how it affects and protects people today. Boys and girls discover how that great document gives citizens many rights, including the right to vote, as well as to enjoy freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom to worship or not worship READ MORE.

TEACH ME TO DO IT MYSELF

Based on the key Montessori principle that children learn best through active experience, Teach Me to Do It Myself presents simple activities through which children explore and develop their skills. These skill areas include sensory perceptions, body coordination, language, understanding of numbers, and movement. This practical, color-illustrated parenting book is filled with activities and instructions for READ MORE.

PUSS IN BOOTS

he very popular cat from the animated Shrek film series comes vividly alive in this brand-new book. Scheduled for publication this Fall to coincide with the release of the latest Shrek spin-off movie, Puss in Boots, it’s the story of a quick-witted, feline – the pet of Peter, a good-natured but shiftless orphan boy. As the story begins, Peter’s father, READ MORE.

LEAVE ME ALONE

Help raise awareness at home or at school with this important story about stopping bullying. A little boy is feeling sad because every day he has to face a bully. But this story’s little boy also has friends. A frog, a cat, a rabbit, a cow, and other animal friends insist on helping him, even after READ MORE.

THE FASHION TWEEN CREATIVITY BOOK

Little girls who love pretty clothes and all the fashion items that go with them will adore this activity book. It’s packed with pages to color, puzzles to solve, quizzes, mazes, and games to play. Girls can color in a model’s hair, draw their own fantasy wardrobe, design pretty fashion accessories, and let their imaginations run free, as they discover something new to create on every page. Attractive features include READ MORE.

THE PIRATE CREATIVITY BOOK

Here’s an activity book to keep kids entertained during quiet times. Its theme is pirates and their high-seas adventures, and it’s packed with pictures, fun things to make and do, and puzzles and mazes to solve. Kids will find Pictures to color. Two sticker sheets plus a large gate, folding sticker scene. A pirate theme stencil sheet. Decorated craft paper with pirate designs. READ MORE.

An amazing list of books! Our winner will get them ALL! Yes that’s right, every book listed!!

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