About Us

Escapade [es-kuh-peyd]- n. An adventurous, unconventional undertaking.

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Like the definition of the word Escapade, we started Escapade Direct to help provide families with innovative "outside the box" products and services, to further enhance learning adventures for children, and encourage children to think creatively.

We believe all children are talented inventors, scientists, explorers, and artists. Therefore, our role is not to teach, but to liberate these powers with rich and exciting materials and mind stretching ideas to try.

When children are having fun while they are learning, they comprehend new information better and retain new information longer. Therefore, our products have been personally selected to empower children to become independent explorers through fun, educational play.

Our store is owned by a family of dedicated parents, professional educators, and experienced entrepreneurs. We understand the importance of helping children be the best they can be. We give a lot of thought to the products we sell - we read every book, play every game, and kid-test every product. Our products are selected based on their educational value and their ability to spark creativity. So, whether you are a parent involved with your child, a homeschooler, a parent of a gifted child, or a teacher — our products will help you to help your child be successful in their education... and to be successful with skills they will use throughout their life.

We take great pride in our business and nothing is more important to us than our customers – really! Our biggest concern is your complete satisfaction with your purchase - right down to the way we package your items! If you are happy, we are happy.

We understand that you want your items as soon as possible – and we make every effort to get your purchase to you as quickly as we can.

We’re not like other toy and book stores… we go the extra mile to deliver not only the best educational games, toys, books, and gifts – we also include educational website links that we think help enhance the educational value of an item. We even include our own, unique creative ideas on ways to use our products – we call this “outside the box” thinking, and we want to share these ideas with you!

And, we want you to be able to make the best possible choice when deciding to purchase an item or not. Therefore, we provide very detailed product descriptions – something you won’t find elsewhere.

We may not be the most “flashy” website out there, but we sure strive to make your online experience the best it can be!

Try us, and see what you think! We are sure you will be pleased with your experience!




What Makes Us Unique

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Detailed Product Descriptions

We believe in giving you the best product descriptions possible, so that you can make informed decisions when buying. Therefore, our descriptions are much longer and contain more detail than the descriptions found elsewhere.



Benefit Badges

We've also implemented a product "badge" system of icons describing the benefits of each product. When you are in a hurry to find a product to fill a need, look for these "badges" in our product descriptions.



Our Product Reviews

We only sell products and books that we have used ourselves. We share what we love about our products with you, to give you an "inside" review! Look for this icon to read our reviews.



Escapade Et Cetera

As you shop around our website, you will see that we also provide a large collection of free links to educational websites, as well as links to free teacher's guides for you to share with your child — we've done the searching and reviewing for you. Watch for this icon in many of our product descriptions.



Think Outside the Book™

We carefully select the books we sell, and offer some of the best titles. To enhance your learning experience, we've provided links to educational websites regarding the subject matter of each book... again, we've done the research for you!





Outside the Box Ideas

Many of our products have lots of clever uses beyond what they were made for. We've included some of our "outside the box" creative ideas to help get you started... This is an Escapade Direct exclusive you won't find anywhere else! Watch for this icon in our product descriptions.







These "outside the box" services, along with our unique selection of products, and our complete commitment to superior customer service, makes us unique from other companies that sell books and toys.

Your shopping experience with Escapade Direct is a unique, unconventional adventure...

Escapade Direct - Helping children think... outside the box.^TM