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| Utterly Gorgeous: Cards |
Natalie Abadzis
£7.99, Scholastic
Give all your greetings that personal touch with 30 oh-so-cute cards to create! Sensational cards for all occasions from the queen of ‘makes’ – totally individual and utterly gorgeous! Devised and illustrated by Natalie Abadzis, who has worked with Bang on the Door and Blue Peter, this quirky crafting kit is full of stylish inspiration. Just follow the simple instructions… and then add a dash of your own creativity to give each card your very own unique stamp! From 3D pop-up cards and funky invitations to magical motifs and pretty printed cupcakes, your gorgeous greetings will turn every head! The perfect book for girls and teens from eight to 14 who have a passion for all things crafty. |
| Art for Kids: Comic Strips |
Art Roche
£6.99, Sterling
Any child who can make a stick figure can learn to create funny cartoons - and this fun, illustrated guide tells them exactly how. Written by professional cartoonist Art Roche, it gives kids lots of hands-on opportunities to turn their creative ideas into delightfully drawn reality. Roche encourages budding artists to develop a personal vision, rather than trace or copy someone else's style; he also includes plenty of information that other children's how-to books overlook, including advice on writing jokes, composing panels and getting published. |
| Zombigami: Paper Folding for the Living Dead |
Duy Nguyen
£7.99, Sterling
Raise the dead with zombie origami! Have gruesome fun creating 13 ghoulish origami zombies. Easy to follow, step-by-step instructions show you how to fold simple origami paper into some of the most revolting creatures of the night. This origami crew of the undead includes Starvin Marvin who hungers for a sip of fresh blood; Idle Hands, whose hands are no longer attached to his body and Suzie Gravemaker, everyone s favourite zombie mum! Zombigami includes 50 sheets of origami paper, tips for customising your zombie creations, plus full-colour, tear-out posters of all 13 zombies.
Quite simply one of the most original activity books for children and teens that we've come across in 2011! |
| Meerkat Mischief |
Michale O'Mara
£5.00, Buster Books
Enter a world of meerkat madness with this awesome animal activity book, packed with puzzles, quizzes, games and cool things to do. Full of cute and funny illustrations of meerkats making mischief on every page, it's guaranteed to provide hours of fun for fans of these crazy critters. Kids can make a pop-up meerkat greetings card, find their way through madcap mazes, burrow through brilliant board games, discover marvellous meerkat facts, make moreish meerkat biscuits and much more.
This fantastic two-colour activity book is full of meerkat mayhem, with hours of fun for meerkat fans - seempels! |
| You Choose! Colouring Book with Stickers |
Nick Sharratt and Pippa Goodhart
£3.99, Picture Corgi
Imagine you could go anywhere, with anyone and do anything. Where would you live? Where would you sleep? Who would be your friends? What games would you play? Go on . . . You choose! With the help of Nick Sharratt's wonderful illustrations, Pippa looks at a whole range of scenarios where choosing is made fun!
There are 24 jam-packed pages to colour in - so choose your own colours and make the world your own. There are also 60 fantastic full-colour stickers to stick wherever you choose. A colouring book edition of this million-copy-selling classic, this is a perfect combination of fun and learning, and a wonderful way to expand skills in literacy.
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| LEGO: The Official Annual 2012 |
Ladybird
£7.99, Ladybird
This awesome annual is bursting with brilliant comics, games and activities about all your favourite LEGO® ranges, including LEGO® CITY, LEGO® Minfigures, and the awesome new ninja theme, LEGO® Ninjago! With LEGO® bricks to build and play with too, this is the perfect Christmas gift for LEGO® fans! |
| Peppa Pig: Peppa and George's Annual 2012 |
Peppa Pig
£7.99, Ladybird
This fantastic annual is brought to you by the best-loved characters from the number one award-winning preschool children's TV show on Channel 5 and Nickelodeon - Peppa Pig! Full of piggy tales, puzzles, games and activities and lots of stickers! With so much piggy fun to keep Peppa Pig and George fans happy for hours, it's the number one preschool Christmas present, stocking-filler and birthday present for the year! |
| LEGO® Star Wars Character Encyclopedia |
Dorling Kindersley
£, Dorling Kindersley
LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia is one of the few, and highly sort after, LEGO Star Wars books on the market. This book features more than 200 minifigures and over 400 captivating images including many unseen elements. Organised in order of their appearance in the movies, each LEGO Star Wars minifigure has a full-page character profile with lots of fascinating facts. From Anakin Skywalker and Han Solo in their many guises to the wampa and the mouse droid.
Plus, there's even more. An exclusive Han Solo minifigure, receiving a medal in the same scene from a New Hope as our Luke Skywalker minifigure, not available anywhere else. This latest edition to the highly collectible LEGO Star Wars collaboration is a must-have for both die hard fans and the occasional browser (yes, that's Mum and Dad too!). |
| The LEGO® Ideas Book |
Daniel Lipkowitz
£16.99, Dorling Kindersley
The LEGO Ideas Book is packed full of tips from expert LEGO builders on how to make jet planes reach new heights, create fantastic fortresses, swing through lush jungles, have fun on the farm and send space shuttles out of this world! The book is divided into six themed chapters - transport, buildings, space, kingdoms, adventure and useful makes.
With over 500 models and ideas, this book is perfect for any LEGO fan - young or young at heart - who want to make their models cool, fun and imaginative.
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| Brilliant Boys' Colouring Book, The |
Jessie Eckel
£5.00, Buster Books
The follow up to the hugely successful "The Boys' Colouring Book", this book is packed with even more exciting drawings to colour in. From pumpkins to piranhas, trophies to planets, mice to microbes - there's something for every boy in this book. This is the perfect gift for any boy who likes to create his own brilliant masterpieces. |
| Where's the Meerkat? |
Paul Moran
£9.99, Michael O'Mara
Over the past year we have seen the humble, inquisitive meerkat take over the world, and in "Where's the Meerkat?" that is literally the case. A family of meerkats are making a round-the-world trip, visiting some of the world's most famous and popular places and your task is to spot them in the crowd. Each page is intricately illustrated in full colour with a checklist of items and people to spot along with the meerkats. This is the perfect quirky gift for the meerkat-mad member of your family. |
| Movie Star Doodles |
Buster Books
£5.00, Michael O'Mara
"Movie Star Doodles" is a dazzling doodle book that captures all the glitz and glamour of the movies. Budding artists can fashion elegant gowns for blockbuster premieres, complete scary stage make-up, create sensational film sets, design their own movie award, write their name in a star on Hollywood Boulevard, and much more. |
| Once Upon A Doodle |
Buster Books
£9.99, Michael O'Mara
A fabulous idea for young children with fairy-tale pictures to complete and create, in this latest offering from the home of doodling, Buster Books! Transform the pumpkin into Cinderella’s carriage, design a gingerbread house and imagine the rats following the Pied Piper, plus many more. Children will love to complete and colour in their favourite fairy tale characters and scenes, using their own imagination to bring the story to life in their own way. |
| Fun to Finish Animals |
Buster Books
£5.00, Michael O'Mara
Bees and birds, leopards and lions, snakes and spiders - in "Fun to Finish Animals", there's a new animal to meet and complete on every page. In this innovative doodle book, children are invited to use a black pen to add teeth, horns, manes and tails or finish the patterns, scales, spots and stripes on each colourful page. Simple to do and with satisfying results, children of any drawing ability will love to add their own finishing touches to the animals. |
| Things to Make and Doodle |
Buster Books
£9.99, Michael O'Mara
In "Things to Make and Doodle", children are invited to doodle each project with their own designs and then follow the simple, step-by-step instructions to cut out and construct their crafty creations. It allows children to hone their motor skills, while learning how to cut, fold and transform their two-dimensional drawings into three-dimensional keepsakes and gifts. Packed with exciting paper projects to create and keep, this book takes doodling into the third dimension. |
| Fabulous Fashion Designer Doodles |
Buster Books
£9.99, Michael O'Mara
In this fabulous follow-up to "Designer Doodles", Nellie Ryan is back with another bumper collection of fantastically fashionable doodles to complete. Perfect for budding fashionistas and designers alike, girls can create their own cutting-edge outfits for any occasion. |
| Gross Doodles |
Buster Books
£9.99, Michael O'Mara
This is Buster Books' most gruesome doodle book ever - for boys and girls with strong stomachs. It includes hilarious and quirky artwork from Buster's most popular doodle artist, Andrew Pinder. Dripping with bogeys, bugs and blisters, slime, sludge and sick, kids can let their imaginations run wild and get ready to get gross! |
| Girls' World Doodling and Colouring |
Buster Books
£9.99, Michael O'Mara
Contains beautiful colour illustrations and patterns designed to inspire budding artists to add and embelish. From flowers and feathers, to birds, buttons and butterflies - doodlers can let their imaginations run wild. |
| My Book of Kells Colouring Book |
Eoin O'Brien
£4.99, O'Brien Press
The Book of Kells is the most famous hand-coloured book in the world. Here's your chance to colour some of the drawings as the monks did over a thousand years ago.
Choose from over sixty drawings of heavenly figures, Biblicial people, fantastic creatures, floral, animal and bird motifs, intricate Celtic letters, spirals and designs - and create your own treasures and little masterpieces.
You can also colour pictures of the monks themselves making the wonderful Book of Kells in their time, using the tools and materials of their day. Some pages and designs are more intricate than others to colour in, so to avoid frustration for younger children we would reccomend this book for ages seven years and over.
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| Thomas Flintham's Marvellous Mazes |
Thomas Flintham
£6.99, Scholastic
From outstanding new graduate talent Thomas Flintham, a puzzle book with a difference. Beautifully rendered black-and-white intricate mazes will keep children absorbed for hours on end. Children can find their way through the fur of a great big bear, help squirrels reach nuts at the top of a tall tree, and aid a knight in his quest for the castle. Every child will find themselves delighted to discover the world of Super Amazing Mazes. A unique activity gift book that any child will welcome! |
| Klutz Mix & Match Drawing |
Klutz
£9.99, Klutz
Easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions for drawing a bunch of cool characters, objects, and backgrounds. Mix and match them for a conventional scene, or create something no one has ever seen before. Lions in the living room, sharks in outer space, a high-heeled octopus in the countryside. There are tons of things to draw and millions of ways to combine them, so any drawing you create will be uniquely you. The book folds apart to make a Klutz-custom drawing studio and comes with the tools of the trade: a pencil with eraser, a fine-tipped drawing pen, four coloured markers, and a 30-page drawing pad with pre-printed backgrounds to get you started. Suitable from six years and over. |
| RHS How Does My Garden Grow? |
Royal Horticultural Society
£9.99, Dorling Kindersley
Learn to grow plants for food and other fun-packed projects, from the experts at the RHS!
Help your child discover the wonderful world of plants with RHS How Does My Garden Grow?. They'll learn all about plants, how they live and why they are so important to people. From keeping our air breathable to the food, clothes, medicine, and paper we use every day. This book gives your child bite-size chunks of science to help them learn about plants in a fun and simple way.
And you don't need a garden! There are lots of inspirational ideas for fun activities to do at home like turning tomatoes into pizza toppings or growing your own loofah. All plants can be grown in containers, all recipes have easy-to-follow instructions and there are over 30 practical projects with simple step-by-steps. Feed their imagination as they explore plants from their own garden and beyond!
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| LEGO Minifigure Ultimate Sticker Collection |
Dorling Kindersley
£7.99, DK
LEGO Minifigures come to life in this ultimate sticker collection for LEGO fans of all ages... Based on the LEGO Minifigures, this incredible super-sized sticker book is packed with colourful images and easy-peel stickers. This bumper collection features over 1000 stickers from the LEGO Minifigure toys including all kinds of accessories, vehicles and more! From the Cowboy to Caveman, and Harry Potter to Star Wars - you'll find them all in here! A lovely gift that will go down a treat with LEGO mad fans - superb pocket money choice. |
| The Cat in Hat Knows a Lot About That!: Wings and Paws and Fins and Claws (Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot Abt) |
Tish Rabe
£3.99, Bantam
Hop in the Thinga-ma-jigger and explore the world of mammals, birds, sea creatures, and much more in this deluxe colouring book! With 96 pages of pictures to colour and a fun rhyming text this will keep any fans of The Cat in the Hat occupied for hours! The Cat in the Hat knows all about that! |
| Hide-and-Seek Puzzles: Cars, Trucks & Things That Go |
Rebecca Thornburgh
£3.99, Sterling
Ready or not, its time for Hide and Seek! Kids will be thoroughly entertained by this puzzle book as they try to find the hidden objects. Vehicle enthusiasts will delight in illustrations full of things that go from cars and trucks to planes, boats, trains and hot air balloons. The search is on in the circus, on a city street, at a construction site and even on a snowy mountain!
Be on the lookout for the hidden objects in 24 picture puzzles, suitable for aged three years and over. |
| Hide-and-Seek Puzzles: Animal Friends |
Marilee Harrald-Pilz
£3.99, Sterling
Ready or not, its time for Hide and Seek! Kids will be thoroughly entertained by this puzzle book as they try to find the hidden objects; there are over 250. Animal lovers will delight in illustrations full of creatures from the fuzzy to the creepy-crawly. The search is on in a classroom, on a farm, in a small pond, at a pet store and in a backyard!
Be on the lookout for the hidden objects in 24 picture puzzles, suitable for aged three years and over. |
| My Irish Family Tree |
Helen Keith
€5.99, Gill & Macmillan
My Irish Family Tree is a practical guide that will teach children everything they need to know about creating a family tree. With information on using the internet, talking to family members, accessing archives and library records, this book has everything required to build a family history and find out where their families have come from. It also contains a pull-out poster which children can fill in with their own family details.
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| Hangman Mania (Scratch & Solve) |
Mike Ward
£8.99, Sterling
Hangman Mania is bursting at the seams with letter-scratching enjoyment. As always in the case of our popular Scratch & Solve books, every page features one puzzle and each puzzle has the 26 letters of the alphabet accompanied by silver circles to scratch off. Choose a letter, give it a rub and see if its in the puzzle and where. But watch out: six misses and youre hanged!
Children (and adults!) will love this combination of join-the-dots and scratch & solve on each page, giving Hangman a whole new lease of life, and especially good for travelling. |
| Boy Mechanic Saves the World (One Project at a Time) |
The Editors of Popular Mechanics
£7.99, Hearst
The Boy Mechanic goes back in time to save the earth... and our future! The latest captivating title in the popular Boy Mechanic series returns to a simpler time when recycling, repurposing and repair, not replace, were a part of everyday life. Back then, no one spoke about going green they just did it as a matter of course. The Boy Mechanic Saves the World (One Project at a Time) comes from that era and presents eco-friendly, thrifty and really cool activities. From turning ketchup bottles into nifty soap dispensers and building a window greenhouse for plants to making a power-generating windmill, it features useful and entertaining shortcuts for conserving our resources for boys of today (and their fathers!). |
| Making Paper Boats |
Duy Nguyen
£8.99, Sterling
Set sail, with a fleet of water-resistant paper boats. From a graceful catamaran to a stealthy submarine, these nine nautical projects are easy to construct using creative origami techniques. Just rub the waterproofing stick onto the designated areas of each pre-printed origami sheet before making any folds. The boats will become amazingly water resistant and ready for an outing in the tub, a pond, or a lake. Includes an 80-page instruction and project book, 50 sheets of pre-printed origami paper and a waterproofing stick.
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| Handy Book of Knots, The |
Randy Penn
£7.99, GMC Publications
All the ins and outs of knot tying in one convenient kit! Whether you're fishing, boating, camping, or simply need to secure a bundle of magazines, a little practical knowledge about knots goes a long way. The Handy Box of Knots is the perfect introduction to the art and science of tying knots, including several lengths of durable, high-quality practice rope, perfect for 1-, 2- and 3-strand knot techniques. Also comes with a detailed book by knot expert Randy Penn, with step-by-step instructions for more than 100 essential knots, as well as dozens of games and exercises for honing newfound skills.
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| Making Stuff for Kids |
Victoria Woodcock
£16.95, black dog publishing limited
In this consumer age of digital television, ready-meals and expensive games consoles, parents are looking for new ways to entertain and spend time with their children. While the twenty first century has seen an explosion in all kinds of crafting, it sometimes feels like the kids have been left by the wayside. Following on from the success of Making Stuff, Making Stuff for Kids is a vibrant and exciting new craft book, featuring a collection of useful, funky, exciting ideas for things to make for kids and with kids. Bringing children back into the craft equation, Making Stuff For Kids features well-loved favorites, like potato printing and puppets as well as breaking into new territory with projects that introduce children to ecology, and wacky and wonderful jewellery, cross-stitch ideas, clothes and much, much more. Written with the same refreshing humour as Making Stuff,
this is a book that will inspire and educate the young and the young at heart. Over 60 entertaining, enjoyable and funky ideas are laid out clearly with accessible, stepby-
step instructions, and illustrated using hand-drawing and photography. The projects are organised by age group and level of difficulty, and the book uses a handy reference for
parents to know when they need to step in and help! Parents are not left out either, with a series of more complex knitting and sewing patterns to make for and with their young ones. Personal anecdotes are interweaved within the ideas, giving parents ideas and inspirations
to get their kids excited about crafting. With sub-sections focusing on Halloween costumes, puppets and teaching kids to knit and sew, this book will teach you how to make:
• A flower press
• Bean bags
• Sparkly play dough
• Tie dye and dip dye t-shirts
• Rag Dolls
• Paper Mâché
• Ladybird, pirate and Robin Hood Costumes
• A cereal box theatre
• Simple puppets
• Marionettes
• Friendship bands
• Crazy cross stitching
• Playmats for babies and toddlers
• Paper flowers
• Personalised rucksacks
• Soft toys
to name just a few…
Maintaining the freshness that made Making Stuff such a success, Making Stuff For Kids is perfect for children ages four to eleven, and their parents, grandparents and teachers who want to get in on the act—a shot of pure unadulterated fun for all.
Also available: Making Stuff: An Alternative Craft Book 978 1 904772 61 3
PRIMARY TIMES ARE PLEASED TO BE ABLE TO OFFER OUR READERS A 40% DISCOUNT OFF THIS BOOK - VISIT OUR COMPETITION PAGE FOR DETAILS |
| Bug Zoo |
Nick Baker
£7.99, DK
They may be tiny, but insects, spiders and other invertebrates are some of the most astonishing animals on Earth - and plenty of them live right on our doorstep. Here, Nick Baker, presenter of Nick Baker's Weird Creatures and naturalist shows kids how to make the kind of places, spaces, nooks and crannies that insects love to scuttle around in. They'll discover how to keep them fed, healthy and active and how to build all sorts of inviting invertebrate environments, from a hang out for spiders to a nest for ants. From here - and with Nick Baker's help - your child will see all the stuff that's usually hidden from human eyes, discovering the nitty gritty about insect lifecycles, how they live, eat and more. It's their very own bug zoo! |
| LEGO Brickmaster Pirate |
Become a LEGO Brick Master
£16.99, Dorling Kindersley
If your child loves LEGO bricks, they'll enjoy this book complete with 140 fantastic LEGO bricks and 2 mini-figures.
Watch as they find out all about building with the LEGO bricks provided, then use the bricks again and again to build 15 amazing pirate models.
A perfect LEGO kit promising hours of playtime for seven to nine year olds.
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| Richard Hammond's Blast Lab Bright Ideas |
Richard Hammond
£14.99, Dorling Kindersley
Introduce your child to Blast Lab Bright Ideas and they'll discover all sorts of things to do with light and electricity!
Exciting experiments from how to make an electromagnetic crane, to building a torch to see how light travels through jelly.
Just like Richard Hammond's, Blast Lab, there are lots of fun experiments to try out using everyday objects from around the house, but LEDs and copper wires are included to get you started. It's a fun-filled blast from first page to last!
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| Doodle Annual 2010 |
Buster Books
£6.99, Buster Books
Make next year doodletastic with your chance to doodle all year long! the Doodle Annual 2010 is filled with doodle puzzles, games and optical illusions, and stacks of fun doodles to complete and create.
Includes doodle crosswords, design your doodle t-shirt, doodle zodiacs, doodle by numbers, doodle dice game, doodle did you knows? and make your own doodle mask.
Find free doodles, competitions and more at www.doyoudoodle.co.uk |
| Teach Your Granny to Text and Other Ways to Change the World |
We Are What We Do Community Interest Company
£10.00, Walker Books
Teach Your Granny to Text is the children's sequel to the acclaimed and best-selling Change the World for a Fiver, from the social change movement We Are What We Do.
Teach Your Granny to Text is the children’s sequel to Change the World for a Fiver, the bestseller produced by the global social change movement, We Are What We Do. It’s a movement whose aim is to inspire people - in this case children - to use their everyday actions to change the world. Their maxim is: small actions x lots of people = big change. It’s not rocket science but it does work! The 31 actions in this book will be fun and easy for children to do but will add up to making a big difference and giving them the responsibility for changing the world, one bit at a time.
Suitable for ages eight years and over. |
| The Letterland Cookbook: An Alphabet of Recipes |
Lyn Wendon
£5.99, Letterland International; New edition edition
From the Government's 5-a-Day and Change4Life campaigns to Jamie Oliver's school dinner overhaul, most of us are aware of the advantages of eating well. When it comes to younger children however, getting them to recognise, and think about the foods they eat can sometimes be difficult. Bringing together two of the country's hottest topics, phonics and healthy eating, Letterland have published the “Letterland Cookbook: An Alphabet of Recipes” by Lisa Chapman designed with Early Years and Key Stage 1children in mind.
Bursting with colour and packed full of photographs and illustrations, this clearly presented step-by-step book provides a wide range of nutritious recipes that are simple to make and scrumptious to eat. The recipes are clear and easy to follow and youngsters will really enjoy cooking them with Mum or Dad. Children will love following the advice of the friendly and familiar Letterland characters while parents will enjoy watching them develop not only basic cookery skills but also their ability to follow instructions. Added to this, parents will see their child's vocabulary (and maybe their diet!) immediately expand through the useful tips and lists of foodstuffs that begin with the target letter on every page.
With additional information on eating a balanced diet and fruit and vegetables, a full glossary of terms and a range of educational games to play with your child, this 48-page cookbook confirms that natural ingredients and natural ways to learn go hand-in-hand. Presented in a practical ring-binder format with wipe-clean pages, it is guaranteed to be enjoyed over and over again.
The Letterland Cookbook: An Alphabet of Recipes costs £5.99, is available from bookshops on the High Street and online and is recommended for children of age four plus.
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| The Girls' Holiday Book |
Ellen Bailey
£5.00, Buster Books
This is the book no girl should go on holiday without - packed with quizzes, games and activities that are guaranteed to provide hours of fun for beach babes everywhere. With holiday-themed puzzles to solve - including mazes, spot-the-differences and sudoku brain teasers - beach games and car games, things to make and look out for - there need never be a dull day again.
The perfect book for Primary Times readers! |
| The Boys' Holiday Book |
Guy Campbell
£5.00, Buster Books
This is the essential book for any boy heading off on a holiday adventure! It is packed with puzzles, quizzes and stories, things to make and games to play - guaranteed to keep any beach boy entertained. With holiday-themed puzzles to solve - including mazes, spot-the-differences and sudoku brain teasers - beach games and car games, things to make and look out for- there need never be a dull day again. The perfect activity book for Primary Times readers! |
| Holiday Doodle Book 2 |
Niki Catlow
£5.00, Buster Books
The follow-up to the bestselling Holiday Doodle Book, a doodle book, a journal and a scrap book - it’s perfect for keeping any child busy on their summer holiday.
Kids can let their imaginations run wild. Guaranteed to distract kids on long journey - it includes over 50 holiday themed doodles to complete, and is the perfect size to fit into a child’s rucksack. No drawing skills required.
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| Doodle Bugs |
Nikalas Catlow
£5.00, Buster Books
Crammed with creepy-crawly doodles to create and complete!
Includes fascinating facts about the insect world - a perfect gift for any budding ’bugologist’. Let your imagination run wild - no drawing skills required.
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| Blast Lab |
Richard Hammond
£14.99, Dorling Kindersley
If your child loves the fun filled science of Blast Lab, then blow their minds with this exciting science book packed with experiments and challenges from the explosive series.
Just like in the TV series, you can try out all sorts of amazing experiments with everyday things that show you in really incredible ways how everyday science works. From parachuting eggs to vinegar powered rockets, young scientists will be wowing the science world with their fun and creative discoveries.
Also available are the Rockets and Racers and Brain Busters activity books, packed with exciting science facts and activities, tons of stickers to customize your designs and exciting projects, including how to make your own 3D glasses.
Suitable for seven to 11 year olds. |
| Made by Me |
Jane Bull
£7.99, Dorling Kindersley
Help your child get creative with activity expert Jane Bull. Can you never find those all important accessories or would you like to give an original present? Then read this together with your child; they’ll learn basic sewing, embroidery, knitting and appliqué techniques, and enjoy using the simple patterns for lots of fabric fun.
From bags, badges, and bobble hats, to jazzing up clothes and jewellery, there are lots of inspiring projects for your child to design and create.
A stitch-by-stitch guide to knitting, sewing and embroidery for children, from award winning author Jane Bull for seven to nine year olds. |
| Growing Vegetables is fun! |
Emma Cooper
£5.99, Dennis Publishing
This is a great publication for any family who wants the pleasure of growing their own vegetables to own. It shows, in simple and easy to understand steps, how to achieve a great crop of home-grown foods and actively encourages children to participate in the planting, caring and picking of vegetables. The publication inspires children’s imagination with its attractive pictures and activity section, whilst the free seeds included are an added incentive to get budding gardeners started.
Growing Vegetables is Fun! is an exciting guide for any budding green-fingered gardener, featuring key advice for children on how to begin growing their own organic vegetables at home. With the handy tips from veg-cartoon mascots Danny and Lily and easy to follow gardening instructions, this bookazine opens up the wonderful and enriching world of gardening for the young reader; whilst teaching and introducing them to the importance of eating and living healthily.
Containing a scrapbook section enabling children to chart their progress by writing a diary, drawing pictures and sticking in photos of their vegetables and favourite garden friends, and divided into range of key areas such as an introduction to seeds, growing in pots, garden wildlife, and an invaluable glossary of key gardening terms, Growing Vegetables is Fun! exists as a comprehensive guide for the young gardener. Moreover, through covering elements featured on the National Curriculum the bookazine acts as a fun educational supplement. |
| How to Draw Leprechauns |
Michael Terry
€5.99, Gill & Macmillan
Start now and learn how to draw a fantastic selection of comical and mischievous leprechauns. Even absolute beginners will be able to create great pictures following this simple step-by-step technique. Begin with the simplest of shapes and then at each stage add until you get your completed drawing. |
| MY FABULOUS BOOK OF PRINCESSES |
PlayBac
£6.99, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Is it a book? Is it a craft pack? Actually it’s really a bit of both and we might settle for calling it an “activity book”. It comes as a button up package in the shape of a handbag with stencils, stickers, characters to dress and a whole range of patterned papers to make your outfits from. With a theme of “Princesses” and a predominantly pink package, this is definitely aimed at girls.
It’s part of a fun-filled series of activity books, designed by innovative French publishing house PlayBac, which is perfect for budding designers. Each interactive edition has virtually all you need to create stylish outfits. Just add scissors and glue and you’re away! These books are guaranteed to provide hours of entertainment. Choose from any of the four themed books to keep young arts and crafts fans occupied on holidays, on long journeys or rainy days. Bright, colourful and ideal for creative little girls.
The other “books” in the series are My Fabulous Book Of Superstars, My Fabulous Book Of Fashion and My Fabulous Book Of Hair And Make-Up. They are all published by Bloomsbury Children's Books at £6.99 each. Out April 09
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| Drawing for the Artistically Undiscovered |
Quentin Blake
£12.99, Klutz
A book for people who want to draw but don’t mind starting at the beginning - it’s a sketchbook with training wheels!
There’s plenty of open space for you to play on, but around the edges you’ll find handrails of help and encouragement.
With illustrations by Quentin Blake, the book includes artist quality watercolour pencils and one artist quality sketch pen. Ideal for adults and children alike - everyone should have one! |
| My All-Time Top 5 |
A Book of Lists for You and Your Friends
£6.99, Klutz
A book full of fun list-making ideas and activities. Comes with a notepad, pencil with dangly charm rubber, keepsake pocket pages and a plastic over-cover to keep everything together. Perfect stocking filler for girls under 12!
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| My Very Own Horse Book |
Klutz
£14.99, Klutz
The ultimate book for the horse-mad reader. Saddled with information on horse care, feeding, grooming, colours & markings, riding styles, riding safety, horse breeds and a section on how to draw horses.
This book comes complete with a custom-made model horse in a box that can be used as its stall and everything you need to make a mini saddle, bridle and blanket.
Suitable for eight to 12 year olds.
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| Flip Books |
Quick Draw
£8.99, Klutz
Draw in the missing action then: rip it, clip it, grip it and flip it! Three 40-page flip books to animate, with animation tips and tricks, six mini markers and innovative clips to hold your books together.
Let your child discover the magic of flip books and create their very own versions to marvel at – a tradition that dates back to Victorian times, yet just as amusing and inspiring today as it ever was! |
| Chess |
How to Play and How to Win
£6.99, Dorling Kindersley
Easy steps to grandmaster greatness – now in paperback - for five to eight year olds.
From the opening move to checkmate, this step-by-step guide will help your child play chess like a champion. Whether they are just starting out, or are a bit of an expert, they’ll learn a great deal – starting with basic techniques, they’ll move up to difficult challenges and pick up tips and techniques from a top expert.
Help them discover chess tactics and strategies that will add firepower to attack and defence, plan moves using amazing 3D illustrations. They’ll be challenged to progress at every stage. A fun way to learn to play chess or improve your game.
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| The Games Book: How to Play the Games of Yesterday |
Huw Davies
£5.00, Michael O'Mara Books
Have you ever struggled to remember your favourite childhood game so you can teach it to your own children? Do you love to reminisce about the good old days when it was all just good old-fashioned fun? The Games Book has the answers.
Packed full of traditional indoor and outdoor games from yesteryear, it contains something for family members of all ages to enjoy. Each game has instructions and some hints and tips for beginners and there are fantastic illustrations throughout. An ideal companion for rainy days and family holidays.
With a classic 1950s retro look, The Games Book is a great gift for every family member.
Entries include:
• Spooky games – Murder in the Dark
• Playground games – What’s the Time Mr Wolf?
• Swimming games – Marco Polo
• Card games – Gin Rummy
• Paper games – Consequences
• Ball games – Sevens
A fantastic compilation of traditional indoor and outdoor games, played by generations of youngsters and their parents before them.
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| Holiday Doodle Book, The |
Andrew Pinder
£10.00, Michael O'Mara Books
This is a doodle book, a journal and a scrap book - the perfect purchase for any child heading off on holiday. It includes over 50 holiday-themed doodles to complete. No drawing skills required. Guaranteed to distract kids on long journeys.
Kids can let their imaginations run wild - design their own sandcastle; label and fill their own suitcases; decide what is hiding in the rockpool; and, draw what sitting on the luggage carousel.
Doodles and activities include: Design your own postcard; Draw your holiday home; What money are you spending? Which was your favourite day this holiday? What is dad cooking on the campfire? Draw your favourite holiday dish? Design a flag for your family; Fill the beach with seashells; and, Draw the twists and turns of a rollercoaster. |
| Girls' Doodle Book |
Andrew Pinder
£10.00, Michael O'Mara Books
Includes over 100 imaginative doodles. This title is packed with fairies, princesses, ponies and pop-stars. It includes activities such as: What's in the magic forest? What is the pony jumping over? Draw your dream castle; Show us how girls rock! and, What's in the cave?
Tell a story or just let your imagination run wild! No drawing skills required to make you the best doodler around.
The perfect companion for those tedious plane, train or car journeys to keep the girls occupied! |
| Boys' Doodle Book |
Andrew Pinder
£10.00, Michael O'Mara Books
Includes over 100 imaginative doodles. This title is packed with pirates, dinosaurs, robots and aliens. It includes activities on: How will you escape from the crocodile? Draw a cool tree house; What would you like your robot to do for you? Draw a flying machine; What's on the barbeque; Draw an alien invasion; and, What's happening at the beach?
Tell a story or just let your imagination run wild! No drawing skills required to make you the best doodler around.
The perfect companion for those tedious plane, train or car journeys to keep the boys occupied! |
| Ballerina - A step-by-step guide to ballet |
Jane Hackett
£12.99, Dorling Kindersely
Find everything your child needs to know to improve their ballet in this book and DVD from Director of the English National Ballet School, Jane Hackett.
From first position to pirouettes, from make-up to mime, this book shows detailed step-by-step photographs of how young ballerinas can improve on each position whatever their age or stage; making it enjoyable and easy to perfect their style.
Discover the best things to wear to class, how to combine positions and even how to choreograph a ballet.
The accompanying DVD shows many of the steps in action and also features two complete dances.
Watch the DVD together and see the ballet steps and individual dances in motion, then have fun helping your child practise as they watch! For five to ten years.
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| 50 Easter Things to Make and Do |
Various
£5.99, Usborne Publishing Ltd
Great ideas to make Easter different, fun activities for all the family to brighten up your home |
| Activity Cards: 50 Things to Make and Do at Christmas |
Various
£5.99, Usborne Publishing Ltd
Loads of fun things to do for Christmas, ideas, suggestions and how to do - enjoy |
| Big Book of Christmas Things to Make and Do Collection |
Various
£9.99, Usborne Publishing Ltd
bought this last year when the shorter, and therefore cheaper Usbourne christmas Activities was sold out. I am so glad it was as this book is fantastic. It includes most of the other usborne Christmas books as seperate chapters, on Christmas cards, decorations, baking etc. The stickers add a fantastic touch to everything you create and there are LOTS of them. My 5 year old daughter wanted to make everything, and we gave it a good try but did not scratch the surface, needless to say this Christmas we will be trying again!! A fabulous book and fantastic value for money |
| Charlie and Lola: This is Actually My Party |
Created by Lauren Child
£14.99, Penguin
Today is Charlie's birthday – he is very excited as he is having a special monster party! Lola is excited too and wants to help make it an extremely very happy birthday for Charlie. But Lola's having so much fun, she almost thinks it's her party – she opens all Charlie's birthday cards, makes his friends play musical statues and, worst of all, blows out all the candles on his cake! 'This is actually MY party, not your party, Lola!' says Charlie. Lola tries to think of a way to make Charlie's party really special for him – so she makes special monster presents for all his friends – and everyone has a lovely time!
With lots of completely special party activities and games for three to eight year olds. You can make your very own party masks, food and decorations - and then play lots of absolutely fun games, including a special fold-out Stick-the-tail-on-Sizzles game! |
| Disney Fairies - Activity Case |
Activity Case
£4.99, Harper Collins
This magical activity case includes three books full of colouring in, puzzles, quizzes and activities all about your favourite friends, the Never fairies.
There are also four pages of Fairies stickers, colouring crayons and a colour-in poster all inside this fun reusable carrycase that's perfect for holiday travelling this summer.
Also in the Activity Case range is Spiderman 3 - for the little brother who is not going to get left out! |
| Noah's Ark |
A Handpuppet Board Book
£6.99, Scholastic
Bring the story of Noah’s Ark to life with this fun glove puppet book! With Noah, a lion, and elephant, a giraffe and a zebra for each finger, and a board book attached to the palm, this soft hand-puppet is the perfect way to read and play with babies and a beautiful gift and keepsake. |
| Doodle Dogs/Cats/Faces |
Klutz
£5.99, Scholastic
Everything you need to get doodling is right here.
The reinforced back cover holds a roll of paper and also serves as a sturdy built-in work surface. Do a doodle, pull the paper down, tear off your masterpiece neatly and start all over again. And again. And again. Since the roll holds 35 feet of drawing paper, aspiring doodlers can practice till they make perfect cats. The pencil clips neatly into its holster for storage and features every doodler's best friend: an rubber that really works. With three different titles to collect, it's so much fun to share with others too and rediscover the artist in you and your child. |
| Stencil Art |
Klutz
£10.99, Scholastic
Stencil Art comes with four plastic stencil sheets containing a wide range of stencils, from aliens to ladybirds to abstract shapes, plus a vibrant 8-colour ink pad and 8 colour-coded foam-tipped dabbers.
The book contains child-friendly instructions, tips and technique hints, plus loads of photos and artwork to encourage and inspire. Make beautiful stenciled designs in a few simple steps - fun for children and parents together.
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| Horrible Histories: Awesome Activity Book |
Terry Deary
£7.99, Scholastic
Stuffed full of killer quizzes, gruesome games and amazing mazes to bring the awful Egyptians, groovy Greeks and incredible Incas to life. With the chance to paint the inside of a pharaoh's tomb and compete in the Olympic Games, the Awesome Activity Book is sure to keep kids (and their mummys!) wrapped up for hours. With over 200 stickers. |
| Dinosaurs and Pre-historic Animals (Make & Meet) |
RUTH WICKINGS
£4.99, Mercury Junior
dinosaurs for you to make and use as toys or boxes to keep things in. There are instructions to help you and ten information cards with a collectors box to make and keep them in. Loads of fun that carries on after you have made them all. |
| The Toddler’s Busy Book |
Trish Kuffner
£6.95, Mercier Press
For little hands that are eager for action, the follow up to the hugely successful The Preschooler’s Busy Book has a whole host of games and activities to keep them busy.
This book contains 365 activities (one for each day of the year) for 1 ½ to 3 year olds using things found around the home. It shows parents and day-care providers how to prevent boredom, stimulate a child’s natural curiosity, encourage a child’s physical, mental and emotional growth and keep toddlers occupied during long car trips. Written with warmth and sprinkled with humour and insight – this is required reading for anyone raising or teaching toddlers. |
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