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Potty Training: Pirate Potty and Princess Potty #giveaway

February 7, 2010 By Momstart 99 Comments

Just this last week we received the Pirate Potty and the Princess Potty. I have not been home so I really can’t give you a great review on it. I can tell you from looking at the previews on line that it is a really cute way to get your kids in the potty frame of mind. I can’t say that it will make them potty train with the snap of the fingers. My daughter loves to have books with her while she’s practicing. We have a stack of books and these will be added to the stack for her and her brother to read.

BOOK SYNOPSIS:

Both books provide a helpful, step-by-step story that introduces girls & boys to the concept of toilet training. Pirate Potty is a pirate-themed, toilet-training book that is fit for the little swashbuckler in your life! Includes a pirate’s hat and reward stickers! Princess Potty follows the same theme…a toilet-training book that is fit for the Royal Highness in your life! This book includes tiara and reward stickers!

I love the illustrations and my daughter is going to love the stickers. Maybe that’s what I need to do to get her excited about going potty. Even chocolate hasn’t worked but she has a passion for stickers. I just thought my passion for chocolate was already engrained in her, I really am liking this idea now. I think the reward of stickers is going to work. I’m not sure she’s ready for a tiara yet. I also can’t wait to put the pirate hat on my son. I hope to be able to write up a real review for everyone later, I just have to stop making promises on my blog.

Scholastic is providing 5 copies of both the books for giveaway

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Tell me about your potty pirate or potty princess

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The contest will run until Feb 22nd 11:59 pm Pacific. All rules can be found under giveaway rules.

Winter’s Tail DS Donation and #giveaway

December 1, 2009 By Momstart 258 Comments

Meet Winter the Dolphin

Winter’s Tail was created by Scholastic and Crave Entertainment. It was sent to me on behalf of Scholastic for review and donation. The only problem is that since I want to donate it as a Christmas Present to a local charity they only take new unopened toys. So I’m not going to open it for review.

I will give you all of the product details that I was sent to include with my review.

Take an exciting journey on your Nintendo DS and learn about the real-life story of Winter, an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin who overcame incredible odds. Including fun mini-games and a fully interactive storybook based on the Scholastic Book Winter’s Tail, read by the authors Juliana, Isabella and Craig Hatkoff. The release date is set for November 24^th. Rated E for Everyone!

Game Trailer:

Game Highlights:

From the #1 New York Times Best Selling Authors of Owen & Mzee
Immersive interactive story – Based on real life events
Fish Facts – Teaches children about dolphins, marine biology and conservation
Whale Words – A glossary that teaches pronunciation and definitions
Fun Micro-games reinforce the meaning of each chapter
Storybook editor, paint & color mode & more!

To Enter:

Visit Winter’s Tail and let me know which interactive feature you like most on the site.

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Scholastic Publishing presents Christmas to kids in two sure to be Holiday Favorites

November 22, 2009 By Momstart 61 Comments

The Nutcracker

The Christmas Magic

Scholastic sent me both of these books to preview and share with my children. I’m very happy to report that they are awesome books. The pictures in each are well worth of separate reviews.

The Nutcracker is a play that all of us are familiar with, but did you know that before Tchaikovsky turned it into a ballet it was a book written by ETA Hoffman.

The Nutcracker and The Mouseking is brought to children ages 4 and up by Gail de Marcken with beautiful illustrations. My children are still too young to sit and listen to this story. I tried my hardest to read a page as fast as I could but all they wanted to do was turn the page and look at the next illustration. With 56 pages this is a great re-telling of The Nutcracker.

The Christmas Magic is all about how Santa Claus delivers all of those toys to all of those children. This is another book with very beautiful illustrations. With only 40 pages this one is a little bit easier to get through, there are fewer words on each page so my children were able to sit through this one. Well, my daughter was, my son only made it halfway through.

So way up north, when the nights are longest and the stars shine brightest, Santa begins to prepare for his big night of giving. The reindeer are very excited and know that the magic will soon be here. Santa gathers them, feeds them parsnips and berries, and polishes his bells and his sled. Everyone is very excited about the magic that is coming.

“Then lovingly, he chooses toys for every child in the world. For Santa loves them all, and he knows what each child at heart wants most. Then, with the thrum of magic that makes reindeers fly, he spreads the Christmas joy and warmth throughout the world–as he always has — and always will until the end of time.”

I love reading to my kids and know that I am guilty of not doing it enough. They ask so many questions and make so many inferences just my looking and listening to me. Their comprehension is amazing and so are these pictures. They both make great picture books to my children’s imagination.

Scholastic has generously offered us a set of these books to giveaway.

To Enter:

Visit Scholastic and tell me what book you would most want to add to your collection.

Extra Entries:

Tell me what you read to your children

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Leave a comment for every entry and do each one as many times as you like.

The contest will run until December 14th 11:59 pm Pacific. The winner will be selected by www.random.org. All rules can be found under giveaway rules. I can not guarantee shipment but we will try to get this to you before Christmas.

Filed Under: christmasguide, giveaway Tagged With: scholastic, The Christmas magic, The Nutcracker and the mouseking