Your Consultant: Debbie LaCroix Sr. Supervisor / President's Club Earner / Trip Earner Shop Now! Sell Usborne Books! School & Library Free Drawing About Usborne Books     Join our award-winning team! Home Parties / Bookfairs / Reading Incentive Programs & More! Email me   / 605-232-8888 Wish Lists & Gift Registries! On Facebook! Welcome to Usborne Books & More, consultant Debbie LaCroix's website! Usborne offers over 1400 titles from ages birth to high school, including both fiction and non-fiction. We have books for every child in your life. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me! Email me Now!                     Search our Catalog!            This Week's Specials (up to 60% off!)   HELP WANTED! Do you love Children? Do you love Books? Could you use some extra money? Would you like to build your children's Library?  Learn more:   (218) 339-2599,  Access Code: 855068# Check out our Monthly Special today!

School & Library! For Your School Usborne Books & More Educational Services offers three program options to help your school get amazing books for classrooms, libraries, book room and more! Choose from: Commercial Free Book Fairs Reading Incentive Programs 50% Matching Grant Program   COMMERCIAL FREE BOOK FAIRS Raise Kids' Reading Levels The Usborne "Reading Is A Gift" book fair program was developed by Usborne Books to encourage reading and at the same time earn free books, and/or profits for your school or organization. We understand the needs and challenges faced by organizations trying to raise funds, so we've designed a program to make it easy for you to reach your fundraising goals! With the FREE book and/or cash incentives that are in place for each book fair, you can choose the option that best meets the needs of your school.   FREE books - Up to 50% of retail sales in free books. Books & Cash - Provides the host school with FREE books and cash for the library. Cash only - Fund special projects, teacher resources or extras for your students.  “Reading is a Gift” Book Fairs are Hassle-free With more than 8,000 Consultants in the United States alone, your "Reading Is A Gift" book fair partner is probably right around the corner and ready to work hard for your fundraiser. An Educational Consultant will walk you through your event from start to finish making it pleasant and profitable for you, your students, and your school. Usborne Books Creates A Fundraiser That Keeps On Giving Usborne & Kane/Miller Books are internationally acclaimed as the finest entertaining and educational children's books in the marketplace today. Usborne & Kane/Miller offer over 1,800 fiction and non-fiction titles that inspire, engage and entertain your students through reading. As a host school, you can choose from a wide range of subjects covering science, history, hobbies, nature, the arts and more. Is there a better gift to give than the gift of reading? There's no better gift for your school or organization than an Usborne "Reading Is A Gift" book fair event that promotes reading and pays you back in FREE books and/or cash. For more information, please visit www.readingisagift.com FREE BOOK CHART _____________________________________ $200 - $500 = 25% back in FREE Books! $500+ = 50% back in FREE Books! -----------------------------------------------------------------   Reach for the Stars!!!        A pledge based reading incentive program   The Reach for the Stars!! program rewards children for reading with free books of their choice as well as new books for their school. Reach for the Stars!! returns a minimum of 100% back to the school and students in a combination of Usborne & Kane/Miller books. A cash fundraiser option is also available. The program helps to develop lifelong readers while building both their own personal library, as well as benefiting the school.  What is the goal of the program? The goal of the Reach for the Stars is for children to develop a daily reading habit during the two week time period of the RFTS program. Educational experts recommend that children read 30 minutes a day! Who can participate? This program is designed to benefit any organizational group, such as schools, individual classrooms, clubs, preschools, church groups, home school groups, charities, business, public libraries and any other organization you can think of who would benefit from reading and books.   Raising Pledges Parents and children request pledges from friends and family members to support the kids' reading habit. Ask your organization if corporate sponsorships are available. How do the kids benefit? They develop a reading routine and receive Usborne & Kane/Miller books for participating. Together we can help children discover the joy of reading and give them the opportunity to choose their very own books to keep! How can your organization benefit? Reach for the Stars!! has flexible options to meet your needs, whether you need books for the library, classroom, community projects, or perhaps cash for a specific purpose. A minimum of 100% of the pledges are returned to the participants and organization in the form of books, or a combination of books and cash with the fundraising option. Minimum 100% return on student pledges – in form of books and/or cash! We do all the work – Hassle Free – just choose your free books! Earn free award winning educational books of your choice from over 1800 Usborne and Kane/Miller titles for classrooms and libraries! Kids earn free books of their choice too – so excitement about reading extends beyond the program dates!

Literacy for a Lifetime – a 50% Matching Grant Program Literacy for a Lifetime TM is a matching grant program partnering Educational Development Corporation (EDC) with businesses, foundations, and individuals to support local educational institutions. EDC is the leading publisher of children’s non-fiction books, and proud to have developed the Literacy for a Lifetime program to support educational funding on the local level. Literacy for a Lifetime incorporates a 50% matching grant for individual corporate donations to organizations. For example, if a corporation or private foundation has a grant of $10,000 for a local school and the school uses it to purchase products from Educational Development Corporation, EDC will match it with an additional $5,000 in products. (Minimum grant $200) Grant Funds Use grant funds to purchase books through Usborne Books & More, and receive 50% more in additional books of your choice. Over 1,800 Usborne & Kane/Miller titles for infants through high school! A Literacy for a Lifetime matching grant is an excellent way to expand your library collection, build a leveled book room, or provide supplemental classroom materials. The Literacy for a Lifetime matching grant program can be used with the following: State and Federal grants – such as: Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies Literacy through School Libraries Migrant Education Even Start Special Education Preschool Grants Small, Rural School Achievement Program Education for Homeless Children and Youth Twenty-First Century Community Learning Centers Reading First Early Reading First Striving Readers Corporate donations or grants Foundation grants PTA/PTSA grants Individual donations    To learn more about any of these services, contact me: Debbie LaCroix, Usborne Books Educational Consultant 605-232-8888 / Email me today!