The Book People £7 lucky dip - has anyone tried it?

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Obviously I know it's not the best indicator (being a lucky dip and all!) but has anyone done this and would you do it again?

Have just bought the lucky dip for 0-5 year old, adult fiction and adult non-fiction and am now wondering whether I should have just spent the £21 on books I know that we'd like?

ooh I wondered about this today - please report back when they arrive and let us know what you've got !

yes done it
v good on the whole
few dodgys
good to do at beginning of year as bday pressies

Yes, not bad, but there were a few dodgy books thrown in!

I've just sent off for the 0-5 lucky dip too, but if we get the Barbie one in the catalogue I shall be weeding it out and hurling it towards the charity shop. But hey - 70p each... The more books the merrier, I reckon.

Was going to do this for party bag gifts - works out at 70p a book plus sweets , done .

I buy one every year as a CM and there 10 books for 9.99 if Ive already got a book I just put it by for a Birthday/Christmas Pressie, best book club I have ever used, been using it about 6 years.

By the way they do really good deals every now and then bought both Gruffalo books for 5.99 hard back from them and loads of 'sets of books, Narnia, Spiderwick, toddlertalk, cant count how many to be honest, and everytime you buy you accumulate book points, I then get all the children books at Christmas.

how do the points work ?

you get so many points per pound spent. about 100 points can buy a hardback childrens book, all my parents give there orders to me so I pay the delivery charge but get the book points. Have you looked on there site.

We do have some points but not sure we're up to that level yet, will check when I order.

Resurrecting old thread here. So, who got what?

We got:

? 4 decent hardback picture books (great)
? 1 decent hardback picture book that we've already got (sent to charity shop)
? 3 colouring/activity books (fine because dd will be old enough for them in a year or two)
? 1 'funfax'-type thing - may use for birthday present at some point
? 1 'how to do scoubidoo' book which I'd argue isn't really for a 0-5 age group at all, though dd is only 14 months so I've no idea what age group do Scoubidous, if anyone does them at all these days...Have kept in case the craze comes back when she's older.

Actually, quite happy with this haul - only 70p each isn't bad!