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Nosy Crow & Unicef – Free Board Book For Scottish Babies

July 18, 2014 By achuka Leave a Comment

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Nosy Crow has worked alongside UNICEF to create Baby, I Love You, a book to be given to every Scottish newborn. Mothers of all Scottish babies born in Scotland between the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and the 2018 Games in Gold Coast, Australia, are set to receive a free baby book, published by UNICEF and created by Nosy Crow with illustrations by Helen Stephens.

The book forms part of the games legacy ambitions to improve the wellbeing of children in Scotland and actor Ewan McGregor has recorded an audio version of the book.

Mothers and babies at a drop in centre in Glasgow were joined by Scotland’s Children’s Commissioner Tam Baillie and Dr Kate McKay, Senior Medical Officer for the Scottish Government, for the launch where all were given a sneak preview of the book.

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With the message “You can’t spoil your baby with love”, the simple board book, with words written to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, has the support of NHS Health Scotland, and will be given out to every new mother by her health visitor at the first home visit.

Kate Wilson, MD of Nosy Crow, said “It has been a privilege to work with UNICEF on this project. We find it inspiring to be working on anything that introduces children and their parents to the importance and intimacy of sharing books from the earliest age, and, as a Scot myself, it was a joy to be working on something with a focus on Scottish babies. Helen Stephens has created pictures with such a timeless and wide appeal and the text, which can be read aloud, or sung to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star is one that we hope all parents, and their babies, will respond to.”

You can download a recording of Ewan McGregor reading Baby I Love You here www.unicef.org.uk/BabyILoveYou

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: babies, free, mothers, Scotland, UNICEF

Happy World Book Day – ACHUKAbook Giveaway

March 6, 2014 By achuka Leave a Comment

Happy World Book Day everyone! In addition to the 10 specially published titles for just £1 that children can buy with their £1 tokens (making them effectively free), this great KS2 space adventure read will also be free through to the end of Sunday (no token necessary).

THE BABY UNIVERSE by Tim Johnstone is one of ACHUKAbooks Kindle-only publications, so if you know any of the growing number of children who like to do at least some of their reading on a Kindle or similar device, don’t let them miss this free download offer:

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http://www.worldbookday.com/books/

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: downlaod, free, Kindle, World Book Day

Booktime celebrates its ten millionth book!

November 6, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

Booktime, run by Booktrust and Pearson, will give away its ten millionth book to four year old Ruby on today’s Daybreak programme. Appearing alongside Loose Women presenter and Coronation Street actress Sally Lindsay, who acts as the ambassador for Booktime this year, Ruby will be given her book pack on live breakfast TV.

Booktime (www.booktime.org.uk) has been giving books to reception-aged children for eight years, and is about to give out its ten millionth book. The scheme aims to inspire a lifelong love of reading, giving two free books to 765,000 reception-aged children in England and Wales in the 2013-2014 year of school. This year’s books for children in England are Charlie and Lola’s But Excuse Me That is My Book, published by Puffin, an imprint of Penguin Children’s, and Tom’s Mad Mop, from the Bug Club series by Pearson UK, part of Pearson’s education business. Four to five-year-olds in Wales will receive Charlie and Lola’s But Excuse Me That is My Book as well as a Welsh language title. In addition, every primary school and library can also access free guidance and activity sheets on the Booktime website, with extra resources for libraries and parents also available.
Leading personalities including Mount Pleasant actress and Loose Women presenter Sally Lindsay, comedian Lenny Henry, TV presenters Holly Willoughby, Piers Morgan, Matthew Wright and ITN’s Julie Etchingham, along with Malorie Blackman, Waterstone’s Children’s Laureate, have joined forces to lend their support to this initiative that encourages parents and carers to spend time reading for pleasure with their children.

This year, for the first time, children, together with their parents and carers, can log onto the Booktime website www.booktime.org.uk for free e-books to read online from Pearson. They will also be able to listen to the books being read aloud as well as access free games and activities.

via Booktime celebrates its ten millionth book! | Booktrust.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: books, Booktime, booktrust, children, free, parents, reading

Simon & Schuster Children’s Books Announces Partnership with Box of Awesome and Box of OMG – BWWBooksWorld

May 3, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

Simon and Schuster Children’s Books UK [have] announced a partnership with Box of Awesome, a unique new initiative delivering boxes of free goodies to children across the UK. Described as ‘a free Birchbox for kids’, Box of Awesome aims to solve the discovery and noise problems faced by consumer companies targeting children and teenagers.

As well as collaborating with major brands aimed at the youth market, Box of Awesome has a policy of including a book in every box, to encourage a culture of reading amongst the target audience. The company has teamed up with Simon & Schuster Children’s books to feature books from bestselling authors and series, including Zom-B by Darren Shan and Dork Diaries by Rachel Renee Russell.

via Simon & Schuster Children’s Books Announces Partnership with Box of Awesome and Box of OMG – BWWBooksWorld.

Find out more on http://www.boxofawesome.tv/

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: box, discovery, free, products, promotion, Simon & Schuster

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