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    Craze for Children's Books!

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      Tri-mum
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      hquek:
      if you like stories about naughty little kids, try Dorothy Edwards \"My Naughty Little Sister\".

      Thanks for your recommendation. I finally found this book at MPH and bought it for my DD (P1) and I would say it is written in simple english and easy to understand....at least she read with understanding unlike other princess book like tiara club which she has to keep asking me what it mean :slapshead:
      [quote] \"Nicholas\" by Rene Goscinny (same guy who did Asterix & Obelix) is fantastic read. :love: About a little boy and his life in school and at home. Very funny cos the perspective is from that of a little boy who doesn't always know what he's doing wrong. And the stories are in chapters (ie one chapter one story) so it makes for easy light reading. I liked it so much that I went ahead to buy the whole set from
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      MPH is out of stock for this book and is selling at $45....it's so expensive for a children book. Beside online purchase, any idea where can I find this?

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        Angelight
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        Hmmm…from some of the posts here, I realise most of the good children’s books are expensive. Been toying with the idea of writing and publishing my own children’s books (Spore-style) and at affordable prices so most kids can get to read. Wonder if there are any parents here who can do the illustrations for the children’s books??

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          My 2 yr. old DS and I loves to go to bookstores or at least I encourage him to. He seems to be enjoying himself everytime we pick out books, I do buy books for him but he has to pick one that he’s interested in and is within the budget too…ehehe. He loves books about cars, by the way!

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            kams
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            My 6yo & 8yo boys are currently crazy over \"Beast Quest\" books. Every time we go to shopping centres, they will ask if there's any Popular Bookstore there, so that they each can wheedle a Beast Quest book from us. Each book costs $11-13. There's like 6-7 series with 6 books per series. My kids intend to collect all the books. Can go bankrupt! :shock:

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              kids_r_innocent
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              kams:
              My 6yo & 8yo boys are currently crazy over \"Beast Quest\" books. Every time we go to shopping centres, they will ask if there's any Popular Bookstore there, so that they each can wheedle a Beast Quest book from us. Each book costs $11-13. There's like 6-7 series with 6 books per series. My kids intend to collect all the books. Can go bankrupt! :shock:

              Oh... then you can take advantage of the 20% Popular sale now. 😉

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                pokemon
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                kams:
                My 6yo & 8yo boys are currently crazy over \"Beast Quest\" books. Every time we go to shopping centres, they will ask if there's any Popular Bookstore there, so that they each can wheedle a Beast Quest book from us. Each book costs $11-13. There's like 6-7 series with 6 books per series. My kids intend to collect all the books. Can go bankrupt! :shock:

                my ds also like it, i thought abit wasteful to buy and keep so we borrow from the library.

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                  kids_r_innocent
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                  Wow... we parents are always on the lookout for books, books for our darlings and sometimes, ourself. 😉


                  What about books for girls, series books or wonderful fairytales to read? Let's share!!

                  Personally, my girl loves the rainbow magic series and books on animals. I have also bought \"The Giving Tree\" after recommendation from one of the parent in this forum, THKS!!

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                    kids_r_innocent:
                    Personally, my girl loves the rainbow magic series and books on animals. I have also bought \"The Giving Tree\" after recommendation from one of the parent in this forum, THKS!!

                    wondering how much you got it? over S$30? but the feel of the paper, binding of the book and typeface of the stories make it a real gem worth owning.
                    Silverstein was very particular in this repect and he chose the type size shape colour and quality of the paper himself....

                    his other book \" the missing piece\" can also waken your senses and help you see life in a fresh way....
                    \" it was missing a piece. And it was not happy. So it set off in search of its missing piece.....\"
                    but was it happy after it found its perfect missing piece? .....

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                      hquek
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                      I typically like to borrow also from library, but where the books are non-fiction (ie can last a few reads), I tend to buy these instead (rather than having to keep scouring the library to find the books). With the USD and pound so low, books from these countries are really cheap.


                      In case anyone interested, I chanced upon the following:

                      Rainbow magic series on sale at Bookpeople website. 42 books for 20pounds, but they only deliver to UK address (unless you use vpost/borderlinx/whatever).

                      Beast quest packs available at Scholastic.co.uk in varied forms. This one delivers worldwide.
                      eg of BQ mega pack (6 series in all) for close to 80pounds.
                      http://clubs-shop.scholastic.co.uk/products/78976

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                        hquek
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                        Tri-mum:

                        MPH is out of stock for this book and is selling at $45....it's so expensive for a children book. Beside online purchase, any idea where can I find this?
                        These books are all hardcover, so tend to be pricey. Borders may stock it - so if there is coupon for more than 30%, grab that coupon and try. But I would say, it's not quite popular in library (unlike G. Stilton books), so if you prefer, go library and borrow. I know Geylang East Library has a good selection of these.

                        Sorry, but $45 a book is way too daunting for me.

                        I just checked, bookdepository.co.uk has Nicholas books. About USD18 (SGD about 26). Delivery is included. I think this is a pretty good price.

                        http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/search?searchTerm=nicholas+by+goscinny&search=%3CSPAN%3E%3CEM%3EFind%26nbsp%3Bbook%3C%2FEM%3E%3C%2FSPAN%3E

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