Parenting daughters is tough. There are so many messages about what girls should be, and more still about how they should look. Blogger Virginia Sole Smith has put together a resource of books about Brave Girls. I think I'm off to Amazon to do some shopping!
The Works is selling the complete Mr Men collection for £37.99 instead of the usual retail price of £117.50. The collection includes 47 books and you are saving 68% off the original price – a total cash saving of £79.51.
The complete Mr Men collection will keep fans entertained for hours and I would love, love to get this for my daughter. She loves Mr Men and we’re missing quite a few titles in the series. All the much loved classics are in this box, all the ones published as far back as 1971.
You get every title published, including the new Mr Nobody, and none of the ladies are included here. This is a really cool gift for someone special if their birthday is coming up!
Thanks to JohnnyRoller at HUKD!
The Works is offering a ’10 books for £10’ on selected kids books. And considering that each book retails for between £4.99 and £9.99 EACH, that’s a saving of up to 85%
The Works has a HUGE range of kids books, audio books, art materials, jigsaws, CDs, DVDs and adult fiction and non-fiction books. Their current ’10 kids books for £10’ offer applies to a selected range of books from ‘The Worst Princess’ and ‘My Giant Fairytale Sticker Book’ to the Octonauts series.
The favourite part of my day is lying next to my daughter reading her a bedtime story. Unfortunately her bookshelf is a little limited and she keeps choosing the same books over and over again so I try to make it interesting for myself by embellishing the story slightly. Previously she used to find this hilarious but not that she can read I’m pretty much snookered.. With this fabulous deal from The Works my little princess can now be entertained by a whole range of new kids books which she can actually read to me for a change! And with free delivery for orders over £25 there are a couple of things on the website that I’ll be adding to her order for me!
Waterstones have taken £1.75 off the range of Ladybird’s successful ‘Pirate Pete’ and ‘Princess Polly’ ‘I’m a Big Brother/Sister’ books. So instead of paying £6.99 you’ll pay £5.24 each.
Wondering how you’re going to ease your son into not being the centre of your universe once a new baby arrives? This interactive sound book describes the excitement and fun of having a new sibling and becoming a BIG BROTHER. The simple text and colourful illustrations will help little boys understand what happens when a new baby joins the family and how lovely it is to be a big brother. Pressing the sound button each time to hear the baby giggle is also a great way to encourage young children to help out and play with the new baby and reward his good behaviour.
This would be a lovely gift for any mum expecting her second child to help her teach her little one how to adapt to the new member of the family. And at this lovely price, why not get one for another special person in your life too!
Grab the free voucher to buy from 25 pre-selected ebooks on the Amazon Kindle Store at a reduced price of just £1. Lose yourself in a great new page turner including thrillers, love stories, sci-fi and more for just £1 with this free voucher which will be applied directly to your Amazon.co.uk account.
Being a recent Kindle convert (yes, I AM a late adopter!) I couldn’t resist the time-travelling adventure and deadly mystery of The Far Time Incident by Neve Maslakovic when I went onto www. amazon.co.uk. Its one of 25 pre-selected page-turners that Amazon are offering for just £3.99. Use the voucher and get one for only £1. No matter what your reading taste Amazon has got something for you but bear in mind that your voucher must be redeemed towards the purchase of an eligible Kindle ebook by 11:59pm 27th May 2013 so get online now – you wont regret it!
If you don’t have a Kindle download a free Kindle Reading App to enjoy the book on your phone, tablet or computer.
This is a sweet little deal for those of you hunting for really neat and cute storage solutions for your kids. This 3-box library kit is down to £36.99 including delivery charges from Vertbaudet using the voucher code below. Tasty.
To get this low price on the Vertbaudet 3-box library storage solution you can use the code 5808, and if you spend over £60, then the delivery charges will be free. Otherwise you are spending £3.99 on delivery.
This is a practical storage space with three staggered boxes and two side compartments. It comes with silk screen printed motifs and non-toxic lacquered MDF. You will need to build it yourself and it only comes in pink at this price.
The cost on the website is £44, down from £55, and the voucher code above, entered at the checkout, will drop you down enough to make it a total of £36.99 including the delivery charges.
Thanks to BargainHunter at HUKD!
If you're in the mood for adding some Julia Donaldson books to your existing collection - or starting one, if you don't have any as yet! - then you need to get yourself over to Asda Direct. They're currently selling three Julia D books for £10, which is a bit of a Julia Donaldson book bargain!
It is only slightly possible that you don't recognise the name Julia Donaldson, but if you don't, just trust me when I say she writes the most wonderful stories for young kids in the whole wide world.
Lots of them (most of them, in fact!) rhyme and you can never, ever get away with reading one just once at bedtime - you'll either read the same one over and over, or a selection of a few.
It's impossible to recommend a top three as all of them are just as good as each other, so take your pick if you don't have any, or fill in the gaps if you already have some Julia Donaldson titles on your book shelves at home.
Standard delivery, which takes between three and five days, is free; you can also arrange to pop into your local Asda store and collect them there for free too. If you need your Julia Donaldson books quicker than that, then you can pay an additional £4.95 for next/named day delivery.
Thanks to Alithelord at HUKD
This is a really good one for aeroplane enthusiasts for the summer holidays that are only a few months away. The Stunt Planes book gives your child the paper and a step by step guide to make really cool paper aeroplanes. It’s normally £4.99 but you can get the book from The Works for just £1.99. That’s a cool saving of £3.00 or 60%.
This looks like so much fun. Using the perforated papers from the back of this book your kids can make fun, brightly coloured paper aeroplanes. All they need to do is simply follow the step-by-step instructions to make their fantastic fliers in minutes. They can then fly them around the house or garden and see whose goes furthest and fastest.
All of the full-colour models featured in this book are very easy to make with the stunning artwork paper provided. Fabulous facts about aircrafts can also be found throughout the book. Making paper aeroplanes has never been so much fun!
The Works is currently offering the Handbook of Natural Baby and Childcare for £7.99 instead of the usual price of £9.99. This is a saving of 20% off the usual price with an actual monetary value of £2. Not a lot, I know, but this would make a lovely gift for an expectant mum.
This book is all about raising your baby and child the way nature intended. It covers everything you need to know from birth to age five and is a practical and modern resource for every parent and carer. The book includes over 650 photographs which makes it a visual feast!
The book shows you how to care for your baby and growing toddler in natural, gentle ways. It takes a look at every aspect of your child – physical, developmental, emotional and behavioural – and it offers sensitive advice on learning how to be a new parent. This would make a nice present for someone who is expecting their first baby.
The technology revolution and the rise of the app have made me very happy. Not only does it mean that we get to play around with amazing new toys, but we also gain access to a world of recipes and ideas that people never had access to before. In this feature I am going to take you through some of the coolest recipe apps from the free to the costly…
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Save a whopping great £87.80 on a set of 21 magical books at Red House. The Rainbow Magic Series is a collection of 21 fairy books that should retail for £104.79 so £16.99 is a crazy saving.
Rainbow Magic is an extremely popular brand that has not only got girls into reading but has also helped boost their reading confidence too. This collection features series 12 to 14 of the bestseller series and contains 21 books that follow the exciting adventures of the Green Fairies, the Twilight Fairies and the Ocean Fairies.
The Green Fairies are looking to save the planet while the Twilight Fairies enjoy sleepovers and midnight feasts and the Ocean Fairy’s underwater adventures are full of fun. These are truly delightful books for children aged five and over.
Titles in this collection include Isabella the Air Fairy, Coral the Reef Fairy, Milly the River Fairy, Lily the Rainforest Fairy, Stephanie the Starfish Fairy, Courtney the Clownfish Fairy and Pia the Penguin Fairy, lovely.
The Book People are selling this incredibly popular Just Imagine book, in hardback format, for £3.99 - it's recommended list price is £10.99.
I'm very excited by this book and may point my mum in its direction - this is the sort of thing she loves giving as presents, and my youngest niece has such a fabulous little imagination that I'm sure she'd adore Just Imagine for her birthday at the end of this month.
Thirty two pages of illustrations encourages kids to make up their own stories from the images they choose - how awesome is that?! They'll be able to imagine what it's like to plough fields in a big red tractor - perhaps there's a scarecrow in the field who comes to life - if that's where their imagination takes them. Or what it would be like to fly in a hot air balloon, be invisible, or be able to cast spells like a witch or wizard - no story will ever be the same twice, unless they want it to be.
Plenty of other people adore this book already, and its 'prequel' You Choose, so please don't wait too long to order your copy (if you think you might want one) as I'm sure it'll go out of stock pretty quickly.
Single item delivery usually costs £2.80, but you can bag it for free if you enter MARWEL into the promotion code/discount box in your basket.
Happy imagining!
Apparently I am on something of a mission when it comes to the For Dummies books lately. A few weeks ago I reviewed the Children's Health for Dummies book and it was something of a hit in our family, this week I'm all about the Blogging for Dummies book. Now, as you probably are aware, blogging can be quite a lucrative and exciting thing to get into, but for those of us who are short on time, the learning curve can be quite intimidating. That's where this book comes into its own.
Blogging for Dummies is laid out in a very intuitive style with each chapter moving into the next seamlessly. You don't have to flip back and forth through pages to find information or sit back and feel a bit baffled by it all. The first chapter outlines what blogging is, how to fine tune your blogging angle and plan and other essentials. This section I found quite informative and very well written. If you have ever sat staring at an empty blog page, wondering what on Earth you are supposed to blog about, then this is where they will help.
The book then moves swiftly onto topics like: entering the blogosphere, choosing and hosting blog software, setting up your blog (this includes detailed instructions on choosing a platform like Wordpress or Blogger or Tumblr), finding your niche, creating great content and so on and so forth. I was disturbed to find that Mommyblogging was not only spelled as one word (aargh) but that it is classified as an actual topic. That could just be me hating that entire label and what it does to women bloggers who happen to write about parenthood.
It doesn't stop there. Blogging for Dummies goes into using social networking effectively - and this is a great section - as well as how to make money, how to blog for other businesses, and then an entire section dedicated to the power of tens. The latter is really an entire section with top ten lists in it. Very useful actually and very much worth reading.
I found this book to be informative, well laid out, clearly explained and packed with facts that really, every blogger should know. Ideal for the newbie and the intermediate blogger, Blogging for Dummies will take your site to the next level and make sure that you get to grips with this online phenomenon. And what's even cooler is that it is on sale on Amazon* at the moment. Brilliant.
Get a whopping 50% off literally hundreds (115 to be precise) of kid’s acivity books at WH Smith. You won’t believe what’s on the sale. Gruffalo books, Where’s Wally? books, colouring books, sticker books and many more. I don’t know how long they’ll have this offer on for so hurry!
Sure, it’s often pretty easy to find kid’s activity books and that sort of thing on sale. There are loads of sites that do them at ridiculously cheap prices but here’s a selection of all the kid’s favourite characters at a lovely 50% off. There are Hello Kitty, Griffalo, Lego and Harry Potter books all on sale, fabulous.
WH Smith’s great offer of 50% off includes most of their activity books and a few educational books that teach numbers too. They’re great to keep kids busy and get them into books and reading. From Sticker books to colouring in books you’ll find them all on sale at WH Smith.
Thanks to lilliesmummy11 at HUKD!
Amazon has an offer on Charlie and Lola's My Especially Busy Box of Books, a little compendium library of books, selling at £3.74 instead of £4.99. It's not a huge difference, but it's a pretty nifty price for a whole complete presents, stocking filler, or pass the parcel present!
There are four books in this set - actually, mini books, they are.
They are board books, making them hardier and ideal for little hands. The slipcase for storage is apparently also pretty sturdy, and good for keeping them in.
One of the reviewers said of the books, "Being hardback, he [her son] can easily turn the pages, stack them in piles, put them in and out of the box - the fun goes on and on!" She also said their simple style helped her daughter learn to read, which is a great bonus of children's books.
Another bonus mentioned is that having four different books means you can choose to read just one, or all four if you have the time and inclination.
Either way, it seems a whole lot of fun for the price.
Thanks to jaysmiles23 at HUKD
If you head over to Amazon you'll be able to pick up a Horrible Histories Blood-Curdling Box of 20 books for £17.85, rather than £35.
If your kids are still small and you haven't come across Horrible Histories yet, then you're in for a treat. I remember when the Horrible Histories books first came out; I wanted to kiss Terry Deary, the author, for his genius approach to history and bringing it to life for my children!
Essentially, Horrible Histories are historical accounts with the gross, gory, slimy, smelly and disgusting bits left IN - just the sort of thing that kids love and will have them absolutely engrossed. With books such as The Rotten Romans, The Terrible Tudors and The Awesome Egyptians, your child will never again tell you that history is boring.
Whenever there are Horrible Histories offers they tend to go out of stock fast, so don't dawdle if you want your own blood-curdling box set of 20 Horrible Histories books!
Happy curdling your blood!
If you head over to the Book People you'll be able to pick up a We're Going on a Bear Hunt jigsaw puzzle book for £4.99.
"We're going on a bear hunt, we're going to catch a BIG one!" OHHHH I LOVE THIS BOOK! Ok, I love ALL books but this one definitely falls into the 'most favourite' category!
The words of this story are almost as familiar to me as my own name - from having it read to me as a child ("Wow mum, can you remember that far back?" "Yes, and YES we had electricity in those days!"), to marching through woods singing it when I was in the Brownies (ok, stop laughing) and then reading it to my own children - all of them have loved it and the numerous copies we possess are well-worn.
This particular version tells the original tale, in all its glory, but it also comes with seven 12-piece jigsaw puzzles to complete along the way.
Single item delivery usually costs £2.80 - however, if you use either the MARWEL or TULIP delivery codes (enter it into the promotions code box in your basket) then delivery will be freeeee.
Thanks to wishihadadonkey at HUKD
Get your little ones reading as early as possible with the first set of the LeapFrog Tag Learn To Read Phonics books from the Toy Shop. This set focuses on short vowels and has been reduced from £25.00 to £12.50 so you’ll be saving 50%, smashing.
Help your little ones to kick start their reading skills with set one of the LeapFrog Tag Learn To Read Books. Kids aged four and up will love learning to read with these six short story books, all they need to do is use the Tag reader which is sold separately to bring the fun and entertaining stories to life.
This fantastic set introduces short vowels, phonics skills, sight words and rhyming. Each book has three learning modes; spell it where kids touch the letters to hear how words are spelt, say it where they touch a word to hear it read out loud and sound it where they touch letters to hear them sounded out, What better and easier way to learn?
Get activities for the kids to do 365 days of the year from Red House. The Disney 365 Activities book normally retails for £9.99 but you can get it from Red House for £3.99, that’s a saving of £6.00, lovely.
All your child's favourite Disney and Disney-Pixar characters are featured in this fantastic bumper activity book. With 365 engaging activities including games, short stories, puzzles and stickers, boys and girls alike will love working their way through each page. The book stars many of the ever-popular Disney characters, from the classic Mickey Mouse to those in modern movie hits like Finding Nemo.
The tasks will help to improve your child's reading skills along with observational, pen-holding and coordination skills and much more. The activity book will also keep their little hands (and brains) busy every day for a whole year.
Okay, so it may not last the WHOLE year but it’ll be great for the summer holidays or even dull weekends when you’re struggling to find things for the kids to do.
The For Dummies series of books has always been one that I’ve admired. The concept is utterly brilliant. You buy a book that is laid out in a very specific way, to a very specific formula and you know that by the end of it you will have the answers and knowledge you need to forge ahead. The Children’s Health for Dummies book is no exception.
The deputy editor of Mother & Baby magazine, Katy Holland, and Doctor Sarah Jarvis, a GP and Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners have created a book that takes quite a weight off the nervous parent.
I am a nervous parent. I need books and I need the internet. I like knowing that there is a doctor nearby and I like the idea that I can pack this book on a camping trip and I’ll have most of the know how I need to help my child if she gets sick while we are away.
The chapters include: the basics, the first year of life, raising healthy children, symptoms, illnesses and treatments, looking after a sick child and the part of tens. Each chapter is broken down into easy to read sections that explain essentials like taking a temperature, spotting something is wrong, the importance of nutrition and common childhood illnesses.
There are few things I really like about the book. It’s well written, it isn’t patronising, it includes clear tips for various issues so you can get the most out of the information provided and there are warnings that are often very much needed.
The book costs £14 retail but is currently on special on Amazon* for £8.69. As a book that offers value for money in terms of weighty and reliable advice, I give this an 8 out of 10. It is definitely one to add to the gift pile if you know someone expecting their first child. It will really take a load off their shoulders…
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