Books

Did you know a giraffe has a black tongue so it doesn’t get sunburned when using it to grasp food in tall trees?

Or that Yellowstone’s Old Faithful geyser shoots 204°F hot water up 170 feet in the air?

How about this: The Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, is 1,063 feet tall, weighs 11,100 tons and has 20,000 light bulbs that make the tower sparkle each night?

Or did you know that democracy and freedom of speech were established in Athens, Greece, In the 5th century BCE?


Well, we learned all of that and tons more in today's featured books The BigFoot Seek-And-Find Series by D.L. Miller. Find out more about those fun books and how you can enter to win a copy of either book.

We love books and will be reviewing children’s books for you on a regular basis. The first one is Martina Ballerina by Imelda Rose Sobiloff.

The book is about little Martina who loves to dance, but - is too excited to listen to her teacher. Martina must learn the hard way that ballerinas are calm, poised, and good at taking instruction. Will little Martina achieve her dream of making it onstage or will a difficult lesson and a setback make her want to give up?

Want to know more about the book and how you can get a FREE copy? Read on.

Do you believe that girls can do anything boys can do? Does your child know that girls have all the same rights, freedoms, and opportunities that boys have?

Today's featured book Franny’s Father is a Feminist is a great way to explain to your child that we're all equal, regardless of our gender. Read our book review and enter for a chance to win a free copy.

According to experts, young children are naturally brilliant at entrepreneurial skills, but far too often that genius is snuffed out. Their bold, imaginative powers are socialized-out by peer pressure and educated-out by a system designed to create the boundaries valued by the old world, not the new.

What if that didn’t happen to your kid…or any kid? What if there was a window in a child’s life when just the right dose of learning at the just right time could produce kids whose gifts were available for the rest of their lives? What could this new kind of kid—an un-diminished kid—become?

Read more about VentureGirls - Raising Entrepreneurial Girls To Be Tomorrow’s Leaders - a book with the goal to empower young girls to see a rich open-ended future for themselves. Plus, enter for a chance to win a free copy.

As some of you’ve already heard, family-owned book store The Book Spot in Round Rock is unfortunately going out of business. For the next 30 days The Book Spot is having a going-out-of-business sale and is asking book lovers in and around Austin to take some of their 150.000 books off their hands.

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