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What to give a child who has everything ?
How often does it happen - you receive an invitation to a birthday party and don't know what to give. modern children have everything, and modern parents start to twitch their eyes when, after yet another a mountain of plastic grows on...
Why are the books about Findus ? are so good
Sven Nordqvist creates his works entirely by himself, both illustrations and text. This is not a unique phenomenon in children's literature. Tove Jansson, Susanne Rotraut Berner, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry drew illustrations with which the heroes of their fairy tales are...
Reducing prices on the site!
The prices of books in our store have two main components: the purchase price from the publisher and the cost of transportation. And the heavier the book, the more expensive the cost of transportation, often more expensive than the book...
Silly-willy dough!
One of my most unpleasant memories from childhood is a vague feeling that it is better to keep my distance from boys. No, there were a lot of normal guys around, with whom it was fun to play, there were...
On a pear in search of sushi
There are books that everyone likes: children and parents, boys and girls, little kids and big kids.The Incredible Story of the Giant Pear" is one of them, which is not surprising: the author is Jacob Strid, a Dane, the heir...
Four ideas for a children's holiday
In our family, children's birthdays were celebrated on the same scale as adults': with a bunch of guests, a full-fledged festive table, gatherings until late; and plus, unlike adults, who simply ate, drank, sang and danced, there was a holiday...
Lyrics and physicists
"If you want your children to be smart, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be smarter, read them more fairy tales," said Albert Einstein. But how can you read if the child does not listen? Einstein would...
Fairy tales walk around the light
I love "The Wizard of the Emerald City" very much, I love the whole series tenderly, for me it is a real magical land from childhood. And every time I feel almost personal offense when I hear about plagiarism: Volkov,...
Vacations in the country
"On Saltkroka Island" is not Astrid Lindgren's most famous novel, it does not have any dizzying adventures or pranks like "Pippi" and "Emil", you will not laugh at it like at Karlsson, not many events happen here at all. This...
It's time to have fun!
"Our northern summer is a caricature of southern winters", so every fine day counts, and we want to spend it as brightly as possible. Now I'll tell you about our exclusively summer entertainment with children (which, among other things, look...
Games of our court
We have already recalled what we played as children, but those were word games, and now let's go back to the courtyards of thirty years ago (a nightmare!)... With sports and role-playing games, everything is clear: dodgeball, badminton, mothers and...
I had such a book!
Do you ever have this happen to you? You see a book and immediately memories come flooding back, both childhood and grandma and the smell of pancakes? in the mornings... well, that's how it is for me, but for you, perhaps,...
Games on foot
When I was a child, my mother and I didn't have heart-to-heart talks about the eternal, we didn't discuss world problems, my mother didn't tell me how things worked, she didn't lecture me at length (if she did scold me,...
Speech in defense of comics
Many people, I know, are wary of comics. At first I was nervous too, but then I got nervous again and remembered how I accidentally got a comic about Donald Duck as a child, and how I was glued to...
Academic boredom vs. End and fun
I really like going to museums, but that's now, but as a child I was frankly bored there. And I'm not the only one, the whole class was languishing, but it was embarrassing to admit our low level of cultural...
Russian animation: Mountain of Semlodes
"Mountain of Gems" is the largest project in stories Russian animation. He created by fairy tales of the peoples of Russia by the Pilot studio under the direction of Alexander Tatarsky by the best modern animators. There are also series of cartoons, sustained in in...
We announce the hunt for Easter eggs!
And happy long weekend to everyone! We have a new contest for this pre-Easter weekend. It starts now and ends at noon on Sunday, April 1st (East Coast time). On our website www.karuselbooks.com we hid five easter eggs, each costs...
We play Easter
Easter is coming soon, this year Catholic and Orthodox with a week difference. We will hold a very interesting event on our website and on our Facebook page and will time it to Catholic Easter, don't miss it! And at...
Have time to run to the Canadian border
When it is too early to read to the children ? and when it’s too late
Such courageous girls
In my opinion, a significant drawback of many Soviet children's works is their propaganda nature. It is clear that the entire system of education and upbringing was built on raising the younger generation in the spirit of socialism, and fiction...
Science is fashionable!
They say it is important to instill an interest in science in childhood so that sparks of curiosity can later ignite into flames. The thirst for knowledge is inherent any child, but this important stage in childhood is very easy to...