If I Ran For President read by Lonnie Chavis, Parker Bates and Mackenzie Hancsicsak

Playful Planets children's book series.

Many preschool assessment books are showing up in bookstores all over. We will see what books are most popular with children these days.

If you’re a parent, then you will know how hard it is to find the best things for your children. Everyone has an opinion on what that best thing is, whether they think you should give them structure or let them work it out for themselves, if you should force them to eat their vegetables or be happy that they’re eating anything, when you should toilet train them, when they should go to school, if you should give them everything that they want or explain to them why they cannot have it.

Manga on the other hand is a pronunciation of a Japanese word which means Whimsical pictures. It consist of comics and print cartoons. In Japan it is also called “Komikku”.

Yoga, which was originated in India thousands years back, is razing through the world like wild fire but on a benevolent note of course. It is a sublime physical exercise that develops the body and mind and the spirit.

The Thanksgiving Coat speaks to the values and beliefs that we should all develop and pass on to our children. But, Hoadley is very specific about how to sensitize our children to the issues of homelessness and hunger without scaring them.

Little House was published originally between 1932 and 1943. Little House is actually a series of children’s books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. The four additional books have also been published after the death of writer, in 1962, 1971, 1974, and 2006 respectively.

The Jazz Fly 2 comes with its own audio CD that lets your child listen to the story including a variety of sounds such as percussion, piano, bongos and saxophone. The music is irresistible to children ages four and up and you’ll delight when you see your child wiggle, jump and dance along with the creative songs.

Warning: this book contains lots of disgusting snot, booger, mucus, and drippy, sticky gunk. The title should tip you off: Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, Part One, by Dav Pilkey. This is the sixth in the Captain Underpants series of graphic novels.

Graphic novels are all the rage these days. They are loaded with pictures, which draw kids in, enticing them to read more. Most of them are full of action, too, which keeps them interested and reading. One of the most popular and well-known graphic novels is The Adventures of Captain Underpants: The First Epic Novel by Dav Pilkey. Here’s why I think it’s so popular.

Have you ever wanted to be a twin? Or maybe you’ve had the strange experience of meeting someone who looked so much like you that people have gotten you confused. This is part of the adventure that awaits Alex Rider in the second of his series of books, Point Blank, by Anthony Horowitz.

How much can happen to one boy in the space of a few years of his life? A lot, if you are the stuff that legends are made of. The legend is Jeffrey Lionel Magee, also known as Maniac Magee, in the book by the same name, by Jerry Spinelli.

What’s the grossest thing you’ve ever eaten? Tongue, oxtail, durian? What if you had to eat worms, one a day, for fifteen days? That’s the bet that Billy takes on in How To Eat Fried Worms, by Thomas Rockwell.