Room for Your Young Ones Art & Encourages Creative Story Telling
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The notebook provides a good backdrop for encouraging your child in their creative writing.  The younger they start the more chance of them growing to love writing their own stories!
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This wonderful little book is made up of simple yet powerful affirmations that children can understand and use. It is also a fun coloring book, and a beautiful story of childhood self for parents to read to their children as they grow from babyhood to toddlerhood. It provides easy tools for a child to identify how he or she feels and to grow into the ability to name these various states and actively shift from one to another, more productive one. It encourages the child to identify his or her own abundance triggers or happy buttons, selections of things that make him or her happy, such as singing or playing with a friend. It helps children distinguish between their outside active voices and inside feelings. Children can see their happy buttons as real illustrations and imagine putting them in their happy button toy boxes.

This book is a very creative treasure box, indeed.
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Beautifully and imaginatively drawn illustrations, usually just on a two-page spread for each story. Artists are 12 people from all kinds of backgrounds and styles (and their art reflects both racial and artistic diversity), but the kaleidoscope of approaches works well. Bishop Tutu's gentle story-telling rhythms come through on every page, and each story includes a sweet prayer. I brought this out to read 1 story from it to my 3-y-o granddaughter, and she settled in to the rhythm of the story immediately, even though the usual books I read with her are the sentence-a-page pictures books. then she asked for another story and sat through that one, too. This is my go-to gift for new parents or grandparents (if they are people of faith). I treasure my own copy.
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I Love the simple but beautiful art work. The reader can tell their own story with pictures!  Loved by all ages!
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Chris Van Allsburg tells an intriguing story of finding fourteen inspiring drawings from a children's book publisher.  A gentleman named Harris Burdick brought the drawings to the publisher.  He was supposed to return the following day with the stories that went along with these drawings, but he never came back.  All that accompanies the drawings are a title and one sentence caption.
You cannot help but look at the drawings and start wondering what they are about.  Some look like they are the start to an adventure and some end long journeys.  Some are even a (little) bit scary.  This is the magic of the book.  As soon as you look at the drawings, you start to imagine and think of other worlds and adventures.
Your child will be able to verbalize or write the stories to go along with the drawings.  These sketches allow you to go in hundreds of different directions, allowing the stories to change each time you visit them.  My five-year-old daughter was even imagining what could have happened to Harris Burdick to keep him from returning with the stories.  She had no trouble at all with the book's unique concept and immediately went to work on helping solve the mysteries of the book's drawings.
This book is wonderfully unique and will open doors to places in your child's imagination and mind that are too seldom challenged by most children's books.  Find a place for this book in your family's time.
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This kindle book contains four separate stories for children ages three to six. Toddlers will enjoy the vivid illustrations even if they don't get the underlying lesson of the stories. In the Pigtastic tale, readers learn to accept others for what they are by looking past the exterior. My Pet Dragon features  a very helpful pet given as a Christmas present who teaches how we can all be helpful around the house. On the other hand, the pet frog in the next story is a mischievous creature with multiple personalities, but it turns out that his family loves him anyway. Finally, the last book about you encourages the young child to unlock his potential by investigating and exploring his unique talents and using that power to change the world.

The entire collection runs just under 140 pages, but text is simple and illustrations are large and bold. Parents and caregivers could use them as individual bedtime stories or read alouds. Preschool teachers might find them useful to teach behavior modification and simple life lessons.
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I put together a artist gift set of various art supplies for my 20 month old grandson, he loves every bit of it. If you are looking for a way to entertain a youngster, or teach them about art, and it helps build coordination as well.
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While I was shopping in a bookstore with a friend, she pointed out an IlluStory Book Kit, knowing how much my grandson liked to write his own stories.  He was 7-years-old at the time.  When I explained what he could do with the kit, he immediately sat down and started writing a story.  Over the next few months, whenever we had time together, he would write, create illustrations, edit, add to his story.  It was a wonderful experience for me, as a grandmother, to be so closely involved in his creative activities.  When he was sure his story was just as he wanted it, he supervised my transferring it to the website.  The wording of his autobiography and selection of his picture were so important to him, and the cover was another joint project.  Once his project was in the hands of the Creations By You people, he checked the mailbox every day.  When his hardcover book arrived, his joy was contagious.  The first few nights, he slept with the book under his pillow.  He is now 11-years-old and he keeps the book in his "special place" with his other most precious possessions.  He has now gone on to create scripts and videos for school projects and for fun, but he still talks about the fun we had together creating his "first" book. IlluStory Book Kits are now my favorite gift for other budding authors!
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I purchased this Ashley Productions blank book set for my niece and she fell in love with it. She has quite the imagination and these books will allow her to take it a step further. She will be able to create visual manifestations of abstract ideas. I find that this blank book set is a delightful way my niece can record the development of her growth. She will be able to improve her writing, reading, and artwork. She will also have an opportunity to utilize her imagination through creativity. What I loved most about this Ashley Productions blank book set is the different sizes offered 8.5"x11", 6"Wx8"H, and the blank comic book she will be able to have her very own story collection created and written by her. Yay!!
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My eight year old nephew was delighted with his 'Illustory Make Your Own Story Kit' that I gave him for Christmas.  It was the fact that his story would be published that intrigued him the most and got his creative juices flowing.  I recommend this kit to anyone who wants to encourage a positive outlet for the creativity in every child; an outlet that requires no batteries, no game platform, no viewing screen and no produces noise.  This kit teaches planning and execution in a way that is fun for the child and provides tangible results in the form of a published book.  HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
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I loved it! This is a beautiful, thoughtfully presented story that is appropriate for a wide range of ages. The illustrations are high quality, stunning paintings and really make the book come alive. The themes of warmth, light, acceptance, and love are woven masterfully into the fabric of the story, and are presented clearly and engagingly for young audiences. I would recommend this book to any parent that wants to broaden their child's thinking and share wonderful stories from around the world.
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My 3 year old granddaughter is very much into art.  She paints, colors and draws.  This is a wonderful way for her to keep her special pieces.  It's roomy and has several pockets.  She really liked the window on the front where we put a photo of her.
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Heres what I love about this book:
Love the message of the power of kids thoughts & words.
Colorful whimsical artwork invites kids (and adults) to look at the details and explore imaginative possibilities.
The affirmations are short & kid-friendly.
The large text font is easy to read and consistently placed on the left side of each 2-page spread.
The text and illustrations are free from any religious connotations.
The final page of the book invites kids to look through the book again for particular details (a great touch for older kids).

Angela Moorad, MS, CCC-SLP, IAYT, RCYP-2
Speech-Language Pathologist
Founder of OMazing Kids, LLC - inclusive wellness activities for kids of all abilities
Facebook: OMazingKidsYoga
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The GLOW CRAZY Doodle Dome is a place to draw with light, anytime of the day or night!  With Doodle Dome your kids can pretend to be anything they want - a captain on a rocket ship or a farmer in a glow barn.  The light want will make all the drawings glow on the special liner in the dome.  Their creations will fade after a few moments so the adventure can continue as they draw it.  The dome comes with a handy carrying case, the light pen, and four stencils.  You can carry the tent wherever you go so your kids can be entertained anytime and anywhere.

When I received this dome I immediately saw many opportunities to encourage my kids imagination as well as their writing.  It is perfect to encourage my younger child to practice her letters and numbers on the liner or my youngest son to practice spelling words.  Seriously, the simple fact that it disappears and you can write again is fabulous!  But this dome can also allow my kids to explore their imagination by creating various stories while in the dome.  I only wish that there would be more than one pen in the box. When you think of the possibilities as an homeschool mom, you can quickly think of a lot of ideas on how to use this dome with your kids.
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After purchasing the Basic Roominate, we decided to also buy the Deluxe Roominate!  It's great for creative children and to promote creativity!
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Saw this at a friends place and ordered it from Amazon.  My 7-year old daughter loves it and we have had several very creative stories built off what the cubes threw at us! One of the stories has even become our family favourite!
I'd strongly recommend this for everyone. Stimulates creativity and highly enjoyable as well!!
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Fantastic idea to get young ones thinking creatively!