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... Books for children is one book club that I have used, my first requisition was a Lets Speak Spanish which included a sticker activity book, a sing-along CD, Spanish book, board game and model-making kit, I chose this as eventually we are hoping to move to Spain. I only had to pay for postage ... Read review

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Story Time!

Advantages: Offers a wide range of books for each age group
Disadvantages: You are tied to buying 6 further books after your initial purchase

...girl, even reading extra special books like 101 Dalmations by Dodie Smith at least 5 times. My love for reading continued right up until I had my children, but my concentration span has lessened since then, the big tomb like books I used to read within a week, now collect dust for the rest of eternity.

My two boys aged 16 and 9, love me to buy the books but I know for a fact half of them haven't been read, still, I keep trying and ...
...is advantageous.

Books for children is one book club that I have used, my first requisition was a Lets Speak Spanish which included a sticker activity book, a sing-along CD, Spanish book, board game and model-making kit, I chose this as eventually we are hoping to move to Spain. I only had to pay for postage and packing at £1.49, I'm still trying to pin my youngest down for more than 10 minutes to see if its any good, he likes the ... more

nevaeh123xxx 13.10.2006
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Books For Children? Never again!!!

Advantages: Good range of books - age appropriate
Disadvantages: Very bad customer service & delivery times

The first time I joined Books For Children was when my daughter was 2. I joined after receiving a leaflet through the post. The special introductory offer was for 4 or 5 books at 50p each + children's surprise parcel of books and a child's rucksack. Excellent! I sent off for those items, received them within 2 weeks and had no problems whatsoever. I fulfilled my part of the bargain by buying 6 more books over the next 12 months and then decided to ...
...4, I decided to join Books For Children again. I had received an email with a special offer that looked appealing. My daughter saw it too, and as it contained books about all her favourite characters, I decided I would order it for her Birthday which was at the end of October. The offer was for 10 specific books geared towards 5 & 6 year olds and a height chart. The email stated that delivery could be up to 28 days. This was fine as it was August ...

Zoe2 09.11.2004 · Read full review
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Books For Children Book Club

Advantages: shop from home
Disadvantages: need to buy lots of books

...23 volumes) two A4 cardboard books (the ones they can’t rip up!) A “learn your alphabet” book with full alphabet frieze, a pack of crayons and the bill, all for £9.99 plus P&P which came to a total of just £14.94! You can buy a book from as little as £1.99 to around £35. I think that all of their books are good quality and value for money. You can pay your bill at the post office, via cheque, on line or on the phone. It can’t be much easier! You ...
...of you becoming a member. Books For Children insist that you order six times. I haven’t yet ordered a second time so I still have my fingers crossed that the service will be good. One good advantage of book clubs is that you can do everything from the comfort of your own home!!! Thanks for reading and I hope that I helped a bit!!! Jade x ...

JADELOUISESILVA 22.04.2003 · Read full review
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Books For Children is OK

Advantages: Saves going into town on the expensive Bristol buses
Disadvantages: Not always cheapest and can make mistakes

...2001, I received the Noddy books and the overcharge refund, and they cancelled my accounts only AFTER giving me anxiety attacks over an uncleared cheque that their overloaded system had not managed to record as received until weeks after I sent it. They would/could not close the account or stop sending their pesky magazines until the balance was zero. This last incompetency confirms the conclusion that I would not touch them with a bargepole. You ...
...8/6/01 update>>> Only join Books For Children if you are prepared to accept books delivered to your door at average prices most times, with the need to reject unwanted choices every month and the odd clerical error and annoying marketing ploys. The basis of the above statement is that I am finally at the end of the "you must buy 6 books before the year is up or we will purSUE you for all the £60+ that you saved accepting our bargain introduction ...

mascarasnake 22.04.2001 (01.02.2002) · Read full review
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This ain't worth the hassle anymore

Advantages: Special Deals, Easy online ordering
Disadvantages: Don't always deliver what they promise

...could choose up to six books for a discount price of 50p each. The only condition was that you bought another six books at full club price over the next 12 months. It seemed fairly reasonable so I signed up. A week or so later, three of my six books arrived. One of these was a book with electronic sound effects - half of which didn't work, but for 50p, I thought what the heck. I was advised that the other three books were on order. After another ...
...A week later, two books arrived - then the third book a day later. All seemed well until I got my statement. I was surprised to see they had charged me almost £6 P&P for the replacement books. I called customer services and encountered a real 'jobsworth' who insisted they were right to charge the P&P, but after about 5 mins agreed that I could speak to his supervisor. The supervisor reiterated that they were right to charge P&P, despite the fact ...

averagepunter 31.10.2002 · Read full review
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BFC drove me potty!!

Advantages: Good offers, online facility easy
Disadvantages: bad with fulfilling promises!

I joined Books for Children six months ago after receiving an email offering the Harry Potter series + The Order of The Pheonix (which was just about to be release at the time) + two movie books all for £12.99. Was not sure what movie books were but I ordered them anyway! All te books were to be in hardback too so I thought it was a bargain! It says on the site to allow 28 days for delivery but when you are a new customer you would expect a prompt ...
...of the set of seven books I received three! :-the two movie books (which are poster books to colour in with holograms on several pages! Quite nice really. )and The Order of the Pheonix. Apparently the other four books were sold out so would follow shortly. I waited patiently. I visted the web site and registered which made it easier to check on my order. After phoning a couple of times I had had enough! The customer service team did not seem to care. ...

kerryzach 07.01.2004 · Read full review
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Advantages: Will last your child years
Disadvantages: Youll have to select certain ones for young children

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Great Book for children.

Advantages: Great for kids of all ages
Disadvantages: mother inlaw pressie again, lol

hardly miss it as the writing goes up to around 4 inches high. What is it all about? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It is a book that is designed for children to learn some interesting facts. The books makes things that are normally quite boring quite interesting for youngsters to read. The first half of the book are facts about a certain topic and the second half which is on the right hand side of the book is in a quiz and answer section which makes this book very different from any other Childrens one I have seen. The book is also broken down into categories as follows:- Animals Plants Science Human Biology This is so that you can go to a different section straight away. The illustrations are great and very detailed but simple and would appeal to children of all ages. There is an abundance of illustrations with sometimes as much as 7 ...

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Review of Big Book of Knowledge - Dorling Kindersley

Great Book for children

Advantages: Good plots, many books in the series
Disadvantages: gets repetitive

I found that all the Lemony Snicket, series of unfortunate event books are brilliant to get children reading. The first book of the series gets you entised in the horrific past of the three baudilares and makes you want to read on to see what hapeens to them. They find themselves being put into the care of a long lost uncle who will do anything to get to the childrens fortune. He trys to scare the children and even try to marry the eldest baudilare in a bid to get his dirty hands on the fortune. His plan is foiled and the children are saved, but not for long! This book will get your children wanting to read rather than you forcing them to! ...

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