 | The Kids' Book Club Book: Reading Ideas, Recipes, Activities, and Smart Tips for Organizing Terrific Kids' Book Clubs by Judy Gelman
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $0.35 Visit their webiste at www.kidsbookclubbook.com
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 | Moonbeams, Dumplings & Dragon Boats: A Treasury of Chinese Holiday Tales, Activities & Recipes by Nina Simonds
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $9.97 Wow! The best children's book club book ever...a catchy title, too! Celebrate Chinese New Year. This book has recipies, cultural studies, craft ideas and folk tales. We made a kitchen god out of food and everybody delighted in preparing all of the wonderful recipies. Make your own dragon! Don't forget to include the drums, sticks and cymbals for the dance.
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 | Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.20 My original inspiration for a book club for kids. Watch the movie and have your own party decked out with orange crepe paper, doggy pictures, egg salad sandwiches and "dump punch!"
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 | Mud City: A Flamingo Story by Brenda Z. Guiberson
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $8.75 Great for a "Flamingo Party!" Go ahead, don't be afraid to put a dancing flamingo on your doorstep to welcome your guests!...A great summer bookclub theme.
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 | Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy Books) by Maud Hart Lovelace
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 We used this book to celebrate friendship. We made real paper dolls, had food from the early 1900's with a menu. The kids had to "pay" for their food. The families saved all of their change for a month and donated it to the Betsy-Tacy society to help pay of the mortgae for Betsy's house. www.betsy-tacysociety.org
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 | Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa by Andrea Pinkney
Buy used from: $2.88 Put on some Ella and have a dance! A great introduction to a "dance" for kids! Teach them some of Ella's moves!
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 | The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Dinosaurs and Washington DC...What a combination! Create your own gigantic egg by paper-macheing a balloon, create the Washington Mall out of cardboard and collage, have a banquet of everything made out of eggs!
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 | Vacation Under the Volcano (Magic Tree House, No. 13) by Mary Pope Osborne
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $0.01 Along with the Guidebook, Ancient Rome and Vesuvius proves to fascinate kids! Get some white sheets and have a toga party for kids and let them eat lounging on the floor! Serve food from ancient Rome (google search for the recipies). Make an erupting volcano cake. There are many great recipies for that online!
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 | Hi! Fly Guy (Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book (Awards)) by Tedd Arnold
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $0.01 All of the Fly Guy books lend themselves well to book clubs. Make Shoo-Fly Pie or paint cardboard with honey and have a toy fly toss (how many can you stick on the "flypaper?)
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 | The Music Inside Me (Kids Are Authors) by Marvin Elementary School Students
Buy used from: $0.07 A beautiful book a group of kids and an elderly musician. Call your ISD's head band director and ask to invite over some high school musicians to play their instruments for your book club. Don't forget to give those musicians community service hours. Most high schools require that the kids have 40 hours of community service.
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 | A Wish to Be a Christmas Tree by Colleen Monroe
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $7.79 This beautiful story details the delights of the woodlands creatures that surround a the plight of a too tall Christmas Tree. Have a gift day! Make and bake your own gifts for family members. The kids can really say that it is from the heart.
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 | Hour of the Olympics (Magic Tree House #16) (A Stepping Stone Book(TM)) by Mary Pope Osborne
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $0.01 Have your own Olympics! Whether it is the winter or summer olympics, this is a great book to integrate with the kid's excitement about the Olympics. Don't forget to talk about Olympic history!
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 | Felipe the Flamingo by Jill Ker Conway
Buy new: $11.01 / Used from: $0.28 Felipe was a delightful book to celebrate our annual flamingo party! It also celebrates the value of friends. Don't forget to serve shrimp!
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 | The Tale of The Firebird by Gennady Spirin
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $7.23 Watch the Firebird Ballet, celebrate Maslenitsa at the beginning of Lent (google it!) and have all of the Russian Blinis you can eat!
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 | One-Time Dog Market at Buda and Other Hungarian Folktales by Irma Molnar
Buy used from: $5.53 A great book, if you can find it. It is a collection of Hungarian Folktales (which have their own flair and dynamics). It also has cultural studies at the end of every fairy tale. Find a hungarian! They would be more than happy to share about their culture! (google Hungarian or Magyar and your nearest big city name)
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| Christina Katerina And The Box by Gauch
Buy used from: $7.50 Collect huge cardboard boxes from a company and see what you can make out of a box!
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 | There Is a Bird On Your Head! (An Elephant and Piggie Book) by Mo Willems
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.35 All of the Elephant and Piggie Books are great for young book clubs. We made birds nests with eggs and had races with them on our head.
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