Packed with exciting and imaginative craft projects specially created for 7-11 year olds, this book encourages children to develop new skills with an enormous array of materials over a wide range of crafts. With its easy step-by-step instructions and colour photographs it will inspire readers to want to make useful and attractive creations.
Make a bunch of flowers from tissue paper
Colour in a paper teddy bear
Crayon some candy cushions
Recycle a milk carton into a mobile
Crete ethnic beads from felt
Make some wild animal pegs
Make these and many more using easy-to-follow instructions in Get Crafty Indoor Crafts.
. Straightforward, lively text guides the young person through a new project on each double-page section.
. Over 100 colour photographs illustrate craft activities.
. At a-glance guides to materials needed for individual projects.
. Special help boxes spread throughout the book.
. Ideas for further projects.
Summary: Pumpkin is a kunekune pig. Learn about Pumpkin, the friends she makes and the mischief she gets up to at the wildlife park where she lives. Illustrated using photographs. Contains factual information about the animals mentioned in the story
New Zealand author
Return to the magical world of Enchantia in the captivating second series of Magic Ballerina by Darcey Bussell! Rosa knows that it is time to hand over the magic red ballet shoes to another special girl. But before she does; her friends in Enchantia need Rosa's help one last time!
When Jamie moves to Dinosaur Cove with his father he's looking forward to doing some fossil hunting on the beach. But when he and his friend, Tom, discover a forgotten cave with fossilised dinosaur footprints, it takes them to another world ...a world of dinosaurs. In this secret place the boys meet a small, friendly Wannanosaurus, who leads them further into the prehistoric landscape, past mysterious fungi and strange fruits (which smell like sick!). But when the ground starts to shudder and the Wannanosaurus runs off at lightning speed, the boys know they're in serious danger. The Tyrannosaurus Rex has spotted them and he's coming their way ...Can the boys outwit the T-Rex? Will they be able to find their way back to the cave? And can they make it to their own world before the tide comes in?
New Zealand author; New Zealand illustrator
CD contains song: Little red poppy / by Rob Kennedy
Summary: Jim, a soldier on the Western Front in World War I, is wounded while charging through No Man's Land. He stumbles into a shell crater for shelter and finds a badly wounded German soldier. The two men try to help each other, but it's Nipper, the messenger dog, whose gallantry gives them a chance for survival. A sophisticated picture book
Little red poppy
A zebra eats an apple with a fuzzy worm inside, and it makes him sick - he has to go to hospital (animals are the doctors) and eventually poops the worm out and feels much better"--Publisher information. Suggested level: junior.
Comes with CD-Rom.
Picture book for children featuring the illustrated text of a children's song
New Zealand author; New Zealand illustrator
Summary: 'Pack up your games, dismantle your toys, practise your manners and muffle your noise. Straighten your face, where your smile used to be, for coming this way are The Aunties Three!' Watch the mayhem unfold as three bold aunts enter the house of three unruly children who try their very best to welcome the guests for tea
When Sylvie can't get to sleep she tries counting sheep. But the sheep have other ideas ...like dancing, rollerblading and swimming! Try to keep up with the flock of wild and woolly Sleep Sheep in this baa-rmy bedtime story.
In their secret dinosaur world, Jamie and Tom are looking for the Quetzalcoatlus - the biggest of all the flying reptiles.
But what are they going to do when the huge pterosaur mistakes their dinosaur pal, Wanna, for is chick and flies away with him? It's a race against time to save their little friend...
Other Title: Hester and Lester
Summary: When Hester finds her little brother Lester sitting sadly in the forest, she wants to make things right for him. So they set off on an imaginary adventure, and Lester learns something important
New Zealand author; New Zealand illustrator
