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May Scholastic Giveaway

May Scholastic Giveaway

Dress Up Your Own Paper Pups - Ages 4+

Dress up two paper puppies, a Chihuahua and a Yorkshire terrier, in fabulous punch-out wardrobes that include winter and summer outfits, rain  gear, and even a bikini! You'll also get fun accessories like food bowls, bones, and even a fluffy purple tutu. Best of all, you can carry your new best friend in style with a convertible doggie carrier.  http://scholastic.ca/kids/klutz/chickensocks/paperpups.htm

CHALK THE BLOCK - Ages 6+

Comes with 4 big pieces of chalk and a ton of bold ideas for adding temporary humor to the sidewalks, curbs, walls, rocks, and bricks of your neighborhood - colorful antics, caricatures, and tomfoolery, with a few extreme hopscotch grids thrown in. http://scholastic.ca/kids/klutz/art_drawing/chalktheblock.htm

Help We've Got Kids!

Help We've Got Kids!

Help We've Got Kids is Greater Toronto Area's complete listing of family and children's resources.

Enter now for your chance to win this year's edition packed with thousands of dollars in coupons for everything from baby gear rentals to party supplies to musical instruments.

Also, enjoy the comprehensive listing of local family friendly attractions and events when planning your summer day trips and outings with the kids!

April Giveaway Package

April Giveaway Package

Remembering the Titanic

(Scholastic Reader Level 3) Ages 6-8
Just in time for the 100th anniversary of its voyage, learn all about the Titanic — including its tragic sinking in 1912 and its amazing discovery in 1985. Full colour photographs and clear, leveled text make history come alive for younger readers.
http://scholastic.ca/titles/​rememberingtitanic

882 Amazing Answers to Your Questions About the Titanic

Ages 9-12
The book with all the answers to your questions about the Titanic! This is the complete, heart-stopping story of the legendary ship—from its building, maiden voyage and tragic sinking, to its high-tech discovery and exploration on the ocean floor. Illustrated with dozens of paintings, diagrams, and rare photographs.
http://scholastic.ca/titles/​882answers/

Titanic: Voices from the Disaster

Ages 8-12
This book weaves together the voices and stories of actual Titanic survivors and witnesses to the disaster. Packed with heart-stopping action, devastating drama, fascinating historical details, archival photographs, and quotes from primary sources, this gripping story is sure to thrill and move readers.
http://scholastic.ca/titles/​titanicvoicesfromthedisaster/

WINNER: Julie Chatten

Spring Giveaway Package

Spring Giveaway Package

Don’t Wake the Bear! Ages 4-8
The woodland animals are having a party to celebrate spring—the only problem is there is an enormous, hairy, scary bear sleeping nearby. The animals have to be especially quiet so they don’t wake the bear. The last thing left to do is fill the party balloons, but a little hare gets a little too excited and fills the balloons a little too much—POP! What are the animals going to do when the bear wakes up? http://scholastic.ca/titles/dontwakethebear/

Silly Doggy! Ages 3-5
When Lily looks out of her bedroom window, she finds the best surprise ever: her very own lost dog! But this is no normal puppy—this is actually a lost, lovable bear! Nevertheless, Lily and Doggy quickly become fast friends. Sure, Doggy doesn’t eat his dog food, can’t do any dog tricks, and never ever does what Lily tells him, but this rambunctious "pup" still steals Lily’s heart.  http://bnccatalist.ca/ViewTitle.aspx?ean=9780545373234

Split! Splat! Ages 4-8
Put down your umbrella! Take off your galoshes! It’s time to sing and dance in the rain. When one little girl and her adorable dog venture out on a rainy spring day, her neighborhood friends join her, and what results is squishy, sloshy, muddy day fun. Split! Splat! is the perfect celebration of nature and friendship in this springtime, anytime rhyme! http://bnccatalist.ca/ViewTitle.aspx?ean=9780439587532

WINNER: Jennifer Thornhill

March Break Prize Packages

March Break Prize Packages

March Break Klutz Prize Pack

Get crafty this March Break with two brand-new, sure-to-entertain-you Klutz activity books!

Twisted Critters – ages 8 and up
Twisted Critters is our take on the good old pipe cleaner. Including many of the original, well-loved pipe cleaner projects – with several new creations and more pipe cleaners in more varieties than ever before, you’ll be able to twist, curl, and swirl up some fuzzy friends in no time!

Star Wars® Folded Flyers – ages 8 and up
Fold and fly your own paper starfighters with Star Wars® Folded Flyers! Made from full-colour, custom-designed papers representing familiar galactic vehicles like the Millennium Falcon, Jedi starfighter, and X-wing, this is a must for paper airplane aficionados and Force fans everywhere!

Looking for more ways to keep yourself busy this March Break? Visit our 100% Klutz blog for a glimpse at some of the crafty creations YOU can construct with Klutz! http://www.100percentklutz.blogspot.com

39 Clues March Break Prize Pack

From the bestselling 39 Clues franchise comes a brand-new series called Cahills vs. Vespers. In these exciting new books, Amy and Dan Cahill have met a new enemy, the Vespers, and they’re off on another thrilling, adrenaline-charged race to outwit them! If you’re already a fan of The 39 Clues series, then these books are a must-read; if you’ve never read a 39 Clues book before, well then this prize pack is the perfect starter set—your passport to action and adventure!

Prize pack includes:
The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book One: The Medusa Plot
The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book Two: A King’s Ransom
The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Card Pack One: The Marco Polo Heist

Visit www.the39clues.com to join the hunt!

Are you ready to save the world?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nXOwqRBAc0c

WINNERS: Kathy Humphrey, Amy Evans

Valentine's Day Picture Books

Valentine's Day Picture Books

The Runaway Hug, Ages 3 to 7

When Lucy’s mother gives Lucy the last hug she has, Lucy promises to give it back, but first she must share it with everyone in the house — Dad, the twins, the baby and even her dog, Annie. Along the way, the hug changes — it becomes stronger, bigger, a bit slobbery, peanut-buttery, and at one point it even runs away on her. A cozy, heartwarming story that celebrates family affection and the importance of giving back a hug.

Goodnight I Love You, Ages 3 to 5

This padded board book is the quintessential get-your-children-ready- for-bedtime story featuring the charming illustrations and wonderful rhyming text that we have come to know and love from Caroline Jayne Church, the bestselling illustrator of I Love you Through and Through.

The Kiss Box, Ages 3 to 5

In this soothing love story between mother and child, Mother Bear and Little Bear make each other a Kiss Box—filled with a hundred kisses— that allows them to stay connected no matter where they are. Whether it be an errand to the grocery store, a business trip, or the first day of school, this is a tender reminder that we are always together where it matters most: in our hearts.

WINNER: Carla Hope

Klutz Craft Activity Books

Klutz Craft Activity Books

Klutz Draw the DC Universe: Learn to Draw the Heroes and the Villains - Ages 8+

Here’s a drawing book for those of us WITHOUT superhuman skills! This book is a complete how-to-draw package, jammed with expert tips, tons of practice space, and, of course, a universe of DC characters! Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern, Riddler, Mr. Freeze and The Joker—they’re all here!


Klutz Pom Pom Monster Salon: Create, Cut & Style Your Own Monsters - Ages 7+

This kit includes glue, googly eyes, 85 feet of crazy-bright yarn and a comb to help provide maximum frizz! Any way you style it, you’ll have a monster hit on your hands. And to help get you started be sure to visit our Klutz Blog for helpful hints and how-to-get started pointers. Remember to post pictures of your own creations! http://100percentklutz.blogspot.com/2011/10/give-me-p-o-m-give-me-p-o-m_18.html

WINNER: Claire Kennedy

A Porcupine in a Pine Tree & Porcupine Plush gift pack.

A Porcupine in a Pine Tree & Porcupine Plush gift pack.

A Porcupine in a Pine Tree

Four calling moose, three beaver tails, two caribou and a porcupine in a pine tree . . .

Celebrate Christmas Canadian-style with this hilarious adaptation of The Twelve Days of Christmas. You'll find squirrels curling, puffins piping, hockey players a-leaping and more.

Helaine Becker and Werner Zimmermann turn the Christmas carol on its head, with a totally Canadian cast of characters wildly romping through the pages. A new holiday classic is born!

Plus Porcupine Plush. This cuddly plush toy will become every child’s favourite this holiday season. Inspired by the runaway bestseller A Porcupine in a Pine Tree, this cute critter is the perfect gift this holiday season — without the quills!

WINNER: Saskia Richards

Beautifully illustrated books by Barbara Reid

Beautifully illustrated books by Barbara Reid

Picture a Tree

Picture a tree—what do you see? The possiblities are endless. Come celebrate a year in the lives of trees—and all of the magical, playful things they can represent to the people around them. You will never look at them in quite the same way again!

 

 

Perfect Snow

When a perfect snow falls, imaginations run wild! Come cheer on new friends, Jim and Scott, as they collaborate to create the greatest snow fort their playground has ever seen. Using her signature Plasticine artwork to recreate some playground memories of her own, author/illustrator Barbara Reid has created a truly Canadian winter classic.

 

 

WINNERS: Wanda Van Bakel and Victoria McPhail

Books to Inspire Your Kids

Books to Inspire Your Kids

Just in time for the new school year, here are some fabulous books to inspire your young readers.

Young Readers (Age 3-8)

Bailey
By Harry Bliss
Meet Bailey, a dog who surprises and charms his fellow human classmates with his irrepressible antics.

My French & English Word Book
By Heather Heyworth
A wonderful, colourful book filled with dozens of everyday words in both English and French. Perfect for new learners of either language, and for parents who need to brush up as well!

Middle Grade Readers (Age 9-12)

Wonderstruck
By Brian Selznick
A beautiful new novel told in both words and pictures, from the award-winning author of The Invention of Hugo Cabret.

Dear Canada: That Fatal Night
By Sarah Ellis
Celebrate 10 years of Scholastic Canada’s award-winning Dear Canada series. This new title takes us back to 1912, and tells the story of a young girl who survived the sinking of the Titanic!

WINNERS: Brandi Cheng, Lois Davis, Meena Rahman Iqbal and Taya Heigh

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