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In December, we launched our Kindle eBook collection. Because of the new platform, we asked a few bloggers to review them. We were pleased to read that they (and their children) loved our eBooks as much as they loved our print editions!
Here are links to some of the reviews:
Mama Smiles – Learning to Read with Bob Books
MaryAnne from Mama Smiles helped her three older children learn to read with Bob Books. Since her younger children are starting their reading journey, we sent her a Bob Books Set 1: Beginning Readers Kindle eBook and a Level 1 Reader for review. Click here to read about their experiences: http://mamasmiles.com/learning-to-read-with-bob-books/.
Look at What You Are Seeing - Bob Books Review
The blogger from Look at What You Are Seeing wrote that her first child started reading with Bob Books, but her younger child was less eager to start to read than his brother. When she introduced Bob Books for Kindle, he became more interested and wanted “to read more than one book at a time.” Read more here: http://www.lookatwhatyouareseeing.com/2014/03/bob-books-review.html.
Then I Laughed – Bob Books for Beginning Readers
Jessie from Then I Laughed has a few beginning readers in her house and they love Bob Books. Her children enjoy the funny pictures and that they are able to read the book on their mom’s phone (through the Kindle App)! Read more from Jessie here: http://thenilaughed.com/2014/03/bob-books-for-beginning-readers.html
For more information about Bob Books or if you would like to apply for our blogger review program, please email us at k[email protected].
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends daily reading with children in their infancy and beyond because “[r]eading regularly with young children stimulates optimal patterns of brain development and strengthens parent-child relationships at a critical time in child development, which, in turn, builds language, literacy, and social-emotional skills that last a lifetime.” For more information on reading from birth, visit here: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/06/19/peds.2014-1384.full.pdf+html
In addition to reading from birth, there are a few other steps that you can take to prepare your child for learning to read. The National Institute of Reading Literacy created A Child Becomes a Reader -- a booklet that maps the ways a parent can help their child become a reader. Here are a few key takeaways:
Introduce your children to print and books:
Reading print books to children helps promote print awareness. Print awareness is knowing about print and books and how they are used. For instance:
- Recognizing print in every day life like stop signs, pictures, and more…
- Holding a book and pretending to read by turning pages and holding it the right way up.
Print awareness is an important part of knowing how to read and write because children who know “about print understand that the words they see in print and words they speak and hear are related.”
Help your child develop phonemic and phonological awareness by reading together:
What is Phonological Awareness?
When a child begins to notice and understand syllables, rhyming, and separate words (“the ability to hear and work with the sounds of spoken language”) she is developing phonological awareness. Types of phonological awareness are: phonemic awareness, rhyme awareness, syllable awareness, word awareness, and sentence awareness.
What is Phonemic awareness?
Phonemic awareness is a subset of phonological awareness. When a child understands that spoken words are made up of separate small sounds (“these spoken sounds in spoken language are called phonemes”) and is able to consciously manipulate the sounds they have developed phonemic awareness.
Help your child develop phonological awareness by:
- Doing activities that help your child build sound skills
- Reading Rhyming books and doing rhyming activities (we recommend Rhyme Fish – a free game that helps with rhyming!)
- Playing with Syllables
- Playing with Sounds in Words
Help Your Child Learn the ABCs
According to the National Institute for Reading Literacy, “children who go to kindergarten already knowing the shapes and names of the letters of the alphabet, and how to write them, have an easier time learning to read.”
Help your child learn their ABCs by:
- Singing the alphabet song
- Playing alphabet games
- Having a day dedicated to a letter
- Reading letter books like My First Bob Books Alphabet
There are more helpful tips on helping your children learn to read in A Child Becomes a Reader by the National Institute for Reading Literacy. When you have the time, we highly recommend printing it out and reading through it!
Bob Books Signed Rhyming Words Holiday Giveaway!
US Residents 18 and over (void where prohibited) may enter the holiday giveaway today, December 23, 2014 at 12 p.m. through December 31, 2014 at 12 p.m for a chance to win a Signed Copy of Rhyming Words by Lynn Maslen Kertell!
Bob Books Signed Rhyming Words Classroom Giveaway!
As a thank you to our educators and teachers, we have a giveaway just for you! Educators and teachers in the United States that are 18 and over (void where prohibited) may enter the holiday giveaway today, December 23, 2014 at 12 p.m. through December 31, 2014 at 12 p.m for a chance to win a Signed Copy of Rhyming Words by Lynn Maslen Kertell!
We are excited to have Megan Wheeler from Mrs. Wheeler's First Grade on our blog today. She is a wonderful blogger and teacher. To see more from Mrs. Wheeler, please visit her blog: Mrs Wheeler's First Grade.
Hi everyone! I am Megan Wheeler from Mrs. Wheeler's First Grade! I am a 10th year, first grade teacher, blogger, and seller on Teachers Pay Teachers. I hold a Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Education, a Master's Degree in Literacy, and acquired my "Master Teacher" distinction in 2012. I'm currently working towards a Master's +30. I love to learn!
I just adore teaching little ones how to read and write! I recently wrote a post about the importance of sight word fluency. I'll be outlining some ideas that I had shared so you will get a new idea or two to implement in your classroom or home!
Sight word fluency is so important in the early years! In order to become fluent readers, children must be able to read and write the most frequent words. As the amount of words they can automatically read and write increases, so will their comprehension. Knowing sight words automatically allows for children to focus more on decoding words that have meaning.
I use many resources in my classroom to give my 1st graders solid sight word fluency. Here are a few posts from my blog that you can use to help your child with sight words:
1. Using play-doh to reinforce sight word fluency:
http://mrswheelerfirst.blogspot.com/2013/08/play-doh-in-classroom.html
2. Setting up and maintaining an interactive word wall:
http://mrswheelerfirst.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-beloved-word-wall.html
3. Magnetic letters and sight words:
http://mrswheelerfirst.blogspot.com/2012/06/magnetic-letters.html
4. “What's the password?" activity:
http://mrswheelerfirst.blogspot.com/2012/04/whats-password.html
I hope you found some new ideas here! I'd love if you'd head over to my blog and store and become a new follower! I am also on Pinterest, Facebook, and Instagram! Thanks for taking the time to read!
1. Valentine’s Day Mini Packet by The Moffat Girls
This Mini Packet by The Moffat Girls has 2 Color by Sight Word Sheets and a Roll, Add and Color Page.
2. A Valentine Name Puzzle by How Wee Learn
Are your little ones learning their names? How Wee Learn's Valentine’s Day Name puzzle activity is sure to make your little one happy. It can be used for names or sight words!
3. Valentine’s Day Sight Word Activity: Roll and Stamp by The Measured Mom
The Measured Mom always has some great activities and this one is perfect for the beginning readers on Valentine’s Day. Her simple printable is a sight word game a child can play by himself, with a friend or you! NOTE: You’ll need a die and a do-a-dot marker (or something to cover the words) in order to play.
4. Valentine’s Day Sight Word Bingo by Danielle’s Place
Your children (or students) will have fun playing Bingo and learning their sight words with as they play Danielle's Place's Valentine’s Day Sight Word Bingo Activity.
5. Valentine’s Day Sight Words by The California Kindergarten Association
Grab some pink and red construction paper, chalk, q-tips and paint and get ready to for some Valentine’s Day Sight Words. The prep is easy and your child will have fun as they trace their sight words with paint.
For more sight words help, Bob Books Sight Words – Kindergarten and Bob Books Sight Words – First Grade make great Valentine’s Day presents!
Please leave your Valentine’s Day Reading Activities in our comments! We would love to see them!
Purchase Bob Books in their current format (little books in a box). Purchase a 2" CD clamshell from your favorite library supply company. (Demco product number WE15305260 is 2" and includes an outer vinyl sleeve.)
Recycle or discard the CD sleeves. Punch the Bob Books to fit the two metal binder rings, and bind into the clamshell.
Then, simply cut the Bob Books box apart, and insert the disassembled box sides into the outer vinyl sleeve.The box front fits in front, the left spine fits in the spine, and there is just enough room to fit the right spine and the back into the back sleeve.
This week we bring you part 2 of our interview with John Maslen, Bob Books illustrator and award-winning watercolor painter.
Q: How did you become interested in art and painting?
A: Art has always been something I’ve been interested in. I think my earliest paintings began in 4th grade after my aunt bought me an oil painting set. I used it to paint scenes of German and Japanese planes crashing into each other and pilots with blood dripping from their mouths. Typical 4th grade boy kind of stuff, I suppose.
Then I attended Rhode Island School of Design for college. While at RISD I didn’t take any painting classes but instead studied women’s clothing design. I never did use that degree professionally—in hindsight I figure the only purpose of that coursework was to find a wife (this is how I met my wife, Bobby [Bobby Lynn Maslen, Bob Books author.])
While at college, I needed to make a little money and I got a job painting Italian-style furniture. Bobby would visit me in this tiny studio and we would hang out and talk—I didn’t have much money at the time so we didn’t go out on many real dates. I remember that I got in the habit of wiping my paintbrush off on my blue jeans to clean off the paint; after a while, those jeans were so thick with paint and gold leaf that they stood up by themselves!
After college I joined the Armed Services and served as a PIO (Public Information Officer) right around the time that the Korean War was winding down. Because of my art background, I was charged with the task of creating troop education posters.
Then I returned to RISD for my degree in architecture. Bobby and I married, moved to Portland, Oregon and I spent 20 years as an architect. I felt the urge to paint during my architecture career but it was difficult to find the time while there were four kids living at home. We were also busy with the Bob Books.
Q: How did you go from being a full-time architect to a full-time artist?
A: We saw some tough economic times in the early 1980s, not unlike what we’re seeing now. Architecture clients were hard to come by and I wasn’t getting paid much for the work. The kids were getting ready to leave the nest and I thought it was time to pursue something different, like painting.
Q: What did you paint?
A: Well, I thought that perhaps I wanted to be an oil painter so I put visqueen on my living room floor and started on a big oil painting… oh, it was a huge mess–- and resulted in an outrageously bad painting. After that, I decided to paint in watercolors; it was much less messy. And I could throw my clothes in the wash afterward.
Q: What kind of paintings do you do now?
A: Exclusively watercolors. I started out with a marine focus and then moved to non-objective art.
Q: What do you mean by non-objective art? Is it like abstract art?
A: No, abstract art still contains shapes and forms that are recognizable. In non-objective art, no figures or objects are recognizable.
Q: What is the process like, how long does it take you to create a painting?
A: (chuckles) Oh, as Winslow Homer once famously said… “about 3 hours and 40 years.” It can be a long process. First I sketch my painting out on paper. I did a lot of sketching for Bob Books so this comes naturally. For my non-objective and abstract art, I keep sketching and putting color on the paper until things start to evolve.
Q: Have you won any awards?
A: While practicing architecture, I won an American Institute of Architects award for design of the solar community where my family lived.
Currently I’m a signature (juried) member of several arts organizations: the National Watercolor Society, the Transparent Watercolor Society, the Watercolor Society of Oregon, and the American Society of Marine Artists. Recently I received Master Watercolor Artist status in the Transparent Watercolor Society, which means that my art was accepted into a juried show ten years in a row. Only about 1 in 10 artists get accepted into these shows so it’s a real honor.
Another award I received recently is the Diamond Award from the American Art Society of Oregon. It’s based on a point system; every time your art gets into a show or you win an award you win points. Once you’ve reached a certain number of points, you win the award.
Q: Where can we see your art?
A: The Portland Art Museum Rental Gallery has several of my paintings, and there are also paintings at The Attic Gallery in Portland (although I’m not currently on their web site).
Q: And you also teach workshops?
There is a beautiful facility on the Oregon coast, Sitka Center for Arts and Ecology, where I teach a watercolor art class once per year. It’s a week-long course and it’s terrific. A number of my students return year after year. One of my students has attended the class all eleven times I offered it.
Raising kids can be a lot of work – and a lot of fun. Each day we get to make the choice whether we’re going to find the play in our day and laugh with our kids; or whether it will be a struggle.
My desire for myself, and my commitment to our Bob Books readers, is to make your child’s first steps into reading as playful as possible, full of humor, tenderness, bonding, and success.
With a few cheerful, funny rhymes, you are helping your child build the basics of reading, especially phonemic or phonologic awareness. Your child’s ability to hear the sounds in a word is important to beginning reading. Children who have well-developed phonologic awareness when they come to school have a head start making sense of
how sounds and letters operate in print.
So have fun, enjoy your day and your family, play rhyming games with your kids, and share Bob Books Rhyming Words to give your kids a great start in reading.
Rhyming Games
Ask your kids for a word,
It can be absurd,
Funny is preferred!
What’s the best one you’ve heard?
Your kids will shout “Yay!”
So don’t delay
It will brighten their day,
What a great way to play.
Adding a rhyme,
Sharing your time,
Can make your heart chime.
You will find it sublime!
Lynn traveled recently to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where she was a featured speaker at the Malaysia International Conference on English Language Teaching. In her presentation to teachers from across the region, Lynn focused on Playfulness in Learning and how Bob Books encourage early success for young readers.
Lynn explains," “Reading is supposed to be fun. Too often, early readers are given materials that are far too difficult and frustrating for beginning reading. Bob Books are structured with humor, phonics and a commitment to building confidence so that children achieve early success with reading, that encourages positive behaviors toward learning.”
Lynn had the unique opportunity to visit schools and classrooms in Malaysia and spread the Bob Books message of Playfulness in Learning, while getting a first hand look at the types of curriculum and materials currently being used for English education.
“We all want our students to be successful, in our classrooms, and in life,” says Lynn. “Students come to school with a wide variety of skills and temperaments. Engaging the maximum number of students requires good materials, methodology, plus an engaging curriculum. By making learning interesting and motivating, you capture a wider range of students and their diversity of talents and interests.”
Lynn plans to continue her literacy work in Asia and is planning to speak at additional international English teaching conferences and schools throughout Asia in 2015.
As parents, we are so excited when our child (or children) learn to read, because we know we are setting them on the path to success in life. We know how critical reading is for progress in school, and beyond. Reading is also a pleasure, and learning to read opens the door to fantasy, imagination, and all the world’s information. That may not mean much to a young child.
The beauty of Bob Books is that they help your child learn to read, while telling a funny, entertaining, satisfying story right here and now. Your child will laugh at Mat sitting on Sam and be amused by Cat’s funny hat. Bob Books not only helps your child learn to read, they tell a real story, with a real plot and characters your child will like.
Ask your child to share with you the discoveries she makes while reading. What happens? Why? Can your child tell you? I bet she can! So, enjoy knowing that while your child is enjoying reading a fun book, they’re also making strides along the path to success.
Is my child ready for reading?
Every child is different, so there is no specific age when your child will be ready for reading. Instead, look for signs and signals that may indicate reading readiness. Here are a few questions that can help determine where your child is in terms of reading readiness:
1. Does your child know the alphabet?
2. Can she or he recognize most of the letters (including both uppercase and lowercase letters?)
3. Can your child recognize letters on everyday objects such as S T O P on a stop sign?
4. Does your child know that letters are associated with sounds and can he or she demonstrate a fair number of those sounds?
5. Can your child spell his or her own name?
If your answer is 'yes' to most of these questions, your child is ready to begin reading! If the answer is mostly 'no' take a look at our previous post "What is early literacy?" for some hints on how you help your child develop their early literary skills!
How do I find the right book to help my child learn to read?
An early reader book should give your child confidence in learning to read because a confident reader is a reader for life. Bob Books were designed to give your child early reading success, which builds confidence and a love of reading!
If you are looking for the right book for your child's level, take our Bob Books BookFinder Quiz. This short questionnaire will help you find the right Bob Book to help your child start reading!
Do you have any questions or comments? We'd love to read them! Please post them in the comment section below or reach out to us at [email protected].
It's time for another Bob Books tip on helping your child learn to read with Bob Books! Sounding out is an essential skill for beginning readers. Plan to spend some time helping your child learn her (or his) letter sounds.
Helping your child learn their letter sounds is important because it helps them understand that letters and sounds have a relationship. Being able to hear and identify the individual sounds in a word is phonemic awareness and is necessary for your child's reading success. If you are looking for more information on Phonemic Awareness and how it can help your child, take a look at these following articles:
• What is Phonemic Awareness?
• Launching Readers: Sounds and Symbols
• Scholastic: Phonemic Awareness
Please try our Bob Books BookFinder quiz to find out what Bob Books are best for your child! If you have any questions or suggestions for our blog, please email us at [email protected].
What exactly is a “sight word?” Also known as “high frequency words” or the Dolch word list,” sight words are among the most frequently used words in the English language. There are 220 commonly used sight words, including many “service words” like “the,” “of,” “into” and “what,” that appear in practically every sentence.
Children often learn sight words in everyday life through memory and recognition. This is why many young children can “read” signs, advertisements– even short books– before they understand the alphabet and the sounds that letters make (otherwise known as phonemic awareness. As words become more familiar to early readers, and can therefore be recognized “on sight,” they become sight words. This improves reading speed, which in turn means it’s easier for a child to understand what they have read (fluency and comprehension).
The ability to identify sight words is important in developing fluent reading. There are a number of ways parents can teach sight words at home:
1. As you read to your child, point to each word as you read. After you feel that your child has been exposed to the same words enough, ask your child to point to a word and say it aloud.
2. Make flash cards on index cards. Simply hold up the card for a few seconds. If you child has not recognized the sight word, calmly say it. The idea is to get the child to recognize the word, not have them attempt to sound it out.
3. You can also hang sight word cards around your house and send your child on a ‘sight word hunt’ to find words. For a complete list of commonly used sight words, click here.
There are even more fun ways that you can work with your kids on sight words, everything from flash cards to online games to word searches. We also have two sight words books: Sight Words: Kindergarten and Sight Words: First Grade.
It’s the mother who sings to her infant. The baby who chews on the board book! The toddler who asks for his favorite stories to be read to him over and over again. Sound familiar? Early literacy is what children learn and know about reading and writing before they actually read and write.
As you’re most likely already aware, early literacy skills develop in the first 5 years of life. According to recent brain development research, children are born with 100 billion brain cells. By the time a child is three, his or her brain circuitry is basically developed, which is why it is important to form positive learning experiences and attachments as early as possible.
You make such a difference to your child’s early learning successes. When you read, talk or play with your child, you’re stimulating the growth of their brain. It’s that simple! Even if a child or baby doesn’t appear to be learning, they are. Hearing stories, handling books, playing with blocks—it all adds up to early literacy. With each interaction, your child is learning important pre-reading skills such as vocabulary development, sound awareness, reading comprehension and letter recognition.
Here are a few tips to engage your child in early literacy activities:
Read to your child every day. Even if it’s just for a few minutes. Even if your toddler forces you to skip pages or chews on the corner of the book.
Talk about the pictures. Ask: what’s happening and why?
Talk about the story. See if your child can tell you what happens next.
Point to words. Run your finger along the words as you read them.
Make it a game. Ask your child to point to certain objects. Use funny voices or make sound effects when telling the story. End story time with tickle time.
It’s a term that’s got a nice, friendly ring to it. Perhaps you’ve heard it before but may not know exactly what it means: word families.
Word families, sometimes also referred to as phonograms are letter patterns that are more consistent than individual vowel sounds. They stick together and form words that rhyme with each other. For instance, Mat, cat, fat, sat and bat are all part of the -at word family. Net, bet, wet, set and get are part of the –et word family. If your early reader is able to identify the pattern, it becomes easier to sound out related words that are part of the same word family.
Here are some other common word families:
at: bat, mat, rat, hat
ack: sack, back, Jack, Zack
am: Sam, Pam, ram
ail: bail, sail, pail
et: bet, pet, wet set, get
en: Ben, hen, men, pen, ten
it: bit, hit, sit, fit
ill: Bill, fill, hill, will
op: flop, mop, cop, hop, stop, top, pop, plop
ot: hot, rot, dot, got, not, pot
uck: muck, yuck, luck
ug: hug, rug, bug, mug, tug
Bob Books Set 3: Word Families uses many word families that are easy for children to recognize and sound out (“Polly was a jolly bird. ‘Hello, Polly,’ said Dolly”) including various combinations (“Mop was a floppy dog. Mop was Tom’s pal”) which will help make longer stories more manageable for your emerging reader.
Once your child gets the hang of various patterns, both visually and audibly, spelling and writing skills will be enhanced as well. You can make it a game: “What are all the words you can think of that end in –ack? How about –ug? Or –og?”
If you are interested in obtaining a comprehensive list of word families and rhymes this word list is a great resource as well.
It's that time again. Back to school time. For some parents, it may be preschool time -- a potentially difficult and emotional experience for both parent and child. Preschool is a child's first step on their academic journey and a parent's first step towards letting go. In preparation for this big day, here are four great resources on how to prepare yourself and your toddler for preschool:
1. Preschool Prep: How to Prepare Your Toddler for Preschool by Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families
According to Zero to Three, you should keep your getting ready efforts "low key." They suggest keeping the experience fun and educational by using "pretend play to explore the idea of preschool," reading books about preschool, making a game out of practicing self-help skills, and taking your child for a visit at their new preschool so you can play together and tour the school before they start.
In addition to "Fun Ways to Get Ready for Preschool," the Zero to Three article covers "Responding to your Child's Worries," "The Preschool Countdown: What to do and When," and "Saying a Good Good-Bye."
2. Preparing for Preschool by Parents.com
In Parents.com's Preparing for Preschool, parents are given helpful hints and ideas on "how to prepare your toddler for his time away and how to ease the adjustment." There are five informational articles:
3. How to Prepare Your Child for Preschool by BabyCenter.com
BabyCenter's Preschool section is another excellent place to start learning how to prepare your child for preschool. This section includes: "Finding a Great Preschool," "Preschool Readiness," and "Working with Preschool Teachers." After you read through the site, you can also reach out and talk to other moms sending their children to school on their community forum.
4. Preparing for Preschool by Scholastic.com
Scholastic.com has an extensive Preschool page filled with articles that help parents make their child's transition easy. The Preschool page includes: "Preparing for Preschool," "Getting Involved," "What to Expect," and "Books and Reading."
We hope these resources are helpful as you prepare for your child's first day of school! If you have any ideas, suggestions, or experiences that you would like to share, please email us at [email protected].
P.S. Reading with your child is a great way to prepare your child for preschool! We have a great selection of books for your future (or current) preschooler! Take our BookFinder quiz to find out which books are good for you and your child!
Dear Bob Books Community,
We are excited to announce that we are working on a teacher reporting system for the Bob Books Apps! In order to ensure that the reporting system is useful in the classroom, our app developer and author, Lynn Maslen Kertell, would love to speak with teachers who have the following criteria:
· Teachers who have used or are using the Bob Books Reading Magic app # 1 and/or app #2 in their classroom distributed to student iPads.
· Teachers who have at least 10 students playing in the app at one time.
· NOTE: If you don’t fit the criteria, but use the app for your classroom or homeschool students we’d still love to hear your feedback.
Please email us at [email protected] if you would like to be a part of this great project!
Best wishes and happy reading,
The Bob Books Team
Bob Books author, Lynn Maslen Kertell, is on a mission to fulfill her mother’s dream -- to bring literacy to all the children in the world!
Lynn traveled recently to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where she was a featured speaker at the Malaysia International Conference on English Language Teaching. In her presentation to teachers from across the region, Lynn focused on Playfulness in Learning and how Bob Books encourage early success for young readers.
Lynn explains," “Reading is supposed to be fun. Too often, early readers are given materials that are far too difficult and frustrating for beginning reading. Bob Books are structured with humor, phonics and a commitment to building confidence so that children achieve early success with reading, that encourages positive behaviors toward learning.”
Lynn had the unique opportunity to visit schools and classrooms in Malaysia and spread the Bob Books message of Playfulness in Learning, while getting a first hand look at the types of curriculum and materials currently being used for English education.
“We all want our students to be successful, in our classrooms, and in life,” says Lynn. “Students come to school with a wide variety of skills and temperaments. Engaging the maximum number of students requires good materials, methodology, plus an engaging curriculum. By making learning interesting and motivating, you capture a wider range of students and their diversity of talents and interests.”
Lynn plans to continue her literacy work in Asia and is planning to speak at additional international English teaching conferences and schools throughout Asia in 2015.
We are excited to announce our Bob Books Signed Rhyming Words Holiday Giveaway and Classroom Giveaway!
Bob Books Signed Rhyming Words Holiday Giveaway!
US Residents 18 and over (void where prohibited) may enter the holiday giveaway today, December 23, 2014 at 12 p.m. through December 31, 2014 at 12 p.m for a chance to win a Signed Copy of Rhyming Words by Lynn Maslen Kertell!
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Bob Books Signed Rhyming Words Classroom Giveaway!
As a thank you to our educators and teachers, we have a giveaway just for you! Educators and teachers in the United States that are 18 and over (void where prohibited) may enter the holiday giveaway today, December 23, 2014 at 12 p.m. through December 31, 2014 at 12 p.m for a chance to win a Signed Copy of Rhyming Words by Lynn Maslen Kertell!
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We are excited to announce our first Bob Books Instagram Giveaway! Enter on Instagram to win a Signed Copy of Rhyming Words by Lynn Maslen Kertell!
How to Enter:
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2) Post a picture with your child reading Bob Books or repost the image below on your Instagram account;
3) Tag #BobBooksIGGiveaaway between Monday, November 24, 2014 at 12 p.m. PST and Monday, December 15, 2014 at 12 p.m. PST. Please only one entry per account.
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1. Eligibility: Bob Books Instagram Giveaway is open only to legal residents of the United States who are at least eighteen (18) years old at the time of entry. (Void where prohibited.)
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3. Prizes: ONE (1) PRIZE: Bob Books Rhyming Words Signed by Lynn Maslen valued at $16.99. No substitution of prize will be made except as provided herein at the Sponsor’s sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize for one of equal or greater value if the designated prize should become unavailable for any reason. Winner is responsible for all taxes and fees associated with prize receipt and/or use. Limit: One (1) prize per person. Prize is nontransferable. No cash alternative or prize substitutions allowed, except in Sponsor’s sole discretion. We will reach out to the winner on their photo and will post an image with the winner's Instagram name on our Instagram. If we do not hear back within 72 hours, the winner will forfeit the prize.
4. Timing: The Contest begins on November 24, 2014 at 12:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (“PST”) and ends on December 20, 2014 12:00 p.m. PST. Sponsor’s computer is the official time-keeping device for the giveaway.
5. How to Enter: You must join Instagram in order to participate in the Contest. Instagram is free to join. To enter the Contest, a participant must:
(a) Follow Sponsor's Instagram feed @bob_books on Instagram and
(b) Submit a post of a picture of your child reading Bob Books or repost the image given above and on the Bob Books Instagram Feed.
( c) The post must have the hashtag #BobBooksIGGiveaway
The Submission must be posted during the Giveaway Period. By using the hashtag in connection with your Instagram post, you acknowledge and agree that Sponsor has the right to stream your post through the Instagram API or otherwise use your post as set forth in these Official Rules and the terms and conditions.
We love libraries that make Bob Books available to children who are just learning to read. (Some Moms like this idea to keep all their books together, too.) One Bob Books reader came up with an excellent idea -- make a Bob Books Binder!
Here's how:
Purchase Bob Books in their current format (little books in a box). Purchase a 2" CD clamshell from your favorite library supply company. (Demco product number WE15305260 is 2" and includes an outer vinyl sleeve.)
Recycle or discard the CD sleeves. Punch the Bob Books to fit the two metal binder rings, and bind into the clamshell.
Then, simply cut the Bob Books box apart, and insert the disassembled box sides into the outer vinyl sleeve.The box front fits in front, the left spine fits in the spine, and there is just enough room to fit the right spine and the back into the back sleeve.
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