Happy Thursday, we have a big card drop for you today! From Gabby's Dollhouse to the InvestiGators, The Proudest Blue, and Veggie Box Songs, there is something for everyone this week! And don't forget the two new Marlène Jobert titles for our French customers and five Jaclyn Moriarty titles for our Australian customers.
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🛒 Paw-fect Party
Age range: 3-7
Get ready to throw a paws-itively awesome dance party with Gabby and her kitty crew in Paw-fect Party! This fun-filled kids music album is bursting with bouncy beats, silly sing-alongs, and catchy tunes that’ll have little feet tappin’ and tails waggin’. From glittery disco ‘Groove With Gabby’ to sweet and silly snack-time jams with ‘Goin’ Bananas Banana Dance, each track brings big energy, bright smiles, and that playful Gabby’s Dollhouse magic.
Whether your kids are groovin’ in their jammies or hosting their own pretend purr-ty, this album’s all about friendship, fun, and feline flair. So turn it up, dance it out, and let the good vibes (and giggles) roll!
🛒 Veggie Box Songs
Age range: All ages
Formidable Vegetable is a fresh harvest of hope, enriching the garden of our minds with barrow-loads of tasty swing/funk beets, brass, strings and the ukulele of abundance.
3 cards included in this pack:
Grow Do It
Earth People Fair
Micro Biome
UK, EU, AU Card Stores
🛒 InvestiGators
Age range: 7-9
They're Alligators – and Investigators! InvestiGators by John Patrick Green is an immersive listening experience, read by a fantastic full cast, including the author, and accompanied by exciting sound effects and snappy music. Mango and Brash are the InvestiGators: sewer-loving agents of S.U.I.T. and scourge of supervillains everywhere! With their Very Exciting Spy Technology and their tried-and-true, toilet-based travel techniques, the InvestiGators are undercover and on the case! And on their first mission together, they have not one but two mysteries to solve! Can Mango and Brash uncover the clues, crack their cases, and corral the crooks? Or will the criminals wriggle out of their grasp?
🛒 InvestiGators: Take the Plunge
Age range: 7-9
Mango and Brash are the InvestiGators: sewer-loving agents of S.U.I.T. and scourge of supervillains everywhere! In their next big adventure, S.U.I.T. headquarters is under attack, and Mango and Brash are going undercover and underground disguised as city sewer workers to unclog a sticky situation. But when their search for the criminal Crackerdile backfires, the toilets they travel through back up ? and the InvestiGators take the blame for it! Can Mango and Brash restore their good name and put the real culprit behind bars before the whole city is in deep water?
EU, FR & CA Card Stores
🛒 Marlène Jobert raconte... Les contes merveilleux
tranche d'âge: 5-10
Marlène Jobert a pris beaucoup de plaisir à interpréter ces grands contes traditionnels qui allient merveilleux, magie ou aventure. Cette collection qui enchante l’imaginaire des enfants dès 4 ans, est aussi très appréciée des parents pour les valeurs essentielles qu’elle transmet comme la justice, la générosité, le courage, la persévérance, la tolérance... Autant de clés pour bien grandir et mieux vivre ensemble.
🛒 Marlène Jobert : Les contes et musiques du monde
tranche d'âge: 5-10
Marlène Jobert a imaginé cette collection d'aventures originales pour offrir aux enfants, dès 5 ans, un petit aperçu des cultures, coutumes et musiques des pays lointains où elle les emmène.
US and CA Card Stores
🛒 The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family
Age range: 4-8
A powerful, vibrantly illustrated story about the first day of school—and two sisters on one's first day of hijab—by Olympic medalist and social justice activist Ibtihaj Muhammad. With her new backpack and light-up shoes, Faizah knows the first day of school is going to be special. It's the start of a brand new year, and, best of all, it's her older sister Asiya's first day of hijab—a hijab of beautiful blue fabric, like the ocean waving to the sky. But not everyone sees hijab as beautiful, and in the face of hurtful, confusing words, Faizah will find new ways to be strong.
AU Card Store
🛒 The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone
Age range: 7-9
Bronte Mettlestone is ten years old when her parents are killed by pirates. This does not bother her particularly: her parents ran away to have adventures when she was a baby. She has been raised by her Aunt Isabelle, with assistance from the Butler, and has spent a pleasant childhood of afternoon teas and riding lessons. Now, however, her parents have left detailed instructions for Bronte in their will. (Instructions that, annoyingly, have been reinforced with faery cross-stitch, which means that if she doesn't complete them, terrible things could happen!) She travels the kingdoms, perfectly alone, delivering gifts to ten other aunts: a farmer aunt who owns an orange orchard, a veterinarian aunt who specializes in dragon care, a pair of aunts who captain a cruise ship, and a former rock star aunt who is now the reigning monarch of a small kingdom. But as she travels from aunt to aunt, Bronte suspects there might be more to this journey than the simple delivery of treasure.
🛒 The Slightly Alarming Tale of the Whispering Wars
Age range: 7-9
I was taken by Whisperers at 2pm, so I never pulled the lever for the laundry chute. That's what bothered me most. This is way ahead in the story, though. A lot happened before that. The town of Spindrift is frequented by pirates, Shadow Mages and charlatans. It's also home to the Orphanage School, where Finlay lives with Glim, Taya and Eli. Just outside town is the painfully posh Brathelthwaite Boarding School, home to Honey Bee, Hamish and Victor, Duke of Ainsley. When the two schools compete at the Spindrift Tournament, stakes are high, tensions are higher, and some people are out to win at any cost. Before long, the orphans and the boarding school are in an all-out war. And then Whispering Wars break out, and Spindrift is thrust onto the front lines. Children are being stolen; Witches, Sirens and a deadly magical flu invade the town; and all attempts to fight back are met with defeat. Finlay, Honey Bee and their friends must join forces to outwit the encroaching forces of darkness, rescue the stolen children, and turn the tide of the war. But how can one bickering troupe outwit the insidious power of the Whisperers? And who are the two mysterious figures watching them from the shadows?
🛒 The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst
Age range: 7-9
Long ago, the little Prince of Cloudburst was stolen from the seashore by a Water Sprite. Now, ten years later, the prince has found his way home. The King and Queen are planning the biggest party in their Kingdom's history to welcome him. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Kingdoms and Empires, Esther Mettlestone-Staranise is looking forward to another year at Katherine Valley Boarding School. But she arrives to find a number of strange and unsettling changes. For one, her new teacher is rumoured to be an Ogre. Two mysterious students have joined the school, and one of Esther's classmates is an undercover Spellbinder. Most disturbingly, the mountains surrounding the school - usually a delight of glaciers, teashops, lakes and Faeries - are now crowded with wicked Shadow Mages.
As secrets and dangers escalate, Esther must find the answers to several puzzles. Why is her teacher behaving so oddly? Which of Esther's classmates is the Spellbinder, and can they really protect the school from gathering hordes of Shadow Mages? Could the Stolen Prince of Cloudburst be connected?
How can Esther - who is not talented like her sisters, nor an adventurer like her cousin, but just Esther - save her family, her school and possibly her entire world?
🛒 The Astonishing Chronicles of Oscar from Elsewhere
Age range: 7-9
Let me get this straight. I'm on a trip with the following people: 1) Bronte, a girl who makes magical 'Spellbinding' rings, 2) Alejandro, a former pirate/current prince who can shoot arrows and make fire from stones, 3) Imogen, who can read broken maps and is a kickboxing master, 4) Esther, who saved her entire world from some kind of ancient monster, 5) Astrid, a smart ten year old who can read minds, and 6) Gruffudd, a surprisingly speedy (and always hungry) Elf. And who am I? Just a kid who skips school to ride a skateboard.
The Astonishing Chronicles of Oscar from Elsewhere is the account of Monday through Friday of last week. That's when Oscar found himself on a quest to locate nine separate pieces of a key, held by nine separate people, in order to unlock a gluggy silver spell that had trapped the Elven city of Dun-sorey-lo-vay-lo-hey. The quest was an urgent one. Friday at noon, the spell would become permanent, the Elves would be crushed to death and Oscar would be trapped in this magical world forever. (The account, it should be noted, has been written at the request of a small public school's Deputy Principal. She wants to know exactly what Oscar considered more important than coming to school last week.)
🛒 The Impossible Secret of Lillian Velvet
Age range: 7-9
Lillian Velvet lives a very lonely life with her cold and remote Grandmother. That is, until her tenth birthday, when she is given a pickle jar of gold coins, along with a note with clear instructions: don't go out, don't open the door for anyone, and don't spend all your coins in one day.
What happens next seems impossible. The coins whisk Lillian away to a different time and place. There she meets a small boy in a circus about to be crushed to death; a lively family, each member in a distinctive form of mortal danger; a boy with a skateboard; and a girl who can Whisper. And a web of dangerous magic closing tight around it all.
Why is Lillian here? How is she supposed to help these new friends? And - most importantly - what happens if she fails? An exciting tale in the magical Kingdoms and Empires world, where seemingly disparate elements are spun until all is revealed as one delicious, tantalising whole.
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