Members

This page is intended for Book Club Coordinators in member schools and provides recent information that may affect the operation of the club and the supply of specific titles.

General Information

The Euro conversion rate for the Summer 2010 issue including postage is €1.40 to £1 – for the Organiser software you need to use this rate, rounded to the nearest .10 to match the catalogue prices.

The Organiser Software - We apologise for some technical difficulties that we have had with this issue and as a result were not able to send out disks with the catalogues. If you normally use the disk we would like to encourage you to download the software from Schools/Free Software/Download...Summer 2010 issue. If you are not able to do this then please let us know and we can send a zipped copy of the software via email or a disk by post. For this issue it will also be necessary to send your order file as an attachment to an email and not via your browser. In the Master Order Form window please follow the usual process of preparing an email order, click on the Email icon and your order will display in your browser and create the email order file. Close the browser, prepare an email to us and attach the file XXSUM10...XML which is located in your Organiser folder. If you have any difficulties with this process please contact us.

If you are using Windows Vista you will need to refer to the stand-alone file BBSORG (Compiled HTML Help) in your Organiser folder for the help notes. When downloading or installing The Organiser you may get a Security Warning - you can ignore this message which occurs because it is an application file (.exe) and at present does not have a digital signature to identify its source. The software is safe for your computer and is virus free.

If you downloaded the Organiser software before 7 April then there is an incorrect price for No. 75 Transformers Paint..Create, the correct price as shown on the catalogue is £4.99 or €7.00.

Email messages - The main company address is now enquiries@bakerbooks.co.uk

Title Information

We indicate below any discrepancies in the catalogues or order forms and indicate any changes in the price or availability of particular books and what we are doing about it. Where a title is unavailable and we send a substitute, the substitute book will match the original as closely as possible and will be the same or normally a higher value. If the substitute book is not acceptable we will offer an alternative item of the reader’s choice to the same value as the original or a refund/credit to the school.

Funfare

No. 54 The Princess and the Frog Annual - this title should have had the ‘Annual’ cover as shown on the left, not the cover shown in the catalogue which is from No. 120 The Princess and the Frog Comic Book

No. 62 365 Puzzles – the description for this title is shown against No. 63, the correct price as shown on the order forms is £4.99

No. 63 Practical Jokes – the description is shown against No. 62, the correct price, as shown on the order forms is £4.99

Funfare - on page 16, Wildlife Garden, The Gruffalo Magnet Book and The Sleep Sheep are shown as Nos 162, 163 & 164 in the catalogue but on the order forms as Nos 161, 162 & 163. The numbers shown on the order forms are the correct numbers to use.

My Word

No. 411 The Football Book – the price on Page 2 of the catalogue is shown as £17.00 but the correct price, as shown in the order forms, is £17.99.

Teachers' Choice

The following titles are no longer available
No. 6473 Salvador Dali
No. 6475 Giacometti
No. 6836 Alphabet Jigsaw & Book

The following titles are now unavailable but we are providing good alternative titles at no extra cost
6687 Mental Maths Year 4 £16.99 Age 8–9
6688 Mental Maths Year 5 £16.99 Age 9–10
6689 Mental Maths Year 6 £16.99 Age 10–11

Alternatives
Mental Maths in Minutes Age 7–9 £17.99
Mental Maths in Minutes Age 9–11 £17.99

The photocopiable titles in the Mental Maths in Minutes series provide a systematic approach to teaching and learning number facts. Each Mental Maths sheet is split into four columns - teachers photocopy the sheet, then slice the copies to provide strips of questions to give to the children. The children are timed for one minute and achieve a score according to the number of questions that they get correct. Specific skills such as addition, subtraction, doubling, halving, multiplying and dividing are addressed repeatedly, but each time at a higher level of understanding and children are encouraged to improve on their scores.