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American Authors Card Game

Cut your way through the history of literature with the American Authors Card Game.  This deck can be played as a stardard deck of playing cards with portraits of 13 American authors or you can play it as the original game--a variation of "Go Fish."American Authors include:Herman MelvilleWalt WhitmanHenry JamesTheodore DreiserRobert FrostEugene O'NeillF. Scott FitzgeraldWilliam FaulknerJames BaldwinThomas WolfeJohn SteinbeckWilla CatherErnest Hemingway
American Women Authors Card Game

American Women Authors is a celebration of women's contribution to literature.  This deck can be played as a stardard deck of playing cards with portraits of 13 American Woman Authors or you can play it as the original game--a variation of "Go Fish."Authors include:Harriet Beecher StowePhillis WheatleyMarianne MooreDorothy ParkerAnne BradstreetSarah Orne JewettZora Neale HurstonLillian HellmanPearl BuckEdith WhartonCarson McCullersEdna St. Vincent MillayEmily Dickinson
Authors Card Game

For more than 130 years, Authors has been an American favorite.  This bridge-sized deck can be used for any playing card game or you can play the original game.  Similar to Go Fish, the original Authors game has players collecting "books" of authors.  A book is a set of 4 identical author cards.  Play continues until all books are collected.  The player with the most at the end of the game is the winner.Authors include:Mark TwainCharles DickensWilliam Makepeace ThackerayRobert Lewis StevensonWilliam ShakespeareJames Fenimore CooperWashington IrvingNathaniel HawthorneHenry Wordsworth LongfellowSir Walter ScottAlfred, Lord TennysonLouisa May AlcottEdgar Allen Poe

Childrens Authors Card Game

The Children's Authors Card Game is perfect for those who love to play card games and learn! Most card games can be played with this deck, and a handy "rules" card is included if you wish to play this particular card game (for those who have played the Authors Card Games, you already know how to play). The list of children's authors includes many that will be recognized and perhaps a few that will offer a new learning experience to others. Perfect for children and the child in you!
The Children's Authors Card Game includes the following authors:
Dr. SuessA. A. MilneMeindert DejongRudyard KiplingHans Christian AndersonLewis CarrollCharles PerraultLaura Ingalls WilderBrothers GrimmJoel Chandler HarrisIsaac Bashevis SingerBeatrix PotterJ. M. Barrie
FLASH CARDS NOUNS, VERBS AND MORE

Flash Cards Nouns, Verbs, and More teaches grammar with a wacky card game that is easy to learn and fun to play!  The colorful cards can be combined to create sentences with adjectives, nouns, verbs, and conjunctions.  
Contents of Flash Cards Nouns, Verbs, and More:
54 game cards
1 parent card
1 information card
Flash Cards Phonics Made Easy

Flash Cards Phonics Made Easy are designed to introduce your child to spelling and reading. The cards include colorful pictures and letters to help them learn the sounds of letters, as well as sound combinations. Also includes a Parent Card with suggestions for activities and games. 
Contents of Flash Cards Phonics Made Easy:
54 Flash Cards
1 Word Sounds Cards
1 Parent Card

FLASH CARDS SIGHT WORDS

Flash Cards Sight Words contains 110 basic words most frequently used in beginning reader books.  These two-sided cards are fun and easy to use.  The Parent card includes additional activities and games.
Contents of Flash Cards Beginning Sight Words:
55 flash cards
1 parent card
Flash Cards Three-letter Words Puzzle Cards

Make spelling fun with the Flash Cards Three Letter Words Puzzle Cards! Each card contains a third of a picture and one letter. Your child will create words such as bee, boy, car, etc... by putting the cards together. There are a total of 36 three card sets and a Parent Card with suggestions for additional games and activities. Perfect for parents or teachers!
Contents of Flash Cards Three Letter Words Puzzle Cards:
54 Puzzle Cards
1 Parent Card
1 Word List Card
Frog And Toad - Bicycle Built For Two Jigsaw Puzzle

This Frog and Toad  jigsaw puzzle contains 100 pieces and is recommended for children ages 5 and older. It features the artwork of Arnold Lobel (artwork from 1970) from the popular Frog and Toad children's book series. The scene depicts the two amphibious friends riding a tandem bike in Bicycle Built for Two. Measures approximately 15" x 11 1/2" once completed.
Includes a bonus bookmark matching the puzzle scene!

I Spy Ready To Read Game

Let's get ready to read with I Spy! Read the riddle on your game board, find the objects and punch them out. When you're done, play it in reverse! Read the riddles, name the objects and put them back on your board. Trade your board with another player and the fun goes on! I Spy Ready to Read Game helps players develop essential pre-reading skills of visual discrimination, matching, rhyming, "reading" pictures and shapes, and letter recognition. Learning to read is more fun with I Spy!The contents of I Spy Ready to Read Game:6 riddle/picture boards
Magnetic Poetry - Kid Genius Edition

The Magnetic Poetry Kid Genius Kit is a fun vocabulary builder featuring over 270 double-sided magnetized words and word fragments that stick both ways.  Noun, verb, and adjective tiles have a common word on one side and a brain-expanding synonym on the other. Break the magnet sheets into separate tiles and play with them on any metal surface - including the storage tin! Builds imagination and creativity!
Once Upon a Time Card Game

Here’s your excuse to tell a really good yarn to a captive audience. The Once Upon a Time Card Game has 168 cards that feature story elements from classic fairy tales. (See inset photo.) As the Storyteller, you weave your story plot around the cards in your hand, discarding them as you use them, working your way toward an empty hand and the final “Happily Ever After” card.
Of course, no fairy tale is without problems, and yours will likely begin when your opponents start interrupting your story and steering it a different direction. Play all your cards, end the story, and win the game.
This game is great fun for two or more players, ages 6 and up, and will especially appeal to fantasy buffs, role-playing gamers, writers, actors, and anyone with an active imagination or a silver tongue!
If you like the eerie side of Faerie, mix in our new expansion deck, “Once Upon a Time Card Game – Dark Tales.”
Contents of Once Upon a Time Card Game:
112 “Once Upon a Time” Storytelling Cards
56 “Happily Ever After” Ending Cards
Instructions

Uncle Wiggily Game

Uncle Wiggily, the game that once provided fun when you were a child is here to provide that same fun to your child.  Make your way through the forest to Dr. Possum's house.  Meet Uncle Wiggily's friends like Bow Wow and Cluck Cluck Hen.  Be careful of Skillery-Scallery the Alligator and Skeezicks because they will send you back.  Players draw cards and follow the rhymes to make their way through the forest.  Get to Dr. Possum's house first and you win the game.  Game cards feature numbers and symbols which allows children who can't read to play also! 

Contents of the Uncle Wiggly Game:Game board4 Uncle Wiggily tokens48 game cards
 
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