The cousins' parents are coming home! Of course Lily, Tess, and Rosie are looking forward to seeing their parents, but they're also sad about leaving their cozy attic room in Aunt Lucy's little blue house on Cobble Street -- and each other. So they plan a summer party to welcome their parents back and to cheer themselves up. But it's Aunt Lucy's boyfriend, Michael, whose wonderful surprise makes the party really special.

It"s a good thing
you're not an
octopus!

If you were an octopus, you would have eight legs to put into your pants!

Follow one little boy through his day as he playfully considers how mealtime, bath time, nap time, and many other activities would be different if he were a bird, a tiger, or any number of baby animals. At the end of the day he realizes that the best thing of all is to be himself!

Julie Markes's first picture book is charmingly illustrated by Maggie Smith.

This title contains easy step-by-step activities that include fancy dress ideas, pumpkin-carving techniques as well as lots of spiders, witches and bats to paint, print or make. There are also invitations, decorations and cooking activities, which are ideal for Halloween parties. It includes two pages of stickers to use with the projects or for your own picture and is filled with colourful illustrations and inspiring photographs.

A witty wildlife fact and joke book from the National Trust This nutty book is packed with side-splittingly hilarious jokes and fascinating facts based on nature. Full of green-fingered giggles and wildlife witticisms, as well as incredible facts about nature, Ned the Nature Nut will turn you into a nature nut too! Written by Andy Seed - winner of the 2015 Blue Peter Book Award and brought to life with black and white illustrations from Sarah Horne

The follow-up to the popular Watercolor Crush and Watercolor Dreams, this beautiful kit teaches watercolour techniques and provides 18 pages of illustrations. Create gorgeous watercolour art in this lovely kit - there are even spot-gloss areas for resist painting. This is the perfect gift for creatives and also a great way to encourage creativity in children and help them develop an eye for detail. The kit includes: watercolour art boards with resist print seven colours of watercolour paint a paintbrush a pallet tray. What is Klutz? Klutz is a premium brand of book-based activity kits, designed to inspire creativity in every child. Our unique combination of crystal-clear instructions, custom tools and materials and hearty helpings of humour is 100% guaranteed to kick-start creativity. Super-clear instructions Open-ended Creativity Rewarding Reading Skills to Build On Everything You Need

Learn how to command a chess army in this friendly introduction, with entertaining illustrations on how the pieces move, and tons of tips on attacking, defending and winning. A perfect starting point for young children - and a handy refresher for parents and grandparents! With links to specially selected websites with puzzles and more information.

300 outrageous facts about wacky wildlife!

Get ready to ooh, aah and aww with wacky stats, tidbits, and trivia about the many ways animals can be incredibly WEIRD! Did you know that you can take a yoga class with goats? Or that there’s a pig that loves to paint? Or that slugs have green blood? The wild world of animals just got a little bit weirder in this new edition, packed with 300 facts and photos to encourage curiosity and keep kids entertained, amazed, and laughing for hours!

A new play book for discovering traditional board games in an amazing new guise: In a practical large format eight traditional board games from around the world are reinterpreted using the amusing illustrations of Beatrice Tinarelli in the fantastic world of science. After removing and fitting together the cardboard pieces at the back of the book, the children can challenge each other in games of logic and strategy, such as Watermelon Chess, Chinese Checkers, Dara, a traditional Nigerian game of strategy, or the eternal Noughts and Crosses. Each of these activities helps children to develop specific skills of logic and calculation, as briefly described in the texts that accompany the rules of each game. Each board has a different setting, with a delightful guide to accompany the children as they explore outer space, sensational robot factories, science labs and much more. Rediscovering the best traditional board games will be a fascinating journey into the world of science!

Paper doll fans and Shakespeare enthusiasts can dress two dolls in charmingly detailed period costumes for Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Ophelia, Othello and Desdemona, Anthony and Cleopatra. Also includes apparel from The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, Henry V, Richard III, and six other celebrated plays. A great way to introduce youngsters to Shakespeare. Includes brief synopses of plays. 30 costumes.

This book features over a dozen I SPY riddles and something more mysterious! In addition to the colorful, stunning photographs and clever rhyming riddles, every page has clues that your child must find in order to solve an intriguing, mind-teasing mystery. Named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year.

Winner of the Best Book category Creative Play Awards 2016.

This superb LEGO® building book inspires you to look at your LEGO bricks in new and exciting ways and enjoy LEGO fun every day of the year.

Featuring imaginative play and building ideas, from LEGO games that take just a few minutes and require a handful of bricks, to inspirational build ideas and activities to keep you occupied for hours. 365 Things to Do with LEGO® Bricks is packed with fun and quirky activities, such as: build your own LEGO pet; challenge your friends to make the tallest LEGO tower against the clock; and learn how to make a stop-motion LEGO movie.

©2020 The LEGO Group.

This Super-Sized Book of Bible Games is a giant, HUMONGOUS book packed with over 250 exciting games for every occasion. From icebreakers to outdoor games, this book doesn't just offer one type of game-it offers fourteen different types and offers more games than almost any other book on the market! Each game comes with an overview, step-by-step instructions, supply list, scripture connection, discussion questions, and a teachable moment that connects God's word to the activity. Quickly and conveniently find what you are looking for with its quick reference index that is arranged by topic, type, and Scripture. The variety of games in this book make it well suited for use in any setting: weekend ministry, midweek, VBS, mission trips, or anytime a group of children is together. All the games you need in one place will make this book your top go-to resource! This book includes game types like Old Testament, New Testament, Ice Breakers, Indoor, Outdoor, Wet and Wild Water, Small Group, Large Group, Quiet, Quick No-Prep, and much, much more!

From the publishers of the bestselling Where's the Unicorn? comes a festive adventure to knock your Christmas stockings off.

There's a week to go before Christmas Eve and Santa's eight favourite reindeer are nowhere in sight! Santa can't deliver all the presents in one night without his trusted herd to pull the sleigh, so he and his chief elf set off to find them. Help Santa chase the reindeer through 17 intricately illustrated seasonal scenes and bring them home to the North Pole in time to load up the sleigh. There are 8 cute reindeer, plus Santa and his elf, to find in each location and the answer pages at the back feature extra things to spot.

Illustrated by the bestselling artist behind Where's the Unicorn? and Where's the Meerkat?, this fab-yule-lous search-and-find book is a must-have Christmas gift.

This popular museum adventure is now published in paperback! A fantastic collection of favourite Wally scenes challenging readers to spot over 500 differences, ranging from tricky to fiendish to diabolical! Join Wally for a day at the museum! Ogle at artefacts and gawp at galleries as you search for Wally and his friends. And that's not all: this brilliant book contains double the trouble, with over 500 challenging differences to spot! This is the ultimate test for eagle-eyed Wally-Watchers to experience the world of Wally in a whole new way!

The latest addition to DK's "Peekaboo" series, these books feature big, bold pop-ups that jump from the pages when babies and toddlers lift the flaps. As young children explore the spreads, they'll learn to recognize, name, and describe different objects, providing a perfect early learning opportunity and fun way to build book-handling skills.

In this interactive guide, flaps open up to reveal a world of peekaboo surprises on the farm.

This fun-packed book is brimming with amazing pen-and-paper puzzles.

Rediscover the well-known classics and learn how to play brand-new games. From Minesweeper and Pair Them Up to Noughts and Crosses and Battleships, there are tons of games to enjoy either by yourself or with a friend.

Brilliant new title in the Buster Backpack Books series.

This magically illustrated gamebook plunges you into a story with a difference - one where the hero is YOU. But as you stare out at the stars from your prison cell window, you're not feeling very heroic. You, a city guard, thrown in jail because someone whispered a word in your ear. Just a single word... Then your cell door creaks open, and you're let loose on an epic adventure where every choice is yours, and your survival depends upon the decisions you make. Who to fight? Who to trust? In a world that's unravelling before your eyes, the mystery goes deeper than you could possibly have dreamt. Bringing together a thrilling story, beautifully illustrated picture puzzles and an exciting combat system, this is an adventure that will have you gripped from beginning to end.

The classic introduction to origami paper folding for beginners! Florence Sakade's time-tested origami book for beginners has been given a complete makeover, with an attractive new layout, improved instructions and updated diagrams. These improvements will enable a new generation of folders to make the beloved paper models in this book. From animals, flowers and boxes, to boats and the ever-popular crane, aspiring origami artists can learn directly from a master. This comprehensive book shows you how to fold 50 different models, including: A Japanese Kimono--A cute and satisfying model that will sharpen your folding skills A Jumping Frog--An action model that looks just like the real thing! Tap its hindquarters to get it to hop Spaceship and Jet Airplane--Give them a toss and watch them soar through the air A Whale--Make a splash with a charming model that only requires 8 steps to complete And many, many more! First published in 1958, this book has served as a guide for generations of origami folders. A reader favorite since then, it is perfect for adults or kids, and is the ideal gift for someone who wants to try their hand at origami for the very first time. The clear and colorful instructions make it easy to create amazing paper models with no previous folding experience.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling World Almanac (TM) comes a full-color, full-of-fun, oversize book packed with thousands of awesome facts about science, nature, and people-everything on planet Earth and beyond. Kids want to learn about the world around them, and with this engaging, colorful collection of facts, figures, photographs, and fun, they will. Perfect for home or for school, and a great gift for any curious reader, here are thousands of fascinating and surprising facts about almost everything: Animals-Dogs, cats, snakes, insects, spiders, sharks, and more Culture-Art, holidays, food, movies, and more Disasters-Earthquakes, shipwrecks, floods, storms, and more Geography-Oceans, mountains, continents, habitats, and more Geology-Volcanoes, tectonics, minerals, gems, and more Human Body and Medicine-Diseases, organs, senses, and other weird and wonderful human body facts. Record-setters-All about the biggest, smallest, fastest, tallest, and more Space-The moon, stars, planets, human spaceflight, and more Sports-Basketball, baseball, football, hockey, Olympic, and soccer superstars past and present, and more Technology-Computers, drones, inventions, and more The World Almanac (TM) 5,001 Incredible Facts for Kids on Nature, Science, and People provides kids, teachers, and families timely and timeless information on an enormous variety of subjects. It will give readers hours and hours of fun while it educates and illuminates.

Did you know that a lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away? Or that an astronaut's heartbeat slows down in space? It's all weird ... but true!

The world can be a pretty wacky place! Kids will have a blast exploring just HOW wacky in the 3rd book in the wildly popular Weird But True series, full of 350 surprising and amazing facts. Topics include science, space, weather, geography, food, pop culture, and just about everything else under the sun, presented with fascinating photos and illustrations. This quirky little reference book is so much fun, kids forget they're learning.