Becky’s Bookworms – Love Books, Read Books, Win Books
We know just the place, where a huge selection is available for children of all ages from babies to teens, and where helpful advice and fun events can be found side by side with great reads! It is run by a teacher and business woman from Stockport.
Q: What were your reasons for starting this business?
A: My name is Rebecca and I run Becky’s Bookworms as an independent Usborne organiser. I started my journey with Usborne in June 2020 and I was inspired to do this by following a few other Usborne organisers online and seeing the benefits children were getting from the books and resources available.
There were also many other factors which prompted this decision, including the ability to access and purchase the resources for the children in my own family, to have flexibility, to start my own small business, to keep myself busy during the difficult times the world is facing and to earn a bit of extra cash! So far this is working wonderfully.
Q: What are your particular strengths as an Usborne organiser?
A: I love reading and I believe in the importance of literacy for children’s education and imagination. I have a background in early years teaching and have been in this field of work and study for 19 years now. I wanted to invest in some of the books and other resources for the children I teach and I believe I can advise my customers on what may be right for their children.
Q: For many busy parents technology provides a big help in educating and entertaining their children. How would you persuade them that reading is still an important and necessary part of a child’s development?
A: Reading with young children has been proven to help stimulate and develop children’s cognitive skills; it allows children to make sense of the world around them. Reading encourages language and literacy skills and can contribute to helping children’s development in other areas such as confidence, self-esteem, vocabulary growth, anxiety and stress reduction. It also helps to establish good sleep patterns.
Q: What do you think is the most important thing reading gives to children?
A: Huge thing for me is children’s imagination. When teaching early years children, it is always so clear to see that imagination plays a huge part in their learning and development. It is instrumental in helping children to be able to achieve their next steps, and the role of adults is very important. Einstein famously said: “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand”.
Reading just one book a day can take a child’s imagination to a whole new level. And from there, when imagination and curiosity are provoked, children embark on so many more voyages of discovery to explore new areas of knowledge and opportunities to learn. This journey is just like a love of books – unstoppable and beautiful.
Call Rebecca if you’d like to buy a book, run an online book party or a school event: 07808 288195;
or visit Becky’s Bookworms for more information.
Competition Time!
Just in time for Christmas, Rebecca is offering three lucky M&D readers a chance to win Poppy and Sam’s Wipe-Clean Christmas Activities, a delightful activity book, which can be used again and again thanks to a special pen and wipe-clean pages.
To enter the competition, please use the widget below. The good news is that you can choose as many options as you’d like. Good luck!
Closing date: 11th December 2020
T&Cs:
– Prizes subject to availability.
– Competition open to mainland UK and Northern Ireland residents only.
– The competition closes on 11th December 2020 at midnight.
– You may enter by performing more than one action from the list above.
– We have three Poppy and Sam’s Wipe-Clean Christmas Activities books to give away. No cash alternatives or substitutes are available.
– The winners will be selected at random from the entries and contacted by email.
– If the winner does not respond within a time frame specified in the winner notification email another winner will be selected. The same rules applies to the newly selected winner, so please check your emails carefully after 11th December 2020.
– This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook or Instagram.
Feeling super festive this year already. Can’t get enough of Christmas crafts too … I like how this is wipe clean so can be used over and over
I love the concept of this. The wipe clean will make it last for ages.
Would love to win this for my two daughters. They would love to share this, this lockdown Christmas!
Loving this for my granddaughter we love a book
These are great and would be perfect for my niece. I love the fact that they can be used over and over again with being wipe clean.
I like this idea of this book for my grandaughter.
This is fantastic, my youngest is super messy and he can get as messy as he likes with this!
Love a wipe clean activity book that can be used again and again!
Great idea about wipe clean…great for grandson stocking filler
Interesting that reading supports and encourages imagination as well as understanding language.
We love poppy and Sam books. Especially the naughty sheep. I’ve never seen wipe clean ones before but thing my 4 year old daughter would love this.
Love this types of books especially as the kids can’t argue over who’s filled it in haha
These look fab fun, my grandchildren would love them
My little boy would love this!
fantastic to return to again and again xx