Laura’s Reading Nook
Welcome to my Reading Nook!
I became an Usborne Consultant mainly for the love of their books, the sparkle in my children’s eyes after every page turn, the engagement & the quality.
07/06/2022
✨Did you know that a baby’s brain operates at a genius level until the age of 2?! & that the brain makes the most connections among its cells in toddler years ! This is also the time when your child learns language best. When you use rich language with your young child, you are improving their future vocabulary. 🙌🏼
✨did you also know that reading to your baby as early as in the womb can promote brain activity, language development & early literacy?!
🤍 when did you start reading to your babies?
02/06/2022
GET EXCITED! ☀️ the SUMMER BOOK CLUB ☀️ is here!!
🍦 the Summer Book Club is the perfect way for families to beat the “Summer Slide” in their kiddo’s reading & education!
🍦 it’s a great way to keep your kids entertained on summer road trips, holidays or even when they want to just sit in the shade and relax!
🍦it’s great for birthdays, baby showers or to celebrate the end of a wonderful school year!
🥰 kids will look forward to their Usborne happy mail all summer long!
drop a “♥️” in the comments if you’d like more info!
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31/05/2022
☀️ this hot, sticky & humid weather, along with these loot bags are giving me all of the summer feels ☀️☀️
🍦 does your little one have a birthday coming up? are you looking for gift or loot bag ideas?
🍡 send me a message with the ages & interest of the kiddos you’d like to spoil and let me help you make your life easier!
😎 gift baskets, loot bags & everything in between are available AND delivered straight to your door!
21/05/2022
☀️ it’s a beautiful, sunny day to get outside today!
Spending time in nature provides many benefits, not just for bodies, but for minds too. Make sure to get outside and exercise both your mind and body together as a family!
☀️ swipe to check out some great books to bring outdoors, perfect for the season!
21/05/2022
it’s World 🐝 Day!
did you know:
🐝Bees have been here around 30 million years.
🐝A honeybee can fly 24 km in an hour at a speed of 15 mph. Its wings beat 200 times per second or 12,000 beats per minute.
🐝Bees have straw-like tongues called a proboscis so they can suck up liquids and also mandibles so they can chew.
🐝Lift-the-Flap First Questions and Answers Why do we need bees?
Why do we need bees? How do they make honey? And who’s who in a beehive? Children can find the answers to these questions and many more in this informative lift-the-flap book. With colourful illustrations, simple text and chunky flaps to lift, young children can discover lots of amazing facts about bees and why they need our help.
19/05/2022
This delightful book about bugs is perfect for your little explorer 🐞🐛🐜🕷🪲 if he or she loves spending time outdoors, collecting bugs & watching butterflies, this title would be perfect!
✨ there are others in the series, including: Under the Sea, Garden & Jungle!
Little Lift and Look Bugs🐛🪲🐌
🐞Follow a spotty ladybird as she explores outdoors, and lift petals and leaves to meet lots of other bugs along the way. This charming book for little children has lots to discover and talk about on every page, from buzzy bees visiting flowers to a line of ants and munching caterpillars.
08/05/2022
Happy Mother’s Day, today & everyday🌸 wishing you all a beautiful day 🤍
07/05/2022
shoot for the moon 🌙 & if you miss, you’ll still land on the stars 🌟
Happy National Space Day 🚀
🔭 check out some pretty awesome space themed books in my stories!
04/05/2022
for the first time in my life, I will actually have my very own vegetable garden this summer & I plan on planting a few flowers as well! I am so excited 🤩
I do, however, need to grab a copy of Gardening for Beginners, for myself 😂
🪴tell me in the comments below, what is your favourite vegetable to have in your garden?
Gardening for Beginners 🪴
🌱A charming introduction to gardening for absolute beginners, with simple instructions for plants that anyone can grow – even without a garden.
🌱Step-by-step illustrated instructions show children how to grow flowers, herbs and vegetables such as potatoes, lettuce and sunflowers. A wonderful introduction to gardening and where food comes from.
🌱With internet links to websites with more gardening tips and ideas via the Usborne Quicklinks website.
27/04/2022
when life throws you a rainy day, play in the puddles 🌂 or grab your favourite activity book and enjoy some down time with the kids!
one of our favourites is:
Little Children's Rainy Day Activity book ☔️
🌧A colourful, write-in activity book packed with mazes, word searches, picture puzzles, colouring-in, dot-to-dot and spot-the-difference puzzles.
🌧Activities include spotting the difference between robots, drawing a gang of monsters, adding stickers to a medieval castle to complete the picture, and lots more.
🌧With four pages of stickers, plus answers to all the puzzles at the back of the book.
🌧Not just for rainy days, this book will keep children busy during quiet times, journeys and holidays too.
☔️ are you team puddles or activity books?
22/04/2022
🌎 happy Earth Day!
✨ Earth day is a day to celebrate our planet & renew our support for environmental protection.
✨ every individual action makes a difference💙 shes the only one we’ve got, let’s take good care of her!
21/04/2022
☔️ April showers bring May flowers 🌷
🌦With flaps to lift on every page, this delightful book answers the questions that all young children ask about the weather!
💨Where does wind come from?
🌧 what makes it rain?
⛈ why does lightning flash & thunder rumble?
🌈 when do rainbows appear?
🥶Why is it colder in winter?
With surprising facts and weather forecasting tips, it makes a brilliant introduction to weather!
18/04/2022
Happy Easter to you & your families 🐰🐣
17/04/2022
🐰Easter egg hunts are proof that your kids can find things when they really want too 🥚 I mean, am I right?! 😂
🐣 wishing you all an egg-cellent day 🐰
16/04/2022
🐰 Peter Cottontail 🐰 the name actually derives from a 1914 children's book, “The Adventures of Peter Cottontail” by children's story author Thornton Burgess. The character's actual name was “Peter Rabbit,” and he originated with writer Beatrix Potter, who named the character after her childhood pet rabbit Peter Piper!
🐰 does the Easter Bunny visit your home?
14/04/2022
☔️ definitely trying to brighten up this gloomy day with some springtime colouring! I love how much the twins enjoy colouring, I get to enjoy my coffee while it’s hot!
🐰🐣 from bunnies and chicks to trees and flowers, little children will love the springtime illustrations in this first colouring book.
🌷Bold, simple outlines and large areas to colour in make it ideal for developing pencil control skills.
11/04/2022
🐦 I don’t know about you, but there is something about the warm sun & the singing birds that totally give me all of spring vibes 🌸 & at the moment, the twins are incredibly fascinated with birds (like completely mesmerized lol) 🤷🏻♀️ .. so here we are, learning all there is to know about birds!
🐦Peep inside a bird's nest to see her precious eggs nestled there.
✨Lift a flap to see them hatch, and find out how a bird takes care of its young.
✨Discover all kinds of different nests and chicks, from teeny-tiny humming birds nests to great big muddy flamingo nests, and even learn how penguins take care of their eggs in the snow without a nest at all.
10/04/2022
🐰 one week until Easter 🐣 do you have those baskets filled with something sweet that will feed your children’s minds?
09/04/2022
🦄 happy International Unicorn Day 🦄
✨Unicorn fans - today is your day! Celebrate by making rainbow cupcakes, dressing up in your most colourful clothes & enjoying some unicorn activities!
✨ did you know that unicorn stories have been around for thousands of years?!
✨ & that we have around 50 unicorn books on our website, including unicorn stories, unicorn sticker books, unicorn touchy-feely books, unicorn magic painting & lots of other unicorn activity books!
🦄 you can browse all of unicorn books on my website, link in bio!
07/04/2022
🐰🥕💐 Easter is only 10 days away! That came up pretty fast!
Our Easter & spring themed books make the perfect addition to children’s Easter baskets, or add a few books and activity books in their egg hunts!
We have a fabulous selection of Easter & spring titles sorted out for you, in my featured titles! You can find the direct link in my bio 🥰
🐰🥕 what’s in your children’s Easter baskets?
12/03/2022
Hello weekend ☕️ is this also suspicious in your home?
11/03/2022
every week, Mia & her classmates have show & tell in class and it is their opportunity to bring something they love from home to show their friends. Mia has brought some of her favourite toys & books to class, but this week, she really wanted to make something.. so we pulled out our favourite craft book and she chose a flower she wanted to make & show off! 🌸
✂️365 things to make and do
An amazing activity book containing an activity for every day of the year! Contains projects such as a flag chain, fabric collages, leaf printing, spoon-people, door signs, gift tags, dangly cowboys and many more things to make, draw and paint. Each activity is clearly explained in step-by-step instructions and clear illustrations. Includes a bonus activity for leap years!
✨ While learning to read independently is necessary for a child’s growth and development, there are also many important benefits of reading aloud to your child.
✨ Many parents believe that once a child can read independently, that is the only way they should read. Reading alone and reading aloud are not mutually exclusive. We can do both with our children – and we should! Children of all ages (yes, even teenagers!) can benefit greatly from hearing an adult read aloud them. Research shows that the decline of students’ recreational reading coincides with the decline in amount of time that adults read to them.
✨Giving children something to do with their hands (draw, build with blocks, play-doh) may actually help them listen better - for some kids, information can pe*****te deeper into their brains when they are physically moving around. And, by restricting a child by making them sit still, we are turning them off from reading.
✨research suggests that repetitive reading is actually beneficial to emerging readers. Each time you read your child’s favorite book to them, they are recognizing new words, picking up on language patterns, and developing a deeper understanding of the story.
✨ Life at home gets busy. Real busy. Finding time to fit in a half hour of reading every day seems nearly impossible! Parents feel overwhelmed by trying to add one more thing to their schedules, but it’s okay to read for just 10 minutes here or 5 minutes there. There’s no law that says a chapter must be finished by the end of the allotted reading time. Those 10 minutes are better than none at all.
02/03/2022
Racism is such a hard topic to talk about, but impossible to ignore. Discover the answers to some difficult questions - and become part of the solution - with the brilliant Lift-the-Flap Questions and Answers about Racism.
From 'What does racism feel like?' and 'Don't ALL lives matter?' to 'How can racism affect families?' and 'Can we really make a change?', this book tackles challenging questions in a direct, accessible and thought-provoking way.
Published in association with educational charity Show Racism the Red Card, this powerful book explains why racism is everyone's problem to solve, and how we can all be part of the solution.
27/02/2022
Quiet time before bedtime has become one of my favourite parts of our days, because of this♥️ the cuddles, how Mia reads to them & how their love for books brings them together!
every night, half an hour before bed, I give them a choice of two quiet activities to calm them down before story time & bedtime and they usually always choose to gather up in Mia’s bed and read their books, sometimes individually and most of the time cuddled up this way ♥️ my mommy heart ♥️
😴 do your kids have quiet time activities before bedtime?
07/02/2022
the impact of a teacher can never truly be measured 🍎
thank you teachers & educators, for all that you do and the roles you play in our children’s lives ♥️
happy Teacher Appreciation Week ✏️📚
💫 invite your teacher friends to our community, tag them here 👇🏻 and you both benefit from 20% off your book orders this week!
✨ offer valid from February 7th to 13th
03/02/2022
01/02/2022
🐅 in the Chinese zodiac, people born in the Year of the Tiger are thought to be strong, brave and independent.
🐅 in the Usborne world, they also have terrible table manners and love being tickled! 🐅From touchy-feely books for babies to fact books for independent readers, we’ve got tiger books for everyone!
✨ to all those who celebrate, happy Chinese Lunar New Year!
📖 Children’s Picture Atlas
A beautifully illustrated picture atlas that takes children on a magical journey around the world. Each map is crammed with fascinating details to pore over and talk about and thematic pages describe people and places around the world. Includes a ‘Trip Around the World’ quiz and an index of place names.
01/02/2022
📚NEW TITLES TUESDAY IS BACK & it’s back with a 💥BANG💥
these wonderful new titles are so exciting.. omg a BOX SET 🤩
the box set is my TOP CHOICE for any kiddos between the ages of 2-8+ 😍 it has been a favourite series of ours since Mia was 2!
anyone 2-8+!
new bulk order going in tonight - or you can shop directly through my website, in bio & have it shipped to you directly, anywhere in Canada!
don’t forget to snag a customer special at half off!
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