It's a Virtual Book Fair!
Support Thorntons Ferry School
Place your book orders from NOV 16-30, 2020
Join us in our PTTF Virtual Book Fair! Every purchase helps support your child(ren)’s literacy along with PTTF schoolwide activities! Every purchase helps the PTTF earn cash rewards!
We encourage you to browse the below newsletter, explore the Usborne Books catalog and join the Virtual Book Fair Facebook group.
Shop here: https://g9077.myubam.com/18700
UBAM Catalog: https://g9077.myubam.com/FullCatalog
Book Fair Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/tfsbookfair
Key Facts & Usborne Books & More
- Shipping: Books are delivered straight to your door!
- $6.95 shipping for all orders
- Consider pairing up with a parent and ordering together to save on shipping costs
- Books should arrive between 8-12 days after order is placed
- As this book fair is virtual, we will not have teacher wishlists this year. In lieu of their Wishlists, please consider purchasing any book that you/your child believes their teacher would love to add to their classroom as part of your order. Don’t forget to have your child sign their name or write a little note on the inside cover before they hand deliver it to your teacher! (Remote families may drop off to the front office to be delivered to your teacher!)
- Every purchase helps your school earn cash rewards
A Bit About UBAM
- Usborne Books & More is a division of Educational Development Corporation (EDC), a well-established company that has twice been recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of The 200 Best Small Companies in America and three times by Fortune Magazine as one of America’s 100 Fastest Growing Small Companies, and has been in existence for over 30 years
- UBAM has a LIFETIME REPLACEMENT GUARANTEE! If a book is damaged through customer use, regardless of how long the book has been owned, it can be replaced at half-price (plus, tax and s/h)
- Usborne Books & More includes Kane Miller Publishing, an internationally known publisher of children’s books with over 20 years in the industry
Learn to Read Programs
$79.99
$69.99
$3.99 each
Build your own book bundle with over 50 books to choose from in levels 1 through 4, at $3.99 each.
Level 1: Very short stories, typically 100-300 words over 20-24 pages. Short, simple sentences using everyday words. Stories are followed by fun puzzles to test understanding of the story.Level 2: Longer stories, typically 500-700 words, full book length at 48 pages. Longer sentences and slightly more challenging vocabulary.
Level 3: Several stories on a theme, or one longer story in chapters. Typically 1,000-1,600 words over 48 pages, with slightly longer and more complex sentences, and longer paragraphs.
Level 4: Adapted classics or nonfiction topics, which may assume some background knowledge. Typically 2,000-2,500 words over 64 pages.
Christmas Title and Stocking Stuffers
$4.99-$14.99
Puzzle books, joke books, coloring and more! Browse through these and many more Stocking Stuffer Ideas!
$4.99-$24.99
Snuggle up by the tree with some fun Christmas stories. Be wowed by the pop up scenes in T'was the Night Before Christmas, enjoy beautifully illustrated picture books told from a childlike perspective. Follow a fun story in Santa Post about a letter to Santa and the help he calls in trying to ensure Amy receives her perfect gift.
$4.99-$24.99
Christmas activity books like wipe clean activities, puzzle pads, stained glass and magic painting will entertain your children for hours!
ACTIVITIES
$12.99
This kit is also available in Mermaid, Llama, Flamingo and Fairy.
$15.99
Series: Write Your Own Books
The Write Your Own story books are full of inspiring ideas for all kinds of different stories, with writing tips to help you on your way.
$15.99
$4.99-$11.99
This innovative book is brimming with amazing ideas for drawing animals. Easy, step-by-step instructions show you how to draw and paint all kinds of creatures from hairy orangutans to hunting tigers.
$9.99
https://g9077.myubam.com/p/889/50-science-things-to-make-and-do
$9.99-$74.99
Learning Palettes help teach children of all grades age appropriate skills in reading and math. Each Intro Pack will include curriculum that is grade appropriate and will provide material to last the entire school year. Each pack will offer challenges and opportunities for students at all levels and has been designed to meet state and national educational standards.
$18.99
$5.99
https://g9077.myubam.com/p/6367/christmas-patterns-to-color-ir
$9.99
Use the special brush that comes with this book to fill the scenes with amazing, vibrant colors.
Simply dip the magic water brush into water, brush it over the black and white patterns, and you’ll be amazed at the colors that magically appear.
$9.99
Practice letters, numbers and basic words over and over again with these wipe clean cards. Three boxes to choose from!
$5.99-$9.99
Choose from a variety of sticker books!
Build the coolest, fastest, biggest machines and things on the planet. Add fun stickers to each scene with reusable stickers.
Dress ballerinas in beautiful costumes for Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker and Swan Lake. Create magical winter wonderlands scenes with over 200 stickers, including extra-special sparkly stickers.
With over 75 different sticker books to choose from, you're sure to find one your child loves!
$12.99-$14.99
$12.99
Just in time for cozy fall dark nights, our Shine-a-light series is a favorite for all seasons. These books are not only highly engaging (you hold a light on the back of the page to reveal hidden images in every picture!) but they are very educational, there is much to learn from each book!
$12.99
The ACADEMY is in session with our Academy Series! The Academy Series allows you to explore careers!
This series features activities, cool quizzes, and super skill tests. Stickers, model, poster, and games included. Whimsical art and creative fun for anywhere!
Choose from Architect, Chef, Vet, Engineer, Doctor, Scientist or Entrepreneur! Great for ages 7+. You really have to see these books for yourself-- here is a 3-minute glimpse at the fun inside each one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMxq83rQGuk
$34.99
In this box you will find everything you need to start your writing career: two books loaded with tips and prompts for writing stories, poems and essays, and a handy journal to write down your notes, observations and chapters. Includes Creative Writing Book, Write Your Own Storybook, and Writing Journal.
Picture Books
$16.99
In this engaging picture book children will be entertained as cute and funny Nibbles actually nibbles his way into 3 fairytales, and while he's in there he changes the outcome of the stories. They'll want to read it again and again.
Nibbles is on the loose, and he’s chomping through all of your favorite fairy tales! With books within the book, Emma Yarlett’s utterly appealing artwork, and lots and lots of nibbled holes, this laugh-out-loud funny and ferocious charmer’s unstoppable appetite for the printed page will nibble a hole right through your heart.
$14.99
$12.99
$15.99
$14.99
A story about sisters. A story about love. A story about how it feels when someone close to you is diagnosed with a serious illness. A book to help name and explore the complicated feelings borne of heartbreaking situations.
$16.99
$14.99
$12.99
He wants to belong to all of them. To any of them. Elephant Club, Lion Club, he just wants to belong. And he tries so hard to fit in so he can – kids will love pointing out in the illustrations just exactly how he tries – a curly wig, dark glasses – but it just doesn’t work. He can’t be someone else.
So, he starts his own club. And there’s ONE rule – everyone is welcome! Because when it comes to making friends, being yourself is all that counts, in this heartwarming celebration of diversity, inclusiveness and friendship.
$11.99
Stomp, splash, slide, dive … This little dinosaur just loves mud! What does a cheeky little dinosaur with a dirty snout do? Why stomp about getting dirtier and dirtier, of course!
Children will delight in this dirty dinosaur’s playful antics and just may want to join in with the sniffing, snuffing, shaking, tapping, stamping, splashing and sliding, not to mention the mud!
A celebration of messiness and an irresistible read-aloud!
Lift the Flap and Look Inside
$13.99
Great for ages 3 and up, each page has an illustrated scene full of things to spot and talk about, even for pre-readers.
$14.99
These stylish, highly illustrated, interactive books are perfect for sharing with young children, and they introduce science concepts using a friendly lift-the-flap format.
Good for ages 3+.
$14.99
Series: Advanced Lift-the-Flap Board Books
Ideal for improving general knowledge and guaranteed to keep fact-loving, question-asking children entertained for hours.
Great for ages 7+.
https://g9077.myubam.com/p/7401/lift-the-flap-engineering-ir
$11.99
Series: Peek Inside Board Books
Peek inside burrows, inside barns, under leaves, and even inside the zoo, to find all the fun facts about our world. These simple books are filled with beautiful illustrations and facts perfect for young children. They can lift the flaps and peek through the holes in the pages to learn new facts.
Great for ages 3 and up!
$14.99
Series: Look Inside Board Books
Look inside the scenes at a bustling airport, dive under water and peer inside hollow trees to see what's hiding in the shadows, and find out why stars shine. These fascinating flap books are perfect for little fingers and curious minds.
Great for ages 5 and up, these books have more complex text, more flaps, more pages, and more detail than our Peek Inside series.
$14.99
Series: See Inside Board Books
Packed with lively illustrations and fascinating flaps, these books are bursting to reveal amazing secrets.
Great for ages 7and up, much smaller text and more information with more difficult subjects such as See Inside World Religions, and See Inside the Universe.
Chapter Books
$12.99
Embark on an amazing adventure with Bear Grylls as you learn the survival skills –camping, dangers & emergencies, maps and navigations, knots- to stay safe in the wild and be able to cope in all situations.
Volume 2 :Embark on an amazing adventure with Bear Grylls as you learn the survival skills – expedition planning, first aid, tracking, and signaling – to stay safe in the wild and be able to cope in all situations.
Volume 3: Bear Grylls describes all kinds of weather and offers plenty of tips on how to survive in extreme conditions. Learn how hurricanes form, how to identify different types of clouds, and how to treat sunstroke.
Great for ages 8-13.
https://g9077.myubam.com/p/6745/survival-skills-handbook-volume-1
$4.99
Jack loves all sorts of outdoor activities - but he just can't stand getting wet. Can an adventure with Bear Grylls in a Chinese river gorge, rafting down the rapids, change his mind?
Choose this or many of the Bear Grylls Adventure Stories!
Great for ages 7-10.
https://g9077.myubam.com/search?q=bear%20grylls&pagenumber=2
$5.99
Packed with super-cool tech, lots of character diversity, and fast-paced action, this is a funny adventure series about a kid and his robot best friend trying to save the world.
Great for ages 8-11.
$5.99
WARNING: You are about to read my UTTERLY BIGGEST SECRETS. Can I trust you? OK then, I'm Ella, and this is my diary.
Grab the whole collection here! Great for ages 8-12.
$4.99
Great First Chapter Books!
Best friends Billie and Jack do everything together. Billie loves reading, but Jack sometimes gets the words mixed up, so they need to work together... but what happens when they get split up for the school reading challenge? A special Billie and Jack story about the joy of reading and the special joy that comes from reading with a friend.
Great for ages 4-7.
https://g9077.myubam.com/p/8369/billie-b-brown-and-hey-jack-the-book-buddies
$4.99
Ella’s little sister has started writing down her own hilarious thoughts and adventures! It’s time to find out all about Olivia. She’s funny, fearless, and full of fun.
Great for ages 6-9.
$5.99
When young Anna inherits a dilapidated once-grand hotel, she's determined to restore it to its former glory. But this is no ordinary hotel - all of her staff and guests are animals! This collection includes the following titles: Hotel Flamingo, Holiday Heat Wave, Carnival Caper, and Fabulous Feast.
Great for ages 6-9.
$6.99
Ten-year-old Aurora Beam feels utterly unremarkable, until the day she sees her little sister being picked on and suddenly, beams of light shoot out of her fingertips!
A brand-new series with all the classic tensions of superhero versus super villain! This high-voltage adventure series has relatable family and friendship dynamics, laughs on every page and fantastically funny art throughout.
Great for ages 8+.
$6.99
An action-packed spy adventure series! This series includes the Library edition of the following titles: Breaking News, Disappearing Act, Undercover, and Out of Sight.
Twins Kensy and Max Grey’s lives are turned upside down when they are whisked off to London and discover their parents are missing. As the situation unfolds, so many things don’t add up: their strange new school, the bizarre grannies on their street, the coded messages they keep finding, and the feeling that, all around them, adults are keeping secrets...
Great for ages 8+.
$5.99
Chole Takes Center Stage
Getting into The Shine School for the Performing Arts is a dream come true for Chloe! When a prank goes wrong though, rumors that she is about to be expelled begin to fly. Can Chloe turn things around before it’s too late?
Great for ages 7-11.
$10.99
3 books in 1!
She may be small, but she's on a big journey around the world. Join Ermine on her travels to London, Sydney, and New York! Ermine is one fabulously funny and furry heroine who can’t help but find adventure wherever she goes. Enjoy three stories from bestselling and award-winning author Jennifer Gray, with gorgeous black-and-white illustrations from Elisa Paganelli throughout.
Great for ages 7+.
https://g9077.myubam.com/p/8257/travels-of-ermine-the-world-tour-the-cv
$5.99
Misery Manor is home to the Impalers - the bravest vampire family that ever lived… except for Vlad - he's not brave at all! This collection includes the following titles: Vlad, The World's Worst Vampire, Fang-tastic Friends, Midnight Fright, and Spook-tacular Surprise.
Great for ages 6-9.
$15.99
What do you want to do when you grow up? Children who love animals can find out all about potential future careers, from veterinarian to zookeeper to pet portrait artist, as they’re taken through a “day in the life” of 25 different animal workers.
Also Available in Sports and Outdoors!
Great for ages 7+.
https://g9077.myubam.com/p/8158/i-like-animals-what-jobs-are-there
$8.99
Discover the extraordinary lives of the inspiring girls who have lived throughout history at 6 Chelsea Walk.
Great for ages 11+.
$5.99
Discover the extraordinary lives of Anne Frank, Katherine Johnson, Malala Yousafzai, Neil Armstrong, Rosa Parks, Stephen Hawking and 6 others.
Great for ages 7-11.
$9.99
Graphic Novels!
This adventure story is full of intrigue, secret meetings, spies, unexpected turns of events, and mysteries. Renowned comics artist Mike Collins is the series consultant.
Also available Alice in Wonderland, Adventures of Thor, Sherlock Holmes, Greek Myths
Great for ages 8+.
$5.99
Book of Secrets
When a dying man hands orphan Gabe a coded manuscript, he’s hurled into a quest that takes him far beyond his monastery home. With new, unexpected friends, Gabe sets out to uncover the book’s secrets and finds himself questioning everything he knows about right and wrong and wondering if he'll ever find a way back home?
Gabe and his companions journey to a remote mountain citadel where they learn the secret of the mysterious, encrypted book that Gabe has been tasked with protecting. But with their enemies close behind them, and new dangers lying ahead, Gabe discovers that the biggest secret of all may be his own.
Great for ages 9-14.
$14.99
A beautiful gift edition of Lewis Carroll’s timeless classic, including the complete and unabridged text and stunning illustrations. Follow Alice’s adventures as she disappears down a rabbit-hole and meets a cast of curious characters including White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, and the grinning Cheshire Cat. Includes the story of Lewis Carroll and how he came to write this much-loved tale, as well as a photograph of the real Alice and internet links to find out more.
Black Beauty, Jungle Book, Wizard of Oz and More! Great for ages 8+.
$6.99
If Polly and Buster walk past each other in the street, they never say hello. After all, whoever heard of a witch being friends with a monster? But Polly the witch and Buster the feelings monster have been best friends forever. Somehow, they've managed to keep their friendship a secret. Until one day, when everything changes...
Great for ages 7-10.
https://g9077.myubam.com/p/8290/polly-and-buster-complete-collection
$6.99
Buy individually for $6.99 each or as a collection for $39.99.
https://g9077.myubam.com/p/8567/mindful-kids-complete-collection-6
$12.99 each
Series: Understanding…
Understanding politics, business, and other sociology topics are essential to understand the world around you. Learn how laws are decided upon and applied to countries and the ins and outs of business with these approachable, quirky books.
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Reach Out to Your Personal Book Consultant Anytime
My name is Renee Borrelli. I am a local mom of a three year old and a newborn. We love reading in our household and know how important it is for children everywhere. I love making sure the right books get into a child's hands!
Have specific questions about a book for your young reader or to gift another person? Just reach out!
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