This zany and generous treasury combines scores of games, jokes, puzzles, comics, and crafts in one portable collection. It provides countless hours of entertainment to liven up even the rainiest afternoon. Among the brainteasers and funny-bone ticklers are riddles, optical illusions, and other baffling brain bogglers such as Wacky Spoonerisms and ...
In a culture obsessed with physical perfection, it's no easy feat to have a positive self-image -- especially for adolescent girls. Part of the "Girl Zone" series, "Body Talk" challenges girls to rethink the image-conscious advertising that saturates the tween/teen market. With frank information on eating disorders, fad diets, and the business of ...
Through time and across continents, stories of sweets and their inventors intrigue and entertain us. Learn about primal sweets -- from honey, sweet milk, and nuts to sugar candy, chocolate, and "sweet" stories of success. Sweet! The Delicious Story of Candy takes us through history from 4,000 B.C., when islanders in Papua New Guinea cut sugarcane ...
Most experts believe there are over 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) individual insects digging, boring, flying, crawling, and excreting their way in and around the Earth. That's about a billion "billion" bugs for every single person. And that's not even counting their close relatives, the arachnids, which include spiders, lice, ticks, ...
Following her good-times-for-all, smash-hit "Boredom Blasters, " Helaine Becker serves up another barrel of laughs in this book for now and future jokesters. Young readers learn how to prepare a comedy routine and how to draw their own comic strips. They discover what separates a good clown from a stupendous one, and how to perform clown routines ...
Finally -- the truth about Little Bo Peep and those pesky, lost sheep! In this wacky take on familiar fairy tales, readers meet Rapper Rapunzel, a mouthy tween banished to her room by fed-up parents; the Big Bad Wolf, now wanted for identity theft; advice columnist Fairy Godmother; and assorted witches, fairies, gnomes, princes, stepsisters, ...
Infused with Helaine Becker's trademark wit and irrepressible energy, "Science on the Loose" encourages young readers to release their inner scientist so that they can think, do, and learn in the most entertaining way possible. Whether it's to test density in fruit, determine dominant genes, or make slimy goo, each experiment follows accepted ...
Nineteen activities explain how to do a variety of art projects, from watercolor paintings to collage. The text is accompanied by "Art Fact" sidebars, an index of other resources, and full-color illustrations.
This book in the Primary Physical Science series is full of surprising facts and hands-on activities to help kids explore the physics of why and how things move.
Providing girls with important tools for coping with common stressors in their lives, such as peer pressure, body image, and school and family problems, this volume introduces readers to yoga poses, breathing, and meditation exercises using clear, illustrated guidelines.
This handy book shows children how to do the really important things that every child needs to know, from surfing the Internet safely to roasting the perfect marshmallow. Simple step-by-step instructions cover all manner of interesting and useful subjects, including getting along with the grown-up world (setting the table, writing thank-you notes) ...
Inviting girls to get active, have fun, feel strong, and glow with good health, "The Girls' Yoga Book" provides them with important tools for coping with common stressors in their lives, such as peer pressure, body image, and school and family problems. Its safe, clear guidelines -- vibrantly illustrated throughout -- introduce poses, breathing, ...
A book that teaches skills to girls to cope with stress and includes activities, things to make, ways to counter negative feelings and pressure. It celebrates the gifts all girls possess, make for the people they care about, and the gift of individuality.
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