Congratulations!  You are about to discover the Usborne family of children’s books – internationally acclaimed as the finest children’s book line-up in the marketplace today!  Children of all ages and grade levels are enticed by these attractive and informative books.  They are a fantastic resource for parents and teachers.  All of our books are educational, entertaining, and interactive.  They make reading and learning what it should be… FUN!

As an Independent Consultant for Usborne Books at Home, I have the privilege of sharing not only these fabulous children’s books with you, but also wonderful opportunities to build your library at a fraction of the cost of shopping retail.  Ask me about how to book a home show!  While I am in my incentive period, NOW is the time to book a show and get the best hostess deal the company has to offer – double free books!  This offer runs through September 23^rd, 2008.  Not in Northern Virginia?  Your babies are down with a cold?  You can still take advantage of the hostess rewards by booking an online show!

And of course, for those of you who are crazy for Usborne books, take advantage of my incentive period to purchase the full business kit for half price.  The entire business kit contains 33 titles and business materials, and I can offer it to you for $99.95 until  August 25th, 2008!!  Become a consultant and share your love of reading, books and children with others! 

Karen’s current favorites:

The Usborne First Book of Art:  This is a lovely book that gives children exposure to fine art, the great artists and what techniques made them remarkable.  Then it invites children to create their own works of art inspired by the masters!  Clear step-by-step project directions are a springboard for imagination and creativity to fly.  This book is so engrossing that even adults will turn page by page and examine the artwork.  Includes works from such greats as Warhol, Monet, Vermeer, Klimt, van Gogh and the list goes on and on.  This book is a spiral hardback so that it will always lay flat which is handy when doing the projects .  A beautiful book.

Sticker Dolly Dressing Princesses:  The first thing that impressed me with Sticker Dolly Dressing Princesses was the weight of it.  This is a large, thick book!  Twenty-four pages of full color glossy story pictures and over four hundred beautiful stickers in the middle of the book include fully coordinated outfits, lots of accessories, and little embellishments to decorate the scenery.  The stickers are very easy to work with.  My daughter and I dressed an entire princess in multiple layers before we decided we wanted that particular outfit on a different princess.  I easily peeled each sticker layer by layer with no curling, tearing or damaging the surface colors and stuck them on the new princess.  And they’ve stayed right where we put them.  Usborne delivers QUALITY sticker books that deliver literally hours of enjoyment.

The Usborne Illustrated Dictionary of Math:  Ok, I must be honest. This book actually makes my heart beat faster – but not in the way you would think.  It’s from math anxiety!  I am so pleased to have this resource in my collection so that when the kids start getting into the higher grades I can quickly get a crash course refresher before I try to help them with their homework!This will be an invaluable resource to you and your child.  For a more in-depth review of what the book covers, please click on the link where you will find an extensive review of the contents.  There’s a lot of information in this book!  And it’s internet linked to bring math to life!!  Available in flexi-binding, but I splurged and bought the library bound for years of use.

Trucks Sticker Book:  My house is an unofficial quality control testing center for Usborne books.  Next on the list was the Trucks Sticker Book given to my two-year- old.  Please note that the book is intended for ages three and up on account of the stickers being small and posing a choking hazard.  So we play with this book together.  That said anyone who has ever had a two-year-old knows what devastation can be wrought!  And stickers are easy targets.  They get ripped, crumpled, stuck on the carpet and filled with fuzz so they’ll never stick anywhere again.  Against such odds the Trucks Sticker Book is holding up JUST FINE!  These are large, sturdy stickers that he can manipulate easily.  He can stick them on the page, peel them off and stick them back on again over and over.  And as long as he avoids the carpet fuzz they will stay stuck on the page. There are a wide variety of scenes from the country featuring tractors and milk trucks, to the building site with dump trucks and excavators to the town with a fire engine and garage truck.  Sure to please any child fascinated with all things having wheels.