With everything shut down right now, our children still have to read. The Coronavirus lockdown does not have to stop our kids from turning those pages now that they are stuck at home. To help you to help the little ones, see our list of 6 Best Book Subscription Services For Children Amid The Lockdown:
1. Prime Book Box:
If you are a Prime member, subscription to Prime Book Box is possible and it delivers curated hardcover books for children that are up to 12 years.
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If you have children 3-5, ages 6-8 and ages 9-12, they are all covered here. Just type in your preferences and Amazon will make sure a preview of your selections is sent to you, which can be revised before you receive your shipment.
2. Bookroo:
Bookroo caters to kids in these age brackets, ages 0-3, ages 2-6 and ages 7-10. You will have access to board books, picture books, chapter books, and so on. The books here cannot be previewed but it will help you find scarce ones you did not know existed. If you get a book you have already, Bookroo will give you a $5 credit as long as you send a picture of you giving the duplicate to a close friend.
3. Literati:
Here, you will be lending books with an option to own. For an affordable price, you will get 5 books monthly but will need to return them after the first seven days, else, you will need to buy them on Amazon.
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This is a brilliant way to expose your children to various books without having to buy every single one of them. It caters to these age brackets, 0-3 years, 3-5 years, 5-7 years, 7-9 years, and 9-12 years.
4 Once Upon a Book Club:
This is a great book service for young adults and it can be used in Canada and America. It sends a new young-adult title geared toward 14-year-olds and above, plus 3 to 5 individually wrapped gifts, all of which corresponds to a page number in the books.
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However, the readers will have to be self-disciplined since the gifts can be spoiled if they are opened before readers reach the given page in the book.
5. BookCase.Club:
This is a very affordable book subscription service and it caters to these age brackets 0-2, 2-4, 5-6, 7-8, and preteen. You can even choose a box for males and females. Here, you will have access to 3 books per month that are a mixture of activity books and pictures or chapter books. BookCase.The club is also home to a Teenage Dream club that features 2 YA novels every month.
6. Cratejoy:
There are several book subscriptions on this platform for children and young adults. The books are affordable and you will have access to board books, picture books, science, and art-themed activity books. There is also a combination of new and used books on Cratejoy.
More Information On Books:
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover.
The technical term for this physical arrangement is codex (plural, codices). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its immediate predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf, and each side of a leaf is a page.
A tablet is a physically robust writing medium, suitable for casual transport and writing. Clay tablets were flattened and mostly dry pieces of clay that could be easily carried and impressed with a stylus.
They were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age. Wax tablets were pieces of wood covered in a coating of wax thick enough to record the impressions of a stylus.
They were the normal writing material in schools, in accounting, and for taking notes. They had the advantage of being reusable: the wax could be melted, and reformed into a blank.
Some books, particularly those with shorter runs (i.e. fewer copies) will be printed on sheet-fed offset presses, but most books are now printed on web presses, which are fed by a continuous roll of paper, and can consequently print more copies in a shorter time.
As the production line circulates, a complete “book” is collected together in one stack, next to another, and another web press carries out the folding itself, delivering bundles of signatures (sections) ready to go into the gathering line.
Note that the pages of a book are printed two at a time, not as one complete book. Excess numbers are printed to make up for any spoilage due to make-readies or test pages to assure final print quality.
There you have it – a comprehensive list of book subscription services for children amid the lockdown. If you have any personal favorite or other recommendations, feel free to drop them in the comment section below.
