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202 Incredible Things to Make and Do on the Weekend delivers exactly what the title suggests: over 200 fun and creative projects and activities. The entries range in difficulty and complexity, and will fill anything from a wet afternoon to a whole weekend. Full of classic projects and traditional crafts, it makes an ideal gif... read more

Based on a lifetime spent working with small children in Australian playgroups, Everyday Play is filled with ideas to help children reach their optimum wellbeing through exploration, experimentation and discovery. With an emphasis on practical, open-ended and easily replicated ideas, this fresh, contemporary book is perfe... read more

This is the perfect novelty package for all pre-school children - it is bright, vibrant, sturdy and will provide hours of play before being stored safely away in its own carry case - making it perfect portable fun for journeys, play-dates and home-time too. Created by a highly-acclaimed paper-engineer, this robust and i... read more

A striking book of opposites ideal for early learning, designed to build vocabulary and discover visual perspective Eleven pairs of opposites each have a clear, acetate sheet between them. Children can simply flip the acetate back and forth to reveal the opposite. This book is full of bold, simple, colorful images, always wit... read more

This title helps your child turn trash into treasure with craft and activity expert Jane Bull - now in paperback! "Make It!" from activity expert Jane Bull, gets your child re-using rubbish to create amazing things. Think about all the stuff we throw away every day, like plastic drink bottles and metal cans, magazines and eve... read more

Following the success of Yates Young Gardener: Growing Things to Eat, Janice Marriott's latest gardening book is packed full of ideas for outside fun and learning. With experiments like making shrunken heads, a butterfly feeding jar or fungus garden, or even designing a dream garden, this book is packed full of activities for... read more

Continuing with our successful titles in the Tui family this practical, highly illustrated guide has been written specifically for the young gardener. It contains all the essential information you need to start a garden plus information on the most popular plants young gardeners might like to cultivate. There are also section... read more

*A comprehensive history of disease and pestilence, told from the point of view of the bugs and pests that cause them. The book features case histories of specific epidemics, eyewitness' accounts from the rats, flies, ticks and creepy-crawlies who spread diseases, plus plenty of fascinating facts and figures on the biggest a... read more

Be inspired to create and build amazing models in LEGO! "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! This book is divided into six them... read more

Eleven-year-old Arkie Sparkle's archaeologist parents have been kidnapped. With the help of her genius cousin TJ and basset hound Cleo, she must find seven treasures across the seven continents in seven days. The biggest treasure hunt in the world is about to begin. Day 2: China. Treasure No. 2 is off to a shaky start. Arkie,... read more

Over 200 colour pictures that I hope inspire you and provide ideas from myself and other educators from around New Zealand. Ideas on what can be incorporated from solid waste materials, and the home environment, into an early childhood centre's environment.
In my volunteer time as an early childhood teacher I have made... read more

The 14 pages of the book are printed with glow-in-the-dark ink. The child needs to charge them under a light source, turn down the light. In the dark, a rocket is taken on a journey to the moon.

“Hi there! You might recognise me. I’m a very famous real-estate agent. I find houses for anyone who needs or wants to move. I’m the king of shells and shacks, the magician of roofs and homes. But enough about me. Let me present my clients, the Ladybird family. My mission is to find them a dream nest, a burr... read more

This kit contains everything needed for young girls to create a mermaid, a princess, or a ballerina from a clothespin, including yard, sequins, glue, and three clothespins with permanently painted faces. Full color. Pkg. Consumable.

Paper Fashions gets all dressed up! It contains everything you need to create fabulous occasion-wear. It comes with stencil sheets, metallic and sparkly papers, trim and beads and loads of tips and ideas.

Typical drawing books show how to draw something -- a horse, for example, or maybe a car -- in solitary splendor on a blank white page. But wouldn't you rather learn how to draw a complete scene, so that the horse can be driving the car, down a freeway, next to the ocean? So much better! With Draw Your World Your Way, any cra... read more

Full of fun, exciting, challenging, "why didn't I think of that" things for any child to do with their dad. Featuring building a commando assault course in the garden, keeping tarantulas, making dinosaurs out of bendy balloons, drawing a strip cartoon, making a zombie-head cake, clipping a topiary monster, changing a car whee... read more

Original, imaginative and lots of fun, "My Head-to-Toe Body Book" is a look at the body inside and out for young children. The approach is hands-on: this book is all about asking questions and getting answers. How many teeth do you have? What happens to the food you eat? How do you wee? A little girl called Koko asks question... read more

From construction lines to construction trucks, the You Can Draw! series of drawing books gives you a great introduction to the techniques used when drawing and sketching machines. In the book You Can Draw Trucks, you'll learn how to draw many different types of truck from all around the world, from the bright red fire truck ... read more

Knitting is simultaneously trendy and traditional. We're pleased to present here the easiest how-to-knit kit you'll ever find. Knitting takes you from step zero (how to hold the needles and yarn) to finished projects you'll show off shamelessly. The book comes complete with yarn, knitting needles, a crochet hook, two buttons ... read more