Bob and Larry Help Kids Connect with God!

A recent cartoon strip illustrated that Veggietales are the Veggies that kids love and Big Idea continues to provide more and more Veggies for kids to consume.

The latest is the new Veggie Bible Dictionary - Connecting Kids to a Powerful Relationship with God. This new 8/12 x 11 hardcover book ( with padded front cover) will help kids find simple, easy to understand definitions to important Bible words. And, they'll have fun along the way with some crazy Veggie words, too. The Veggie Bible Dictionary makes learning difficult Bible words and concepts easy. It also provides phonetic pronunciation guides so that kids can feel comfortable reading the Bible aloud.

neighbor (NAY-bur) A fellow friend; someone you live near. "Love your neighbor as yourself." See Matthew 19:19. In the Veggietales Story, "Are you my neighbor?" we learn how to love others, even though they look or act differently.

Lampy (LAMP-ee) A Veggie character that started out as a light source at the end of a pole, but comes to life in the mind of Awful Alvin who really likes to dance with him
Dance with me Lampy!"

This Veggie Bible Dictionary can be used with the VeggieConnections curriculum or on its own for a very Veggie experience. great for church, school or home school use, it's also the perfect addition to any child's bookshelf.

This book is now available at the following web site for children Kidzonearth.com

Have We Got a (Veggie) Gift For You!

A gift on any occasion is a nice surprise - but what could be better than a VeggieTales gift book - including a CD single? Big Idea has done it again with a great new gift idea for all those special days in a childs life ( birthday, Christmas, Boxing day, National No Socks Day, keep mom sane in the car day - ha ha).

This hard cover book is the perfect size for bedtime or a family ride in the car and features four titles - God is Bigger, I Can Be Your friend, My Day and Oh Where is My Hairbrush? The artwork is done in a more cartoon feel and is consistant with alot of the current VeggieTales books that are available. Each title will be sold separately.

This new book/ Cd will be available in June 2005. Visit http://www.kidzonearth.com for this new title as well as other great VeggieTales products.

Minnesota Cuke - Action and Adventure!

The new show from those creative guys at Big Idea is coming June 25th, 2005 - they seem to have a hit on their hands with this one "Minnesota Cuke and The Search for Samson's Hairbrush."

The story features Larry T. Cucumber as an action hero Vegetable - and Larry is good!!! Larry plays Minnesota Cuke - peaceful children's museum curator by trade, daring explorer in a fedora at heart! When Cuke learns of the legendary hairbrush of Samson, he ponders using its powers to defeat his life-long nemesis, professor Rattan - a "bad guy" who has bullied Cuke since the second grade, leaving him tempted to retaliate.

This episode presents an important lesson about dealing with bullies. I am sure that we all remember the days in school when we had to face a bully or experience classmate who had to deal with this kind of a person. This was not fun at all.

The Old Testament Bible story in this episode is from the story of Samson and deals with the choices that faced Samson during his life. Our Lives are full of choices and important lessons that we must learn from those choices. I always tell kids that they need to remember that the choices they make today will determine who they will be in the future - so make good choices. This Veggietales episode teaches us about making good choices. As Children (and parents!) we must learn to share, obey, forgive, love others and sometimes we have to deal with bullies and Larry T. ( Minnesota Cuke) helps us out on this one as we face all those choices in our lives.

There are some great extra bonus features on this episode. The Silly Songs "Pizza Angel" it is set to a fifties song and Larry's delivery is late and he is not happy. In the end he does find a solution and everything is cool.

This episode seems to be on track for a good response from Veggietales fans accross the globe. I myself like the action adventure of the Larryboy episodes and this one seems to be right up the action adventure alley. So I love this new Epsiode - and I believe kids and parents accross the USA will love this new episode as well. By the way - I hear that there are more Larryboy 3D epsiodes coming in 2006.

This episode will be available in DVD and VHS ( VHS is coming to an end pretty soon ). You can pre-purchase this new title for a great intro price of $12.99 for DVD and $10.99 for VHS and a free Minnesota Cuke Flashlight from a great website for kids @ kidzonearth.com.