Books: More AMMO Giveaways

Congratulations to Amy Nichols and Janna Briggs on winning this week's book giveaway!  While this contest is now closed, please come back to SixSeeds for more giveaways for good, family, fun!

Frequently, parents feel it’s necessary to give up style in order to read to their little ones.  Library shelves are lined with board books possessing irritating simple designs – or no design at all.  Writing is clumsy and lessons are dull.  Two new board books attempt to solve the “function” versus “fashion” dilemma. 

Do they succeed?

Title:  Colors

Illustrator: Charley Harper

Publisher: AMMO Books

Buy it: Here

Cost: $9.95

Most books teaching colors have one primary color highlighted on each page.  However, the pages of Charley Harper’s new book are chocked full of color.

An old-fashioned lady with a hot pink hat.

Four red ladybugs with black spots.

Understanding the art in symmetry, the renowned illustrator didn’t see shapes as boring lessons in geometry.  Instead he saw them as a way to simplify nature and the world into manageable – and beautiful – order.  Each page of Colors holds a minimalistic, yet geometrically savvy drawing, often of a bird. (He seems to favor avian subjects.)  HIs has also inspired Charley Harper Coloring Book of Birds as well as the ABC and 123 Nesting Blocks  which feature wildlife and nature.

Title: Counting in the Garden

Publisher: AMMO Books 

Author: Emily Hruby 

Illustrator: Patrick Hruby

Buy it: Here

Cost: $14.95

In this counting book, each page shows something growing in the garden. However, not all of it is desirable, though!

2 tasty turnips deep inside the ground

And then there are:

3 tiny thistles that grew by accident 

Each picture adds to the preceding page, eventually culminating in a garden full of enticing produce. Though the garden illustrations are quite busy and the pictures corresponding to the numbers are a navigationally confusing, they do hold a preschooler’s attention.

The publisher rightly refers to their line of board books as “artist centric,” which means this is not designed to be used as a textbook in your little tike’s math class. (Perhaps the art teacher might find it quite useful!)

Patrick Hruby has also created a circus themed ABC book  along with other cool items, such as the Patrick Hruby Memory Game.

Any of these Ammo products would be great gifts – for your friends with toddlers or the discerning children in your own family. That’s why this week, we’re giving away both of them!  Please leave a comment for a chance to win. We always love to hear from you.

On one week from publication at noon (EST), we'll pick a name in a random drawing from all eligible entries received and send you an email notification.  When you receive your package in the mail, you'll find out which book you received!

Limit one (1) entry per person; NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. Open only to legal residents of the 50 United States and Washington D.C. who are 18 or older as of date of entry.