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The Book People Lucky Dips
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the Bookpeople, Red house books and School link are all related companies - all excellent - you buy which-ever books you want with no tie in like book clubs.
I would recommend one of their 10 book collections rather than the lucky dip
You get 10 books for £9.99 (so just under £1 each), but you know exactly what books you are getting - and they are quality main stream books. They all do different selections based on the publishing house and there are quite a few to choose from. Great for party favours.
Type 10 into the search engine to come up with their current stock. School link currently have the best selection with about 7 different 10 book collections to choose from. Here are a few of them
http://www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_10001_10051_65857_100_10007_10006_category_
http://www.schoollink.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/productSearch_10201_21902_61549_100___10_SimpleSearch_2_1_2__basicSearch_10
http://www.schoollink.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/productSearch_10201_21902_33106_100___10_SimpleSearch_2_1_2__basicSearch_100 -
I got the adult non-fiction: book about the boar war, mumsnet baby book, Elizabeth Taylor bio, Totenham hotspurs book, dutchess bio, improve your boggle, iraq war book, alan Clarke diaries, wasted and small book on a philosopher- not plato. The baby book looks great for my sister who is expecting but like someone else said, from the picture I was expecting lifestyle books and hoping for a few cooking, nutrition or garden books.Dad's taken the spares as raffle prized for his club!
I love the book people and have shelves of their kid's books but was very disappointed with this order. I ordered 3 sets of books for DS's 7th birthday or Christmas fillers. They said suitable for 5-10 year olds but were all way at the top of this range and will need putting away for a couple of years. Also the delivery man chucked the boxed over my side gate and split one of the box set cases.0 -
Has anyone tried the girls 6-9 group?
My daughter will be 6 in October and is already a very good reader. The under 5's would be too young but I was concerned the books in this group might be too advanced. I suppose I could always put them away for her if they are.
Just to let you know that I am a VIP passport member of The Book People and order heaps from them each year. I decided to order a pack of lucky dip for girls aged 6-9. They have now arrived and only 4-5 books were suitable...
1. Sue Bentley: Magic Kitten - Star Dreams
144 pages RRP £3.99 (ages 5-8 - from publisher's website)
2. Margaret Ryan: Airy Fairy - Magic Music!
80 pages RRP £3.99 (ages 6-8 - newly fluent readers)
3. Michael Morpurgo: Mr Skip
112 pages RRP £3.99 (suitable for Yr3 (ages 7-8) readers - from publisher's website)
4. Susan Martineau: Animal Activity Books - Horses
RRP £3.99 (activity book)
5. Annic Hurtrer: Let's Scoubidou
RRP £7.99 (activity book)
6. Helena Pielichaty: After School Club - Starring Jolene
160 pages RRP £3.99 (ages 9-11 - from author's own website)
7. Gwyneth Rees: The Mum Hunt
192 pages RRP £4.99 (suitable for 9+)
8. Christine Harris & Hamish Blakely: Trouble Coming!
RRP £10.99 (picture book for 0-5 years!)
9. Helen Armstrong: The Road to Adventure
144 pages RRP £4.99 (long book, suitable for fluent readers 8yrs+)
10. Sally Gardner: Lucy Willow
160 pages RRP £8.99 (hardback) (long book, suitable for fluent readers 8yrs+)
Our 6 year old daughter was six at the end of July (so almost the same age as your daughter). She is G&T with regard to her literacy and is currently reading the original version of 'Charlotte's Web'. HOWEVER, she is only interested in reading the first 4 books on the list above. In my opinion, a proportion of the books are too old in subject matter, even for a 8/9 year old, and so are unsuitable for the 6-9 yrs age range, no matter how well they can read! I would say that these books are aimed at the confident 8-9 year old reader.
If you order from the 0-5 years range, you are probably going to get lots of picture books, which won't be suitable for a 6 year old.
The only advice I can give you is to order the 6-9 collection, decided which ones you can put away, then contact the book people if you have any that are clearly not in the 6-9 yr age range.
I have emailed The Book People regarding the 2 9yrs+ books and the pre-school picture book and await their reply....If you've found this post helpful,for your thanks, I'd be grateful!Log on, then click the 'thumbs up'and give my rating a leg up!
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Thanks Bexr
Could you let me know how you get on with their reply. A few people have said that if they had unsuitable books they were sent a whole new set. Thanks for the list of books. I think you're right about the content. She is a very good reader but might not be interested in reading some of the books.0 -
I did, not the greatest, the worst has to be this one
I got that in my lot. I think this was too specific really, it will only appeal to Spurs fans and nobody else (even more so as my OH is a Man Utd fan!) Guess my copy will be going to the charity shop.
The rest was quite disappointing, I got
Winning Their Spurs Jeremy Novick (the above mentioned book!)
The Iraq War - John Keegan
Audrey Hepburn biography - Barry Paris
The Alan Clark Diaries
First World War letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends
The Essential Confucius - Paul Strathern ...........(I mean, WHAT??!!)
100 Backgammon Puzzles - Paul Lamford
Wasted - coming back from addiction and stavation - Marya Hornbacher
Mums on Babies, Trade Secrets from the real experts (I've no children, won't be having children, don't know anyone who is preganant)
Daughters of Britannia, the lives and times of Diplomatic Wives - Katie Hickman
Also got the 6-9 girls lot, which was ok if not fantastic. I will be splitting it into a birthday and Christmas present for my niece."Stay Wonky":D
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Whoops - 30 minutes ago was supposed to start the ironing - instead have been engrossed in 1) this forum and 2) the Book People website. Have started my Christmas shopping early and also ordered an adult fiction lucky dip for myself... Will let you know how I get on.0
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Seems quite a reasonable bargain! For the unsuitable books, there's always Amazon :-) GOD BLESS DURAN DURAN
Official DFW Nerd Club - Member no 293 Proud to be dealing with my debtsMarch NSD 5/10 March Make £5 Day £99.28/£1550
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Well I'm totally confused, just went to check my order status and it says
ProductcodeQTYunit pricestatusLucky Dips for Adults (Non-Fiction) - 10 BooksJKU1£7.00Order ReceivedThe Naked ChefNAK1£7.99Order ShippedAnother Slice of JohnnersNJO1£4.99Order ShippedThe First Snow of WinterFSW1£2.99Order ShippedlpgLPG1£2.99Order ShippedChildren's Picture Book Selection - 10 BooksZXV1£8.99Order ShippedBob The Builder Annual 2002BUA1£2.99Order ShippedTweenies - The Big & Little Flap BookTBL1£2.99Order ShippedNigella BitesNGB1£7.99Order ShippedFetch the Vet Annual 2002FTV1£2.99Order ShippedVery Short Introductions to... Collections - 6 BooksZVT1£6.99Order ShippedRobbie the Reindeer - Hooves of FireEIN1£2.99Order ShippedKipper's Christmas EveKPV1£3.99Order ShippedThe Jolly PostmanJPO1£4.99Order ShippedChristmas CookingCKG1£1.99Order ShippedBob the Builder Spuds New Nose - Jigsaw Book.BOJ1£2.99Order ShippedManchester United Fun Fax and 2 Fact FilesMFX1£4.99Order ShippedRomantic Fiction Collection - 10 BooksZRT2£9.99Order ShippedFirst Young Puffins Set - 10 Books in a BagFYP1£6.99Order ShippedBob the Builder Spuds New Nose - Jigsaw Book.BOJ1£0.00Order ShippedThe Ramona Collection - 4 BooksZQE1£0.00Order Shipped
total price: £7.00
all I ordered was a lucky dip?Started comps 7th August 2007 total for 2007 £1890
had a break for a couple of months £835 / £2008 wins this month,
DVD
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Good morning
I ordered the girls 6 - 9 selection, feel I was quite lucky
8 are very suitable, 2 others 1 was a pre- school (but luckily have a teeny neice) and 1 is a teenage book.
My adult non fiction not so good
crop circles
beyond sudoku
Gi plan
Christmas trade secrets
Whistling with elephants (sandi Toksvig)
sunbathing in the rain - all about depression!!
small book of nietsche
mums on pregnancy
Letters from a Lost generation
Marilyn Munroe
value adult books - £80DEBT FREE since 2011
Retiring to Spain has changed my world
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My adult non fiction not so good
crop circles
beyond sudoku
Gi plan
Christmas trade secrets
Whistling with elephants (sandi Toksvig)
sunbathing in the rain - all about depression!!
small book of nietsche
mums on pregnancy
Letters from a Lost generation
Marilyn Munroe
value adult books - £80
I amazed that people can think they can order 10 non-fiction books and find them all interesting - it's a big varied and interesting world out there folks, there's a lot of things going on and a lot of books written about it. If you get 2 or 3 books you'll read in a lucky dip non-fiction I think you've scored. :beer:
I'd be happy with 7 or 8 of the above list, some would be happy with none. I guess that's where the lucky in lucky dip comes into it.
I'm sure your local charity shop would be interested in any new books you'd want to send their way, or Amazon marketplace, or ebay.
Cheers
Simon0
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