kids.
The children’s area is a fun place to be.
It’s a large, bright room filled with a broad selection of colorful books that are sure to entertain, delight and educate that deserving child in need of a good book. Tucked around the books are a variety of nonbook gifts from small games, building kits by LaQ, vibrant artwork, games and activity set from Authentic Models, hanging hot-air balloons and plane mobiles, to a fanciful group of stuffed animals, who are watching visitors from high and low.
take a look at -
our summer READing challenge winners new book review
special building kits for kids read. supporting reading
our summer READing challenge winners new book review
special building kits for kids read. supporting reading
a waiting dad finds a new friend
outside even the geese are into books
a flying car appears over the kid's section
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and you can always find a good book
Children's Time
TUESDAYS
Every Tuesday at 11am, there’s a Children’s Time in the store that’s geared towards children aged 3 to 5 years-old. Some days the children are read to, and other days it’s a fun craft time.
TUESDAYS
Every Tuesday at 11am, there’s a Children’s Time in the store that’s geared towards children aged 3 to 5 years-old. Some days the children are read to, and other days it’s a fun craft time.
2010 Summer READing Challenge
Because "a day spent reading is a day worth living"
we challenged everyone to read this summer.
The contest ran from June 10th to August 20th and all the
book logs had to be turned in by August 22, 2010.
The top winners in each age category receive a
$10.00 gift certificate to our store.
WE HAVE THE WINNERS
We are proud to announce the winners of our Summer Reading Challenge. The winners read a total of 801 books! Kylie Rashkin read the most books – 164. Each winner will receive a gift certificate to read.booksellers. Congratulations and keep on reading!
First – Second Graders
Zoey Halverson, Emily Kessel, Kylie Rashkin, Laura Smith, Matthew Yeung
Third – Fourth Graders
Brooke Heiner, Jemma Lawrence, Pendar Salemi
Fifth – Sixth Graders
Olivia Bame, Megan Chuah, Mikayla Rae Flores
Seventh – Eighth Graders
Emily Chuah, Brandon Heiner, Jenna Riegel
SINGING among the BOOKS
We were thrilled to have singer-songwriter Caroline HarrisonChildren's Time this summer. Caroline always brings a lot of joy and excitement to every child here. She's got talent. Caroline also has her own preschool music program named Miss Caroline’s Music Class and the bookstore also sells her music CD’s.
We were thrilled to have singer-songwriter Caroline HarrisonChildren's Time this summer. Caroline always brings a lot of joy and excitement to every child here. She's got talent. Caroline also has her own preschool music program named Miss Caroline’s Music Class and the bookstore also sells her music CD’s.
How the Nobble Was Finally Found is the happy collaboration between Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award- winning poet C.K. Williams and Caldecott Medal winner and writer Stephen Gammell. The Nobble of this picture book has been alone, undiscovered, for about four thousand three hundred and twenty-three years, not because he is invisible, but because the places where he goes, like the space between Wednesday and Saturday, are where nobody else ever ventures. This is why he's decided to set off to find some place or something so he isn't alone anymore...and that journey of discovery is where this joyful book takes us. Williams' excellent text along with Gammell's fantastic illustrations create absolute magic.
Any book written or illustrated by Stephen Gammell is worth hunting down: The Relatives Came, Once Upon Macdonald's Farm (hilarious), Old Black Fly, My Friend, the Starfinder, Old Henry, Song and Dance Man and sadly, out of print, The Wing Shop and Monster Mama are inventive, fun-to-read titles, great choices for an kid's book collection.
6.8.10 - Vicky
► A Way We Give Back
One of the community projects that the bookstore has gotten involved with, in a major way, was the SRVEF Read-A-Thon.
read. booksellers was the major sponsor of this first Read-A-Thon, organized by the San Ramon Valley Education Foundation and it got a lot of kids reading. As of the time we gave out the awards in early May, the students had read for 1,923,872 minutes, raised $31,043.70, and they were still counting the results. What a great effort!
The prizes were awarded as follows.
$1,000 read. booksellers gift certificates for the libraries at:
Hidden Hills $25 read. booksellers gift certificates for top readers:
Chandni Mistry, Indu Gaddenmadugu, Vincent Sparvoli $10 read. booksellers gift certificates for next group of top readers:
Brenna Turnbow, Sylvester Jung, Saurabh Shriwas, Kobe Phan, Colin Nguyen The following won pizza parties from read. bookstore - to be enjoyed here at Blackhawk Plaza.
Kraft Rancho Romero, Maloney Hidden Hills, Burgess Alamo for more info on the Read-A-Thon
► LaQ building sets for kids
Let's Play with LaQ
In June, we hosted a demonstration of these very clever building sets, AND we will definitely do it again. There are small kits and large, as well as a few examples of what you can create up by the registers.
If your children are tired of the ho-hum stacking blocks, they are ready for LaQ. The Q in LaQ stands for the Japanese word for sphere, and a sphere is just one of countless shapes that can be made by this revolutionary construction kit. Brand new to the USA, LaQ kits include seven very different, very tiny, types of blocks in a myriad of child-pleasing colors that click together to form unlimited models. These seven unique shapes mean that nearly anything your child can envision he can create, from flat designs and three-dimensional simple shapes to complex animals and vehicles, even something practical like a pencil holder.
LaQ is a innovative construction set from Japan consisting of seven different shaped blocks in 10 different colors. The blocks make fun snaps! and clicks! when piecing the parts together so the child knows when the pieces are firmly connected. The clever angles on the joint block pieces can create flat, two-dimensions, three-dimensional and spherical objects. LaQ is an educational toy that teaches concentration through play. Test results show that playing with LaQ will aid the growth of a child's brain by stimulating both the left and right spheres of the brain.
