Book Babes Canada BLOG

Very first words: Christmas

2011-10-31T20:56:00.000-06:00

Little children will love learning their first Christmas words as they examine each delightful festive scene.
Scenes include decorating the tree, getting ready for Santa, Santa on the roof and opening presents.
Enchanting illustrations by Rosalinde Bonnet.

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Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

That's not my santa...

2011-10-31T20:53:00.000-06:00

A delightful touchy-feely book with simple, repetitive text.
Bright, colourful illustrations with textures to touch and feel on every page.
Helps very young children develop language and sensory skills.
Series awarded "Best Buy" by readers of Prima magazine.
A perfect gift for young children.

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Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

That's not my reindeer...

2011-10-31T20:50:00.000-06:00

A delightful touchy-feely book with simple, repetitive text.
Bright, colourful illustrations with textures to touch and feel on every page.
Helps very young children develop language and sensory skills.
Series awarded "Best Buy" by readers of Prima magazine.
A perfect gift for young children.

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Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

The Nativity

2011-10-31T20:43:00.000-06:00

A gorgeous Christmas addition to the perennially popular and creative Usborne Touchy-Feely series.
Charming illustrations by Rachel Wells accompany a delightful, tactile retelling of the Christmas story, complete with fluffy donkeys, woolly sheep, a glittering angel and, of course, the baby Jesus, sleeping in his soft blanket.
This appealing large-format book makes the perfect present for young children experiencing Christmas for the very first time.

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Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

Sparkly Christmas Angel

2011-10-31T20:40:00.000-06:00

The tree-top angel is all crumpled and creased after being squashed in a box all year. Will her Christmas wish to be sparkly again be granted?
Full of touchy-feely patches, sparkly foil and a wide variety of textures for babies and toddlers to enjoy.
Gorgeously illustrated by Rosalinda Kightley.

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Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

Father Christmas

2011-10-31T20:31:00.000-06:00

A delightful touchy-feely book which follows Father Christmas as he puts on his boots, loads up his sleigh and delivers presents.
Full of touchy-feely patches, sparkly foil and a wide variety of textures for babies and toddlers to enjoy.

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Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

Snuggletime Christmas baby

2011-10-31T20:18:00.000-06:00

A festive title in Usborne’s popular touchy-feely series for babies and toddlers.
Young children will share the excitement as baby, clutching a touchy-feely blanket in every image, opens a present to reveal what’s inside.
Appealing pastel illustrations and simple text combine with the softest of touchy-feely textures to make this book a Christmas treat that’s sure to be enjoyed again and again.

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Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

Christmas - Look & Say

2011-10-31T19:15:00.000-06:00

This colourful and imaginative addition to the delightful Look and Say series of board books has been designed to introduce the magic and excitement of Christmas to very young children.
Illustrated with Jo Litchfield’s appealing handmade models, each page features foil decoration and a robust illustrated tab that enables children to locate their favourite Christmas scenes instantly.
25 Christmas words and images are arranged thematically – scenes include tree decoration, a snowy day, hanging Christmas stockings and Santa in his sleigh.

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Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

Hide-and-seek Christmas

2011-10-31T19:09:00.000-06:00

Delightful touchy-feely flap book with four tiny mice, three teddy bears, two red robins and one sparkly fairy hiding in the Christmassy scenes.
Sparkly scenes show Santa's workshop, snowmen playing in the forest, Santa loading his sleigh, and presents on Christmas Day.
Final scene is a starry night Advent calendar with flaps to lift for each day until Christmas.
Gorgeously illustrated by Lesley Danson.

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Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

Christmas cot book

2011-10-31T19:05:00.000-06:00

A soft cloth cot book that opens up, concertina-style, to form a double-sided frieze with Velcro tabs to fix to a baby's cot.
One side of the frieze has bold, black and white images to appeal to newborn babies who, research shows, prefer strong, contrasting images.
The other side of the frieze has a colourful Christmas scene including a fairy, penguin, star and snowman, to appeal to older babies who can identify colour tones.

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Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

Happy Christmas baby

2011-10-31T19:00:00.000-06:00

A delightful soft cloth book specially designed for babies.
Each colourful Christmas scene has flaps to lift and touchy-feely patches to explore, and will fascinate babies for hours.

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Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

Pull-back busy Santa book

2011-10-31T18:53:00.000-06:00

Little children will love watching the pull-back Santa toy whizz around the tracks built into the colourful festive scenes.
Santa leaves his workshop on Christmas Eve and zooms across the bustling city, over a snowy mountain village and finally to the homes of all the sleeping children as he delivers their presents.
A book and a toy combined, this is a fantastic gift, guaranteed to delight and entertain young children.

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Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

Christmas Lullabies with CD

2011-10-31T18:46:00.000-06:00

A beautiful book with six much-loved Christmas songs charmingly illustrated by Elena Temporin.
The CD features soothing music for the six songs, plus eight additional Christmas melodies.
A gorgeous, seasonal gift for parents and babies alike.

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Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

Baby's first Christmas with CD

2011-10-31T18:41:00.000-06:00

A sturdy board book with a CD with sixteen Christmassy tunes.
Delightfully illustrated with Christmas scenes created from felt, lace, knitting, ribbons, buttons and sparkly foil.
Tunes, including "Silent night", "The holly and the ivy" and "Away in a manger", are wonderfully complimented by the festive scenes on each page.
Robust tabs on the pages enable children to quickly locate their favourite scenes.

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Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

Baby's very first touchy-feely Christmas book

2011-10-31T18:35:00.000-06:00

A delightful Christmas board book with high contrast illustrations and touchy-feely patches perfect for sharing with the very young.
Each festive picture has a simple description beneath to help babies learn to associate words and pictures.
Young children will love feeling the different materials in every picture again and again.
The last two pages show a montage of all the pictures in the book with new descriptions to help children learn their first colours.

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Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

Little stories for Christmas

2011-10-31T18:32:00.000-06:00

A collection of five Christmas stories for little children, just the right length for sharing at bedtime.
Stories include ‘The Smallest Christmas Tree’, ‘How Little Owl Learnt About Christmas’, and ‘Fox and Badger’s Christmas Stockings’.
Tabbed board pages enable young children to find their favourite stories quickly and easily.

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Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

100 games to play on holiday

2011-10-31T18:26:00.000-06:00

A pack of 50 cards with a hundred fun games to play on holiday.
Includes imagination and word activities, games for paper and pencil as well as action games for playing outside.
Simple text and illustrations make each game easy to understand and play.
Perfect to keep children amused, with or without an adult's help.

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Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

Christmas doodles

2011-10-31T18:06:00.000-06:00

A pack of fifty wipe-clean cards with over a hundred opportunities for festive doodling.
Doodles include giving the daddy penguin a baby to look after, adding birds to wintery branches and decorating a street with Christmas lights.
Includes a special pen to write on the cards.

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Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

Animal doodles

2011-10-31T18:03:00.000-06:00

A pack of fifty wipe-clean cards with over a hundred opportunities for doodling.
Doodles include adding the patterns to a butterfly’s wings and filling a park scene with playful dogs.
Includes a special pen to write on the wipe-clean cards so they can be doodled on again and again.

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Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

Write your own story book

2011-10-31T12:43:00.000-06:00

A fantastic write-in book that helps children learn to write their own stories.
Includes lots of different writing activities including a fictional school journal, writing a comic strip, and forming a story around a picture.
Packed with writing tips and a 'story writing toolkit' to inspire budding authors.
Concealed spiral binding that allows the book to open flat but doesn't get in the way as you write.

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Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

Fancy dress - Sticker Dolly Dressing

2011-10-31T12:36:00.000-06:00

Little girls will love getting the dolls ready for their fancy dress parties.
Fancy dress outfits include dazzling gowns for a masked ball, pretty fairy dresses for a secret garden party, swashbuckling costumes for a pirate party, spooky trick-or-treat outfits for Halloween night, and lots, lots more.
With over 250 clothing and accessory stickers to choose from, there are plenty of outfits and scenes to create.

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Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

Sticker Dressing: Knights

2011-10-31T12:32:00.000-06:00

A colourful sticker book with 13 medieval scenes and over 200 stickers to dress the knights in armour or jousting gear and arm them with shields, swords and lances.
Scenes include the Crusades, Arab warriors, a castle siege, knights in training and a fantastic feast.
Written with the help of experts, every detail is historically accurate with fascinating facts about weapons, armour and the life of a knight in medieval times.

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Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

20 Christmas cards to colour

2011-10-31T12:22:00.000-06:00

A collection of twenty festive Christmas cards to colour and rich red envelopes to send them in.
Each card is gorgeously illustrated with a different design, including a decorated Christmas tree, a sweet robin on a berry-freckled branch and a happy snowman.
Card insides have coloured backgrounds, a season’s greeting and a blank space for children to write their own message.
Children can colour and send the cards - or adults can send them to children to colour in.

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Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

Christmas pocket doodling and colouring book

2011-10-31T12:18:00.001-06:00

A delightful pocket-sized book packed with Christmas-themed doodling and colouring activities to keep children (or adults!) busy for hours.
There are snowflakes, ice skaters, reindeers and penguins to doodle; stockings, decorations and baubles to colour as well as lots, lots more.
Caution! This book could become very, very addictive.

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Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

100 paper planes to fly

2011-10-31T12:10:00.001-06:00

Packed with brilliantly designed paper planes to make and fly.
Printed on special tear-out pages, each plane features a unique design, ranging from fighter planes to space rockets and creepy flying bugs.
Includes clear and concise instructions on how to fold and fly the planes.
A brilliant present for any child - or adult! The perfect stocking filler, or great to use as party favours.

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Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

January 2011 New Releases

2011-08-19T22:50:00.002-06:00

JANUARY 2011 NEW RELEASES AND REVAMPS
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123 (Cot Book) CL
39 Steps HC
Baby's Very First Bath Book Bath Book
Dinosaurs PB Stk
Dinosaurs PB Stk
Famous Paintings Pack *
Farm PB Stk
Great Prehistoric Search HC
Impressionist Paintings Pack *
Jason and the Golden Fleece HC
Knights & Castles Snap Pack *
Noisy Knights BB
Patterns Colouring Book PB
Pocket Doodling and Colouring Book (Blue) PB
Pocket Doodling and Colouring Book (Red) PB
Pocket Nature PB BU
Puzzle Palace HC
Quack, Quack, Quack Bath Book
See Inside Recycling and Rubbish HC
See Inside Ships HC
Sleepytime Stories BB
Story of Rome HC
Wizard of Oz HC

Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

February 2011 New Releases

2011-08-19T22:48:00.000-06:00

FEBRUARY 2011 NEW RELEASES AND REVAMPS
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20 Thank You Cards to Colour Pack *
50 Things to do with your 3-year-old Pack *
ABC HC
Anansi and the Bag of Wisdom HC
Around the World PB Stk
Art Colouring Book PB Stk
Baby's Very First Word Book BB
Big Machines Sticker Book PB Stk BU
Brain Puzzles Pack *
Easter Snap Pack *
How Big Was A Dinosaur? HC
Illustrated Rhyming Stories HC BU
Little Book of Easter Activities HC
Math Puzzles Pack
Monkeys HC
My First Colouring Book PB Stk * BU
Noisy Numbers BB
On Holiday BB
On The Farm BB
One, Two, Three HC
Puzzle Island HC
Puzzle Town HC
Roman Soldier's Handbook HC
Second World War HC
Sports Girls PB Stk

Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

March 2011 New Releases

2011-08-19T22:46:00.000-06:00

MARCH 2011 NEW RELEASES AND REVAMPS
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20 Birthday Cards to Colour Pack *
Big Book of Big Animals HC
Colouring Book (FYT) PB Stk
First Encyclopedia of Science HC
First Encyclopedia of the Human Body HC
Getting Dressed Colouring Book PB Stk
Illustrated Adventure Stories HC
Little Book of Train Stories w/CD HC Mini
Monkeys PB Stk
My First English Sticker Book PB Stk
My First French Sticker Book PB Stk
My First Spanish Sticker Book PB Stk
Noah's Ark HC
Noisy Pets BB
Number Puzzles Pack *
On the Farm HC
Pets PB Stk
Picture Puzzles Pack
Puzzle Planet HC
Racing Cars PB
Soccer Sticker Book PB Stk
Submarines PB
Under the Ground HC
Under the Sea PB Stk

Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

April 2011 New Releases

2011-08-19T22:40:00.000-06:00

APRIL 2011 NEW RELEASES AND REVAMPS
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365 Things to Make and Do with Paper & Cardboard HC
50 Fairy Things to Make & Do HC
Adventures of Robin Hood HC
Animals Pack *
Baby's First Book of Animals CL
Brush your Teeth, Max and Millie HC
Dinosaurs Pack *
Encyclopedia of the Roman World PB Reduced
First Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs HC Reduced
First Encyclopedia of Seas and Oceans HC Reduced
Great Castle Search HC Reduced
Knights and Castles Colouring Book PB *
Pride and Prejudice HC
Second World War Sticker Book PB Stk *
Soldiers PB Stk *
Spanish Dictionary for Beginners PB Reduced
Sticker Book (FYT) PB *
Take Turns, Max and Millie HC
Time For Bed, Max and Millie HC
Vacation Activities HC Mini
Weddings PB/Stk (Sticker Dolly Dressing) *
Weddings PB/Stk (First Colouring Book) *
Wooden Horse HC

Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

May 2011 New Releases

2011-08-19T22:37:00.003-06:00

MAY 2011 NEW RELEASES AND REVAMPS
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30 Easy Things to Cook and Eat HC
Big Book of Big Ships HC
Diggers BB
Dragon Quest HC
Gingerbread Man PB
Holiday Pocket Doodling and Colouring Book PB *
Horses & Ponies Sticker Book PB Stk *
Noisy Farm BB
Peoples of the World PB
Wipe-Clean Ready For Writing

Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

June 2011 New Releases

2011-08-19T22:36:00.000-06:00

JUNE 2011 NEW RELEASES AND REVAMPS
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1001 Things to Spot on Holiday HC
Big Book of Big Trucks HC
Busy Car Book BB
Counting Book HC
First Encyclopedia of Animals HC
Flip, Flap, Flop Bath Book
History of Britain HC
Holiday PB Stk *
Little Book of Little Babies BB
Pocket Artist HC IL Mini
Pocket Scientist (Red) PB Mini
Puppies BB
Puzzle Dinosaurs HC
See Inside the Second World War HC (Flap)
Sports PB Stk *
Tanks PB
Trains HC
Wipe-Clean 123 PB *
Write Your Own Storybook HC
Yummy Little Cookbook HC Mini

Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

July 2011 New Releases

2011-08-19T16:00:00.000-06:00

JULY 2011 NEW RELEASES AND REVAMPS
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Adventures in Puzzle World PB
Bedtime BB
Big Colouring Book PB *
Captain Mac (2) HC
Double Trouble (1) HC
Elephants HC
First Encyclopedia Of History HC
Flowers Colouring Book PB *
Helicopters PB
Lots of Things to Find and Colour on Holiday PB *
Mary Ann & Miss Mozart PB
Motorbikes PB
On A Pirate Ship PB
Second World War Pack *
Soccer Colouring Book PB *
Wipe-Clean Alphabet PB *
Wipe-Clean First Letters PB *

Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

August 2011 New Releases

2011-08-19T15:53:00.001-06:00

AUGUST 2011 NEW RELEASES
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123 BB
20 Party Invitations to Colour Pack *
ABC BB
Baby's Bedtime Storybook BB
Bad Jack Fox (4) HC
Butterflies Colouring Book PB *
Cecily's Portrait PB
Illustrated Classics for Children HC
Lizzie's Wish PB
Perfect Pet (3) HC
Phonics Workbook 1 PB Stk *
Phonics Workbook 2 PB Stk *
Starting School Sticker Book PB Stk
Story of Pegasus HC

Book Babes Canada - Usborne Books At Home in Canada Senior Supervisor - Brandy Burge

That's Not My . . . .

2010-05-24T15:08:00.002-06:00

Long time best selling series of Usborne Books - The That's Not My Series!

Although Usborne Books has books for children of all ages, it is usually the wonderful baby books we have that get people hooked on Usborne.

The That's Not My series has long been a favorite of moms. These books are high quality touchy feely board books with thick pages, textures of all kinds, bright colors and very limited words repeated throughout the book.

Trust me, these books can take a LOT of wear and tear from your little ones!

There are about 30 titles in this series now, and I'm sure we'll see even more.

Current topics include: That's Not My - Truck, Santa, Plane, Monkey, Monster, Kitten, Fairy, Pony, Train, Angel, Princess, Dolly, Robot, Dragon, Bear, Puppy, Bunny, Pirate, Dinosaur, Tractor, Lion, Car, Reindeer, Teddy, Mermaid, Frog, Snowman and Penguin.

To view the books and the entire catalog, visit www.BookBabesCanada.com and click on Shop For Books.

Book Babes Canada An Usborne Books At Home in Canada Team Bloggers: Brandy Burge and Cynthia Randall

The Importance of a Website In Direct Sales

2010-05-24T14:17:00.001-06:00

Not to state the obvious, but the days of selling Avon door to door are gone. Period.

Today, the Direct Sales industry is completely different. In fact, the entire business world is different!

The introduction of the internet changed the face of business in ways that will never be reversed. Online IS the business world now.

Think about is. When you tell someone you have your own business, what is the very first thing they ask you?

What is your website?

If your response is "I don't have one", how seriously do you think they will take your "business"? The answer is not very because today, EVERYONE has a website!

Don't be left behind, get online.

Dreamcatcher Web Studio produces quality Usborne Books Websites, and they teach you how to use them!

To get your Usborne Website, go to www.DreamcatcherWebStudio.com.

Book Babes Canada An Usborne Books At Home in Canada Team Bloggers: Brandy Burge and Cynthia Randall

Focusing on more than sales

2010-05-24T14:07:00.001-06:00

Lets face it. Most people get into direct sales when they have their first baby.

Why? Well, anyone with children knows why! Once you have that first baby, there is absolutely nothing you want more than to be able to stay home with your baby.

Years ago, households could easily survive on a single income so most mothers stayed at home and happily raised their children without the extra added worry of bringing in money at the same time.

Things have changed though. We all know that these days, it is much harder, and in many cases impossible for families to survive on a single income.

This presents the mothers of today with the most difficult decision they will have to make - stay home or go back to work.

The direct sales industry empowers women and provides opportunities to moms that just can't be found anywhere else. These businesses allow women to use their minds, their creativity and all of their skills to generate an income working from home so that they may stay home with their children.

Unlike many other businesses like jewelery, juices, cosmetics. etc. Usborne Books not online provides a source of income, but it gives its consultants such a feeling of accomplishment knowing that they are contributing to increasing literacy among our youth.

For Usborne Books consultants, it is not only about sales, its about family. Providing quality children's books to families to draw them away from the TV's and video games for a while!

Would you like to become an Usborne Books Consultant too? We would love to have you join us.

Visit www.BookBabesCanada.com for sign up forms.

Book Babes Canada An Usborne Books At Home in Canada Team Bloggers: Brandy Burge and Cynthia Randall

Become An Usborne Books Consultant

2010-04-25T00:59:00.002-06:00

To Join Our Team, fill out the paperwork required to sign up, the Current Kit Special and the Consultant Agreement and fax them in to the office, the toll free fax number is on the bottom of the form. After that, we'll help you get going!

We can provide you with information about the Usborne commission structure, incentives for new Consultants and Team Leader and Supervisors.

Please contact us, we would love to discuss the Usborne Opportunity with you and have you join our Canada Wide Team Today!

Book Babes Canada An Usborne Books At Home in Canada Team Bloggers: Brandy Burge & Cynthia Randall