Milk doesn't just appear in the refrigerator, nor do apples grow in the fruit bowl. Before we eat, many people work very hard-planting grain, catching fish, tending animals, filling crates and stocking shelves.

A fresh new edition of the hugely popular Usborne First Cookbook. Introduces beginner cooks to the basic techniques of cooking through a selection of favourite recipes, including spaghetti bolognese, chocolate brownies, sausage rolls and pancakes. Each recipe contains clear and simple instructions in both word and picture form, illustrated by Stephen Cartwright's busy team of little cooks. With concealed spiral binding to make the book practical and easy to use in the kitchen.

From starsigns and the Chinese zodiac to birth stones and personality traits, this book is the complete guide to what the date of your birthday means for you. Have you ever wondered about the astrological significance of your birthday? Where the stars and planets align in the sky when we are born helps shape our personality and strengths. What does your star sign mean? What are your birth crystals, flowers and lucky talismans? Find out about the folk rituals associated with the month of your birth and their significance. There is also a day-by-day guide to what happened on your birth date in history, plus fun ideas of creative birthday gifts and activities suited to each sign. This book will uncover the details of your place in the cosmos by looking to the stars and help you celebrate yours and friends birthday in harmony with your astrological calendar.

Bread is an everyday food, but do you know where it come from and how it ends up on the supermarket shelves? Follow the story of a loaf of bread, through wheat farming to the manufacturing process. The simple text in this book, suitable for children aged 5+, is accompanied by large, attractive photographs. For children progressing through Book Bands, it is suitable for reading at level 8: Purple.

Where food comes from is a series for young children aged 5+, helping them question where their food comes from. It uncovers the role of farmers and others and begins an exploration of food groups. Children studying science topics including how plants change over time and healthy eating will also find these books useful.

The companion to The Call of the Wild + Free: styled in the lush aesthetic of the Wild + Free brand, a four-color book offering crafts, activities, and essays, that parents, educators, and caregivers can use to inspire their children. Wild + Free Handcrafts is a beautiful, four-color resource book for parents, educators, and caregivers to enjoy doing hands-on activities with kids. A handcraft engages one's hands, requires a level of learned skill, encourages children to do their best work, and produces an end product that is useful. It has been used in homeschool settings for decades as one way to encourage them to work with their hands and discover a skillful craft they love to practice. It also is a great way for traditionally educated kids who are home for the summer, or in afterschool programs, or with their families on the weekends, to do fun activities that will stimulate their imaginations and creativity. This book will feature crafts such as: Felted acorns Paper beads Nature wreaths Cocoa mint lip balm Woven willow hearts Finger knit bracelets Eco-dyed kitchen towels Fairy tale treehouse Flower crowns Bug hotel With the same lush photography as The Call of the Wild + Free, this book includes step-by-step pictures that show parents how to do the craft, and essays on the usefulness and purpose of handcrafts as a tool to spark children's curiosity and wonder.

Vegetables come in many shapes, colors, and forms. Using her signature combination of a clear and informative text with plenty of illustration diagrams, and cross sections, Gibbons provides a wealth of information about produce. Glossy red peppers; lush, leafy greens; plump, orange pumpkins; and delectable little peas: vegetables come in many shapes, colors, and forms. Using her signature combination of a clear and informative text with plenty of illustrations, diagrams, and cross sections, this book provides a wealth of information about roduce.

Printed on stiff card, this book contains templates to cut out and construct a model of a Viking settlement crammed with authentic detail. The base of the completed model measures 61 x 46cm, and includes 16 houses with doors and windows that open to reveal the details inside, and two Viking trading ships. With over 40 cut-out figures including merchants, traders and townspeople to recreate scenes of everyday life in a bustling riverside settlement.

The Junior Astrologer's Handbook is intended for children who are curious about the stars, signs, and the zodiac, and how this might affect their life or can be used to help guide them in friendships, family relationships, and school. This guide will also invoke mindfulness, self-care, creativity, and a connection with nature. It will be fully illustrated like our The Junior Witch's Handbook and speak to a similar audience of new age/spiritual kids and their families.

Little climbers, campers, sailors, and adventurers alike will become knot-tying pros with Speedy Knots. This visual guide answers all of your knot-tying questions. Simple, straightforward language makes it easy to master the basics without getting tied up. Knot tying is a fundamental skill that will help your child through life's adventures. Use these practical knots both indoors and out. Whether you're going camping, fishing, or helping tie down a canoe, you'll be able to choose the right knot for the job. This manual uses detailed, step-by-step illustrations and diagrams that make it easy to follow along. The unique format includes rope and offers a hands-on approach to learning so readers can practice each knot as they read the diagrams. Readers will master 24 essential knots, including the: - Figure eight knot - Crossing knot - Trident loop - Lobster buoy hitch - Englishman's loop - Scaffold knot - Slip knot - Chain knot - Running bowline - Reef knot With this guide, you will learn: how to choose, care for, and store your rope; when to use each knot; and how to tie knots safely and securely. Never get in a tangle again with Speedy Knots.

Create fashionable good luck charms for you and your friends with Friendship Wish Bracelets by Klutz! More than just a fashion statement, these bracelets are good luck charms too - use the hemp cords and beautiful glass beads, charms and crystals to weave together pretty bracelets to gift ... or to keep for yourself! Included in the kit: a booklet for guidance and inspiration hemp cords glass beads clay beads crystal rock beads bracelet maker with clip wish cards. 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

Following on from the popular Mini Clay World: Pet Truck, you can open up your own adorable Mini Clay World: Cute Cafe with this fabulous book and activity kit by Klutz. Make clay beverages and treats for your cafe with the adorably small custom mini waffle maker and utensils included! The kit also comes with a tiny display case so you can advertise your treats for customers however you want. The kit includes: an instruction booklet for guidance and inspiration mini plastic waffle maker spatula clay cardboard punch-outs. 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

This book contains exciting craft projects for children to make and own--or to give as presents. The projects also provide a fun way for children and adults to be creative together. There are brilliant ideas to decorate your space and store your stuff using stamping, stenciling, printing, stitching, painting, cutting, sticking, decoupage, and collage.

Plant and grow the tallest and biggest tree in the world in your very own backyard with The Grow Your Own Giant Sequoia Kit!

Sequoias are the biggest trees in the world. Now you can grow your own! Native to coastal California and the southwestern corner of Oregon the Giant Sequoia is an evergreen that can grow over 350 feet tall and up to 25 feet in diameter. These stunning trees have come to symbolize longevity, strength, majesty, prosperity, and power. Each kit comes with germinated seeds, a growing medium, and a dish to start your small plant on its way to millennium's worth of growth and prosperity. Children and adults will celebrate trees and the power of saving them with this fun and informative kit!

Introduce children to the craft of woodworking and watch their executive function skills thrive. The Guide to Woodworking with Kids is a culmination of craftsman Doug Stowe's four-decade career in woodworking and nearly twenty years of working with students K-12 in his Wisdom of the Hands woodworking class at the Clear Spring School in his hometown of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. This comprehensive guide offers step by step instruction for teachers, parents and grandparents to offer safe woodworking opportunities to their students and kiddos as a way of developing a wide range of valuable life-skills. Based in part on the philosophies of Froebel's Kindergarten and Educational Sloyd, this book illustrates the importance of doing real, hands-on activities in school and at home that enable students to: Think things through for themselves Develop skill, originality and inventiveness Explore their own self-interests Plan, organize and execute meaningful work Prepare to profitably employ leisure time Be handy and resourceful Develop both character and intellect Create useful beauty to benefit family, community and self The Guide to Woodworking with Kids is more than a woodworking book, it's gives parents, grandparents and teachers the confidence, encouragement, and the insight needed to safely engage children in life-enhancing creative arts.

Ever passed by a humble rock and seen its potential to be transformed into a magical dragon egg, jaw-dropping shark or quirky cacti garden? Do you want to learn to unleash your creativity in painting and crafting to create spectacular rock artworks? Then Zap! Extra Rock Craft is for you!

Packed with everything you need to make 13 amazing rock-craft projects, this kit contains a 48-page book with easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions to create mystical mermaid stones to superheroes and so much more!

What's Included

• 5 river rocks
• 10 paint pots
• 1 paintbrush
• 1 pack of sequins
• 55-cm (22-inch) metal wire
• 48-page book

Fall in love with colouring koalas in this new addition to our I Heart Colouring series. Packed full of cuddly koalas, this book also features cute kangaroos, wonderful wombats and plenty of luscious plants and flowers that children and adults alike can bring to life with colour. A percentage of the proceeds from this book will go to charities currently helping koalas and other wildlife affected by the recent bushfires.

With lots to see and heaps to do, in Busy Baking young children can join in by pushing, pulling and turning the tabs to bake some treats for a party. Collect the ingredients, beat the eggs and decorate the cake with lots of strawberries. Little ones will love playing with this bright and colourful board book with gentle rhyming text and wonderful illustrations by Louise Forshaw, which is part of the Busy Book series. There's lots more fun to be had with Busy Playtime, Busy Home, and Busy Cafe.

If you have an aspiring knight, whose dream would be to don sword, shield, helmet, and gauntlets to slay a dragon, then this is the craft book for you. With 15 heroic and daring projects, even the most reluctant of crafters will be keen to get stuck in. With cutting, sticking, painting, and cooking, you can create a prince's exciting world of castles, catapults and crowns. Also with ideas on cake and nibbles for a medieval banquet, the fun carries on long after the craft kit has been packed away. Projects include: Jousting Horse, King's Crown, Sword and Scabbard, Duct Tape Shield, Dragon Cape, Knight's Helmet, Bow, Cardboard Fort, Knight's Tabard, Shoebox Catapult.

Unleash your inner artist with Coloring Crush. The set includes everything you need to make dreamy, just-add-colour works of art. And, for those who can't find the pointy end of a pencil, this set includes a crash course in: using coloured pencilsblending and layeringcolour scheme inspirations artist-approved techniques. It's everything a budding artist could want!