BLOCK PUBLISHING WINS FAMILY REVIEW CENTER'S EDITOR'S CHOICE AWARD

"Family Review Center wishes to take this opportunity to share with you the companies we feel go above and beyond in their products, service, and originality. These companies offer innovative, helpful products that are relevant for today's family. These are companies we know you can trust and depend on. These are companies we have honored by issuing to them the Editors' Choice Award."

Block Publishing is very honored to be selected for an Editors' Choice Award by the Family Review Center. We are a very tiny company that is focused on creating the best possible products for our customers. As you can see from our product line, we stress quality over quantity. It can take up to a year to complete one new title, but we think they are worth the wait. Thank you to the Review Center for recognizing our company.

IPARENTING MEDIA AWARDS ANNOUNCE BEST PRODUCTS OF 2008

Block Publishing is proud to announce that its newest Webs to Whales Tale, You’re Blushing Little Octopus, has been chosen for a prestigious iParenting Media Awards Best Products of 2008. You’re Blushing Little Octopus is our third title to win an iParenting Media Award.

Award-winning products were selected based on their fun value, product quality, ease of use, play duration, educational nature and uniqueness, among other criteria. iParenting.com, an online community for parents and parents-to-be, is part of Disney Online's network of family-focused Web sites including Disney Family.com, FamilyFun.com and Wondertime.com.

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SPIDERS AND WHALES: A WINNNG COMBINATION!

Webs to Whales Nature Tales has won a 2007 Teachers’ Choice Award for the Family from Learning® magazine. This is the only awards program that requires evaluators to be both a teacher and a parent. Each product is evaluated for educational value, originality and creativity, ease of use, and high-interest and motivation for children. Winning products will be featured in the April issue of Learning® magazine.

True Blue Friend Wins 2007 Teachers' Choice Award from Learning® Magazine!

Block Publishing is pleased to announce that True Blue Friend was selected from over 400 products to receive a 2007 Teachers’ Choice Award from Learning® Magazine. Evaluators touted True Blue Friend for its “amazing photographs” and “wealth of concepts,” considering it a “great resource that could be used in a lot of ways.” The Teachers’ Choice Award, started in 1994, is the only awards program judged by teachers in the classroom. The program is committed to providing teachers with practical, hands-on tools to enhance their lessons. Winners will be featured in the January 2007 issue of Learning®

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“I loved having the interactive CD. I am always looking for new ways to bring in technology into my classroom. This book had it all for me. It had the reading, the paper activities and the computer activities I needed to help me be a more successful teacher. It was very easy to use. My students kept asking if we could look at the whale CD again and again, even after we had looked at it for 3 days. I was very happy with their motivation to learn.”

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“I would recommend this product to teachers in grades K to 4th. There are skills for all ages in the interactive CD. Students will enjoy this book no matter what age they are. The activities are so fun and entertaining for them that they don’t even realize they are learning.”

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True Blue Friend: An iParenting Media Outstanding Product!

We are thrilled to announce that our True Blue Friend book with CD-ROM, the second title in the Webs to Whales Nature TalesTM series, received a prestigious Outstanding Product award from iParenting Media.com. this month.

“iParenting is celebrating its 10-year anniversary as a leader in providing parents with the best information. It is an honor and a responsibility to let them know which products resonated with our reviewers,” says Alvin All, Chief Executive Offi cer of iParenting Media. “We evaluated wonderful items in our Outstanding Products Call for Entry, but only the ones that exceeded the high evaluation standards we set earned the iParenting Media Award.” To be considered for an award, each company submitted four identical samples of each product, which were then precisely matched within iParenting’s database of hundreds of experienced reviewers using iParenting’s state-of-the-art technology. An expert, a group setting with mulitple users and a family reviewed the products and submitted a thorough evaluation of each item. Results were compiled and submitted to the iParenting Media Executive Committee for fi nal approval. The end result of this comprehensive process is a list of award-winning products families can feel confi dent in purchasing for their loved ones. Comments from reviewers are shown below.

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The Rainbow Web wins an iParenting Media Award for Best Products 2006!

Block Publishing is proud to be an iParenting Media Award winner for its Rainbow Web CD-ROM. Our software was selected from thousands of products submitted for the 2006 Best Products. The iParenting Media Awards are sponsored by iParenting Media, which produces the award-winning iParenting.com network of web sites for parents, as well as Family Energy magazine. The awards program is the only internationally certified product evaluation system in the parenting awards industry. Products are reviewed by a team of outside reviewers, including both parents and educators.

The Rainbow Web is available as standalone software or as a book and CD set, with the CD-ROM included in a hardbound picture book. The Rainbow Web is the story of a little spider who dreams of spinning a colorful web. The interactive software teaches children the facts about real spiders and includes a narrated version of the book story. Through a series of narrated, interactive lessons using actual photos, kids compare the anatomy of a spider and a fly (Did you know spiders have as many as 8 eyes?); learn about different kinds of spider webs and spiders (Have you ever seen a red and yellow spider shaped like an arrow?); and practice mixing colors (How do you make green?). The CD also offers printable activities in reading, math, and science to accompany the lessons and bring the kids back to paper/pencil and hands-on learning.

USABOOKNEWS.COM AWARDS THE RAINBOW WEB BEST CHILDREN'S INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE

USABookNews.com, the premiere online magazine and review website for mainstream and independent publishing houses, announced the winners and finalists of its “BEST BOOKS 2005” AWARDS (BBA). 250 winners and finalists were announced in 60 categories covering print, audio, e-books and interactive CD-ROMs. Science gets little time and attention in classrooms today. The Rainbow Web, first in the Webs to Whales Nature Tales series, engages a child's natural curiosity and enthusiasm for nature. Combining literature with technology, this series offers parents, homeschoolers, and teachers a fun and easy way to fit in science education. Each beautifully illustrated book includes an educational, interactive CD-ROM that teaches the science behind the story. In the book, a little spider's dream of spinning a colorful web comes true. The CD uses actual photos and narrated lessons to teach about spider and insect anatomy, types of spiders and webs, and primary and secondary colors. Printable activity sheets in math, reading, and science then take kids back to hands-on learning. The CD-ROM, which includes an ebook version of the story, is also available as standalone software. True Blue Friend, the story of a unique friendship between a humpback whale and a blue whale, will be available in November. A key focus of this book and CD is whale conservation. The CD will include lessons on whale and fish anatomy, echolocation, types of whales, and videos of whale behaviors.