A calming activity book to help children explore their emotions and focus on the things that make them feel happy and confident. Written by Ellen Bailey, bestselling author of the 'All About Me' series. This fun, friendly book is filled with mindful activities and prompts to encourage readers to express their emotions on the page, including drawing pages, breathing techniques and inspirational quotes. It also provides a safe space for the reader to explore feelings such as low self-esteem and anxiety, with practical tips and information presented in a supportive and affirming way. The book has been developed in consultation with a children's mental health charity, Blue Smile, and a royalty of UK sales will be donated to the charity.

Can you rise to the Ultimate Challenge? It's time to find out, with this interactive book of weird, wacky and bonkers challenges for kids.

Can you master the task of drawing a cat while blindfolded? How quickly can you get a cookie from your forehead to your mouth without touching it? Can you win a rap-off? How about balancing an ice cube on top of your head?

Work your way through each hilarious challenge, recording your best scores along the way. Some are solo challenges, some can be done against a friend, and for others you can rope in the entire family. You can do them indoors, outdoors or even turn them into party games. Just make sure you're at the very top of your game!

The Ultimate Challenge Book will have you holding in laughs, picking up peas with chopsticks, juggling like crazy and jumping around like the floor is lava. Beat that!

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Category: Math Skills
"How many grapes are on the vine?
Counting each takes too much time.
Never Fear, I have a hunch
There is a match for every bunch "
Greg Tang, a lifelong lover of math, shares the techniques that have helped him solve problems in the most creative ways Harry Briggs's vibrant & inviting illustrations create a perfect environment for these innovative games. So open your mind-and have fun
"This...clever math book uses rhyming couplets... riddles...visual clues to help the reader find new ways to group numbers for quick counting...A winning addition " --Kirkus

This inviting draw-in book is filled with drawing activities to help soothe busy minds and shrink down worries. The activities include mindful drawing to bring your focus to the here and now, soothing shading and other art techniques, and ways to use your imagination to make worries feel small. Unworry Drawing was written with the help of a child psychologist, who uses drawing every day to help children work through unwelcome thoughts and feelings.

Who would have thought that learning your multiplication tables could be so easy -- and so much fun? In the form of brief, witty rhymes accompanied by hilarious full-color pictures, Greg Tang offers clever, straightforward math techniques that will help your child understand how multiplication works.

Educational Edge
Simple strategies for learning how to multiply will prepare your child for advanced math operations. He'll also develop critical thinking skills and an interest in learning.

Absolutely chronicles the quirky life of Dr. Harry Briggs, WWII Marine, the first person to swim the 32 miles across Lake Erie, persistent entrepreneur, and, at 90 years old, still a political science professor. About this amazingly candid tale, John Muenzer, Marathon Swimmer, says: "I laughed and cried as I read his story. Harry's journey starts with his rambunctious years in his mid 20's to the Pacific Theater, Swimming Hall of Fame, numerous businesses, educator and loving husband. No matter what obstacles Dr. Briggs faced, he willed himself to never accept failure. Truly a unique individual and one that's accomplished a great deal in his lifetime!" Frank Cox, Marine veteran and award-winning author says, "Letitia Sweitzer has skillfully captured the dramatic life saga of her uncle, Harry Briggs, an athlete and an intellectual, who has packed three lifetimes of adventure into his 90 years. Absolutely! is an inspiring, thoroughly enjoyable, story about the can-do spirit of an American hero."

This immersive and reassuring book is packed with activities, all designed to help the reader focus and engage in the here and now. Aimed primarily at children, it contains a range of things to do, make, write and draw, so there's something for every mood.