Driving My Tractor Animation by Barefoot Books

Barefoot Books has created a playful FREE animation to promote the release of their new singalong book with CD, Driving My Tractor.

Enjoy this free animated short of our new book, Driving My Tractor! Chug along with a farmer and his tractor on this multi-season animal adventure. This colorful book combines simple counting instruction with humor, repetition and rhythm to encourage learning fun.




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Chug along with a farmer and his tractor on this multi-season animal adventure. This vibrant book combines simple counting instruction with repetition and rhythm to encourage learning fun.

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Driving My Tractor is $16.99


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Happy Reading!
Barefoot Books - LadyD

Review: Driving My Tractor by Jan Dobbins

Driving My Tractor
Chug along with a farmer and his tractor on this multi-season animal adventure! A busy farmer picks up fifteen animals along his route, but when his trailer hits a stone, chaos ensues. This colorful book combines simple counting instruction with humor, repetition and rhythm to encourage learning fun. Book with CD edition includes song sung by acclaimed children’s performer SteveSongs.



Ages 2 to 5 years



Written By: Jan Dobbins

Illustrated By: David Sim



Format: Hardcover 32 pages

ISBN: 1846863589
ISBN13: 9781846863585

Sung By: SteveSongs

My Review: Follow a farmer with his tractor and trailer as he goes around his farm - combines simple counting skills with a catchy song and a singalong CD. Education Market: This colorful book combines simple counting skills and fun farm animals to keep early readers entertained. Gift Market: This is a must-have early years picture book for farm shops, transport museums and every outlet whose customers care about the land and where food comes from! It travels through the seasons with illustrations that show the farming year. It includes a section on farm machinery. Vocalist Mark Collins is also the voices behind Barefoot's Bestselling Portside Pirates.

Being a local farmer and avocado grower in my area, I give this book 5+ stars! It is so rewarding to grow your own food and to educate and teach the children where food comes from! I sell avocados at our local Farmer's Market and I'm always meeting lots of friendly people from all over.

The music CD is a wonderful, zippy song that immediately you and your children will be fond of and eager to join in. The full length colorful illustrations are gorgeous with the pictures of the seasons and the farm machinery section is very informative, too. I highly recommend this adorable hardcover book with CD for $16.99 to you! Visit my marketplace to order on line.


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~ LadyD


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Barefoot Books :: The Faerie's Gift by Tanya Robyn Batt

Driving through Big Sur was a wonderful experience. How lovely to see sky, water and trees. I was reminded of the Faerie's Gift with a story CD read by Niamh Cusack. I love Tanya's Forward:

"The original seed of this tale was told to me by Eibhis De Barra on the magical Isle of Cape Clear, off the coast of Southern Ireland. A story of faerie ingenuity and human generosity, it can be found in many forms across many cultures."



The Faerie's Gift
Breathtaking gift edition hardcover with CD!
Enter a magical forest where a woodcutter is granted one wish after saving the life of a fairy. The woodcutter must make a difficult decision when faced with the needs of his wife, his father, and his mother. His ingenious and touching choice is at the heart of this traditional tale. Book with CD edition includes story read by actress Niamh Cusack.

Ages 4 to 9 years

Retold By: Tanya Robyn Batt

Illustrated By: Nicoletta Ceccoli

Narrated By: Niamh Cusack

The Faerie's Gift has all the elements a story book should; thought provoking, well developed characters taking a journey, while revealing important, relative lessons in life. The Faerie's Gift is a magical tale that presents an ordinary man with an extraordinary opportunity to change four lives. There is only one catch: he only gets one wish. This delightful tale shows how a thoughtful approach to life can be very beneficial.

The story itself is well written and easy for children to read. The illustrations are so beautiful. The voice of the narrator is so charming and calming that she just draws you into the magic of the story. Yes, with the ending you're in for a delightful surprise. Yep, I cried tears of joy! I love this book. To order yours, go to:

http://ladyd.barefootbooks.com

"We all wish for things daily without thinking-
small wishes, big wishes, soon forgotten wishes-
but if you really could wish for whatever your heart desired,
what would you wish for?"


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Celebrate Father's Day with June Special Offers!

Celebrate Father's Day with June Special Offers!

Father's Day Favorites
From a crazy shopping adventure to an all-ages introduction to yoga, these specially discounted books are all great to share with Dad!

Here are your Special Offers for June:

* Shopping with Dad £8.99 HB/ $13.99 HC



* My Daddy is a Pretzel £4.99 PB/ $12.99 HC




* Yoga Pretzels £7.99/$13.99

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* Yoga Planet £7.99/$13.99
* Journey Home from Grandpa's £2.99 PB/$3.99 PB



Young travelers will delight in this colorful journey. Along the way from country to city, they'll learn about different colors and modes of transportation, and sing along with Fred Penner to the catchy road-trip song.

* Bear's Busy Family £3.99 BB/$4.99 BB



As young readers follow Bear around his home, they will learn about all kinds of different household activities! With many first learning themes, an easy-to-memorize rhyming text, and a useful family tree, Bear's Busy Family offers many opportunities for interactive projects with young children.
* The Beeman £3.99 PB/$5.99 PB
* The Barefoot Book of Pirates £6.99 PB w CD/$11.99 PB w CD



* The Barefoot Book of Monsters! £8.99 HB/$15.99 HC
* The Story Tree £6.99 PB w CD/$15.99 HC w CD



This delightful collection of tales from around the world includes favorites like "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" (Norwegian) as well as less familiar stories such as "The Blue Coat" (Jewish) and "The Sweetest Song" (African-American). Hugh Lupton's engaging narrative quickly draws young readers into each story, while Sophie Fatus's quirky illustrations will have children laughing in their seats, ensuring hours of entertainment.
* Jack and the Beanstalk £7.99 HB w CD/$6.99 PB w CD



* Grandfather Mountain

* Grandfather Mountain US ONLY $12.99 HC



A delightful companion volume to our bestselling Grandmothers' Stories, Grandfather Mountain explores what it means to be a grandfather. Our grandfathers are the tellers of stories, passing on the knowledge they have accumulated over the years, and sharing the lessons they've learned from the grandfathers who have gone before them, who in turn received them from their elders.

This is a unique anthology, which presents adventures of well-known gods and heroes taken from cultures all over the world, and explores the quests that challenge all males as they take the step into manhood.

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* Journey home From Grandpa's



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Free Shipping April 28 through Mother's Day!

Barefoot Books has announced today that they will be running a FREE SHIPPING/P&P for all orders* between 28 April - 10 May.

* Special Offer List:
The Beeman HC $13.99
Home for a Tiger, Home for a Bear HC $13.99
Jack and the Beanstalk PB w/CD $7.99
The Gigantic Turnip PB w/CD $7.99
Whole World Mini $8.99
Whole World Activity Book PB $3.99
What's This? PB $6.99
A Forest of Stories PB $9.99
Sun in Me PB $9.99
Yoga Planet Deck $13.99
Herb the Vegetarian Dragon HC $13.99

Elusive Moose BB $4.99
* The Whole World Activity Book Review

http://barefootbooks-ladyd.blogspot.com/2009/04/review-whole-world-fun-eco-activities.html
* The Beeman

http://barefootbooks-ladyd.blogspot.com/2008/08/beeman.html
* What's This Review

http://barefootbooks-ladyd.blogspot.com/2009/04/childrens-book-review-of-whats-this.html

* Stop by and Shop! Oh yes, and happy reading!

http://www.barefoot-books.com/us/site/pages/home.php?rep_code=US-1019232

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Children's Book Review- Playtime Rhymes For Little People

Playtime Rhymes For Little People -
Hardcover & CD
"Make room on the parenting shelf for this one."—Bulletin for the Center of Children's Books

In this re-release with a newly recorded singalong CD featuring Susan Reed, this exquisite, hand-sewn anthology showcases Clare Beaton's wonderful treasure trove of fabrics and bric-a-brac. We’ve paired it with a collection of forty popular action rhymes includes favorites such as “I’m a Little Teapot” and “The Wheels On The Bus,” as well as less familiar ditties such as “Fishes Swim in Water Clear” and “My Ship Sailed From China.”

Playtime Rhymes for Little People contains the following much-loved rhymes:

Round and Round the Garden
Incy Wincy Spider
One Potato, Two Potato
Tinker, Tailor
I'm a Little Teapot
Heads and Shoulders
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
The Wheels on the Bus
The Farmer's in his Den
If You're Happy and You Know It

Many of my beginner students have enjoyed playing the song, The Wheels On The Bus" or "Bus Song" on the piano. It's fun to play and sing-a-long with the tune in Middle C position. This delightful book of rhymes and beautiful illustrations by Clare Beaton, comes with CD to enjoy! Did I mention Susan Reed does the singing? She's fabulous!
The wheels on the bus go round and round; Round and round; Round and round; The wheels on the bus go round and round; All day long.

* Product Details
Sung by: Susan Reed
Read Alone: Ages 4-7
Read Together: Ages 0-4
Hardcover with CD; Jacketed; full-color illustrations; 64pp;
9 x 10.25 inches
Item No. 9781846861567
$19.99

* Susan Reed
"Susan Reed is a classical violinist, folk musician, singer and storyteller. A multi-
instrumentalist, she uses original songs and stories to work magic with families, on both local and national stages. Her aim is to inspire a lifelong love of music. Common to all of her performances is a trademark sense of humor and optimism, and her conviction that music has the power to broaden people’s understanding of the world around them"... more on Susan

http://www.barefoot-books.com/us/site/pages/authors.php?aid=289
Visit her website at:

http://www.susanreed.com

Recent praise:
"Finch has selected a plethora of lap games, finger plays, and action rhymes for adults to share with young children.... [T]he cuddliness will appeal to parents as the detailing intrigues young viewers. Make room on the parenting shelf for this one." - Bulletin for the Center of Children's Books

Now, I've saved the best for last! As a quilter and book lover, I am very fond of Clare Beaton's work. I love her world of felt, stitches, colors, hearts and buttons. Have a bird's eye view of her style!

I give this book 5+ stars! Why you ask? Well, Clare Beaton draws you in with Row, row, row the boat for starters and encourages you to sit on the floor facing each other in pairs feet touching and holding hands and sway backwards and forwards. Every child will be delighted to do so! She ends the book with If You're Happy and You Know It, encouraging clap, stomp and shout! In between are glorious chapters like One, Two, Buckle My Shoe. This rhyme is to encourage kids to clean their plates. The pair of numbers represents a mouthful! Plus, you'll be wiggling your toes to This Is The Man That Broke The Barn...enjoy and happy reading!

Visit Clare on line at:

http://www.clarebeaton.com
To order book:

http://www.barefoot-books.com/us/site/pages/productone.php?pid=2226&user_name=LadyD&rep_code=US-1019232

* Book without the CD- Hardcover
Playtime Rhymes For Little People
'What better way to introduce children to the joy of rhyme than this delightful selection!'—Nursery Education
* Product Details
illustrated by: Clare Beaton
Read Alone: Ages 4-7
Read Together: Ages 0-4
Hardback; Jacketed; Full-colour illustrations; 64pp;
260 x 230 mm
Item No. 9781841484259
£12.99
Order Book:

http://www.barefoot-books.com/uk/site/pages/productone.php?pid=642&user_name=LadyD&rep_code=US-1019232

The Beeman

Told from the viewpoint of a child whose Grandpa is a beekeeper, this rhyming text offers an accessible and engaging introduction to the behavior of bees, including: where they live, how honey is made, and what a beekeeper does. Children will love learning about the vital role of bees in the ecosystem, and will be delighted to find a delicious muffin recipe on the final page!
The book is written by Laurie Krebs
http://www.lauriekrebs.com She lives in Virginia and
her husband is a beekeeper. The Beeman is illustrated by
Valeria Cis who lives in Argentina and has immersed herself in the world of bees while working on The Beeman.
http://www.valeriacis.com.ar The book is full of fun, full color illustrations. While ages 6-10 can read the book alone, you'll find ages 4-8 reading it together.
Recent praise:
“This charming book is visually enticing and just plain fun to read... The text conveys facts, but at the same time captures a larger understanding of and appreciation for nature.”-School Library Journal
“This cozy intergenerational story will delight young readers as it educates them on these industrious insects.”-ForeWord Magazine
Discover the fascinating world of beekeeping in this playful introduction to the way bees live and work. I can tell you that once upon a time, my husband and I were beekeepers. And yes, the rewards were very sweet, indeed!

http://www.lauriekrebs.com/Pages/The%20Beeman.html
Did I mention that Grandma's Muffin Recipe is in the back of the book? Yes, but what kind of muffins? Read the book, read deeper about bee keeping and then search for the recipe. You'll be glad you did!
This item will be in stock 8/30th:
http://www.barefoot-books.com/us/site/pages/productone.php?id=2188&user_name=LadyD&rep_code=US-1019232