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January Newsletter
Happy New Year from Hedgehog Books!
The New Year is here and we're working diligently to select our winners for the Hedgie Awards, the best Read Aloud books of 2003. The Newbery and Caldecotts are out and we're pleased that they have selected some of our featured books. For our list of current and past award winners, click here.
Book-of-the-Month and Tshirt Giveaways
Every week, we're giving away free copies of Hedgie's Book-of-the-Month. This month it's Shelley Moore Thomas' and Jennifer Plecas' Get Well, Good Knight!. For details and to enter, click here.
Congratulations to all of our From Me to You winners: Cheryl of Jacksonville, Florida, Shandy of Waverly, New York, Sharon of Eau Clarie, Wisconsin, and Nancy of Uniontown, Ohio.
Recent Tshirt winners were Phyllis and Matthew, both of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania!
We have another Hedgie Tshirt drawing running - the winners will be selected
on January 15th. If you'd like to enter, click
here. Or, buy one of our cute Hedgie Tshirts and help promote reading aloud to children!
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Hedgie's Cash for Schools: We recently launched Hedgie's Cash for Schools. We saw that other programs only paid schools 1-2% of purchases (after administrative fees), so we have set up a program where any purchases you make from www.hedgehogbooks.com will pay 10% to the school or district of your choice - with no administrative fees. For more information on how to sign up your school, click here.
Recommended this month (For Babies/Toddlers)
Quack and Count
With merry rhyming couplets, little listeners embark upon a charming math experience, starring seven adorable ducklings! On each page, the math sentence changes, as the ducklings find themselves in different situations. An added plus is the search for three tiny ladybugs at the flip of each page. This one gets picked up time and again by young and old alike...a BIG HIT! Here's an adorable board book with a clever math twist...perfect to read to little ones, ages 1 to 5.
Recommended this month (For Young Readers)
Under the Quilt of Night
Deborah Hopkinson and James E. Ransome team up again, in this stunning companion to Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. Ransome's rich, powerful illustrations elicit all the emotion and suspense of Hopkinson's words, in a story that's sure to make your heart race and leave you breathless. The book closes with "A note about the story," in which the author explains more about the Underground Railroad. UNDER THE NIGHT QUILT is an outstanding introduction to a very dark time in our history. Here's a great book to share with children, ages 5 to 10.
Recommended this month (For Fluent Readers)
The River Between Us
Not surprisingly, this is a finalist for the 2003 National Book Award. Within a page-turning tale of mystery, adventure, and the female Civil War experience, Richard Peck has spun a breathtaking portrait of the lifelong impact that one person can have on another. This is a novel of countless riches. Here's a highly recommended historical novel, for ages 12 and up.
Reading Tip From Hedgie
Having problems broaching certain topics with your children? Sometimes it's hard to bring up an issue which they find personal or want to avoid talking about. Try selecting a fictional book that revolves around the topic. For younger children, read it to them and discuss how the characters deal with the issues. For teenagers, have them read the book and discuss it over dinner. This can be an easy way to keep those communication doors open!
What? Another Book Report?!
Our
Grade level reading lists can
help you and your children choose the right books.
Great Books for Me Too?
Research has proven how important it is
to model reading to children. At Hedgehog Books we've made that even easier. Check out our
Techie's favorite Grown-up Books.
The Fortress of Solitude If you were a comic book fan, you know that the Fortress of Solitude was Superman's private retreat somewhere in an arctic wasteland. In his novel, Jonathan Lethem spins a tale of racial tension and an unusual friendship that springs up between two misfits growing up in a racially divided Brooklyn neighborhood. There's history, music, and magic against a bleak backdrop that tests what true friendship means as it changes through a lifetime.
Have you got a question for Hedgie?
Don't forget our "
Ask a Teacher" page. Hedgie's
professional teaching staff is there to answer all of your literary questions.
Hedgie loves to help!
A Note to Teachers: We know you don't have much time, but if you get the inclination, we now welcome teacher reviews for all of our books. If Hedgie hasn't done a review, a teacher review will be selected at random to be the main review. Put in your two cents about what students should read! Just go to the book you want to review and Add A Teacher's Review (Note, you don't have to fill out the entire form - pick the sections that are right for your review).
Thinking of sending books as gifts? On our checkout form, we've added the option to include a short message to the recipient of the books.
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of your purchase can be donated to the charity of your choice including The
Breast Cancer Site, Hunger Site, and The Rainforest Site. At
www.ebates.com you'll get back
cash with every purchase you make from Hedgehogbooks.
If you missed recent newsletters, you may be interested to know that we announced the Hedgie Award winners for the best books of 2002 - A Story for Bear won the Best Read-aloud Picture Book for 2002, and The Sands of Time won the Best Read-aloud Chapter Book for 2002.
Until next month,
Hedgie
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