New kids book
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Topic: New kids book
Posted By: lizzle
Subject: New kids book
Date Posted: 03 July 2006 at 8:19am
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I just bought Maragret Mahy's new book "down the back of the Chair" and at risk of sounding like I'm getting paid to advertise, IT IS SOOOOO GOOD!!!! Jake just adores it and sleeps with it in bed so he can "read" before he sleeps (as he sleeps in the dark with no light I have no idea how this occurs but nevermiund!)
So I thoroughly recommend it. Jake's other favopurite book is "JAKE"S FAMILY", a photo album I made for him. |
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Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 03 July 2006 at 9:00am
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Lizzle, we have this one too and its so cool!!
Ella yells 'Chair, Chair!' whenever I pick it off the shelf. It's a lot of fun to read too eh? I think its going to become one of the ones we can all recite by heart by the time she's 3  ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 03 July 2006 at 9:32am
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Ooo, Hannah's reallygetting into books now - might have a look at it. Need some new ones cos getting very sick of reading the same ones over and over... ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 03 July 2006 at 9:27pm
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Ooh will have to have a look - we just got paris a book that has 4 stories in it.. from the hairy maclary series - but they are all the cat ones.. so all about slinky malinki and scarface claw - she loves them. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 04 July 2006 at 9:26am
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janine, jack's favourite book is his hairy maclary one too. we have the one with the dog stories in it, about 4 or 5 i think. i'm hoping to get him some more hairy maclary ones for his birthday as his other books are a little 'young' for him now. ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 05 July 2006 at 2:33pm
On a similar subject....I bought Zaara a junior Leap pad from Farmers. I have to say...its awsome (thanks Becca!!! ). It has a nice story, good for learning abc and 123....and it has three sound settings. Its just way too cool. And you can buy different cartridges for it. I will buy Zaara the winnie the pooh one for her birthday!!  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 05 July 2006 at 3:01pm
| Is that the 6-23 month one (something like that!) Roksana? I was thinking of getting jake smething like that for xmas, but I'm still not sure. |
Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 05 July 2006 at 3:08pm
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Liz...its 6-36 months and its great!!
I was buying it for Zaara's Birthday but hubby said that since Zaara is 8 months she might as well start using it and learning.....I thought ok...I will just buy another cartridge for her birthday and then one more for Xmas. Zaara loves the music and all the oh no...moo moo etc at the moment. She touches the book and it makes noices and she just laughs!!!! I think both Jake and Taine will love it!! Its on special at farmers for $71.95. It is the cheepest at the moment! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 05 July 2006 at 4:43pm
we got a normal leap pad for a real score about a year ago... for $5.. cos the supervisor lady at warehouse approached us one night and asked if we wanted it - lol she told us only the outer pages worked and that it wasn't picking up the inner pages. so we thought hey - for $5 who cares if she can only use a little bit of it, ... got it home put new batteries in it and voila! works perfectly - paris loves it.. but we keep forgetting to buy books for it - what slack parents we are.  ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 05 July 2006 at 4:52pm
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oh wow Janine...Lucky lucky!!
See, how I see it is that Zaara can use this leap pad till she is 2-3 and then we will buy the next level up (4-8 years) and our next bub can have this one....yay....what a planner I am ...he he ha ha  ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 06 July 2006 at 8:56am
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I can remember that story Janine! I was soooo jealous and kept visiting the warehouse, walking around waiting for someone to come and give me one too.
Off subject by I remember when I was young with my girlfriends - we'd go into a shop and put makeup or something on the collar of clothes we liked, then the next day buy it, but get a discount because "someone" had stained it. Naught naughty! once again, relieved I had boys! What if I had a daughter that turned out like me? God forbid! |