The Country Bookshop Recommends!!!

Thank you to The Country Bookshop in Southern Pines, NC for sending their recommended reading for families from babies to adults!  Remember to use your SandhillsKids Discount Card for 20% off any one book in stock!  Don’t have one yet – order your FREE Card today!

Age Birth-2

Fuzzy Yellow Ducklings by Matthew Van Fleet -

Fold-out Fun with Textures, Colors, Shapes, Animals

Age 3-5
Cha Cha Chimps bu Julia Durango -

Counting and dancing go hand in hand at Mambo Jamba’s, the place where hippos hokey-pokey and meerkats Macarena and ten little chimps do the cha-cha-cha…until Mama Chimp says, “Time for bed!”

Age 6-8
Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures by Jeff Brown

Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures #1: The Mount Rushmore Calamity

Flat Stanley and his family visit Mount Rushmore, where a real Wild West adventure awaits them!

Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures #2: The Great Egyptian Grave Robbery

Flat Stanley travels by airmail to the land of ancient treasures, bustling bazaars, and the great pyramids to aid an archaeologist on a mysterious mission.

Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures #3: The Japanese Ninja Surprise

The third escapade in the Worldwide Adventures series takes Stanley to Japan—the land of ninja masters, the bullet train, sushi, and origami—when he sends himself as fan mail to his ninja idol.

Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures #4: The Intrepid Canadian Expedition

In this fourth book of the Worldwide Adventures series, Flat Stanley journeys to Canada, where he travels over Niagara Falls as a barrel, is pulled through the wintry northland by sled dogs, and skis down the Rocky Mountains—no need for skis with feet as flat as Stanley’s!

Age 9-12
The World According to Humphrey by Betty Birney

You can learn a lot about life by observing another species.
That’s what Humphrey was told when he was first brought to Room 26. And boy is it true!
There are always adventures in the classroom and each weekend he gets to sleep over with a different student, like Lower-Your-Voice-A.J. and Speak-Up Sayeh. Humphrey learns to read, write, shoot rubber bands (only in self-defense, of course), and much more. With a lock-that-doesn’t-lock and an adventurous spirit, Humphrey’s life would be perfect if only the teacher, Mrs. Brisbane, wasn’t out to get him?

With a fresh voice and an engaging, hamster’s-eye view of school, families, and treats to hide in a cheek pouch, Betty G. Birney’s Humphrey will elicit laughter and a new appreciation for classroom hamsters everywhere
Ages 12 +
Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Twenty-four are forced to enter. Only the winner survives.

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Each year, the districts are forced by the Capitol to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the Hunger Games, a brutal and terrifying fight to the death – televised for all of Panem to see.

Survival is second nature for sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who struggles to feed her mother and younger sister by secretly hunting and gathering beyond the fences of District 12. When Katniss steps in to take the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, she knows it may be her death sentence. If she is to survive, she must weigh survival against humanity and life against love.

For Mom and Dad
Make it Wild- Things to Make and Do Outdoors
Following Nature’s Playground and Going Wild, the authors once again lure kids away from computers and the TV into the natural world