A Fluffy Tale Storybook
Reader's Digest Young Families, $4.99 each

American Museum of Natural History
Book & Diorama Sets
Workman, $10.95 each

Teddy's Shop
Reader's Digest Young Families, $17.99 each
ISBN 0761101705

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Little gifts from the toy shop

Many gift choices combining books and toys are available for little readers this year. We want to recommend a few and urge you to look for more. Innovative ways of introducing reading may surprise you and will delight kids.

  • Try A Fluffy Tale Storybook that combines a small cuddly stuffed toy attached securely to the cover of a board book. The Special Stocking presents a cuddly little polar bear on the front and inside the rhymed story and brightly colored illustrations about a child's dreaming of a dancing polar bear. The Fluffy Tale animal in Santa's Littlest Helper is a mouse that helps Santa deliver gifts to the smallest creatures. Each book comes with a gift tag attached to the animal on the front.

  • For young animal lovers who want the real facts, new Book & Diorama sets (Workman, $10.95 each) present three models based on the famous life-sized dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History: The Polar Bear, The African Elephant, and The Great White Shark. Each set includes a diorama model of a mother and her baby, with a small 64-page book tucked neatly behind. Kids learn what the animals eat, how they interact with other species, and their distinctive traits and abilities. Did you know polar bears can swim up to 100 miles in icy seas, jump a 20-foot crevice, and haul a 800-pound seal out of the water for dinner?

  • A complete toy shop and book shop exist behind the door of Teddy's Shop. A figurine of Teddy holding a book welcomes young readers inside where they will find three hardcover storybooks, each with a story about Teddy; a deck of special playing cards that can be used for three different games; a game board, die, and tokens to play Teddy's Picnic; a jigsaw puzzle; and a height chart and stickers to measure other toys. Lots here to entertain the five-to-seven year olds and to help them integrate reading into other fun activities.

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