Kids are on a mission to save the Earth! Recycle and Remake is the hands-on, practical guide you need to get started.

This gentle, but empowering book is full of creative making activities, information, and ideas that give young eco-warriors (like you!) the know-how to really help the environment. With Recycle and Remake, you will soon be saving trees by making your own seeded recycled paper from junk mail, cleaning up the oceans by turning old carrier bags into kites, friendship bracelets, and colourful weaved baskets, and repurposing a cardboard box into a periscope. You'll also learn about sustainable energies by creating a simple solar oven, cutting down on cling-film by making a food wrap from scrap cotton and beeswax, and turning an old t-shirt into a reusable tote bag so you never need to buy a plastic carrier bag again. You can even grow new plants to clean the air in your own up-cycled milk bottle planters and using homemade compost.

As you make and create, you will learn kid-friendly facts about the big issues our planet is facing. Each of the activities directly relates to an environmental hot topic, such as plastic pollution, food waste, or deforestation. Budding environmentalists all over the world are feeling inspired to do their bit for our unique planet. This future-friendly ebook is here to guide you with all the information, ideas, tips, and tools you need to be part of the solution.

Learn crucial survival skills from world-famous ex-SAS author and survival expert Andy McNab. If you want to be ready for the outdoors, street-smart in the city, and even safe online, this book will show you how! Find out the best way to set up a camp, safely start a campfire, find your bearings, search for food and water and stay safe in the great outdoors. As well as crucial basics for camping and hiking, readers will discover what to do about more unusual events - including escaping quicksand, tsunamis and wild animal attacks. This book also features a guide to urban survival - how to stay safe in the city, avoid stranger danger, find your way around any urban environment, and how to manage any emergency. Plus, with years of military-grade security experience, Andy also gives crucial tips on staying safe online. Discover how to make an unbreakable password, how to hide your identity from trolls and scammers, and how to banish cyber-bullies. Ex-SAS Sergeant Andy McNab became the UK's most decorated soldier, and is the author of best-selling fiction including Bravo Two Zero. With years of experience of surviving the world's most gruelling situations, Andy delivers hard-won advice in clear and simple language, with lots of practical tips, visual references and anecdotes from his own survival experience. This is the fun, simple and 100% authentic realworld survival guide that every young reader needs!

'A call to arms for the next generation of eco-warriors, full of practical ideas and activities to encourage wildlife and a love of the natural world' - The Bookseller 'This is my pledge, my promise, my vow, Lasting forever, starting now: I'll be a friend to nature.' An illustrated book celebrating the natural world and ways to appreciate it, filled with practical activities and ideas to help wildlife and the environment on your doorstep and worldwide. Starting with a pledge in poetic form, this book is a call to arms for the next generation of peaceful eco warriors. Broken down into sections of activities, each lyrically relates back to the metaphor of being a friend to nature. The activities themselves are short, easy, and fun, with a few more extensive projects mixed in. These are interspersed with nature quotes, poetry, and other thought-provoking musings, as well as pieces of simple non-fiction information, such as the life cycle of a frog, a butterfly, a cross section of a flowering plant, and why you should always wish on a dandelion clock. The final section explores what nature can give back to us in turn; that if we look after the natural world, we will always have a friend in nature - a space to be calm, to pause and think, to recharge, to bring us joy, amusement, and health.

35 creative projects for children using natural and recycled materials Making their own toys, games, gifts and ornaments encourages children to use their creative flair - and if they can use component parts that are adapted or recycled, so much the better for them and the planet. None of Emma Hardy's projects in Green Crafts for Children use any special materials. Instead, they all rely on items that are likely to be in the cupboard, can be found around the house or garden, or collected on walks in the park or at the beach. There are recipes for salt dough and methods for easy felting, plus ways to imaginatively use old gift-wrapping paper and worn-out clothes, as well as pine cones, tree bark, shells and other natural bits and bobs. Gifts for relatives and friends are here, together with games and toys that can be made and then played with again and again. From painted stones and a friendship bracelet to a simple dolls' house and a driftwood boat, children will love the projects in this engaging book. In fact, kids need never be bored again.

The perfect cookbook for beginner chefs both young and old. Recipes include pizza and pasta dishes, vegetarian dishes and delicious cakes and cookies, giving novice cooks something to create for every occasion. Each recipe is demonstrated with easy, step-by-step instructions and the concealed spiral binding makes the book practical and easy to use in the kitchen. NB this book includes Cakes and Cookies for Beginners, which is also published separately.

A delightful introduction to plant life and nature, as little ones get hands-on to grow their own sunflowers. Includes sunflower seeds, a sunflower height chart, and exciting flaps.

RHS I Can Grow a Sunflower is a friendly approach to plant science and a great gift for little gardeners. Sixteen bright board book pages reveal the life cycle of a sunflower, and the excitement of growing a plant from seed.

Little children follow the journey of a mystery seed, learning how to plant it, and what it needs to grow. Could it magically become the tallest of all the garden flowers? RHS I Can Grow a Sunflower includes facts about garden creatures, from the helpful ladybird to busy worms, and the visiting bees and butterflies who spread pollen.

Children will enjoy read-aloud text, easy-to-follow pictures that show the life cycle of a sunflower - underground, above ground, and through the year - and flaps that show plants growing and creatures hiding.

RHS I Can Grow a Sunflower includes a packet of sunflower seeds and a height chart that reinforces how tall a sunflower grows, making this the perfect book for getting young gardeners hands-on for the very first time.

"A ready resource for business-savvy youngsters." - Booklist "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." -Mark Cuban, How to Win at the Sport of Business Discover a winning idea, launch your business, and start making money today! Do you think it would be cool to run your own business? Do you want to help people with everyday problems? Do you want to make money? Then you could be an entrepreneur! You don't have to be a grownup to launch your start-up. We'll show you how to discover a great business idea and get it off the ground. You can try one of our ten kid-friendly businesses, including timeless ventures like starting a lemonade stand to more modern-day endeavors like launching an Etsy art store, or create your own. Because every billionaire was once a kid with great ideas-just like you! "Business 101-simple, with a good measure of excitement and motivational verve." -Kirkus

Get inventive with these beautifully illustrated cards and envelopes. Created in collaboration with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), the UK's leading gardening charity, these cards are filled with spring-themed nature illustrations. Featuring buds, blossoms and butterflies, these exquisitely-detailed cards and envelopes are inspired by the gardens of the RHS. Get creative with different colours and materials to decorate these nature-themed cards. With over 40 stickers for you to give your cards an extra special touch! With easy-to-follow instructions and tear-out pages Customise each card to create a unique gift The perfect activity for all ages This RHS stationery set is a wonderful activity to cut out and colour with friends and family!

Part of the much loved Children Just Like Me series, Food Like Mine is a touching celebration of children from all over the world and the food they eat. Featuring more than 20 easy-to-follow recipes and beautiful photography throughout, Food Like Mine is part of DK's groundbreaking series on children of the world and features children from Botswana to the USA. Perfect for children key stage 1 & 2 who will learn about staple ingredients, see where they're eaten and discover how they're grown. Then you can use these staples in more than 20 delicious, international dishes to make at home. Food Like Mine shows that even if we live thousands of miles apart, our lives share a common ingredient - food!

The worlds of nursery rhymes and Singapore hawker food collide in this book. Dive into fractured nursery rhymes with a local twist, featuring Singapore hawker food.Imagine Humpty Dumpty enjoying kaya toast, Jack and Jill grilling satay on a hill and the three blind mice eating chicken rice at the hawker centre. Wouldn't that be a funny sight?Cheeky illustrations highlight aspects of Singapore hawker culture that children will have fun identifying. Young readers (and not so young ones) can sing or read these hawker food rhymes and follow the familiar rhythms, while naming the well-loved hawker fare that appear in the rhymes.

A practical, hands-on cookery book that makes it as easy as possible for parents, grandparents and carers to have fun cooking with a toddler aged 1 to 4 years old. Everything in Tickle Fingers is completely toddler appropriate with minimal need for adult intervention - no hobs, no sharp knives, and no raw meat - and has been carefully selected to emphasise all the activities toddlers love to do: squishing, sorting, mixing and pouring. With 60 step-by-step recipes for all the family to enjoy, special sections on allergies and fussy eating, and lots of ideas on how to tackle common challenges, The Tickle Fingers Toddler Cookbook is full of simple yet delicious food that every toddler will be proud to (almost) make on their own.

A gorgeous gift book filled with 52 seasonal activities that families and friends can enjoy together, published in collaboration with the National Trust. Make every Sunday a fun day with an inspirational nature activity for every weekend of the year! From green-fingered gardening projects and outdoor obstacle courses to creative crafts and warming winter recipes, there is something for everyone, whatever the weather. Packed with super seasonal activities for children (and adults!) of all ages, this book will make every family weekend a fantastic one. Presented in a beautiful hardback format with cloth binding and featuring stunning full colour illustrations from Jesus Verona on every page, this is a book to be treasured for years to come.

This title features fun-to-do experiments for kids, shown step by step. It includes 16 stimulating projects that help children to learn about science by conducting their own experiments. It introduces and explains very simple ideas in physics, chemistry and biology: light and shade, water, weather, sound, and everything children can see, touch and hear. You can find out how mirrors work, tell the time by the sun, investigate sound by making a string telephone, and see how the wind moves a homemade sail boat. All the experiments are shown in clear step-by-step photographs, and use simple materials and very basic equipment that can be found around the home. It is the perfect starter book for ages 3 to 7 years - for older readers to use with minimum supervision, and for younger children to enjoy with adult help. The world around us is a source of incredible wonder and amazement to children. This book will reveal and explain how things work, and respond to youngsters' first questions.It encourages readers to devise and carry out their own practical experiments - such as exploring the way light travels in straight lines by making shadow puppets, and melting ice cubes to learn about temperature - instilling real understanding and the excitement and enthusiasm that will carry them positively into more 'serious' science in the future.

A fresh and fun introduction to sewing on a machine for kids, this guide is perfect for budding little crafters. From threading up, to filling a bobbin, award winning author Jane Bull uses clear step-by-step instructions and photos to walk you through everything you need to know to get to grips with your machine. My Sewing Machine Book is packed with easy sewing projects, templates, and patterns to try, and your newly learned skills can then be put to the test with 20 creative and original projects to make - from bags and accessories, to colourful cushions and fabric toys.