How to Save the Whole Stinkin’ Planet is science communicator Lee Constable’s training manual for waste warriors. A journey through what you need to now, and how you can make a difference to the environment.
There’s a lot to unpack in this toolkit and garbological adventure.
If you don’t know what garbology is then you need this book. You also need it even if you do know what garbology is.
And it contains all manner of interactive fun and engagement potential, for small people.
Cluck, cluck, cluck. Scritch and scratch.
Chickens look for eggs that match.
Award-winning
author and illustrator Ruth Paul’s opening illustration depicts a gaggle of
hens sleeping in a tree. From here, we are encouraged to observe each hen’s
individual patterning and markings, and then to seek out her particular,
matching eggs.
Eddie Woo's Wonderful World of STEM is an activity book, the kind that you can write and draw in. It takes a stack of STEM concepts and demonstrates them using simple explanations and activities.
This is fun stuff and features marble runs, paper planes, and building with spaghetti.
Learn about the Fibonacci sequence and how to find patterns in nature. A photo and diagram of a sunflower demonstrate the spiral patterns which can be counted to discover a Fibonacci number.
The Observologist is a 'handbook for mounting very small scientific expeditions'. It's packed with interesting and useful information and well-labelled diagrams and illustrations galore.
There are five main sections to dip into. The first is all about 'observology', or as the book explains, the study of looking. It can brighten up any number of situations including when waiting for your turn at something, or when there's a power cut.
The boy, the narrator, sets out the next day at the allocated time, to try and discover where Dan lives.
A stunning folded page extends to show the whole street with
its row of houses.
There is confusion.
Each house is entirely different; one boat-shaped, another with a horse tied out front. Which one could be Dan’s?
He looks at the first house?
And wonderfully, it celebrates human hands and all of the amazing things that they can do.
Oversized
and abundant with activities for children big and small, the book takes us on a
hand-raising adventure which encourages us to do things that aren’t always
encouraged at story time; to make our hands leap and dance and tap and jump and
zoom and flip and roll and float and cavort and galumph.
Children are entertained and educated as they count,
discover, search and find, while creating their own colourful interpretation of
the images they see, based on and around Peppa’s life experiences.
Mermaids and their underwater world, unicorns, dragons, treasure hunts, holidays, camping, favourite places, and most certainly, friends and family members, fill the pages with fun and activity.
There are lots of fairies and all the excitement and magic that comes with them.
Peter Rabbit loves the outdoors and being surrounded by nature and his family. It is a glorious day, so the young ones decide to bring their toys out into the sunshine.
They play hide and seek. There are so many secret places to hide. Peter Rabbit knows them all. Under bushes, behind trees and in all the nooks and hollows that nature provides.
This is the perfect book for any rainy days. A colouring book with science drawings, Science in Colours is part of a series of many others including The Sound of Colour, with drawings about music. If you have other interests the series has it all covered, you will find illustrations of animals, plants , landscapes, and fictional characters in these other colouring books. I personally got Science in Colour and The Sound of Colour.
Colouring is known to help with
anxiety, stress and even depression and that’s actually the purpose of these
books. It’s also a good way to increase someone’s
interest in painting. So this book would potentially boost someone’s drawing,
painting, sketching skills. Additionally, it’s a great way to developed further
someone’s fine motoring skills and concentration skills.
The book has a mixture of easy and more
complicated drawings to colour, that makes it ideal for something quick to
colour or something more complicated and longer to do.
What makes this book and the
others in the series very special is that purchasing them will help low-income
children in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Koley is a non-profit foundation with a
social aim so that makes these books even more interesting. I really love this
story behind the books and when I use them that make me feel even better than
some other children can also benefit from it.
So far I have tried a couple of
easy colouring pages in Science in Colours and can see how children can do some
of the pages. However other pages have more detailed drawings and would require
longer time to complete. I really love the combination of colouring and music
in The Sound of Colour, combining two art forms, however most pages have
instruments and people that are detailed and requires lot of colouring time. I
have recently learnt a bit more about warm and cold colours at an Art Club and shall
definitely have more practice using these books.
Dalila was even mentioned in this book as part of the author's fact finding. We look forward to hearing more from this keen creative, soon.
Portrait Drawing for kids, a Step-By-Step Guide to Drawing Faces is a book designed for children aged 9 to 12 but older children and even adults can use it too. This is my review after using the book.
When I first tried the book, I was happy with the result, my first drawing using the side step-by-step was very good (according to people around me) so based on my experience it is very good for kids like me learning how to draw.
Bluey: How To Draw offers 48 pages full of Bluey and her friends.
Best of all, it guides readers through how to draw them all.
Simple step-by-step instructions are given with a written instruction and accompanying line drawing depicting it.
Follow the instructions in order and in just nine steps you'll have your own version of a Bluey character.
Eah double-page spread has a coloured border and features a different character. The first is Bluey, of course, then Bingo, Dad Bandit, and Mum Chilli. There's also Socks, Snickers, Muffin, The Terriers, Coco, and others. 23 characters in all!
Life is better
with pets.
Author Ben
Dessen is a long-time afficionado of all things furry, feathered, fluffy and funky.
He has had more pets than most and began his pet-loving journey at the tender age
of six, when he was gifted a small snake.
TV vet Dr Harry thinks that Ben is the bees knees, and this wonderful book allows us all to see why.
Bluey fans will be excited to see the release of Bluey and Bingo's Fancy Restaurant Cookbook. It starts with a page of tips (safety, hygiene, allergies, etc) which is a good reminder to cooks young and old of things to be careful of. And for young cooks, the safety reminder includes making sure they have a grown up helper.
Then there are a selection of recipes with a connection to Bluey and Bingo. There are little narrative pieces spread throughout, which feature Bluey, Bingo and their family and friends.
Each recipe comes with a 'trifficulty' rating, a list of the ingredients needed, extra things that might help (generally optional and sometimes humourous), plus step by step instructions about what to do to make the recipe.
It's a way to introduce the concept of family history to young children, and to talk about how we all have stories we can share.
You can turn The Story of Us into a family activity, one that can be contributed to over a period of time, short or long. Use it to generate discussion, to talk, and write.
It's been designed with illustrations accompanied by big blank pages for recording memories. This could be your child's memories, or perhaps they could interview and record those of their parents or grandparents.
There are prompts throughout, including: three things I loved to do when I was a child, my best ever holiday, someone I really admire, and the best or worst meal I've ever eaten.
Does a robot
really see, hear and sense the way humans do? This informative book by author John Andrews is packed with detailed facts, information and illustrations that will answer all your questions.
Every facet of what makes us human is explored and compared to a robot; skin, bones, fingers, touch, hearing, brain, muscles, memory and hearing.
Discover the differences
and similarities of humans versus robot anatomy, the answers may surprise you.
Divided into
segments, this book covers body basics, get moving, seeing and sensing,
thinking and feeling.