One advantage in making a cardboard globe yourself is that somehow the information on it becomes more familiar and more accessible. All countries are shown in full color and there are about 1200 major cities, seas, rivers and other geographical features. There is a 24 page minibook called "Do you know?" which is full of interesting facts and ideas about the earth and the environment.

Children love making these beautiful shapes which are such fun to decorate. Each model is printed on crisp white paper ready to cut out and glue together. There are at least 12 hours of enjoyment in each book and the finished models make a fine collection. There are plenty of suggestions and ideas for coloring and decorating.

Each of these two books contains a delightful collection of of pretty boxes to cut out and glue together. All of the flaps are carefully lettered to show the best order of glueing and when the boxes are complete the make ideal containers for small gifts to give to relatives and friends. Most of the boxes are in full color but in the first book four have been provided for children to color themselves.

This beautiful model to cut out and glue together is the result of arranging five interpenetrating cubes in a highly symmetrical way Each cube is printed in its own colour and so it is easy to see that exactly two cubes meet at every vertex and that there are twelve surfaces defining each face of each cube. There is a strong internal frame and multiple divisions in the golden ratio to discover. Simple and logical instructions followed carefully yield extraordinary results.

Children love making these beautiful shapes which are such fun to decorate. Each model is printed on crisp white paper ready to cut out and glue together. There are at least 12 hours of enjoyment in each book and the finished models make a fine collection. There are plenty of suggestions and ideas for coloring and decorating.

This beautiful model to cut out and glue together has twelve sharp spikes emerging from pentagonal cups and forming ten pairs of parallel planes, each in a different colour. None of these ten colours occurs more than once on any spike or cup. When completed, the polyhedron rests on a horizontal surface on just three spikes. Simple and logical instructions followed carefully yield extraordinary results.

Anyone looking for number puzzles to stretch and intrigue will be delighted with the contents of this original book. The demanding challenges explore the properties of numbers and the patterns and hidden relationships which exist between them. Many of the challenges are presented in a visual or diagrammatic way with tables or charts to complete or fill in.