Hiller’s Markets offer premier products, gourmet delectables, healthy choices, and lifestyle shopping. This morning Carl and I set up our new children’s picture book, movie and plush display inside the Hiller’s Markets Union Lake Store in Union Lake, Michigan. We filled the display with our New York Times best-selling children’s picture books, award winning movies, plush fawn [...]
Carl and Jean signed books and answered questions this past Saturday during the grand opening of Sprout: Toys for Growing Minds, the new store inside the Upper Peninsula Children’s Museum in Marquette, Michigan. Carl and Jean signed copies of their New York Times best-selling children’s picture books. Their award winning children’s nature movies, books and plush [...]
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Spending time in nature makes you feel more energetic and vibrant, according to a new study. With our children’s picture books and movies, we know that it’s important to get kids outdoors in nature and this new study proves it. The experiments are published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology and involved over 500 students, [...]
Monthly Online Storytime for children was launched this week by Barnes & Noble.com. The site features well-known authors and celebrities reading popular children’s picture books aloud to children ages two through six. “Children exposed to read-aloud storytelling at a young age develop language and literacy skills sooner than those who are not,” said Rachel Jarrett, [...]
Carl and Jean made a very generous donation for kids a while back. They donated 1,000 copies of their children’s picture book Stranger in the Woods to the Head Start program in Pontiac, Michigan, giving children a special holiday. Carl and Jean also donated the plush snowman based on the character in the book. For [...]
Lyre birds mimic the calls of other birds – and chainsaws and camera shutters. David Attenborough presents the lyre bird in this video clip from The Life of Birds. This clever creature is one of the most impressive and funny in nature, with unbelievable sounds to match the beautiful pictures. We hope you enjoy the amazing bird [...]
See Carl and Jean at the Columbus Winter Fair this Friday, December 4 through Sunday, December 6. The Columbus Winter Fair is a holiday artists’ market where fairgoers will find unique and beautiful handcrafted items for the home, office or gift giving. Location Multi-Purpose Building at the Ohio State Fairgrounds in Columbus, Ohio. Hours 10 am – 8 [...]
Today is the busiest shopping day of the year. If you’re shopping for kid’s books for holiday gifts, visit our website to view our award-winning kid’s books. Our children’s picture book Stranger in the Woods is a New York Times #1 best-seller and has warmed the hearts of children ages 1 to 100. First [...]
First Snow in the Woods is one of our award-winning children’s picture books. It makes a perfect gift. Readers are taken on a beautiful photographic journey deep into the autumn woods as the animals of the forest get ready for the year’s first winter storm. Will the animals be ready for the cold, hard winter to come? [...]
