SHOP FEATURE 5
(For the week of February 20, 2023)
Check out this week’s Feature 5 – a list of top-selling products from Shop, the Children’s Museum’s gift store!
Sitting Still Like A Frog Activity Book
Price: $22.95 each
Mindfulness is one of the most effective practices to teach kids to calm themselves in stressful moments, increase focus and attention, ease anxiety, and promote a sense of empathy toward others. Eline Snel’s Sitting Still Like a Frog has helped thousands of children around the world to become more relaxed and attentive, more aware of their bodies and emotions, and more open toward others. This book is packed with 75 entertaining and useful activities that children can do alone or with a parent, including: fun yoga exercises, hands-on activities and projects, meditation stories, cut-out posters and cards, colourful stickers, and mindful games. Written by Eline Snel and illustrated by Marc Boutavant.
The Jar Of Happiness
Price: $19.99 each
Is there a recipe for happiness? Meg certainly thinks so. She collects all the necessary ingredients in a jar, which she uses to cheer up her friends and family when they’re feeling low. But what happens when her special jar mysteriously disappears? Will Meg feel sad forever more, or will she find other ways to be happy?
Suitable for ages 3+
Everything I Need To Know Before I’m Five
Price: $19.99 each
Do you know your letters? Can you count to twenty? Learn all that and more in this all-in-one concept picture book. Perfect for kids heading to kindergarten, this book covers the alphabet, counting, opposites, shapes, colours, and seasons. Award-winning author-illustrator Valorie Fisher uses bright, gorgeous photos of retro toys to illustrate these topics in a completely fresh way. Parents will love this stylish and funny approach to basic concepts, while kids will learn, well, everything.
Suitable for ages 2+
Dive In!: A Topsy-Turvy-Say-It-Out-Loud Underwater Adventure
Price: $24.99 each
Calling all explorers! Sir Sebastian Stockingbottomham needs your help on this madcap diving expedition! Ordinarily, famous explorer Sir Sebastian is in command of every adventure. But this time, something seems a bit… fishy. That’s because Burt and his sidekick Crab are about to turn the tables on him—and you! This adventure won’t be the same without you at the helm. Join Sir Sebastian and Burt the Blobfish on the ocean floor! Share in the fun by following the interactive read-aloud prompts! Learn how to talk like you’re underwater, take part in some very silly shenanigans, and get ready to laugh like you’ve never laughed before! Written by the acclaimed family music band and Grammy Award-Nominated Recess Monkey and illustrated by Rob McClurkan, this children’s book is hilarious interactive fun for the whole family.
Suitable for ages 4+
Unicorn (And Horse)
Price: $24.99 each
Unicorn is a unicorn. And Horse is, well…not. Horse is brown. Horse is plain. And Horse can’t stand the unicorn he shares a pen with. Unicorn dances. Tra la la! Horse does not. Blah blah blah. But when robbers kidnap Unicorn for a local circus, what will Horse decide to do? Packed with forty-eight pages of hilarious illustrations and deadpan wit, Unicorn (and Horse) is a funny yet endearing lesson on envy with one important truth: We are sometimes unicorns. We are sometimes horses. And happiness doesn’t always come from pink cupcakes for breakfast. Written by David W. Miles and illustrated by Hollie Mengert.
Suitable for ages 5+
