Wear your favorite fancy outfit to a special story time featuring the new holiday book Fancy Nancy’s Splendiferous Christmas. We’ll be dressed up, too!

Free stories and holiday activities. Recommended for ages 3 to 93.

RSVP (That’s a fancy way of saying “Please let us know that you’re coming so we have enough stuff for everyone.”) Call us at 828-232-2228.

Sunday, September 13 at 1:00pm

Book Making Workshop
Learn how to make four small handmade books from one paper grocery bag. Great idea for Grandparents Day gifts. Free, but please call ahead. All materials provided, but feel free to bring any favorite stickers or mementos for pasting into the books. Ages 5 and up.

Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 10 2009.

Sunday, May 3 at 1:00pm 

Mother’s Day Craft Workshop

Get some help making a very personal gift for Mother’s Day: a book all about Mom! We’ll provide the materials for this project  and there is no cost to attend, but registration is required so that we can make sure we have enough space and materials. Ages 5 and up only, please.

Sunday, May 10 is Mother’s Day

By Barney Saltzberg

Board Book

Suggested for ages 1-4

Meet Egg. Cuter than a button, enormously personable, and talented, too. Say “sit,” and Egg sits. Good Egg! Say “roll over,” and egg rolls over. What a good Egg! Of course, Egg does all of this with a toddler’s help, who lifts the flaps and pulls the tabs and operates the wiggle behind the wiggle-waggle. But that’s the most fun part: interacting with the Egg.

Then comes the pay-off. “Speak!” is the command, and children will crack up in delight. $9.95

Have you ever noticed the great book posters displayed around our shop, advertising new books?  At Spellbound’s Really Big Book Poster Sale, all month long in February, we’ll be selling promotional posters featuring art from books that have been released over the last five years. Posters are collectible items and can provide a unique artistic display in your home or classroom. Many are suitable for framing. They make excellent gifts!  Prices are very affordable with most only $5 or less. We have multiples of some posters, but mostly we have only one of each. Shop early for the best selection!

 A small sampling: Nancy Drew Series by Carolyn Keene (re-issue); The End by Lemony Snicket (illus by Brett Helquist); Kitten’s First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes; If You Give a Pig a Party (illus by Felicia Bond); Seymour Simon’s Smithsonian Series; Mind Your Manners, B.B. Wolf (illus by J. Otto Seibold); Frankenstein Takes the Cake by Adam Rex; Play, Mozart, Play by Peter Sis

ABC3D

by Marion Battaille
Suggested for All Ages

Prepare to be amazed. A work of art as much as it is a pop-up book, this boldly conceived and brilliantly executed pop-up book features a striking black, red, and white palette. Click below to see a brief video of the book in motion.

]]> http://www.spellboundchildrensbookshop.com/2008/12/27/abc3d/feed/ 0 http://www.spellboundchildrensbookshop.com/2008/12/14/best-books-for-children-catalog/ http://www.spellboundchildrensbookshop.com/2008/12/14/best-books-for-children-catalog/#comments Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:37:30 +0000 Leslie http://www.spellboundchildrensbookshop.com/?p=230 Our yearly catalog, ABC Best Books for Children, is available now. Pick it up in the store or at various locations around town for great recommendations compiled by independent children’s booksellers from all over the country. Recommended books are grouped by ages and other categories and include pictures of books covers and retail prices. The catalog is free and is great for gift ideas at any time of year. If you would like us to mail you a complimentary copy, just call or email us and let us know how many copies you’d like!

Or, here is a handy link to a pdf of the catalog. Enjoy!

ABC Best Books for Children 2008

Silly and zany, and armed with the most unusual skills, these heroes are out to save the world–one letter at a time! Bubble-Man blows big bubbles at bullies, and Laughing Lass laughs at lawbreakers! Together, these one-of-a-kind defenders represent the ABCs in a way never seen before.

Renowned comic book illustrator Bob McLeod has created a full cast of humorous and delightful characters, sure to please anyone in need of a hero to save the day. $7.99

This slim volume, a Wizarding classic, first came to Muggle readers’ attention in the book known as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Now, thanks to Hermione Granger’s new translation from the ancient runes, we present this stunning edition with an introduction, notes, and illustrations by J. K. Rowling, and extensive commentary by Albus Dumbledore. Never before have Muggles been privy to these richly imaginative tales:
The Wizard and the Hopping Pot
The Fountain of Fair Fortune
The Warlock’s Hairy Heart
Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump
The Tale of the Three Brothers

The stories are accompanied by delightful pen-and-ink illustrations by Ms. Rowling herself, featuring a still-life frontispiece for each one. Professor Dumbledore’s commentary — apparently written some eighteen months before his death — reveals not just his vast knowledge of Wizarding lore, but also more of his personal qualities: his sense of humor, his courage, his pride in his abilities, and his hard-won wisdom. Names familiar from the Harry Potter novels sprinkle the pages, including Aberforth Dumbledore, Lucius Malfoy and his forebears, and Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington (or “Nearly Headless Nick”), as well as other professors at Hogwarts and the past owners of the Elder Wand. Dumbledore tells us of incidents unique to the Wizarding world, like hilariously troubled theatrical productions at Hogwarts or the dangers of having a “hairy heart.” But he also reveals aspects of the Wizarding world that his Muggle readers might find all too familiar, like censorship, intolerance, and questions about the deepest mysteries in life.

But not only are these tales the equal of fairy tales we now know and love, reading them gives new insight into the world of Harry Potter. This purchase also represents another very important form of giving: From every sale of this book, Scholastic will give its net proceeds to The Children’s High Level Group, a charity cofounded in 2005 by J. K. Rowling and Emma Nicholson MEP to make life better for vulnerable children. $12.99