Best Childrens Books
The Best Childrens Books for Your Child!

Lloyd Alexander

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The Chronicles of Prydain Boxed Set List Price: $34.95 Sale Price: $21.31 You save: $13.64 (39%)   Eligible for free shipping! Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

The Book of Three (The Chronicles of Prydain Book 1) List Price: $6.99 Sale Price: $2.70 You save: $4.29 (61%)   Eligible for free shipping! Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

The Black Cauldron (The Chronicles of Prydain) List Price: $6.99 Sale Price: $2.89 You save: $4.10 (59%)   Eligible for free shipping! Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

The Castle of Llyr (Chronicles of Prydain (Henry Holt and Company)) List Price: $6.99 Sale Price: $2.99 You save: $4.00 (57%)   Eligible for free shipping! Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

OFT urged to review state of Scottish business banking

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is being urged to conduct a review into Scotland's business banking sector.

Scottish MPs are calling on the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to take in action in securing the future of business banking in the country.

With around three-quarters of small and medium-sized firms in the country holding business bank accounts with Lloyds Banking Group and the Royal Bank of Scotland's MPs have expressed concern that such organisations will have problems in accessing finance.

In addition, Holyrood's Economy Committee expressed apprehension about competition in the sector, concerns which were raised with two OFT directors as part of an inquiry into the banking sector.

However, despite Lord Mandelson asking the OFT last year to keep the Scottish business banking under review, the office has not made any reference to investigating the region's markets.

Labour MSP Wendy Alexander states: "It will puzzle small businesses in Scotland that there is absolutely no work of any kind whatsoever under way to look at the competition."

Such comments have come as the Federation of Small Businesses claimed in September that smaller banks and the Post Office branches should to be encouraged to enter Scotland's small business market.

Among the current accounts currently on offer to businesses are the NatWest Business Account and Abbey Business Account.

Meanwhile, a recent Financial Times article claimed Santander could be in a position to purchase a number of the business-focused branches set to be sold by RBS and the Lloyds Banking Group.

About the Author

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	The Chronicles of Prydain Boxed Set List Price: $34.95 Sale Price: $21.31 You save: $13.64 (39%)
	Description Millions of young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his lively companions as they journey through the magical land of Prydain. First published more than thirty years ago and translated into twenty different languages, Lloyd Alexander’s beloved series has become the standard of excellence in fantasy literature for children...

	The Book of Three (The Chronicles of Prydain Book 1) List Price: $6.99 Sale Price: $2.70 You save: $4.29 (61%)
	Description The tale of Taran, assistant pig keeper, has been entertaining young readers for generations. Set in the mythical land of Prydain (which bears a more than passing resemblance to Wales), Lloyd Alexander's book draws together the elements of the hero's journey from unformed boy to courageous young man...

	The Black Cauldron (The Chronicles of Prydain) List Price: $6.99 Sale Price: $2.89 You save: $4.10 (59%)
	Description The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions! Since The Book of Three was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his quest to become a hero...

	The Castle of Llyr (Chronicles of Prydain (Henry Holt and Company)) List Price: $6.99 Sale Price: $2.99 You save: $4.00 (57%)
	Description The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions! Since The Book of Three was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his quest to become a hero...

	Taran Wanderer (Chronicles of Prydain (Henry Holt and Company)) List Price: $6.99 Sale Price: $2.99 You save: $4.00 (57%)
	Description The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions! Since The Book of Three was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his quest to become a hero...

You may enjoy Mervyn Peake's "Gormenghast" books. Personally, I find them slightly inferior to "The Chronicles of Prydain", but they're still very good and highly entertaining.

Lloyd Alexander (part 1 of 3)

Ramona Quimby

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Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Avon Camelot Books) List Price: $5.99 Sale Price: $2.10 You save: $3.89 (65%)   Eligible for free shipping! Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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Ramona's World Movie Tie-in Edition (Ramona Quimby (Harper Paperback)) List Price: $5.99 Sale Price: $1.81 You save: $4.18 (70%)   Eligible for free shipping! Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

I work for the library ,and saw a Ramona book today.I have to say itbrought back memories.Shes still playin Tiddlewinks.Check it out ,and reread it.Is'nt it amazing how things like that stay with us?

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	Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Avon Camelot Books) List Price: $5.99 Sale Price: $2.10 You save: $3.89 (65%)
	Description From the first day of third grade, when Ramona Quimby meets her eventual nemesis Yard Ape, life moves on at its usual wild pace--usual for the boisterous Ramona, that is. Soon she is accidentally squashing a raw egg into her hair at the school cafeteria, being forced to play Uncle Rat with her annoying young neighbor, and, worst of all, throwing up in her classroom...

	Ramona the Pest (Ramona Quimby (Pb)) List Price: $15.25 Sale Price: $9.47 You save: $5.78 (38%)
	Description The engaging tale of young Ramona Quimby's first days in kindergarten, Ramona the Pest takes a pint-sized perspective on the trials and delights of beginning school. Ramona can't wait to learn all the important things...

	Ramona and Her Mother (Ramona Quimby) List Price: $5.99 Sale Price: $0.99 You save: $5.00 (83%)
	Description At 7 and a half, with working parents and a sister at "a difficult age," Ramona Quimby tries hard to do her part to keep family peace. Usually, however, she ends up behind every uproarious incident in the house...

	Ramona's World Movie Tie-in Edition (Ramona Quimby (Harper Paperback)) List Price: $5.99 Sale Price: $1.81 You save: $4.18 (70%)
	Description Ramona Quimby is back! Beverly Cleary's best-loved and most exuberant character has been winning friends since the 1950s when she made her first appearance as Beezus's pesky little sister. Now, in Cleary's first Ramona book in 15 years, our beloved spitfire is 9 years old, and she fully intends to make fourth grade the best year of her life...

	The Ramona Collection, Vol. 2: Ramona Quimby, Age 8 / Ramona and Her Mother / Ramona Forever / Ramona's World List Price: $19.99 Sale Price: $11.17 You save: $8.82 (44%)

Lee Hope

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Works of Laura Lee Hope. Illustrated. Series: The Bobbsey Twins, The Outdoor Girls, The Moving Picture Girls, The Bunny Brown, The Six Little Bunkers and others (Mobi Collected Works) List Price: $4.99

The Questions Christians Hope No One Will Ask: (With Answers) List Price: $14.99 Sale Price: $9.73 You save: $5.26 (35%)   Eligible for free shipping! Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

The Outdoor Girls at the Hostess House Or, doing their best for the soldiers List Price: $1.99

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A Piano Recital by Young-joo Lee in Palau Altea, Altea, Spain

I claim to be a music lover and I attend a lot of concerts and recitals, so I don’t try to write a review every time, except for a few notes for my journal. But sometimes the playing is so perfect, the interpretations so poignant that the experience demands a record, if only to help publicise real, perhaps exceptional talent. And so it was with Young-Joo Lee, a Korean pianist. She gave her concert to the Amigos de la Musica de la Marina Baixa on November 9 2007 in Altea’s Palau on Spain’s Costa Blanca.

In summary, her programme looked rather conventional. It featured Haydn, Rachmaninov, List, Ravel and Prokofiev. I envisaged a classical sonata played as a loosener, a couple of preludes, a showpiece, perhaps a little dead princess and then something from the tuneful end of Prokofiev to round things off. I am not suggesting that concert programmes offered to the Amigos de la Musica tend to be predictable. Quite the contrary, they tend to the ambitions, but then I am always sceptical of programmes that list only the composers’ names.

Young-Joo Lee did start with a Haydn sonata, but it was much more than the predicted loosener. She played the piece, Hob XVI:34 in E-minor, with charm, wit and real invention, with some of the rhythmic turns and cadences being delivered with an air of unexpected surprise. Haydn sonatas are rarely played this well, and, when they are, they are a revelation, a real ear-opener.

She followed on with a quite rarely played set of variations by Rachmaninov. We all know the Paganini Rhapsody for piano and orchestra, but how many of us have ever heard a concert performance of the composer’s opus 42, the Variations on a Theme by Corelli? It’s a late work, written in a tougher style than the composer’s more familiar and generally more popular works. But it is a remarkably demanding piece, both in its execution and its realisation. Its twenty variations, plus intermezzo and coda, present a formidable challenge to the performer. They begin after the statement of Corelli’s little, apparently stalling tune, and require tremendous interpretive skill as well as technical mastery and Young-Joo Lee displayed brilliance in both areas to bring out the very best in the music. A set of variations can often descend into the presentation of a list, with each item interesting in itself, but the whole lacking coherence. Not so with this Rachmaninov, and much of the credit must go to the performer’s ability to identify and then communicate the grand design.

Then we did have a real showpiece. Young-Joo Lee played the last of Liszt’s Paganini Etudes. It’s in A-minor and is based on the well known theme of the 24th Caprice for solo violin, the same theme that Rachmaninov used for his Rhapsody. Liszt’s treatment of the material is nothing less than pyrotechnic and as Young-Joo Lee played, there were times when her hands and arms were nothing but a blur. But often pianists present such pieces as if they were nothing more than a gymnastic display. It’s essential that everything should be in the right place, of course, but to achieve that state many players sacrifice the musical vision, as elegance and interpretation are muscled out by sheer technique. Not so with Young-Joo Lee. Not only was the piece a pianistic tour de force, it was also a thoroughly satisfying musical experience. The pyrotechnics made sense and became much more than the coloured bangs and flashes of random display.

After the interval Young-Joo Lee presented her Ravel, which was the Valses Nobles et Sentimentales. Essentially this was the third piece in variation form on the trot. Under lesser hands, this could easily have become tedious, but Young-Joo Lee made it into a triumph. It was more than just an opportunity to show that she could handle the legato ambiguities of Ravel’s idiom after the confident force of the Liszt. She played with poignancy and power when needed. But she also never let the sense of the waltz become subsumed within the detail.

And then the Prokofiev. Young-Joo Lee offered us no less than the Seventh Sonata. Now the pianistic pyrotechnics needed an extra toughness, an almost industrial delivery through which the composer’s thematic and harmonic genius must shine. And Young-Joo Lee’s playing was not only up to the piece, it provided a complete revelation. To say that in the third movement she drove the car straight into the garage would be an understatement! It’s a piece that races towards its abrupt end, but to work it must be utterly relentless in its pursuit, never stalling, never anticipating. To describe her playing as close to perfect would be to do her an injustice. It was much better than that and, frankly, I think the audience was left utterly stunned.

She offered a perfect encore in the form a Piazzolla tango and then retired for a well-deserved rest. Young-Joo Lee is an incredible talent. I do hope that her career as a soloist blossoms.

About the Author

Philip Spires
Author of Mission, an African novel set in Kenya

http://www.philipspires.co.uk

I was born in Wakefield, west Yorkshire in the United Kingdom and grew up in Sharlston, then a mining village. After London University I lived in Kenya. Then I taught in London before moving to Brunei and then the UAE. Since 2003, I have lived in Spain, completing a PhD and my first published novel, Mission.

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	Works of Laura Lee Hope. Illustrated. Series: The Bobbsey Twins, The Outdoor Girls, The Moving Picture Girls, The Bunny Brown, The Six Little Bunkers and others (Mobi Collected Works) List Price: $4.99
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	The Questions Christians Hope No One Will Ask: (With Answers) List Price: $14.99 Sale Price: $9.73 You save: $5.26 (35%)
	Description 2011 Retailers Choice Award winner!“Why are Christians against same-sex people getting married? . . . Why do you believe God exists at all? . . . Why would God allow evil and suffering? . . . Why trust the Bible when it’s full of mistakes? ...

	The Outdoor Girls at the Hostess House Or, doing their best for the soldiers List Price: $1.99
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	The Bobbsey Twins in the Country List Price: $27.95 Sale Price: $18.50 You save: $9.45 (34%)
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	The Bobbsey twins on a houseboat Sale Price: $19.99
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Boys Book

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The Librarian (Book One: Little Boy Lost) List Price: $0.99

Venture Untamed (The Venture Books) List Price: $4.99

Free Childrens Books and Young Adult Books for Kindle: Linked List of Over 1,000 Free Classics For Boys, Girls and Teens List Price: $0.99

Boys Book of Armageddon (Boys Books) List Price: $9.99

Book Clubs for Boys

Boys may not show as much interest in reading as parents would like.  You know being able to read well is a key indicator of success in school and the business world.  You want your son to achieve great things, but it is obvious that reading is not high on his list of things he wants to do. 

Forming a Boy’s Book Club can motivate your son to read more.  There are some important points to keep in mind though.  First, independent reading, which is so important for solidifying reading skills, must be interesting to the reader.  Independent reading is reading we do because we want to.  It is not because it is required by a job or the school curriculum.  Next, boys crave activity.  Sitting around is not usually high on their agenda.  Given these provisos, here are some ideas on setting up a book club for boys.

Club size.  A small group is usually more interactive than a larger group and the goal of the club is to read and discuss the book for the month.  A group of five to 10 boys will work well.  More than that and the group dynamic shifts to a few outspoken individuals controlling the entire discussion.  So in this case, smaller is better.

Next topic, please.  Focus the group on a particular subject matter for the choice of books.  Manga is a very popular book category among teens in many parts of the country and the interest level in reading these books is very high.  Remember the purpose of the book club is to motivate your young son to pick up a book.  This is not school and it is not the place to learn the classics.  Other ideas for book subject matter include sports (include books on different aspects of sports, biographies of great players, sports magazines), cars (including different makes and models, picture books of sports cars, biographies about car builders, the history of car making, etc), action/adventure, science fiction, and the military (fiction and non-fiction, biographies of soldiers, historical battles, military uniforms and fighting techniques).  Librarians can help the book club find books of interest in the subject area selected.

Pass the popcorn.  Plan to serve snacks at the book club meetings.  People feel more relaxed and talk more when they have something to sip and nibble.  Evoke the feeling of a party, instead of classroom, and the club will immediately feel more special and fun.

Bring it on.  Jazz up the meetings by having club members dress up as their favorite character, bring in pictures or cards of their favorite players, make a model of their dream car, demonstrate fencing techniques, or play a game of basketball afterward. 

As publishers of books for children, we often hear from parents of boys (particularly teenage boys) about their son’s lack of interest in reading.  So much happens during the teen years.  A Book Club with the features mentioned here may be just the thing for sparking more interest in reading.

About the Author

Celia Webb, President of Pilinut Press, Inc., publishers of advanced readers for children and ESL students. Check out http://www.pilinutpress.com for more free articles on developing reading-related skills, word games and puzzles, and activity sheets for the company's entertaining and educational books.

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The Librarian (Book One: Little Boy Lost) List Price: $0.99

Description Wesley Bates thinks his life pretty much sucks. He's landed at the bottom of his school's popularity ladder, and bully Randy Stanford seems to be waiting around every corner.The troubled teen thinks he's found a way to escape his real-world problems when he stumbles upon strange doorways in Astoria's local library that seem to lead into the extraordinary worlds from all his favorite books...

Venture Untamed (The Venture Books) List Price: $4.99

Description Venture Delving is a bonded servant, a member of the lowest class in the world. Already fatherless, when he loses his mother, he veers from energetic to out of control. But when Venture's rage saves the life of Jade, his best friend and his master's daughter, Venture finds himself in the last place he ever expected—a center renowned for training young boys to be professional fighters...

	Free Childrens Books and Young Adult Books for Kindle: Linked List of Over 1,000 Free Classics For Boys, Girls and Teens List Price: $0.99
	Description I read hundreds of the books from this linked list as a kid, both from my father's old collection and from second-hand bookstores. I tried to include all of the classics for kids that are available for free through Amazon, and also concentrated on the series type books I remember so well...

	Boys Book of Armageddon (Boys Books) List Price: $9.99
	Description A book of apocalyptic visions, doomsayers, bad puns, and fun facts, to make the end-times both delightful and profitable. This the definitive book for boys on all things apocalyptic. From Mayan holidays in 2012, to marketing when zombies rise or a killer asteroid hits the fan...

	The Boy's Body Book: Everything You Need to Know for Growing Up YOU (Boys World Books) List Price: $9.95 Sale Price: $5.72 You save: $4.23 (43%)
	Description As boys reach adolescence, everything changes: their bodies, their feelings, and their relationships. Their world turns shaky just when they find it hardest to talk with the adults in their lives. But even if they won’t say what’s on their mind, they still want straight answers...

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I didn't even know it WAS a book.
I own the movie though....
Good luck!

Dangerous Book for Boys Part Deux

Danny Dinosaur

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Happy Birthday, Danny and the Dinosaur! (I Can Read Book 1) List Price: $3.99 Sale Price: $0.23 You save: $3.76 (94%)   Eligible for free shipping! Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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haha yea I do

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	Danny and the Dinosaur List Price: $3.99 Sale Price: $1.00 You save: $2.99 (75%)
	Description Danny loves dinosaurs. When he sees one at the museun and says, "It would be nice to play with a dinosaur," a voice answers, "And I think it would be nice to play with you." So begins Dannys and the dinosaur's wonderful adventure together!But a dinosaur is no ordinary playmate...

Danny and the Dinosaur Go to Camp (I Can Read Books: Level 1 (Pb)) List Price: $13.25 Sale Price: $8.40 You save: $4.85 (37%)

Description Danny and his pet dinosaur have been delighting children since 1958--almost the Jurassic Age to today's preschooler. There's a reason for that. To adults, this dinosaur, so different from the scary guys in Spielberg-land, may seem a bit of a wimp, but he, his friend Danny, the kids in their neighborhood, and the reassuring stories of their simple adventures, are a gentle introduction to the dinosaur universe...

	Happy Birthday, Danny and the Dinosaur! (I Can Read Book 1) List Price: $3.99 Sale Price: $0.23 You save: $3.76 (94%)
	Description What would happen if a dinosaur came to a birthday party? Come to Danny's house and find out. His friend the dinosaur helps make this one party you'll never forget!

	Danny and the Dinosaur Book and CD (I Can Read Book 1) List Price: $9.99 Sale Price: $5.68 You save: $4.31 (43%)
	Description Read along with your favorite I Can Read Book characters! I Can Read Books are the premier line of beginning readers encouraging children to learn-and love-to read. Featuring award-winning authors and illustrators, I Can Read Books offer a full spectrum of entertaining stories for every stage of a child’s reading development...

	The Danny and the Dinosaur Treasury: Three Huge Adventures Sale Price: $8.74