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Baby’s First Words

The first two years of life are spent discovering everything for the very first time. This includes the language skills that will serve them for the rest of their lives. The Baby’s First Word compact discs are a handy tool that will give your baby familiarity with the mechanics of a foreign language using fun songs and rhymes. As your child grows older, you can utilize the variety of tracks on each CD to keep pace with his development. Once your child outgrows the Baby’s First Words CDs, she’ll be well prepared to excel at Italian class in school.

Rec Specs Protective Eyewear

Every year, about 600,000 eye injuries occur while people participate in organized sports with about 42,000 of them requiring emergency room care. To put some perspective on those numbers, that averages to one eye injury every 53 seconds and one trip to an ER for an eye injury every 13 minutes. The real tragedy of the situation is how easily virtually all of these injuries can be prevented by simply using protective eyewear such as Liberty Sports Rec Specs. These prescription glasses will protect your children’s eyes while still allowing them to perform to their full potential. Rec Specs come in a variety of colors and styles that are sure to fit your tastes and are guaranteed to protect your child.

COOL BOOKS

The World Almanac for Kids 2008

Do you want to know what nation first invented the concept of zero? What the primary export of Vietnam is? What a group of owls is called? The answers to these and many more questions are all to be found in The World Almanac for Kids. The almanac is an excellent source of information about any topic a child could possibly be interested in. All of this information is then delivered in a colorful and entertaining manner that will be sure to keep your child turning pages and delighting in all the new facts they are learning.

Homework Helpster & Vocabulary Power

Getting a child to study is an activity that combines all the worst aspects of a paper factory explosion and a root canal appointment. What if there was a way to eliminate all of the mess and the boredom of studying and replace it with a simple, colorful, and effective tool? The Vocabulary Power and Homework Helpster flip books might just be what you have been looking for. They’re designed to teach children at a first grade level useful vocabulary and to help make it stick. It not only gives the child a word and its definition, but uses pictures and humor to help get the word to have context in your child’s mind. The Homework Helpster is a multi-subject study guide for children in the third grade that covers math, social studies, science, and language. 

Kids Love Pennsylvania By George & Michele Zavatsky

This family travel guide takes you on a tour of exciting places like the Crayola Factory and Carnegie Museum of Art to the Betsy Ross House and the National Civil War Museum. Each of the 10 chapters provides detailed descriptions of parks, college campuses, historical sites, museums, resorts and so much more in each region of the state. Towards the end of the guide, you’ll find a valuable list of seasonal and special events.