[LM_NET] Hit: For the archives: Stuffed book animals to purchase

["William L. Katzenberger" <william.katzenberger@COMCAST.NET>]

Hi everyone,

No one asked for a hit but I thought it prudent to provide one anyway if just so 
that the information is now preserved in the archives.

Have a nice rest of the summer!

Bill Katzenberger

http://www.toycon.com/plush/plushandbooks.html

http://www.demco.com/webprd_demco/product_index/LRN_REE_060.htm

Here's some puppets:  http://midhudson.org/program/support/Puppets.htm

Here's a few:  
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&index=toys&field-keywords=Book%20Characters&page=1

I'm also being told that Borders and Barnes & Noble have many, many stuffed book 
characters.  I wouldn't know - I don't go to them that often.

Kohl's Dept. also sells a childrens book w/ stuffed characters every season.  Here 
take a look: 
http://www.kohls.com/main/brand_subcategory.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=11748493&bmUID=1186156981053

You missed merrymakersinc.com. This is the best place to order stuffed animals for 
your library.


E-bay has many, many of these for sale - just put in the name of the character.  I 
have a vast collection that I've acquired from thrift shops but I love to troll 
thrift shops



Highsmith, and Folkmanis are also a couple of places to check as well as School 
Specialty catalogs. Folkmanis has alot of stuffed toys that double as puppets and 
can be used for storytime.

Also, National School Supply I believe is another one


  
Scholastic's Education Resource Catalogs often has stuffed characters.  



Lots of great stuffed toys can be found in the Library of Congress'
online store, here:  http://tinyurl.com/37m63t



 just stumbled on this website yesterday:  http://www.heyteach.biz/.  You will find 
quite a few characters there, including Sendack's Wild Things, Olivia the pig, 
Curious George, Frog and Toad, and Skippyjohn Jones.




Try http://www.yottoy.com/

I saw their booth at the Book Expo in NYC and all of their toys looked 
good... and my partner at Forest Ridge got together a large order (they 
offered her a discount at a certain number... I think 100... when she 
saw them at the ALA conference in DC).  She ordered almost exclusively 
Mo Willems character (pigeon, Anthony the Terrible Monster, Knuffle 
Bunny, etc.) and they look good.  Very true to the illustrations


--
William L Katzenberger, Jr. 
Media Specialist 
Dodge Park Elementary School 
3401 Hubbard Road 
Landover, MD 20785 
william.katzenberger@comcast.net

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