Literati is a monthly book subscription box for children that works similar to Stitch Fix. For a monthly fee of $9.95, you’ll receive 5 books to try out for a week. You can purchase the ones you love and return the rest (in totally new condition) in the enclosed prepaid mailer (shipping is free in both directions).
You can get 5% off when you decide to keep all the books! There are also categories for each age bracket: Club Neo is for newborn to 1 year; Club Sprout is for children ages 2-3; Club Nova is for kids 4-6, and Club Sage is for those 7-8 years old.
This is a review of the Club Nova box for kids 4-6.
DEAL: Get $25 in account credit to put towards books when you sign up! USE THIS LINK to get the deal.
There are lots of books in store for us!
The box looks full, and the contents are all neatly packaged.
There’s no longer a padded mailer. Instead, you can use the teal box itself if you want to return some of the books.
You’ll also receive a tape and a prepaid postage label for the box.
The featured illustrator creates new artwork for the monthly themes. This month’s illustrator is Stasia Burrington.
A full-size print comes with the box, along with free shipping. Although I don’t love that the fee doesn’t apply to a full box purchase, this high-quality print makes it more worth it. Also, the theme for this month is Beyond Reach!
They included a sheet to help us label the books, and let others know that they’re ours when we decide to keep them. They’re really adorable!
There’s also a listing of the book prices. If you decide to keep everything, you’ll get 5% off. The subscription has a $9.95 non-refundable fee. According to Literati “it covers shipping both ways, allows the curators to invite a new world-renowned illustrator each month to draw personalized bookplates and a unique print for members, and covers other themed surprises that are included in the box.” Since the print is now full size and high quality, we are digging that change. It includes the shipping back and forth too.
There’s a cute note from Team Literati.
The note tells us that with a book, a friend, an open mind, nothing’s ever BEYOND REACH.
You can reach farther than you may think!
To support the quote, they included a colorful yoyo, which is an axle connected by two discs and a string looped around it. You can spin this one, and even perform lots of different tricks with it!
There’s also an info card about the five books sent to us this month. The card lists the titles with a brief description for each.
Everything in the box!
Cloud Chaser by Anne-Fleur Drillon ($13.55)
Dreamy Emery loves doodling wild inventions … but when a new friend moves in next door with piles of tools and ideas, can they build a real flying machine together? This charming celebration of intergenerational friendship, creativity and the thrill of scientific discovery will delight young inventors and STEM educators alike.
It is a beautiful story about a boy named Emery, his doodles of great inventions, and meeting someone who has the right tools to make his plans a reality.
The book has glossy and colorful pages!
The illustrations are really impressive, keeping my kids glued to every page!
Color & Pop-Up Dinosaurs ($13.98)
Coloring and pop-ups, together at last! First, color the dinosaurs in the eight double-page spreads. Then find the pop-up parts in the folder in the back of the book. Color them, then press them out. Fold and glue to the spreads as directed. Presto! You’ve made your own pop-ups!
The press-outs’ folder can be hidden once you’ve finished. It’s a great rainy day project, and lots of fun for kids – and parents!
There are pop-up and coloring pages in this book that is great for parent-child bonding!
The folder at the back of the book is where you can find the pop-up parts that you’re going to stick on their designated places and pages.
On this page, you need to find out which from the pop-up parts will fit!
My kids love coloring books, that’s why they’re excited to add different and unusual hues on every coloring page!
The book also includes how-tos, on how you will add color on some of these creatures.
Robo-Sauce by Adam Rubin ($14.98)
Fans of the best-selling Dragons Love Tacos will devour Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri’s newest story, a hilarious picture book about robots that magically transforms into a super shiny metal ROBO-BOOK.
FACT: Robots are awesome. They have lasers for eyes, rockets for feet, and supercomputers for brains! Plus, robots never have to eat steamed beans or take baths, or go to bed. If only there were some sort of magical “Robo-Sauce” that turned squishy little humans into giant awesome robots… Well, now there is.
Giggle at the irreverent humor, gasp at the ingenious fold-out surprise ending, and gather the whole family to enjoy a unique story about the power of imagination. It’s picture book technology the likes of which humanity has never seen!
If you love the book Dragons Love Tacos, you will definitely find this book compelling just the same.
If there’s really a robo-sauce, would you try it? Would you like robots to dominate your household or even the world?
The illustrations are also humorous, which makes reading more fun. The kids are giggling at all the robo-antics and SFX!
What makes it more appealing to the kids is the simplicity of the drawings, on how the illustrator expresses the characters’ emotions well on each scene of the story, even though they’re not brightly colored!
Mirette On The High Wire By Emily Arnold McCully ($13.26)
One day, a mysterious stranger arrives at a boardinghouse of the widow Gateau- a sad-faced stranger, who keeps to himself. When the widow’s daughter, Mirette, discovers him crossing the courtyard on air, she begs him to teach her how he does it.
But Mirette doesn’t know that the stranger was once the Great Bellini- master wire-walker. Or that Bellini has been stopped by a terrible fear. And it is she who must teach him courage once again.
Emily Arnold McCully’s sweeping watercolor paintings carry the reader over the rooftops of nineteenth-century Paris and into an elegant, beautiful world of acrobats, jugglers, mimes, actors, and one gallant, resourceful little girl.
A winner of the Caldecott Medal, the books tell a story about pursuing your dreams and going for what you want!
Aside from the engaging narrative, the book also contains beautiful watercolor illustrations. It’s really impressive on how well the illustrator shows the century-ago setting in France.
It shows a beautiful friendship and faith between Mirette and the great Bellini, and it proves that sometimes, teachers can also learn something from their proteges!
Oh No, Astro! by Matt Roeser ($41.99)
Asteroids! Planets! Astronauts!
In this charming debut picture book, a grumpy asteroid named Astro is thrown out of orbit and takes an unexpected journey through space!Astro is a cranky asteroid who just wants everyone to respect his personal boundaries. But when a satellite knocks Astro out of orbit, he is forced to embark on an epic adventure through space…whether he wants to or not!
Filled with playful illustrations and tons of cool facts about space, this picture book is a must-have for all the future astronauts who are ready to journey through the galaxy.
This book takes us on an out-of-this-world adventure with the grumpy asteroid, Astro!
The inside flap of the book shows an illustration of Astro. He looks grumpy, indeed!
The playful illustrations in the book are also coupled with space facts that my kids really appreciate!
This page shows us that Astro’s adventures on the outer space can also be seen on Earth!
The space facts are presented in such a way that the kids will easily understand them, like this page where it shows what really happens to an asteroid once it enters the Earth’s atmosphere.
It’s really impressive that most of the book inclusions for this month’s Club Nova box are a hit with my kids! They love Oh No, Astro!, as they’re interested in space adventures, and Mirette On The High Wire, as it teaches a valuable lesson of having faith in yourself. Each book has a great life lesson to teach, and we would love to keep them and add them to our growing book collection!
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