A well designed, colourful, and creative intergenerational resource to inspire children, families, and communities to connect creatively with God and to connect with one another.

The WOW! series are creative, interactive and practical books that offer innovative resources to explore stories and themes found in the Bible. They are designed to help you explore your faith with your family or as a group by delving imaginatively into stories and offer reflection time for both adults and children. Encourage connection and conversation between adults and children/youth around the stories and characters, encouraging empathy for the children and a new way of thinking about these well-known stories for adults. Ideal to use at home or as a resource for church schools and churches providing a multitude of activities and conversation starters for Sunday schools, religious education and collective worship in schools.

Wow! Jesus explores six Bible stories about the life of Jesus, including the calling of his disciples, his miracles of feeding the 5,000, calming the storm and raising Lazarus, and his impact on those he met, such as Zacchaeus. Each story is explored through offering innovative activities including engaging prayer, craft and create, acting the scene, time for reflection, ideas for discussion and creative praise.

PRAY - opportunities to pray in a creative way by yourself or with others.

PAUSE - take some time out to reflect on an element of the story and how it fits with our lives now.

PLAY - Ideas to get you on your feet and having a bit of fun around the story.

CREATE - Craft and make creations that help to explore themes and parts of the story.

CELEBRATE - Celebrate and find joy in the story and ideas in how to rejoice in these together.

COMMUNICATE - A chance to chat and connect with each other using the parts of the story as conversation starters.

Written by Martha Shrimpton founder of Nimbus Collective that aims to help all ages to connect in a creative way as an individual, as a family and as a community and also with God.

'It's picnic time here on the beach Wow - that whirring thing up there's a whopper! Quick - cover up just EVERYTHING... It's a big green helicopter chopper!' Follow the touch and trace elements with your finger and lift the flaps to discover the dazzling green helicopter in this delightful, interactive board book. The titles in the Whizzz! series use simple but entertaining rhyming text and eye-popping illustrations to introduce young children to things that go.

Are you smart enough to help Zane, Kiran, Ethan and Cassia escape from Dinosaur Island in this fast-moving puzzle adventure? Escape Room Puzzles: Dinosaur Island is packed with all kinds of puzzles, including fiendish mazes, cunning logic problems, tricky memory challenges and much more. To escape from Dinosaur Island, you will need every ounce of brainpower to progress through the challenges, navigating through five locations to the final exit - and watch out for dangerous kid-eating dinosaurs as you go! Throughout the book, nuggets of non-fiction dino information are scattered on the pages. This is the perfect book to entertain readers aged 7+ both at home and on the go, while giving their brains a workout at the same time. Look out for all the books in the Escape Room Puzzles series and see if you have what it takes to help the gang carry out each mission!

Discover the secrets of hieroglyphs, the language of the ancient Egyptians, with this innovative kit from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Learn the sounds and letters of the hieroglyphic alphabet, find out which symbols were thought to have magical powers, and read how this mysterious language was decoded after hundreds of years.

Then, with the alphabet chart as your guide, use the 24 hieroglyphic stamps and ink pad to write messages, create designs, and make cards.

Challenge your kid to crack these video-game themed math codes and show them how much fun learning can be! Kids can choose from over 50 colorfully illustrated puzzles featuring their favorite gaming characters and scenarios. Their mission: to unlock the secret code, spell out the secret message, or solve the equation before the game ends (or the creeper explodes!). With diamond swords, suits of armor, zombies, and magical potions to keep every page fun and exciting, kids won't even realize that they're practicing and developing core math and problem-solving skills. Builds foundational math skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Helps them practice fact families, balancing equations, and more. Encourages young gamers to use what they know to tackle exciting math challenges Supports classroom learning at home, in the car, and anywhere else you take it with you! Perfect for reluctant learners and kids who can't get enough of math or secret codes, Math Codes for Minecrafters makes every kid feel like they're winning at math.

Taking a flight is always exciting, and On the Plane Activity Book is the perfect companion for your journey. Play 'I Spy While I Fly', take a multiple-choice quiz and spot the identical pilots on their way through the airport. Packed with plenty to keep kids occupied at the airport or during the flight, this book also includes planes to decorate, matching games, fill-in-the-face drawing tasks, true-or-false airplane and flying facts, and behind-the-scenes diagrams to explore. All children need to do is grab some pens and pencils, get ready to draw, write and play, and let their creativity soar!

Beat the boredom and take time out from screens with this pocket-sized book packed with facts, photos and fantastic spots for hours of fun! Kids will have fun collecting points with more than 140 vehicles to find. From trucks and cars to police motorbikes and caravans, they'll learn all about things that go. And once they've scored 1000 points, super-spotters can claim their official i-SPY certificate and badge. With more than 30 i-SPY books to collect, there's something for everyone! For even more fun on the road check out i-SPY Cars (ISBN 9780008386504).

It's beginning to smell a lot like Christmas! Rudy the Reindeer Poo and his festive friends are on an adventure to drop off all their Christmas deliveries. But ho, oh no! They keep getting lost... can you find them? The perfect stocking-filler, this Christmas activity book comes from the bestselling creator of 'Where's the Poo?'

Join the Songbirds characters in these exciting phonics activities, ideal for children who are taking their first steps in reading. Featuring characters from Julia Donaldson's Songbirds stories, this Read with Oxford Stage 1 activity book includes a variety of activities and stickers to provide a fun way to build phonics knowledge and reading confidence. Help Zak the dog find the missing letters, play a balloon game with Top Cat and make up rhymes with Bob Bug. Former Children's Laureate and author of The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson, has captivated children all over the world with her lively and engaging stories. Songbirds is a phonics programme carefully created by Julia to support children who are learning to read and is used in schools to inspire a love of reading. There are four Songbirds phonics activity books for you to enjoy. Featuring much-loved characters, great authors, engaging storylines and fun activities, Read with Oxford offers an exciting range of carefully levelled reading books to build your child's reading confidence. Find practical advice, free eBooks and fun activities to help your child progress on oxfordowl.co.uk. Let's get them flying!

The only official Minecraft English book for children aged 6-7! Children embark on a Minecraft adventure in each English topic, using their skills and knowledge to complete the tasks and earn rewards. This is a write-in English practice workbook which uses the Minecraft game as a mechanism for practising the key English skills covered in Year 2. Accomplish English activities to help Minecraft characters on their missions Explore different biomes in each topic Earn emeralds as you work through the book, and choose how you spend them Go hardcore with challenging questions

Discover cool cars with i-SPY - facts, photos and fantastic spots! Beat the boredom and take time out from screens with this pocket-sized book packed with facts, photos and fantastic spots for hours of fun! Kids will have fun collecting points with more than 120 cools cars to find. From Chevrolets to Chryslers, Rolls Royces to Porsches, they'll learn all about the model range and origins along the way. And once they've scored 1000 points, super-spotters can claim their official i-SPY certificate and badge. With more than 30 i-SPY books to collect, there's something for everyone! For even more fun check out i-SPY On a Car Journey (ISBN 9780008386504).

The perfect bingo game for children aged 3+ from the creators of the bestselling Bird Bingo, Dog Bingo, Dinosaur Bingo and Poo Bingo Contains 4 gameboards with a different illustration on each: the bedroom, the bathroom, the kitchen and the living room. Kids will delight in exploring the familiar scenes of daily life - all illustrated with a charming twist Each board has ten objects to find: be the first to fill your bingo board to win! Fun and educational: develops matching and observation skills Beautifully boxed set. The ideal gift for early learners! Also available in the Laurence King Bingo series for kids are: Poo Bingo, Dinosaur Bingo, Jungle Bingo, Scary Bingo and Wonder Women Bingo. Our adult Bingo series features: Bird Bingo, Bug Bingo, Cat Bingo, Dog Bingo, Monkey Bingo, Ocean Bingo and Royal Bingo.

An activity and story book combine for an interactive and reflective way to count the days through Lent to Easter. The Easter Tree represents following the example of Jesus, introducing children to the stories in the Gospels in anticipation of his resurrection. Decorate a budding tree branch with 40 easy-to-make symbols and read short stories about Jesus life and teachings that each symbol represents. Templates for the symbols and Bible references are provided along with a reflection and simple Lent challenge. Journey through Lent and create an Easter tree with a difference for children and all the family to reflect and enjoy.

The snow is melting, the birds are chirping, and the sun is shining. Let's go on a spring-time adventure Learn about the exciting journeys you can enjoy as you stroll through Hello Green Mountains, It's a Soggy Spring. Follow the moose tracks through Vermont's seasons Can you spot the moose hiding in each book? Take a good look Coming Soon: It's a Sizzling Summer, It's a Fabulous Fall and It's a Winter Wonderland.

Activity time or story time? Why not both? Seventeen beloved Bible stories are each accompanied by five different dot to dot activities providing hours of entertainment and learning for children aged 4-7. Read the short stories with your children and stimulate their growing minds with activities designed just for them. By engaging with Bible stories in a hands-on way, children will learn by doing and having fun at the same time. Vibrant illustrations make each page inviting and colourful, and help engage interest in the story. Next time you're looking for an activity, pull out My Dot to Dot Activity Bible, and help your child learn while they play! Content Benefits: This large format activity book will help children engage with well-known Bible stories. * Includes 85 dot to dot activities * Offers simple retellings of Bible stories * Bible references are included for each story * Modern and colourful illustrations * Helps children to learn while having fun * Perfect gift idea for children * Large format and page count adds quality and value to the book * Ideal resource for anyone working in a church/ Sunday School setting * Suitable for Sunday School prizes * Suitable for ages 4-7

Children can learn about turn-taking, rules and winning and losing while enjoying vibrant illustrations of exotic bugs, from beetles, butterflies and bees to leafhoppers and stick insects and dragonflies.

Winner of a Mom's Choice Gold Award! The Highlights Book of Things to Write is the essential book that every young writer will love. Kids ages 7 and up will find over 175 creative writing prompts and activities designed to get their imaginations flowing. From open-ended writing prompts that invite kids to explore themselves and their world, to word games, writing tips and how-tos, this 160-page book is the ultimate way for kids to express themselves through their words. This writing companion journal to The Highlights Book of Things to Do opens doors for kids to flex their creativity. As kids explore this illustrated, flexi-bound book, they will enhance their writing skills and expand their imaginations by creating characters, writing short stories, trying out various styles of poetry, learning how to write about the things they care about, and so much more. Kids can put themselves on the page and look back on this keepsake in years to come. It's a wonderful gift for any occasion or special holiday, offering kids hours and hours of screen-free fun and entertainment. 2021 People Magazine holiday gift guide for kids