Book Recommendations

Christmas is just around the corner and I'm sure you have all started thinking about what gifts to get for your loved ones. As a book lover, I think books make great gifts and here I am going to tell you about some books which I highly recommend that you purchase.

Athena Phillips is a children's author has written three great books including Carnie Vore Helps With Chores which tells the story of Carnie, a cute little dinosaur who helps her grandma with chores around the house and has fun doing it.

Donte Jackson's second book is called Herbie's Colorful World. In this book, Herbie the dinosaur goes on an adventure with his friend Cameron the chameleon and they learns all about colors.

Donte and Athena wrote the first book of this series, Herbie's Happy Birthday, together. You can read my reviews of all three books by clicking on these links - http://thevrk.blogspot.com/2019/02/book-review-herbies-happy-birthday.html http://thevrk.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-carnie-vore.html http://thevrk.blogspot.com/2020/08/book-review-herbies-colorful-world.html

I am delighted to say that Athena Phillips has published her third book! Carnie Vore Goes to Camp is available on Amazon now. Children will absulutely love these books. You can instill a love of reading in them early with these. Even if your child doesn't read yet, you can read to them at bedtime and they will enjoy looking at the beautiful illustrations.

This can be purchased here -

https://www.amazon.com/Carnie-Vore-goes-Athena-Phillips/dp/1733187995

For the older kids and adults, I highly recommend you get a copy of Knowing What I Know Now by Lauren Yeates, an entetainment reporter and celebrity interviewer. At the end of every interview, Lauren asks the celebrities, "Knowing what you know now, what would you tell you 14-year-old self?" and in this book, she shares hundreds of those celebrities answers which is great advice for children who are at school. This will help build their confidence and remind them how amazing they are. It may be targeted towards school aged children but I believe everyone can benefit from reading it.

Purchase Knowing What I Know Now at Booktopia

https://www.booktopia.com.au/knowing-what-i-know-now-lauren-yeates/book/9781731545817.html

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