Do you know... WHAT surprised the city of Atlanta on March 14, 1993? (Hint: There was no sign of Hotlanta weather on that day!) WHICH event was called the Celebration of the Century in Atlanta? (Hint: It shared a tradition with ancient Greece!) Find these answers and more in Cool Stuff Every Kid Should Know--an interesting little book about a very special place on the planet! Arcadia Kids is a new series of fun, colorful, easy-to-read books for children ages 7-11 featuring attention-grabbing cover art, inviting conversational style content, and vivid full-color images of landmarks and geography. Parents, grandparents, and savvy shoppers will appreciate the feel good factor of purchasing books that are both fun AND educational. "What a great idea - not only for grandkids but anyone visiting who'd like to know more about a city!" --Nellah Bailey McGough, Travel and Living, Southern Living Magazine Title: Stocking stuffers Author: Staff Writer Publisher: Atlanta Journal Constitution Date: December 2010 This series of fun, easy-to-read and interesting books ($9.99, Arcadia Kids) informs children about their hometown. Kate Boehm fills the book with fun facts, strange-but-true tidbits and information about Atlanta and Georgia's musuems, monuments, history, terrain, people, animals and more. Available and amazon.com and www.arcadiapublishing.com. Title: Cool Stuff Every Kid Should Know About Atlanta, Charleston, Tampa, Orlando, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Dallas, and Houston Author: CanCan Publisher: MomMostTraveled.com Date: 12/10/2010 If you are planning a family trip or just want to teach distant relatives about your city, Arcadia Publishing has launched a fun new series called Cool Stuff Every Kid Should Know. Each Cool Stuff book contains colorful photographs, dynamic graphics, and kid-friendly facts about a specific city and state. I would have LOVED this series as a child, but I appreciate it as an adult as well. What if I was going to visit someone in one of these places, and I wanted to impress them with my cornucopia of local-esque knowledge? Currently the series includes: ?Charleston, SC:: Cool Stuff Every Kid Should Know ?Atlanta, GA:: Cool Stuff Every Kid Should Know ?Orlando, FL:: Cool Stuff Every Kid Should Know ?Tampa, FL:: Cool Stuff Every Kid Should Know ?Buffalo, NY:: Cool Stuff Every Kid Should Know ?Cincinnati, OH:: Cool Stuff Every Kid Should Know ?Houston, TX:: Cool Stuff Every Kid Should Know ?Dallas, TX:: Cool Stuff Every Kid Should Know If you home school, or are a teacher, these books would be a cool extension activity for your state history curriculum. Each book includes sixteen pages of fun facts about the city and 32 pages about the state. The books have sections like Sights and Sounds, Marvelous Monikers, and Dramatic Days. Read them on the car trip, use them to plan your sight seeing, or challenge each other with cool trivia questions. ~ What event always draws a big crowd on the first Sunday in May in Cincinnati? (the Flying Pig Marathon) ~ What city is nicknamed The Big Guava? (Tampa) ~ How many people visit the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo each year? (1,800,000) In April, fourteen more Cool Stuff Every Kid Should Know books will be published for Columbus, OH; Austin, TX; San Antonio, TX; Columbia, SC; Savannah, Jacksonville, Rochester, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Charlotte, Richmond, Boston, and Chicago. Author of the series, Kate Boehm Jerome, is a thirty-year veteran of educational book publishing. Title: Florida Travel Tips & Deals Author: Georgina Cruz Publisher: Chicago Tribune Date: 12/1/2010 Reading for young explorers on your holiday gift list - "The Barefoot Book Of Dance Stories" by Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple (Barefoot Books, $23.99) features dance folktales from around the world. Illustrated by Helen Cann, the book features such dances as the West Indian limbo and Spain's flamenco. It comes with a CD with stories narrated by Juliet Stevenson. Visit www.barefootbooks.com. Looking for books about cities with cool stuff for kids? Arcadia Publishing has launched a new series about U.S. cities: Cool Stuff Every Kid Should Know. The books, by Kate Boehm Jerome, feature colorful photos, graphics, anecdotes, and kid-friendly facts about Orlando, Tampa, Charleston, Atlanta, Buffalo, Houston, Dallas and Cincinnati, the first books in the paperback series. Each book includes 16 pages of fun facts about the city, plus 32 pages about the state. Sections like Sights and Sounds, Marvelous Monikers and Dramatic Days spotlight each city's landmarks, geography, special events and more. Good stocking-stuffers, they're recommended for ages 7-11, and sell for $9.99 each. Fourteen new titles will be added to the series on Jacksonville, Savannah, Rochester, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Boston, Chicago, Raleigh, Charlotte, Richmond, Columbus, Ohio; Austin, San Antonio, Columbia, S.C. Visit www.arcadiapublishing.com/arcadiakids Want even m
