The Ottawa International Children’s Festival

We are so excited to be taking part in this year’s Children’s Festival. The Ottawa International Children’s Festival is an annual celebration of the best in live performing arts for young people. For over two decades the OICF has presented an abundance of award-winning artists from around the globe and made wide-eyed children out of attendees of all ages. The OICF provides a unique opportunity for children and their families to experience the rich heritage of other cultures right in their own backyard. They strive to present work that excites and challenges audiences of all ages, and the festival prides itself on developing and producing award winning programming that comes to us from across Canada and around the world. Barefoot Books will be participating in this year’s festival and we do hope to see you and your family there. Stop by the “family games pavilion” to see some of the wonderful new titles and products we currently have in stock. For more information visit their website: www.ottawachildrensfestival.ca

 

May 31st to June 3rd at Lebreton Flats Park – 1 Vimy Place, Ottawa, ON

Great New Spring Titles!

Well it certainly feels like spring is on its way and we have some great new Barefoot Titles to celebrate.

 

 Grandpa’s Garden: Children will be drawn in by the poetry of the language and the warm illustrations, while also catching the excitement of watching things grow!

  

 

 My Mama Earth: Watch the wonder experienced by a small child journeying through the world and round the day taking in the many magnificent aspects of nature.

 

 

 

 

Who’s in the Farmyard?: Here is another great peek-a-boo book to join the series Who’s in the Garden? and Who’s in the Forest?

 

 

 

 

 

 

And don’t forget other great titles such as Kids’ Garden, What’s This?, Who’s in the Garden and one of our family’s favourites the Over in the Meadow with a new enhanced CD so you can watch and sing along.

I would also welcome you to visit our facebook page for more information regarding new titles and sales.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Barefoot-World/145321282156935

Barefoot Books Winter Sale now on until February 15th!

Do you have some birthdays coming up? Then this is the perfect time to get some wonderful books up to 50% off. Remember that all Canadian orders over $60 ship for a flat rate of $9.99 and for those in the Ottawa area you can save on shipping by arranging to pick up your orders instead.

New Chapter Books now available!

The Snow Queen $9.99

I am so excited to introduce you to our new line of paperback chapter books for independent readers which are divided into three categories; early, confident and advanced. As always our stories aim to fire up their imaginations as well as open their minds to our diverse world. Click here to read more about the new series and a Q & A with our Editor-in-Chief, Tessa Strickland.

And the winner is…

Congratulations to Jenn R Hanniman who has just won $60 worth of Barefoot Products.  I would like to thank everyone who took the time to participate.  My Barefoot World will also be giving away a book every month until Christmas. All of our Facebook fans will be entered automatically every month and anyone who posts on our wall will receive an extra 5 entries that month.  Good Luck!

48 trees planted!

We had a great time at the Eco-Fair this Saturday and would like to thank everyone that came out to see us. We are happy to announce that 48 trees will be planted as a result of this year’s Eco-Fair; so that makes a total of 80 trees planted so far (Eco-Fair 2010 & 2011). As I had mentioned we partnered with Eco-Libris for this event to make this possible. Check out their website for more information and to learn how you can help;  http://www.ecolibris.net

Go Green, Go Global, Go Barefoot…

We are getting ready for the Eco-Fair this Saturday and have just received so many great titles to share with you. Make sure you check out our sing-a-longs; Over in the Meadow and the Whole World, both with educational end notes.

Also not to be missed are  We’re Roaming in the Rainforest, Home for a Tiger- Home for a Bear, A Forest of Stories, Yoga Planet and of course the Barefoot Book of Earth Tales; a beautiful collection of 7 folktales from around the world that focuses on how different cultures try to live in harmony with nature. Each tale is then followed by a fun “green” activity.

We strive to bring both environmental and global awareness to children and families through our products and are happy to announce that just as we did last year for this event we have arranged to have a tree planted for each book sold. We hope to see you and your family there.