It’s one of the first things kids learn to draw and adults continue to do so through the rest of their lives.

Here you can be simple or as elaborate as you would like. It will come to life and go on an adventure. When your stick man comes upon an obstacle, you are encouraged to draw other objects to help get your character out of trouble.

You can download the free Stickman app here. We have also discouvered the AppCrayon really helps those little hands!

Have fun!  Please send us a screen capture of your drawings so we can post them.  Better yet.  If you send us a drawing that involves dandelion we will send you a special discount code. Attack of the dandelions?

Happy drawing! We can’t wait to see what you come up with!

Now that your iPad is really your child’s iPad, it’s pretty brilliant… a crayon with unlimited potential! No more sticky finger marks to name but one. Try it with your child’s favourite app!

The AppCrayon Stylus for Kids works with over 300,000 apps and is compatible with iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Motorola Xoom, Galaxy Tab, and many more. Featuring a training grip, designed by Kindergarten professionals to help kids practice holding writing implements correctly. Enhances many apps, including writing, drawing, sketching, and tapping apps. These also make great stocking stuffers! They come in red, oranage, green, blue and pink. We also love that they are made in the USA.  Available in store and online.

Coast Modern is a documentary project about the history of residential modernist architecture on the West Coast of North America, and how our laid back culture informed the movement.

For anyone with an interest in Modernism, or a chance to mix with some of the local luminaries of the modernist architecture set, here’s your opportunity to do it with oysters on the half shell and fine local wine and beer!

Tickets are $10, including a free drink. If any of you design oriented types are interested in snapping up a limited poster, you can snap up a ticket + poster for $100.  Our favourite is the blue handmade limited edition Byron O’Neill silkscreen print, but the pink one is pretty awesome too!

Buy Tickets Here: http://coastmodernfundraiser.eventbrite.com

Invite your friends on Facebook.

Walk, skip, scoot, ride your bike, take transit but join us for the original Car-Free Day Festival on Commercial Drive on this Sunday June 19th from noon to 8pm!

Bring Dad for Father’s Day and celebrate with yummy food, cool shops and loads of  live music, street performers and free events! This fantastic volunteer-run event is a highlight of the summer on Commercial Drive.

Plus if it’s hot and sunny, you don’t have to worry about bringing sunscreen because we’ve got you covered (or slathered, if necessary!) with free Badger Sunscreen SPF 30 available right in front of our shop. Slide on up and grab a squeeze of this amazing totally natural suncare that has broad spectrum protection and is safe and effective.  And even better, we have  a gift basket of Badger Balm products and some extra tubes of this top-rated sunscreen that you could win!

Do you like my hat?

I do not.

Good-by!

Good-by!

Fans of P. D. Eastman—and of dogs—will want to get their paws on a copy of this very special foil-covered 50th Anniversary Party Edition of Go, Dog. Go! Written for beginning readers using only 75 different words, it features red dogs, blue dogs, big dogs, little dogs—all kinds of wonderful P. D. Eastman dogs—riding bicycles, scooters, skiis, and roller skates and driving all sorts of vehicles on their way to a big dog party held on top of a tree!

A protege of Dr. Seuss, P. D. EASTMAN wrote and/or illustrated many books for children, among them the Beginner Books Go, Dog. Go!, The Best Nest, Sam and the Firefly, A Fish Out of Water, Robert the Rose Horse, Big Dog…Little Dog, and Are You My Mother?

About Wednesday Morning Story Time: We will be reading a different book from our vast (and growing!) selection of amazing children’s books on Wednesdays at 10:30 am at our Port Moody location. Swing by Wednesday mornings… and we’ll read to your child while you can enjoy the book, browse, shop or just daydream. If you like the book we’ve read, you will be able purchase it at a special price on the day of the reading. We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday mornings!

Italian Day on the Drive! 12 – 8 pm Sunday, June 5, 2011!

We are getting super excited to see all the activities for Italian Day on Commercial Drive this coming Sunday. Last year’s Italian Day was one of the nicest events we’ve seen on The Drive in all these years! Totally family friendly plus, think of all the pizza and gelato…….

Come celebrate ‘all that is Italian’ from Venables to the Grandview cut on Commercial Drive, Vancouver’s original ‘Little Italy’. Join over 50,000 attendees on June 5th 2011 from noon until 8pm as ‘La Dolce Vita’ hits the street in style to include food, entertainment, fashion, specialty products, activities and much more. Share the spirit, pride and tradition as we pay tribute to the Italian community and the contributions made to this city as Vancouver celebrates its 125th birthday and Italians commemorate Italy’s 150th anniversary of unification. Viva l’Italia e benvenuti a tutti!

Don’t miss this years’ event!

Come and get a dandelion Kids balloon!

Ciao.

Please join us in reading The Wheels on the Bus by beloved children’s musician and songwriter, Raffi. The song’s natural rhythm and rhyme make it a joy to read or sing aloud. With sweet illustrations by Sylvie Kantorovitz Wickstrom, it is sure to be a delightful storytime at dandelion KIDS Port Moody!

Maybe everyone chatting and singing along to this energizing book will also bring us some sunshine!

About Wednesday Morning Story Time: We will be reading a different book from our vast (and growing!) selection of amazing children’s books on Wednesdays at 10:30 am at our Port Moody location. Swing by Wednesday mornings… and we’ll read to your child while you can enjoy the book, browse, shop or just daydream. If you like the book we’ve read, you will be able purchase it at a special price on the day of the reading. We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday mornings!

Marthe Jocelyn and Tom Slaughter explore opposites in this gorgeous introduction to modern art for small readers. Cut paper images introduce children to color, form, and design as they explore tall giraffes and short mice, squares and circles, light day and dark night.

An art book as well as a sound learning tool, Over Under is stunningly simple and simply stunning.

Marthe Jocelyn’s simple concept of matching creatures — familiar and unusual — with their favorite foods is brought to life by the sparkling colors and masterfully cut paper shapes of Tom Slaughter’s illustrations; a first taste of modern art. And the surprise final picture makes a satisfying dessert.

Toronto-born Marthe Jocelyn is an award-winning author and illustrator who lives in Stratford, Ontario. Her picture book Hannah’s Collections was short-listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Illustration and her novel Mable Riley received the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award.

Tom Slaughter makes his home in New York City. His artwork has been exhibited in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Canada. His prints are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of Modern Art.

About Wednesday Morning Story Time: We will be reading a different book from our vast (and growing!) selection of amazing children’s books on Wednesdays at 10:30 am at our Port Moody location. Swing by Wednesday mornings… and we’ll read to your child while you can enjoy the book, browse, shop or just daydream. If you like the book we’ve read, you will be able purchase it at a special price on the day of the reading. We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday mornings!

The Mini’s program is geared towards developing rhythm and coordination while enhancing basic dancing skills. Each session will consist of a warm-up followed by a series of dance games incorporating hip-hop moves and minor choreography to high-energy music – funk, soul and hip-hop beats plus new-jack  swing and basic break-dancing moves. As a bonus, a video montage will be created for participants to keep. Perfect for playing at their wedding!

SVS Style Dance Crew’s own Anne Marie Corcuera will be sharing her talents and training the next generation of up-and-coming dancers. In addition to being an assistant instructor for several SVS hip-hop programs for the past 4 years, she has taught for the New Westminster Youth Recreation Centre, the Fusion Festival, the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, Denman Community Centre, as well as for Live Crew in the Philippines. She has performed at numerous night clubs, fashion shows, and events all over the city. Having danced her whole life, she is truly the embodiment of the “SVS Style”.

MINI’S Volume 2/2011 DOWNTOWN (5-8 yrs)

Dates: Sundays, May 1st to Aug 28th, 2011 (No class May 22nd, June 19th, July 3rd & 10th )

Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Instructor: Anne Marie
Location: Marcuse-7th Floor
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street (at Granville), Vancouver, BC
Fee: $60.00 (CAD) for 5 Classes; $13.00 Drop-In Fee.
Payable by cash or cheque on the first day of class.

To register online - http://svsstyle.com/regist

For more info, you can also contact Anne Marie:

Tel: 778-865-4323
annemarie.amc@gmail.com
www.svsstyle.com

From the award-winning author of Little Pea, Little Hoot, and Little Oink comes a clever take on the age-old optical illusion: is it a duck or a rabbit? Depends on how you look at it! Readers will find more than just Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s signature humour here—there’s also a subtle lesson for kids who don’t know when to let go of an argument. A smart, simple story that will make readers of all ages eager to take a side, Duck! Rabbit! makes it easy to agree on one thing—reading it again!

Amy Krouse Rosenthal is a Chicago-based writer. She is the author of Little Pea, Little Hoot, Little Oink, and several other books for children and adults.

Tom Lichtenheld works as both an advertising art director and as a creator of children’s books. He has written and illustrated several books, including Everything I Know About Pirates. He has also collaborated with Amy Krouse Rosenthal on The OK Book and It’s Not Fair! He lives in Geneva, Illinois.

About Wednesday Morning Story Time: We will be reading a different book from our vast (and growing!) selection of amazing children’s books on Wednesdays at 10:30 am at our Port Moody location. Swing by Wednesday mornings… and we’ll read to your child while you can enjoy the book, browse, shop or just daydream. If you like the book we’ve read, you will be able purchase it at a special price on the day of the reading.

We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday mornings!