The creator of the worldwide bestselling coloring books is back with a new book to unlock that inner creative lurking in us all, a guide that encourages comfort, pushes us to experiment, and above all, empowers us to discover joy in our own lives In 30 Days of Creativity, colorist Johanna Basford takes you on a journey of imaginative prompts and inspiring ideas that will kick-start your creativity. A mix of whimsical doodle pages, expert artistic advice, and simple step-by-step drawing guides, the book celebrates the things that bring us comfort and joy, from scrumptious ice cream cones to flourishing potted plants. And of course, there's plenty of pages to color when you find yourself in flow and want to remain in the creative bubble a little longer. For those of us who struggle to make time for self-care, the prompt to pick up your book each day will soon become a creative habit that allows a little calm into your life.

_______________ The 50 Fantastic Ideas series is packed full of fun, original, skills-based activities for Early Years practitioners to use with children aged 0-5. Each activity features step-by-step guidance, a list of resources, and a detailed explanation of the skills children will learn. Creative, simple, and highly effective, this series is a must-have for every Early Years setting. 50 Fantastic Ideas Inspired by Famous Artists uses well-known art as a visual inspiration to develop expressive art and design skills in the Early Years. It is much easier now to access art online and to bring inspirational pieces into a setting without having to buy postcards or visit an art gallery. Drawing on these readily available online sources, Judith Harries presents 50 ideas featuring a range of diverse artists from Lubaina Himid and Friedensreich Hundertwasser to Mary Delany and Picasso, and famous art including pop and street art, sculpture and portraiture. Using art supplies easily found in and outside the classroom such as paints, clay, pipe cleaners and natural resources like leaves and flowers, the interactive activities found in this book are ideal for inspiring creativity and fun at the same time!

This lively board book unfolds accordian-style in a floor-standing arc, encouraging babies to lift their head while they are lying on their tummy, while toddlers will love the photos of diverse babies.

The oceans of the world can be exquisitely beautiful, yet with very little warning they are capable of turning into harsh and dangerous places. Learn about the oceans of the world and the animals that live in them. Read how mankind threatens their survival. Can you decide which animals are the real heroes and villains of the oceans? With fun facts, lots to colour on each page and a word search children will be entertained for hours.

In this fun kids edition play bingo with a menacing mummy, a bowler-hat wearing yeti, a multi-eyed monster and many more creepy creatures in this fun and inventive take on the classic game... if you dare. Easy to play and full of strange and colourful characters, Scary Bingo will engage and delight children for hours. It can be played with 3-7 people, making it the perfect game for families in need of spookily good entertainment. Scary Bingo contains 48 chips and a cardboard monster head to store them in, a game board, eight double-sided bingo cards and googly-eyed counters for you to mark up your card.

The amazing new i-SPY sticker book for kids age 3+ Get little ones started on their very own spotting adventure with My First i-SPY sticker books! With more than 100 things to spot - from spiders to worms, butterflies to beetles, children will love learning about the marvellous minibeasts found in the UK. Each colourful, interactive page there are points to collect, fun facts to keep young children entertained, plus stickers to add to each spot. At the end of the book, send off for your super-spotter progress poster! For even more fun check out: i-SPY My First Wildlife (ISBN 9780008529802) i-SPY My First Farm (ISBN 9780008529796) i-SPY My First Things that go (ISBN 9780008529819)

This is a chess book for everyone, from eight to eighty, beginner to master. In a clear, easy-to-follow format it explains how the best way to beat a stronger opponent in the opening stage of the game. Delightful and instructive games of famous players are used to show the 50 most effective opening traps that chess masters use to win their games.

"This is a wonderful, educational, fun science book for children. It brings the science to life with its engaging, applied activities throughout. Children will want to keep turning the page!" - Little House of Science ___________ Part of Buster's 'Big Activity Book' series and packed with over 100 puzzles and games, The Big Science Activity Book is bursting with fun and fact-filled activities for budding young scientists. This innovative activity book includes laboratory memory games, electricity mazes, spot-the-difference searches, odd-one-out puzzles and loads of other STEM-friendly activities. Each puzzle explores a different scientific topic and includes lots of mind-blowing facts to discover along the way. Children can find out about everything - from the power of magnetism and what a food chain is to the energy that fuels our world - while enjoying the colourful, beautifully illustrated puzzles. The previous book in this series, The Big Human Activity Book, was shortlisted in the 2020 Sainsbury's Children's Book Awards. Other books in the series: 9781780556093 The Big Green Activity Book 9781780556321 The Big Human Body Activity Book 9781780556314 The Big Animal Activity Book

"Most of the magic tricks presented here are easily understood and appear to be simple to learn and to execute with ample practice. Disappearing coins, rope tricks, a genie in a bottle, and many others provide interesting stunts to amaze and mystify one's friends." SLJ.

Test your knowledge of all things spooky in this frightfully fun trivia and quiz book based on the animated Scream Street series. Where is the spookiest place on earth? Why do bats have fangs? And who discovered the ancient tombs in Egypt? Put your knowledge to the test in this bumper book of facts, quizzes and more that's perfect for fans of ghoulish goings-on. Packed with creepy quizzes and terrifying trivia, this fun-filled collection is perfect for this spooky time of year. Filled with hilarious cartoons and fascinating facts, this spin-off from the ever popular TV series is the perfect way for fans to learn more about what makes Scream Street so fangs-tasically fun!

Search the planet from top to bottom in this giant search challenge! Starting with space, moving down to the mountains and to cities before finally ending up under the sea, this educational search and find book is packed with things to spot and fun facts to discover. Focusing on the most exciting aspects of each scene - the biggest, fastest and speediest things around, children will love finding things and learning as they go. Includes bonus items to look out for. Illustrated with cute, quirky illustrations by Paula Bossio.

There are lots of jungle creatures and objects to match in this entertaining card game for young children. There are 52 snap cards (13 matching sets of 4), with labelled pictures showing a parrot, jaguar, monkey, sloth, chameleon and lots more. The game can be played with fewer cards to make it easier for younger players to join in.

A great way to record everything that's special in your life!- Jacqueline Wilson Magazine This book is yours to fill in. Jot down your thoughts, dreams and opinions to create a fabulous record of who you are. Packed with fun quizzes and fill-in sections, activities included are: - Friendship quizzes - Puzzles - Games - Party planning - Personal profiles - Doodle pages And much, much more! What are you waiting for? Grab a pen, and make this journal as brilliant as you are. Other books in the series: 9781780554716 The Book of Me 9781780555225 All About Us 9781780556345 My Unicorn and Me

Every year, millions of applications stream to a handful of companies that regularly top the listings of best employers: Apple, Netflix, Amazon, Alphabet, Disney, SpaceX, Oracle, PricewaterhouseCoopers and others. In 2017, Tesla received as many as 200 applications for each vacancy, making it ten times more selective than Harvard. The only way to choose who to hire is with uniquely demanding questions that test imagination, persistence and creativity. Questions like:

How is a milk carton like a plane seat?

Why don’t animals have wheels?

What would happen if you drilled a hole all the way through the Earth and jumped in it?

How Do You Fight a Horse-Sized Duck? explores the new world of interviewing at A-list employers. It reveals more than 70 outrageously perplexing riddles and puzzles and supplies both answers and general strategy for creative problem-solving.

From the creator of the worldwide bestsellers Secret Garden and Enchanted Forest, a beautiful new coloring book that takes you on a magical journey beneath the waves. With this coloring book for adults, Johanna Basford invites color-inners of all ages to discover an enchanting underwater world hidden in the depths of the sea. Through intricate pen and ink illustrations to complete, color, and embellish, readers will meet shoals of exotic fish, curious octopuses, and delicately penned seahorses. Visit coral reefs and barnacle-studded shipwrecks, discover intricate shells and pirate treasure. Secret Garden and Enchanted Forest fans and newcomers alike will welcome this creative journey into an inky new world. For Lost Ocean, Johanna picked a crisp ivory paper that accentuates and complements your chosen color palette. The smooth, untextured pages allow for beautiful blending or gradient techniques with colored pencils or are perfect for pens, allowing the nib to glide evenly over the surface without feathering. Filled with stunningly detailed illustrations, Lost Ocean is a blissful and relaxing at-home activity for people of all ages.

A coloring extravaganza created from The Journey Oracle. Enjoy hours of coloring fun as you put colored pencil, crayon, and/or pen to paper with 46 exquisite drawings. Lovely women making decisions is the theme for this spiritual coloring book. It allows those coloring to reflect on the meanings of lifes daily experiences as they color, and gives them a chance to think about their own choices. Whether defiant, entangled, confined, or appreciated, these messages will have an effect on those pondering the world around them. Or, just color for the fun of it! The images are beautiful and the artwork compelling. Make it your own!

Journey with Wally on this ultimate maze adventure! With eleven extraordinary maze scenes, plus mini-mazes and extra searches to challenge you, too. Wow! Wally invites you to join him on an incredible journey of a lifetime! Every fabulous location he visits is a magnificent mind-boggling maze, with twists and turns in all directions. Trace your fingers along the paths from start to finish and complete the maze challenges and searches along the way. Wander through galleries, blast off from a space centre, pick-and-mix a route through a sweet factory, sneak behind the scenes in Wallywood and boogie the night away at the disco. With even more places to discover and checklists of extra things to look for in every scene, this is a truly a-maze-ing experience!

Keep children occupied and entertained in the car with this write-in activity book's impressive variety of puzzles and games. There are amazing mazes, things to spot, challenges of logic, engaging word puzzles, and inventive games for one or more players. This book will keep boredom at bay - no matter how long the journey - and make the question "Are we nearly there yet?" a thing of the past.

Create unique i-cord words and shapes with this modern guide to French knitting! French knitting, also sometimes called spool knitting or i-cord knitting, has been around for centuries. The technique traditionally involves knitting with a handheld 'dolly' or spool with four pins around the edge, to produce a narrow tube of knitting known as an i-cord. The technique involves wrapping the yarn around the pins and then lifting loops over to create the stitches. It's a simple craft that children can do but is a little slow to create the fabric, and many kids lose interest before a decent length of i-cord is produced. Luckily, technology has moved forward and now there is a hand-held mechanical mini knitting mill available that makes light work of knitting i-cords. Once the machine is threaded (with a grown-up's help) all you need to do is turn the handle and watch the magic happen as the i-cord emerges in seconds from the bottom of the mill! This fresh and modern book gives you all the tips you need to get your mechanical mini knitting mill up and running and then 40 fabulous ideas for projects - from gifts to clothing, accessories to home decor and more. No knitting mill? No problem! All the projects can be knitted in the traditional method too. Children and adults alike will love the unique designs included, with step-by-step instructions and full-size templates. Create cute wired shapes, from flowers and hearts to names and words. Sew i-cords without wires onto clothing and bags for a unique, personalized look. Make gorgeous decor for kids' bedrooms with wall hangings and dreamcatchers. Give handmade gifts in the form of i-cord jewellery and hair accessories. Have fun with pompoms, charms, beads, feathers and sequins to add some bling! This beautiful book will get kids (and adults!) excited to try out a traditional craft in a brand new way and enjoy the making process - the perfect bonding activity to do with your kids! The 40 project ideas will spark further creativity - the possibilities for this craft are limited only by your imagination - and will foster a lifelong love of making. Mini knitting mill not included.

Be inspired by Football Legend, Kylian Mbappe! Discover more about this incredible player's journey from his early career at AS Bondy, coached by his father, to his success at Paris Saint-Germain FC and fulfilling his dream of playing for France. Football Legends: Young readers will love finding out all about the lives of their favourite players in this incredible biography series. Packed with footie facts and match stats plus Mbappe's career highlights Also in the series: Harry Kane, Raheem Sterling, Tammy Abraham, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Lionel Messi. Amazing cover artwork illustrated by Stanley Chow, whose iconic work has found worldwide acclaim

Just scratch with the stylus and watch the 14 pictures burst into colour! These pads are a fun and easy way to create colourful drawings. Each page features a line illustration on a black background. When you trace the picture with the included stylus, it reveals the bright, vivid colour beneath. The result is beautiful!1

PART STORY, PART GAME - PURE ADVENTURE! "A new way of telling stories and in many ways the birth of modern gaming, these books captured the imaginations of a generation of kids - it's great to think that a new generation are going to be similarly captivated" bestselling author Charlie Higson In this sequel to the first and most iconic Fighting Fantasy adventure, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, the evil sorcerer, Zagor, was thought to be defeated: but by the power of dark sorcery, he has risen from the dead to re-take his seat in forbidding Firetop Mountain and wreak revenge. YOU, the hero, must put an end to his reign of terror, once and for all! Featuring the interior art from the original edition published in 1992, by fan favourite illustrator Martin McKenna. ABOUT THE SERIES The multi-million copy globally bestselling choose-your-own-adventure series is repackaged and reignited for a brand new generation of children. All you need is a dice and you can choose which way the story goes Be careful - the main character can die at any point! 20 million copies sold worldwide in 32 languages Perfect for kids who love gaming A great way to encourage children away from gaming on screens and get them back into reading books!

No parent, teacher or nursery group should be without this classic treasury. There are songs, rhymes and games for every occasion, all chosen for their proven popularity with young children. Collected from all over Britain, the contents reflect the cultural diversity of the nation, making it an outstandingly rich and stimulating collection. Since the first edition of This Little Puffin was published over thirty years ago, it has been revised and updated, allowing it to remain the most invaluable book of its kind.