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Christmas Giveaway Update!! Still a chance to win!

I’ve been having a lot of fun connecting with all of these bloggers and offering so many giveaways this month.

There has been a great response to the book launch, and there are still LOTS of books to giveaway and PLENTY of chances to win one. All of the blogs below are running giveaways for Bosley, but I’ve gotten to know them all in the process and they also have a lot of great articles on parenting, language learning, child rearing and all sorts of other interesting things, so don’t forget t...

List of GIVEAWAYS for Bosley Builds a Tree House

[image error]It was hard work getting the book out in time for the official (self-imposed) release date, but I did it! And I am so happy with how it came out. I really think this is the best one yet. The reviews have been outstanding and everyone who has read it is really enjoying it with their kids.

Yesterday the book was published on Amazon and Kindle and is available in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and for the first time, Portuguese!

The addition of a Portuguese translatio...

45+ Giveaways of Bosley Builds a Tree House

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The official release date for Bosley Goes to the Beach is Thursday, November 7th! That is just one week away and I’ve got some really special treats lined up for the release.

I have partnered with over 45 blogs to help me with this launch and provide their honest feedback of the book as well as provide one book to a lucky winner, through a giveaway on their blog. If you play your cards right you can enter every single one of those giveaways and your chances will be pretty good!! Winners of all...

Share Your Bosley Experience on Amazon!

[image error]Have you enjoyed one of Bosley’s books with your family? Bosley wants to hear how you enjoyed his story! Please take a couple minutes and go to Amazon,search for your favorite Bosley book and leave a short, honest review of your thoughts on the book. This is a good way for you to help ensure that more Bosley books are published in the future!

Book reviews on Amazon are one of the best ways to help Bosley reach more children. We now have a total of over 70 great Amazon reviews, and counting, fo...

Bosley is Looking For More Reviews on Amazon!

[image error]Have you enjoyed one of Bosley’s books with your family? Bosley wants to hear how you enjoyed his story! Please take a couple minutes and go to Amazon,search for your favorite Bosley book and leave a short, honest review of your thoughts on the book. This is a good way for you to help ensure that more Bosley books are published in the future!

Book reviews on Amazon are one of the best ways to help Bosley reach more children. We now have a total of over 70 great Amazon reviews, and counting, fo...

Bosley’s Treehouse Illustrations Almost Finished!

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Ozzy Esha’s plan for one of the final illustrations for Bosley Builds a Treehouse!

The illustrations are just about finished for Bosley Builds a Treehouse and they are looking amazing! The translations are finished and the book layout has begun. It’s a tight time table, but I am bound and determined to get this book out to you all before the Christmas season!

Also, I haven’t announced this yet, but be on the lookout for a box set for gifting

To the right you will see a sneak peek at one of the...

Toddler Brain Scan Suggests Early Life is Best Time to Learn Language

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Regions of the brain that show leftward asymmetry of myelin (credit: Baby Imaging Lab/Brown University)

Researchers at the King’s College London has just published an article summarizing a recent brain scan done on normally developing children ages 1 to 6 to identify the distribution of myelin in developing brains. Myelin is a substance that allows communication between neurons to occur very efficiently and is developed as neuronal activity increases during development.

What they found is that...

Early Language Exposure for the Twins

We’ve been having a great time since the twins were born in February, playing and watching them grow and I would love to share with you some of the bilingual activities that we’re undertaking as we go.

It’s said that the younger we are the better we are at learning languages. We have to be, really. We’re tossed into a foreign land when we are born and expected to learn not only how to move our mouths, but to make coherent noises come out of them that the people around us will understand. These...

My Journey into Bilingual Parenting

[image error]I started the series of Bosley books before we had children. Knowing that we would be starting a family in the coming years I wanted to be ready and I used that dream of a family as inspiration to write the first book. I have always been an advocate for language learning and have always tried to do my diligence to speak the native language when visiting another country. (Even worked on my Scottish accent when my wife and I went there, but probably just sounded like a buffoon!)

I knew that sec...

My Inspiration For Writing “Bosley Goes to the Beach”

After publishing “Bosley Sees the World”, I got so much good feedback on it that I knew I had to publish another book. People wanted more of Bosley!

My wife and I were in the process of building a new house in Maine, when all of a sudden we got a phone call saying that the builder had put the foundation in the wrong place!! This would set us back about 4 months which meant we needed to find a temporary place to live. As luck would have it, we stumbled upon an amazing opportunity to live in a g...