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Helping Japan Auction- Lot of 4 Books! LAST CHANCE!

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If you are new to our Helping Japan Auction, you can read the announcement post here. You can also find all of the Auction Posts here. As lesson plans editor, I have had the opportunity to review some great books. Now, I would like to put them all together in a nice little package for you to bid on and help out Japan while receiving some amazing reads! Here is a list of the books along with my reviews.

Live More, Want Less ; 52 Ways to Find Order In Your Life by Mary Carolomagno-  Read Review Here

The Cleaner Plate Club; More than 100 Recipes for Real Food Your Kids Will Love by Beth Bader &Ali Benjamin- Read Review Here

The Nature Connection; An Outdoor Workbook by Clare Walker Leslie – Read Review Here

Handmade Home by Amanda Blake Soule- I did not review this book, its one out of my personal stash, but I absolutely LOVE it,  and would love  to pass it on to a good home!

All of the books are in great condition, and I will mail them out to the highest bidder together as soon as the bid is received through paypal.  Here is a little bit more information about the bidding process and how it will work:

ALL PROCEEDS will go to The Salvation Army specifically for the relief effort in Japan due to the devastating earthquake and tsunami.

If you live in the United States Craft Gossip will pay your shipping so that every penny out of your pocket goes directly to Japan. If you live outside of the United States you may bid, however you will be responsible for the shipping cost as well.  At the conclusion of the auction, the highest bid will be the winner and Paypal payment will be due at that time.  If the winning bidder doesn’t make the payment within 3 days, we will select the next highest bidder. The highest bidder will send the payment to [email protected] via PayPal. (If you are overseas, postage will be added to your winning bid.)

BIDDING STARTS at $15 which is not even the cost of just one of these books, but hopefully your generosity will allow for a higher ending bid and we’ll be able to make a difference. The total value of this lot of books is over $65! To place a bid, leave your amount in the comments along with a valid email address so we can get in touch with you.  Bidding ends on April 7, 2011.

Thank you again for being the best, loyal and most GIVING readers! Happy Bidding !



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Books About Bugs Through the Seasons

Growing Up Ladybug and How to Become a Butterfly are both by Stepanka Sekaninova and illustrated by Linh Dao, and they came out at the same time and are on similar themes, so let’s look at them together. 

Growing Up Ladybug is narrated by Mariella, a seven-spot ladybug. She talks about the parts of a ladybug, where they live, different kinds of ladybugs, why humans love them, their defenses against predators and the life cycle of a ladybug. 

The drawings are cute if not always scientifically accurate, it’s not in such a way that’s likely to confuse kids (who probably already know that ladybug mamas don’t push their larval babies around in strollers, for instance. 

It’s a good general description of the life cycle of a lady bug and why we like having them around. 

About the book: 32 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Albatross Media. Suggested retail price $16.95.

Similarly, How to Become a Butterfly covers the life cycle of a butterfly, starting with caterpillars eating burning nettle leaves. (Here Amanda is the narrator.) The book talks about a few of the more than 18,000 daytime butterflies in the world as well as other creatures that live in the meadow (there’s that ladybug again, along with crickets, bees and other bugs).

It also covers some of the enemies of caterpillars like wasps and spiders, and the defenses that caterpillars use to try to prevent being eaten. It illustrates how caterpillars grow and change as they molt and prepare to pupate, and what a caterpillar looks like before and while it is forming its chrysalis. And while the book uses the word metamorphasis it doesn’t really talk about what happens between the caterpillar forming a chrysalis and the butterfly hatching. 

This butterfly is a peacock butterfly, and once it hatches the book covers the parts of a butterfly and the life cycle. It also talks about nocturnal moths (though it says nocturnal butterflies are “usually called moths” when moths are actually a different species) and what butterflies do at night. 

I’m maybe a little hard on this book because my daughter is a butterfly expert from way back, but it is still cute and good for the very basic basics of the butterfly life cycle. 

Both books would be fun additions to your bookshelf for younger kids starting to learn about different animals or who have an interest in insects. 

About the book: 32 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Albatross Media. Suggested retail price $16.95.