Book Love Giveaway 2014

Yes, Valentine’s Day is over, but that’s no reason for the celebration to end! What do homeschooling families love the most? Books! To continue the celebration of love, we’ve gathered some books from a few of our favorite companies to give away. Take a look below, and we think you’ll find something you love! Be sure to enter for your chance to win!

~With love from the Hip Homeschool Moms Team

Book Love Giveaway

Fun books for littles:

Bitty Baby Has a Tea Party

This book, Bitty Baby Has a Tea Party, is perfect for little girls ages 3 and up. Written by Newbery Honor winner Kirby Larson and illustrated by award-winning artist Sue Cornelison, this book is about a little girl and Bitty Baby who are planning a tea party. They’ve invited the new girl next door, but what if she doesn’t like tea parties or dressing up? Can they still be friends? A shy, prickly hedgehog helps them discover that good friends can like different things.
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The Berenstain Bears Go Green The Berenstain Bears Go Green is a great book for preparing your children to celebrate Earth Day (on April 22, 2014). The Berenstain Bears live in a beautiful town with lots of green grass, blue skies, furry friends, and clear water. But on a fishing trip, they discover that the town dump is overflowing and spilling garbage into the water! Can the bears help come up with a pollution solution before the town is covered in garbage? a Rafflecopter giveaway

Some great titles for middles:

American Girl Magazine Cover The Travelers Tricks

One winner will receive both a one-year subscription to American Girl Magazine AND a brand new American Girl mystery!  American Girl Magazine is the most popular magazine for girls ages 8-12. Each issue includes stories, crafts, advice, and more! If you’d like to take a look at a digital copy, you can do that here. (Note: My 11-year-old daughter has subscribed to this magazine for several years, and we’ve loved every single issue!) The Traveler’s Tricks: A Caroline Mystery is about Caroline–who has an important package to deliver for her father in the big city of Albany. That means a three-day stagecoach trip with her friend Rhonda. The other travelers fascinate the girls, but when Caroline’s precious package goes missing, she realizes the culprit must be a fellow passenger. Will she unmask the thief in time, or will her promise to Papa be impossible to keep?

a Rafflecopter giveaway        Seekers-of-the-Lost-Boy Another winner will receive Seekers of the Lost Boy, written by Hip Homeschool Moms team member Taryn Hayes, is a great read for boys or girls. The story is about Simon, a 12-year-old boy who lives in South Africa. Simon finds a bottle on the beach. Inside the bottle is a letter written 30 years ago by another 12-year-old boy. The letter contains one question, “Who is God, and does He care about me?” Will Simon and his family be able to find the person who wrote this letter all those years ago? Using clues from the letter, they revisit their country’s apartheid past as they search for the mysterious letter-writer. a Rafflecopter giveaway

  Children of Angels Children of Angels is about a young man named Jeremy. Jeremy’s dad is in prison, and his mom is struggling to scrape by. Jeremy’s life is hard. One day, he day he discovers that he can fly! His life becomes an adventure, but it also becomes dangerous as demons chase him. He wonders if being able to fly is worth what’s happening to him. Then a guardian angel comes to his defense and calls him to lead an angelic battle for the truth. Jeremy must decide whether to  cling to the one who can win the war or if he will let his doubts and fears overtake him.

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We also have some books for you moms and dads!

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The Christian Parenting Handbook and Companion Guide is perfect for parents of children ages 2 to 18. This book will help you discover appropriate ways to correct, instruct, and set limits. It will give you wisdom for dealing with emotions and conflict and will help you develop closeness in your family. It comes with a workbook of 50 lessons including 50 audio tips that take you through the book step-by-stop. A few things you will learn are how to help your children stop arguing, how to be firm without being harsh, how to help your children change their hearts, and what to do when parents don’t agree.

Parenting Is Heart Work will help you learn to touch your child’s heart. This is a practical, biblical resource that will change the way you view your role as a parent. You’ll learn how to help your children make long-term changes in their lives, and you may discover that you need to change the way you parent as well.

Good and Angry: Exchanging Frustration for Character recognizes the very real emotions that parents feel. This book taps into the constructive side of your anger and teaches new strategies for addressing the things your child does that drive you crazy.

If you have a child from birth to age 1, The Baby Adventure: Parenting Wisdom for Birth to 12 Months may be just the book you need! In it, you will: learn how bonding with your baby forms the basis for spiritual development, gain information about sleeping issues and feeding and teething, discover the two primary heart qualities that develop during infancy, and more!

Toddlers on the Move: Parenting Wisdom for Ages 12-36 Months will teach you what heart-based parenting looks like during the toddler years. This book will help you understand more about the toddler experience and how to best parent during those years. It includes advice about eating, sleeping, discipline, and social development. It even includes info about building spiritual values in fun ways!

Preschool Explorers: Parenting Wisdom for Ages 3-5 Years, the 3rd book in the Parenting Shifts Series, teaches you what a heart-based approach to parenting looks like for the preschool years. In this book, you’ll learn practical ways to help your child grow socially, spiritually, emotionally, and intellectually. This book addresses the emotional intensity of preschoolers, sibling relationships, chores and how to implement them, and more!

Elementary Foundations: Parenting Wisdom for Ages 5-8 Years teaches about heart-based parenting for children ages 5-8 years old. Children of these ages are going through many developmental changes, and this book will help you effectively deal with them. This book will help you help your child develop social skills, deal with anger and frustration, and develop problem-solving skills and confidence.

Last, the book Cultivating Responsibility: Parenting Wisdom for Ages 9-12 Years will help parents address issues of the heart in pre-teen children. During these years, it’s easy for children to develop bad attitudes and disrespect even while they are making leaps in their cognitive, social, emotional, and spiritual growth. The information in this book will teach you tools for developing internal motivation in your child as well as spiritual values, anger management, and more.

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