"That's Not My . . . " Series

Today's review is all about a long time best selling series of Usborne Books - 10 years and still going strong - The That's Not My Series!

The That's Not My series has long been a favourite of moms. These books are high quality touchy feely board books with:
- thick pages
- textures of all kinds
- bright colors
- bold black outlines (to appeal to even the youngest readers)
- very limited and predictable text  repeated throughout the book (my two and a half year old loves to read them!)

Trust me, these books can take a LOT of wear and tear from your little ones! They are great "grow with me books", appealing to newborns with their bold black outlines, babies and toddlers with their touchability, and preschoolers with their easy to read, predictable text.

There are over 30 titles in this series now, and I'm sure we'll see even more.

Current topics include: That's Not My:

Truck
Train
Plane
Tractor
Car

Monkey
Pony
Kitten
Bear
Puppy
Bunny
Lion
Teddy
Frog
Tiger

Fairy
Princess
Dolly
Mermaid

Robot
Monster
Dragon
Pirate
Dinosaur

Baby (boy)
Baby (girl)

Snowman*
Penguin*
Santa*
Reindeer*
Polar Bear*
Angel*

*Wouldn't a selection of these Christmas/Winter ones make a fabulous holiday gift for the little ones on your shopping list!?

Usborne Farmyard Tales The Runaway Tractor

Series: Usborne Farmyard Tales
Subject Areas: Tractor, Horse, Farm Life
Ages: 2+
Type: Paperback
Of Interest To: Librarians and Media Specialists, Parents, Teachers

Poppy and Sam are cute characters who have lots of adventures that toddlers and preschoolers love to read about. In this Farmyard Tale, Dolly the horse comes to the rescue when a tractor gets stuck in a pond. Written in simple text intended to encourage beginning readers layered with more complex text, this series is great for young children. The illustrations feature the popular hidden duck on every page.

Retail Price: $6.95

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Usborne Farmyard Tales: The New Pony

Series: Usborne Farmyard Tales
Subject Areas: Ponies
Ages: 2+
Type: Paperback
Of Interest To: Librarians and Media Specialists, Parents, Teachers

Young children love the amusing adventures of Poppy and Same, their dog Rusty, Curly the pig, and Woolly the sheep! In this tale, Poppy and Sam make friends with a pony. This is another book in which young readers can build their confidence by sharing in the reading process. The story is told in two levels: a simple sentence per page written at the top of the page and a more in-depth set of sentences at the bottom of the page.

Retail Price: $6.95

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The Usborne Children's Cookbook

Series: Cookery

Subject Areas: Cooking
Ages: 7+
Type: Spiral Hardcover
Of Interest To: Librarians and Media Specialists, Parents, Teachers

This beautifully photographed and well laid out cookbook includes easy to make recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, and snacks. The recipes are simple for a child to make (with assistance), but tasty enough to for adults to use to make family meals! Recipes are presented with graphics to accompany the written instructions, thus engaging young cooks. As soon as we saw this book my two and a half year old insisted that we try out a recipe. She chose the “Chocolatey Baked Bananas” which were quick and easy enough for her to fully participate in the preparation. As soon as they were out of the oven and cooled down, she devoured them lickety split! We’ll definitely be working our way through many of the other recipes in this book.

Retail Price: $24.95

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The Usborne Book of Princess Stories

Series: Usborne First Stories
Subject Areas: Princesses
Ages: 2+

Type: Padded Hardcover

Of Interest To: Librarians and Media Specialists, Parents, Teachers

This delightful collection combines four cute princess stories, including The Princess and the Pig, The Little Dragon, The Tournament, and The Broomstick all in one volume. It is a leveled reader in that it tells the story in a simple, one sentence per page version at the top of the page and in a more in-depth, several sentence form at the bottom. This allows even the earliest of readers to participate in the storytelling! What a brilliant way to build a beginning reader’s confidence! My daughter got this as a gift for her first birthday and loved it right away! The illustrations, by Stephen Cartwright, are bright and engaging. Now, at two and a half, she her favourite part of reading The Usborne Book of Princess Stories is finding the duck that is hidden within each illustration.

Retail Price: $17.95


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