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My Usborne Starter Kit Has Arrived!
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oH MY GOLLY GUMP! I have been bouncing off the walls all day. Last week I joined up to work at home as an independent consultant for Usborne Books, a children’s educational book publisher. And today…… MY KIT ARRIVED!!
There is absolutely NOTHING that can make a book lover happier than to open a door and see a HUGE carton of BOOKS on her front door step! And that’s exactly what happened to me today. I ordered the full base kit to get started with. Normally, the base kit costs $199 plus $20 shipping. However, each month Usborne runs a monthly kit special to help women who can’t afford the base kit get started with their own business. For the month of July, the entire starter kit of Usborne books, supplies, training material, and ecommerce website for only $99 plus the $20 shipping.
In addition, I paid the $20 extra dollars to receive training manuals for becoming an educational consultant (so I can sell to the school and library market).
The retail value of the kit is well over $400!! All in all, for the entire starter kit, additional S&L educational manual, shipping and handling, and SC state tax, my total cost came to only $149 and some change.
The 34 books I received, a mixture of Usborne’s best sellers in a variety of hardback, paperback, and library binding, MORE than makes up for the cost! Shoot, a month ago I purchased a lot of 21 children’s books on Ebay - USED - and paid $91.23 for them. Yet look at what all I received for just $149…..
WHAT I RECEIVED IN MY KIT!
Books:
1001 Things to Spot in the Sea (P)
Adventures of Sinbad the Sailor (P)
Big Book of Fairy Things to Make and Do (FL)
Book of Knowledge (IL) (H)
Cars (Chunky) (BD)
Daisy the Doctor (P)
Dogs and Puppies (IL) (AR) (P)
Don’t Be a Bully Billy! (P)
Encyclopedia of World Geography (H)
Find the Duck (BD)
First Picture Dictionary in Spanish (H)
Greek Myths Jigsaw Book (H)
Heroes, True Stories (P)
How To Draw Dinosaurs Kid Kit
I Can Draw Animals (P)
I Love You Baby (BD)
Learning Palette Base
Learning Palette, Beginning Reading, Alphabet
Little Book of Farmyard Tales (C/V) (H)
Living in Space (IR) (Beginners) (H)
Living World Encyclopedia Mini Edition (H)
On The Moon (Picture Book) (H)
Ready for Writing (P)
Sam Sheep Can’t Sleep (P)
School (Look & Say) (BD)
That’s Not My Fairy (BD)
The Big Bug Search (P)
There’s a Mouse About the House (H)
Three Little Pigs Sticker Book (P)
Tom Sawyer (P)
What Shall I draw? (P) (Real Life Award Winner)
William Shakespeare (IR) (H)
Young Puzzle Adventures (P)
1001 Bugs to Spot (L)Supply Set:
Fall UBAH Catalog Pk/10
Customer Order Form Pk/100
Customer Survey Pk/50
Consultant Guide
Hostess Guide Pk/5
Invitation Postcard Pk/100
Mini Order Form Pk/5
Recruiting Brochure Pk/25
UBAH Basic Training CD
Home Show DVD
Fast Start to OrderPro
6 Month Orderpro Online*
6 Month Consultant Web Site**
60 Day Subscription to Success Express***
Here I am opening my HUGE package. Boy I was having a blast. Thank goodness Jack was snoozin’, or he would have thought he had a kooky mom.
(Well, he probably already thinks that but that’s beside the point) 
Jack finally woke up and joined in the fun! Here I am reading an excellent astronomy book to him about the moon! (See his hand in the lower left?)
Some of my books as I was going through them! The Usborne touchy-feely series is AWESOME. They teach infants and toddlers wonderful adjectives and textures, and the story line is cute too! There are many in this series, including “That’s not my Dinosoar” and even “That’s not my mermaid”.
This, by far, was my hands down favorite “read”. It’s from our beginning phonics reader line. The story line is adorable…Sam Sheep can’t sleep one night, so he proceeds to wake up all of his friends in the meantime. They all try to help Sam sleep! The ending is sooo precious.
This book is terribly cool… I didn’t know books like this existed. It’s a greek myths book for children - and it contains a beginner’s jigsaw puzzle on each lefthand page! Just pop the pieces out, and put back together right on the page. A picture is under each puzzle so children can easily match which piece goes where. For a more advanced child, the puzzle can be put together anywhere (doesn’t have to be the book!).
…All of my books are sitting on the dining room table right now. I simply cannot get over the excellent quality, and colorful illustrations - especially in the “Picture Dictionary in Spanish”, “Daisy the Doctor”, and “Complete book of World Geography”!!!
Anyway, I just had to share my excitement. My husband, who doesn’t even really care for books, came in this afternoon and sat down to go through the books. He even read Sam Sheep Can’t Sleep to Jack and played one of the kid puzzles himself. It was too cute.
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November 3rd, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Just wondering how this business is going….tempted to do it myself. I am also an avid reader and I’m hoping my little girl will be too. I love the idea of inspiring other children to read too…..what a shame tv’s and computer games have taken over! You can’t beat a good book!!! Would love to hear if it has taken off.