Sponsors help make Book Adventure possible,
so please read about them and take the time to visit their cool sites too!
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GRIPPER PRODUCTS
DREAMCASTLE BOOKS
PATCH PRODUCTS - Swap! Card Game, Toss Up Game
IMAGINATOR PRESS
HIGHLIGHTS MAGAZINE
QUIZ HUB
DAISY MAY PUBLISHING - Can You See Her? book and stuffed puppy prize
USBORNE - HOTSHOT BOOKMARK
THE READING STAGE in concert with PLAYBOOKS, INC.
NEA’s Read Across America
CLEARWATER PUBLISHING
WHITNEY
ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHOCOLATE FACTORY
BALLOON HQ
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Gripper Products
Gripper Products offers two new prizes to the Book Adventure prize library:
Nessie and the Living Stone - Here's a blurb for Nessie and the Living Stone: Nessie and the Living Stone is a chapter book for 8 - 12 year olds. Craig's family, including his bratty little sister Linda, are on holiday at Loch Ness. There's Roy, the obnoxious Loch Ness Coast Guard, who wants to capture Nessie and stuff her and put her in a museum. There's Mrs. Carmichael, who runs the Bed and Breakfast where Craig's family is staying. She recognizes a blue stone that Craig found, and calls it a living stone. And there's Nessie herself, guarding her secret realm at the bottom of the loch. But the door to her magical chamber came loose in a recent earthquake. Craig will face Vikings and a treacherous mermaid before his final decision -- is it worth risking his life to save the Loch Ness Monster?
Reluctant Spy - Timmy and Grandma train a pet rat Hildegarde to discover who or what is causing earthquakes in town. Along the way they meet a mysterious German rat trainer, a crazy inventor, an FBI agent who specializes in aliens, and a girl who is always eating chocolates out of heart-shaped boxes. There's no time to lose. The rat learns everything except how to press toggle switches. Timmy, the chocolate-eating girl and Hildegarde sneak into the crazy inventor's laboratory and discover the earthquake machine in action. Timmy gets trapped in the machine. The girl can't reach the switch. Hildegarde can, but she doesn't know how to press toggle switches. The chocolate-eating girl throws a candy onto the switch, suddenly making it into a brown button, and Hildegarde saves the day.
www.reluctantspy.com
www.lochness-monster.com
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DreamCastle
For Freedom, a new children's book being released in June 2006 by DreamCastle Publishing and a Book Adventure approved title,
offers an inspiring glimpse of growing up in a military family through the eyes of a child. Michele Snyder, the daughter of a former
Vietnam POW and the book's author shares, "For Freedom was inspired by a family visit during the summer of 2005. Visiting a
military family and staying on a Marine base offered a rare opportunity for a civilian to experience a small fraction of the military
lifestyle. The visit brought about a true appreciation for the sacrifices military families, must make for their fellow Americans."
www.dreamcastlebooks.com
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Patch Products
Patch products headquartered in Beloit, Wis., is a leading manufacturer and marketer of family entertainment products.
Board games, card games, puzzles and foam sports toys are the core product lines.
www.PatchProducts.com
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Imaginator Press
www.imaginatorpress.com
Imaginator Press is dedicated to publishing books for children that stretch the mind, tickle the imagination,
inspire a sense of wonder, and open new worlds of possibilities. The Dark Dreamweaver is our first offering; to find
out more about The Dark Dreamweaver visit: www.DarkDreamweaver.com
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Highlights Magazine
www.highlights.com
Highlights for ChildrenŽ magazine is dedicated to helping children grow in basic skills and knowledge, in creativeness, in ability to think
and reason, in sensitivity to others, in high ideals, and worthy ways of living—for children are the world's most important people.
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Quiz Hub
quizhub.com
The Quiz Hub is a fun K-12 online interactive learning center that
features hundreds of educational quiz games for English language arts,
geography, history, math, and science.
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Daisy May Publishing
Daisy May Publishing encourages early literacy for all children and publishes high quality children's books,
which are not only entertaining but also provide educational tools for educators and parents.
With the belief that children should not only learn how to read but enjoy it as well, Daisy May Publishing
helps to build this type of solid foundation while encouraging children as they strive to achieve greater goals.
http://www.daisymay.ca/home.html
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Usborne
Usborne Books are fun, interactive books to enrich your children's lives on topics from
science to language, from music to logic and more!
http://www.pattisbooks.com
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The Reading Stage in concert with Playbooks, Inc.
Read to Achieve, Inc. dba The Reading Stage a non-profit organization, is dedicated to building a love of reading and improving reading confidence in children and adults. Using new technologies, such as Playbooks™, RTA promotes and encourages Reading TO and BY children at home and school. http://www.readingstage.org
Playbooks, Inc. brings families and classrooms a new exciting reading methodology through a facilitated "reader's theater" format. Reading a story is now more powerful and fun than ever before….with Playbooks™! Each character's dialogue is presented in a different color to make reading like a play easy and fun. Each reader chooses a character in the story to read aloud and the fun begins! Playbooks™ are also available in Advantage Format with character parts edited by credentialed teachers to several reading ability levels. This allows children of all ages and abilities to read their parts with confidence and enthusiasm.
To find several new and classic stories written as Playbooks™,
visit: http://www.eplaybooks.com.
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NEA’s Read Across America
The National Education Association (NEA) annually sponsors NEA’s Read Across America program. Now in its sixth year, NEA’s Read Across America generates enthusiasm for reading nationwide and focuses the country’s attention on how important it is to motivate children to read in addition to helping them master basic skills. The major thrust of the year round program is the nationwide reading celebration that takes place each year on or near March 2, the birthday of beloved children’s author, Dr. Seuss, but NEA’s Read Across America also provides NEA members, parents, caregivers and children the resources and activities they need to keep reading on the calendar 365 days a year.
The National Education Association is the nation’s largest professional employee organization, representing 2.7 million elementary and secondary teachers, higher education faculty, education support professionals, school administrators, retired educators, and students preparing to become teachers. For more about the NEA, visit www.nea.org.
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Clearwater Publishing
http://www.clearwaterpublishing.com
Publisher of fun educational books including The Barefoot Fisherman. Visit http://www.barefootfisherman.com to read more about the book, reviews etc.
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Whitney Worldwide, Inc. Newton’s Apple: What’s the Secret
http://www.whitneyworld.com
Receive an educational CD that ignites the imagination of young people to explore the world around them and turn the PC into a fun laboratory.
To visit, go to http://www.whitneyworld.com.
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Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory
With more than 200 stores worldwide, Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory
offers delicious chocolates and confections, charm and old-fashioned
hospitality. Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory began as a little chocolate
shop in 1981 in Durango, Colorado. As the candy storešs reputation for
incredible hand made fudge and mouth-watering chocolate confections grew,
more Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory stores were opened. Today, visitors of
every store rediscover the fun and excitement that began with the original
store. Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory takes special pride in satisfying
customers with quality chocolates made from the finest, freshest ingredients
using time-honored recipes.
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Balloon HQ
http://www.Balloonhq.com
Balloon HQ presents the most comprehensive collection of toy and decorative balloon information available
in the internet
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