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I’ve long been a fan of Sylvan Dell and have talked about them a time or two over at Reading to Know. However, today I am delighted to bring them to your attention at 5 Minutes for Books and offer you an opportunity to win one of their titles.

Sylvan Dell is taking a unique approach to their books these days in that they are striving to move their base of followers to the online world of e-books. (Of course, they do realize that there are some folks like me who are almost – but not quite – archaic about their approach to books and so you can find hard copies of their line of books as well.) In fact, if I had found this company before they went online, I might not have paid very much attention to them at all. (Must. have. book. in. hand.) But since we made friends before their move to the online world, I’m ok with remaining friends. For dealing with the whole idea of an e-book, they do make it rather easy to be friendly with them.

Not only does Sylvan Dell offer their books in e-book form, but they offer a plethora of resources and information to accompany each of their titles. Combining science and math with literature, their books are educational and just plain fun. Their books hold great appeal to my three year old who is curious to explore the world around him. Check out one of their latest releases:

Little Red Bat is set in the autumn months when the weather is beginning to change. Little Red Bat doesn’t know if she should stay put for the winter or travel south like so many other animals are doing. She runs into a variety of other creatures and asks them their plans for the winter. Will the field mouse be headed south? No. It will be working on its tunnels underground. Will the sparrow stay? No, it will be flying south. Little Red Bat has exchanges with a variety of other animals so that the young reader gets the idea the different animals have different patterns and habits as the weather changes. My son really enjoyed this book.

A quick hop and exploration over to the Sylvan Dell website offers the following resources for us to use after we’ve read the book together:

* A reading comprehension quiz
* An FCM quiz
* A math quiz
* Teaching Activities (i.e. a lesson plan to go along with the book)
* Much, much more!

The goal of Sylvan Dell is to make their books more accessible for parents and teachers to use in educating children. (They also specifically seek out home schoolers which I very much appreciate.) They really are doing an excellent job providing storybook materials to draw children in to the natural world around them. I heartily encourage parents with children aged 3-12 (in particular) to check out Sylvan Dell. We’ve thoroughly enjoyed their reads.

As further incentive to check them out, we’d like to offer one hard copy of one Sylvan Dell book of your choosing. That’s right! Hop on over to the Sylvan Dell website and see what they have to offer. Come back here and leave a comment letting us know which title you would like to win. We’ll draw the winner and that person will win the title they have selected. Please make sure to leave a title in your comment in order to be eligible to win! We’ll announce the winner on May 19

If you need help selecting, here are a few of our family’s favorite titles:

Have fun exploring and choosing!

Also, be sure to check out a fun two-book giveaway of picture books exploring a world of color over at 5 Minutes for Mom.

Carrie comes by her book obsession honestly, having descended from a long line of bibliophiles. She blogs about books regularly at Reading to Know and Reading My Library.

Comments

  4. ‘Twas The Day Before Zoo Day or ABC Safari would be my choice, but looking through their website made me want all of their books. 😛

  5. I love math books so Sort It Out really appeals to me! It looks like a fun rhyming book that teaches important skills! It is hard to choose though, there are a lot of fun titles!

  9. The Giraffe Who Was Afraid of Heights soundsfun.

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  11. A Day in the Salt Marsh. We brought this book home from the library a few months ago and it is outstanding!! I’d love to own it (along with all the other books from Sylvan Dell!).

  12. It was difficult to decide. We would love to read Twas the Night before zoo day.

  15. We are ocean nuts here, so Ocean hide and Seek would be great for us. Thanks!

  20. There were alot of nice books to pick but since I can only pick one right now that book would be: What’s the Difference?

  21. The Giraffe who was Afraid of Heights sounds too funny. Even if we don’t win, I bet we’ll be looking this book up, as well as several other Sylvan Dell books that look amazing!! Thanks!

  25. Right now, my bebe boy is asking a lot of questions about the environment, endangered animals, and the like, so I would choose “What’s the Difference?
    An Endangered Animal Subtraction Story” for him!

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  28. My son loves turtles so I would pick, Where Should Turtle Be. Thank you 🙂

  29. Newton and Me interests me right now because my little five-year old, very active curious grandson, just acquired a puppy.

  32. I would definitely pick the book Loon Chase

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  36. ‘Twas the Day Before Zoo Day – looks like a good book for my preschool classroom.

  40. Octavia and Burro’s Tortillas my daughter would love this book, it looks cute.

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