BOOKS FOR CHILDREN, EDUCATION,
AND HOMESCHOOLING
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MagEyes® -- the Hands Free Magnifier: Just the thing for those who
need extra help in seeing small print, stitches, etc. 
Native American Designs: Create 8 Beautiful
paintings out of sand! This kit contains everything necessary for the artists in your
family to paint authentic native American designs: 8 outline drawings, 4 pre-cut frames, 4
envelopes, and 10 sandpaint dispensers. Cat. # SdPnt. Was 15.99. Now just 10.93-B
The Wubbulous World of Dr.
Seuss color and activity fun books. these are now on sale for only 2.00-S.
Educational
Activities: Magnets and Magnetism Kit, Barrons Educational. An attractive
paperback portfolio contains activities and features that include two small horseshoe and
two bar magnets, iron filings enclosed in a plastic container, and a double-size card
featuring a magnet board game for kids to play. There are several experiments, described
in a booklet, and a space game to play. For ages 8-12. Cat #BAR-73650. $5.36-D
Educational Activities: Birdhouse Kit,
Barrons Educational.An attractive paperback portfolio contains activities and features
that include color-illustrated 7 3/4" x 10 1/4" cards with birdhouse building
instructions, illustrated posters showing birds' behavior, 100 wooden popsicle-type sticks
for construction, glue, 12 paints in cake form, and a brush. For ages 6-10.
Cat.#BAR-73634. $5.36-D
Educational
Activities: Tyrannosaurus Model Kit, Barrons Educational. This
kit teaches children, ages 6-10, all about dinosaurs. Items include a wooden Tyrannosaurus
skeleton to construct, a sheet of collectable cardboard dinosaurs, a sheet of dinosaur
illustrations to color, and a cardboard landscape to decorate. The kit comes in an
attractive paperback portfolio containing materials, color illustrated instruction cards,
and supplementary items for hours of creative fun. While kids learn basics of arts and
crafts, they also learn facts that relate to each activity. Contains small parts and is
not recommended for children under 3 years of age. Cat. #BAR-74649. $5.36-D
Prayers for a Treasured Child. Illustrations
by Alison Jay. Hardcover, almost square. 6.25 x 6.5 inches. Contains short prayers, many
of them familiar classics, that are suitable for children and beautifully illustrated.
Just right for special occasions in a child's life such as a baptism,
confirmation,
or birthday. Cat. #GB-1486. $5.36-D
Some Smug Slug, by Pamela Edwards. This
paperback book is my favorite of the new season's picture books. Young children will enjoy
the alliterative "S" sounds in this book as it is read to them, and everyone
will enjoy the great illustrations of animals and creepie crawlies by Henry
Cole. The slug, who is full of personality, is determined to climb a slippery
slope. He surmounts each obstacle to finally reach the top, while other
creatures look on with sympathy or amusement or even sarcasm, because they
already know what the reader doesn't discover until the end. (By the way, if you
become fond of the slug, you won't like the ending.)
BTH-2615. $5.36-D
Over the Steamy
Swamp, by Paul Geraghty. Besides showing the
food chain in action, this book will make both parents and children laugh with its
humorous illustrations of the animals as they discover who has been lurking behind them,
ready to eat them, even as they have been drooling over their own anticipated lunch.Not to
worry, though. No one gets eaten in the end, but the lion gets a very sore nose and the
hungry mosquito who starts everything in motion is finally satisfied. Our discounted price
is BTH-2614. $6.30-D.
Cowboy Alphabet, written and
illustrated by James Rice. This is a picture book for kids from 8-80, especially if they
are interested in cowboys, ranching, and other western lore. Rice's pictures alone are
worth the price of the book, and I believe they are geared more toward old cow-hands than
young, since the young may miss some of the subtleties. "D is for dogie, them
four-legged bellowing hunks of stubbornness that always seem to want to go the other
direction from where it is you're trying to drive 'em. ...S is for shoes, for horses, not
men. Boots is for men." The text is there to justify the marvelous pictures. Don't
let any "cowpoke" miss this book. Hardcover with jacket. Cat. #Pel-7268.
$12.99-D.
Lincoln’s Unknown Private
Life: An Oral History by His Black Housekeeper Mariah Vance 1850-60. Though
written for adults, this can be enjoyed by the whole family if read aloud. 
Songs of the Wild West, by
the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The commentary is by Alan Axelrod, and the arrangements
are by Dan Fox. This gorgeous book for all ages to enjoy marries popular songs of the west
to full-color art reproductions from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The songs have simple
piano arrangements with guitar chords above, and there is historical background
information for both the songs and the paintings. This book is a marvelous gift for anyone
interested in history of The West. List price is 19.99. Our special Sale Price is
16.99-S for the one left I have shrink-wrapped, and 15.00-S for the display, which has a
tiny tear in the bottom front corner of the jacket. 
Sir Gawain and
the Green Knight: Words by Selina Hastings, illustrations by Juan Wijngaard.
This Arthurian picture book can be read by juniors, but will be fully understood only by
older children and adults. When Sir Gawain's courage and chivalry are challenged by the
Green Knight, a giant adversary with super-human powers, he is often tempted to break his
knightly code of honor -- especially by his host's lovely wife, who has been left to
entertain him while his host , Sir Bercilak, goes hunting each day. But in the end, Sir
Gawain loses only a little blood instead of his head, as he feared, and discovers the
whole battle was set up to test his honor -- a test he only partially passed. Sir
Bercilak, it turns out, is in the power of Morgan the Fay, whose witchcraft turns him into
the Green knight for such tests as Sir Gawain has been through. This beautifully
illustrated hardcover book is usually 16.00, but now is only $12.00-S.