Book Club Ideas

thats they will bill you when you get your books like for childrens books?

Try Crossings Book Club. They have a few children’s books and you can review them before you purchase.

I am looking for a book that I use to read when I was a kid. It about a young girl and she is always (if i remember correctly) getting into trouble. She also has a sister names Beatriz. I think in one of the books she babysat. (It’s not the baby sitters club) . I want to say her name was Judy, but i can’t remember

Beverly Cleary’s Ramona Quimby books. Sister is Beezus

I am looking for a book that I use to read when I was a kid. It about a young girl and she is always (if i remember correctly) getting into trouble. She also has a sister names Beatriz. I think in one of the books she babysat. (It’s not the baby sitters club) . I want to say her name was Judy, but i can’t remember

Beverly Cleary’s Ramona Quimby books. Sister is Beezus

I have Spanish/English children’s books I found from publisher,book clubs, stores etc… but when I looked around Barnes and Nobles and Border’s I found no books for children to learn Japanese, I found plenty of children’s books to Chinese, French,Spanish….Can you help me?

I found a couple here:
http://www.worldlanguage.com/Products/Japanese/ChildrensBooks/Page1.htm

Found one or two here:
http://www.powells.com/subsection/ForeignLanguagesJapaneseChildrens.html

This MIGHT help: http://scbwi.jp/faq.htm It’s actually a listing of Japanese childrens’ book publishers.

This may be the most useful site: http://www.genkienglish.net/japaneseenglishtranslation.htm

I see what you mean, though — this took a bit of digging!

I have Spanish/English children’s books I found from publisher,book clubs, stores etc… but when I looked around Barnes and Nobles and Border’s I found no books for children to learn Japanese, I found plenty of children’s books to Chinese, French,Spanish….Can you help me?

I found a couple here:
http://www.worldlanguage.com/Products/Japanese/ChildrensBooks/Page1.htm

Found one or two here:
http://www.powells.com/subsection/ForeignLanguagesJapaneseChildrens.html

This MIGHT help: http://scbwi.jp/faq.htm It’s actually a listing of Japanese childrens’ book publishers.

This may be the most useful site: http://www.genkienglish.net/japaneseenglishtranslation.htm

I see what you mean, though — this took a bit of digging!

These were books my Mom and Dad read to me when I was little. They bought them through a book club. There were many others but I can’t remember the titles.

I remember Gus was a Friendly Ghost!
You can get it and some other books I remember from my childhood, like the Harry the Dirty Dog books, Curdoroy, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, Ferdinand the Bull, Blueberries for Sal, and the list goes on and on, from Amazon.com
I have found many of these at garage sale for 25 and 50 cents.

I read this book about 30 years ago. It had something to do with a few boys who discovered an "old" club that some other boys had founded years earlier. They had to follow certain tasks to find out how to join the club. They made spears out of broom handles, made masks and some other stuff I can’t quite remember. It had instructions on how to make these things as well. It turns out in the end that the boys father’s were the original founders of the club. It was about a third grade reading level, maybe about 25-30 pages long. I got it from the school’s book fair. That’s about all I remember.

This is definitely THE SECRET HIDE-OUT by John Peterson, 1965, 1998.

From wikipedia: "The book was an adventure story about two brothers, Matt and Sam Burns, who discover the log book of the Viking Club, a kind of junior secret society of boys from a generation or so earlier. While Sam wants to skip the log’s details and go straight to look for their old meeting place (the Secret Hide-Out), Matt wants to see if they can first pass the club’s membership tests, as they are explained, and be "worthy" of going as prospective members… if the Hide-Out still exists. Another local boy called Beany joins them in their quest… and as it turns out, an original Viking Club member who learns of their plan prepares to meet them.

"While the book didn’t include the complete "original" Viking Club log, it did include enough details and illustrations to show how such a club would initiate new members, and a style for presentation and decorum. A section in the back gave full instructions on making regalia for club members, including masks, whistles, shields and (dull-pointed) spears. These could be easily made by the book’s target audience, with mostly household materials, a bushel-basket lid being the hardest item to obtain."

Also, you might be interested to know that there was a sequel, ENEMIES OF THE SECRET HIDE-OUT.

You can buy a copy (with new cover artwork) at amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0590413538/24680e-20

or one with the old cover: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0590001191/24680e-20

I was looking for a book club that they would bill me later for the book that I would order, like a childrens book club

Quality Paper back book company is an excellent one. They let you buy six books, six bucks, lots of books to pick from. Go to their website: www.qpb.com

Happy reading….

Hey, thanks for giving this a look! I ordered a paperback childrens book from the Scholastic book club in elementary school, twenty years ago, and the story was so good, I want to find it for my stepson. The story takes place in the Old West. A couple of bright youngsters in a small town have a problem — It seems a travelling magician and his lackey, a huge, grim man who never speaks, are planning to fleece the townspeople of their money during a public seance, featuring a coffin and all! A spirit will be conjured from the pine box, or something to that effect. Unbeknownst to anyone except the two youngsters, the plan is for the grim, tall brute to steal some money from a bank vault while the lights are all down. The kids manage to turn a light on the dastardly duo in the act of burglarizing the vault, and the town’s money is saved! I can’t think of the title, and I must find this awesome, illustrated paperback for my kids to enjoy. Any leads would be appreciated.

I think it’s "The Ghost on Saturday Night" by Sid Fleischman. http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Saturday-Night-Beech-Chapter/dp/0688149200/?tag=24680e-20

Hi,

Hope someone can help me…

I had a booklet through from Books For Children where you get 5 books for 50p each and then have to buy 4 more books during the first 12 months, also get a free rucksack. But when I was reading the small print I saw that you get sent the Editors Choice book or collection through every month unless you opt out of it every month.

Are any of the book clubs any good? What one/s would you recommend as ds is really into reading but hasn’t got a very big collection!

Any advice would be greatly received. Thanks

I don’t think that much of the book clubs. Are you a library member? A lot of libraries run schemes where you get free books, and most of them have booksales where books are sold very cheaply. And in the meantime you can borrow and read different books each week.