Practical interests & handicrafts Books

The much-loved Edmonds 'junior' cookbooks have now been fully updated with 20 brand-new recipes. All are easy to prepare and, with simple step-by-step instructions, great for learning to cook. Not only do kids and beginner-cooks want fun foods - they want to have fun making the recipes. Every pag...

Knit one Purl One is the perfect beginner’s guide to knitting soft toy characters. With a manual of basic techniques and five knitted toys to make, you’ll be an expert knitter in no time. * Everything the beginner needs to knit soft toys in one complete pack * Contains yarn, knitting needles, an...

""Here's some advice. Stay alive."" --Haymitch AbernathyWhen it comes to "The Hunger Games," staying alive means finding food any way possible. Katniss and Gale hunt live game, Peeta's family survives on the bread they make, and the inhabitants of the Seam work twelve-hour days for a few handfuls of...

More Than 150 Magical Recipes for Wizards and Non-Wizards Alike! Bangers and mash with Harry, Ron, and Hermione in the Hogwarts dining hall. A proper cuppa tea and rock cakes in Hagrid's hut. Cauldron cakes and pumpkin juice on the Hogwarts Express. With this cookbook, dining a la Hogwarts is ...

Girls Rock, we all know that, and so does The Big Book of Girl Stuff! It’s packed with fab tips, hot things to make and do, amazing facts, activities, and everything you need to know about how cool it is to be a girl. Age 9+ Girls can learn: How to build a compliment kit How to make...

This title includes everything first time cooks need to know to get cooking. "Get Cooking" is packed with 50 delicious recipes to make your mouth water. You can help your child gain kitchen confidence with easy to follow step-by-step recipes that are family favourites all over the world. From super ...

Smuggle in some muggle magic with The Unofficial Harry Potter Muggles To Magic Cookbook. Inside this new and improved edition of The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook: From Cauldron Cakes To Butterbeer, you will find all things sugary to satisfy your sweet tooth, including Ron's Love Spell Sugar ...

This practical, highly illustrated guide has been written specifically with the young gardener in mind. The Tui NZ Kids’ Garden contains all the essential information you need to start a garden plus information on the most popular plants young gardeners might like to cultivate. There are al...

A journal that's beyond words. For beginning journal-keepers, especially tweens, it can be tough to put feelings into words. But putting feelings into doodles - that's a whole different story. Introducing Doodle Journal, a book that makes self-expression as simple as letting your pen do its thing. T...

Whether you'd like to build an SUV, an excavator, a tanker truck, or a race car, this hands-on book will show you how. You can create street scenes such as a construction site, a fire rescue, or even a family on moving day. Children of all ages will let their imaginations run wild as they learn that...

It's true -- kids CAN clean! And if anybody knows how to make it happen, it's the Domestic Guru, Shannon Lush. This illustrated book for children covers everything from removing the squashed banana in your schoolbag, to tidying up your bedroom, personal hygiene (or why you should take your finger OU...

Children are rediscovering the pleasures and rewards from gardening and having home-grown fresh produce that their great grandparents enjoyed. The Yates Young gardener covers all the basics of gardening, including soil types, compost, friendly insects and deadly pests, sunshine, sunshine, water and ...

A unique cookbook that combines well-loved nursery rhymes with delicious sweet and savoury child-friendly recipes. Nursery rhymes, food and kids are an instant recipe for fun. This cookbook introduces children to favourite recipes and modern rhymes, then shows them how to mix up delicious treats ...

Master the real science behind electricity and have a blast doing it. Includes a genuine Klutz alkaline battery, a buzzer, a propeller, a light bulb, a motor, and other useful doodads - everything you need for all eight projects. Toss in a little history and you've got an activity book so good...

Take a bunch of plastic beads and put them (artfully, of course) onto a clear pegboard. Get a grown-up to iron them together and - presto! Off pops a permanent piece of art. We love this classic activity - but all we could find on the market were tiny frustration - sized beads packaged with tiny peg...

Future party planners, pen pals and all purpose keep-intouchers will love Little Letters, the most adorable kids’ stationery set ever. It’s everything kids need to make, write and deliver their very own cards, notes and invitations. The book itself is a charming introduction to letter-wr...

A collection of illustrated Christmas stories, activities, carols and songs, including the stories of Jesus and St Nicholas. Activities include the making of pop-up Christmas cards, wrapping paper and decorative biscuits.

A stylish little book of instructions for making seven types of bead rings, with a generous supply of wire and a rainbow of Czech seed beads included. These supplies come packaged in a daisy-shaped caddy with a rotating lid that provides easy access while simultaneously preventing any calamitous bea...

Kids are irresistibly drawn to scissors, so naturally they’ll love this book to pieces. Cut up the pages, add some tape and suddenly you’ve got a flock of finger puppets, a flying carpet, a pot full of posies... and that’s just the beginning. Snip, snip, hooray! In all, there are 1...

 Young children will share the excitement as baby, clutching a touchy-feely blanket in every image, opens a present to reveal what's inside. 1 yrs+

Shrinky Dinks is amazing shrinkable plastic. Draw or trace a design on it, color it, cut it out with ordinary scissors, bake it for mere minutes on a cookie sheet in your oven and, presto, your creation shrinks to 44% of its original size. You get six sheets of Shrinky Dinks® plastic in this boo...

23 basic knots and one rope trick in a wonderful little book that tells you everything you need to know about knots in your daily life. Think you know already? Read this book and think again. How to tie the world's most useful hitches, ties, wraps and knots - a step-by-step manual.  The...

Introducing our 2008 collection - Paper Fashions Fancy. This season it's all about glamour. Paper fashions get glam! As with our Paper Fashions book, young designers get to turn colorful paper, ribbons, beads, sequins, and jewels into glamorous fashions and accessories. But with Paper Fashions F...

Knotted and woven jewelry is always a hit with the crafty crowd. The jewelry is fun to make and the results have a uniquely hip, relaxed, pretty look. This season, fans of Friendship Bracelets and Hemp Bracelets get to try their hand at a fresh new style: crochet and spool knit jewelry. Spool Knit J...

If ever there were a book to make you switch off your television set, The Dangerous Book for Boys is it. How many other books will help you thrash someone at conkers, race your own go-cart, and identify the best quotations from Shakespeare? The Dangerous Book for Boys gives you facts and figures at ...

You're invited Join in the fun with hostess extraordinaire Fancy Nancy! With a little imagination, you too can create an exquisite tea party that is perfect for your friends and family. R.S.V.P. "oui, oui, oui"!

Turn single sheets of paper into sassy fashions that are anything but flat. Super-clear, step-by-step instructions show how to fold ten unique pieces, from party dresses to pajamas. The results are cute, cool, and uniquely dimensional. Custom-designed origami paper in an array of bold and bright pat...

 A charming collection of beautifully illustrated Christmas stories, activities, carols and songs. Activities include making pop-up Christmas cards, starry wrapping paper, peppermint creams and decorated biscuits. Includes story of the Nativity and St Nicholas, the origin of many Christmas tr...

In the Klutz paper fashions tradition, this book comes with everything girls need to design an entire one-of-a-kind wardrobe, including irresistibly tiny hangers to finish the fashions in style. Unique to this book, though, are fashions that are the stuff of fantasy: goddess gowns, pretty princess d...

Growing your own veges and fruit is the new black — more and more people are turning back to growing their own food in this time of rising food and petrol costs and diminishing house values. Get Growing is designed to give people of all ages some basics, along with projects and activities to spar...

Introduces children to vocabulary and improves listening skills with the step-by step instructions given for each recipe. Author Biography Lyn Wendon is a reading specialist who devised Letterland as a remedy for reading failure. Working among children with learning difficulties, she found tha...

Have fun together in the kitchen and get your child eating healthier, without them even noticing, with Annabel Karmel. From tomatoes and sweetcorn to strawberries and yogurt, take 10 top ingredients and find out how they are grown or made; then help your child turn them into fantastic food! Annabel ...

With My Style Studio, young designers get all the inspiration, art supplies, and confidence they need to draw any amazing styles they dream up. And, whatever their drawing skills, the fashions and figures always come out perfectly proportioned. The secret? Tracing. Super-clear line art on mix-and-ma...

How to eat a Huhu Grub is a must for every adventurous boy and girl in the kiwi home and includes all sorts of important information you need to know - like how to make an origami water bomb, how to spot native trees, what to do if you are stranded in the bush, how to play marbles, car games, paper ...

This disgusterously delicious collection of recipes from the books of Roald Dahl features such dainty delights as Boiled Slobbages, Glumptious Globgobblers, Nishnobblers, Plushnuggets and many, many more. With wonderful witty illustrations from Quentin Blake, mouth-watering photographs from Jan Bald...

Annabel Karmel has been writing best-selling cookbooks for 10 years and now she is handing the kitchen over to the kids! From sweet treats to simple family meals, young children will love trying out the exciting range of tasty and healthy recipes.With step-by-step instructions Children's First Cookb...

Get cooking with your child and make tasty, healthy food with child nutrition expert, Annabel Karmel. Cooking and eating together are great for encouraging kids to eat healthily! Annabel Karmel shows how you can create all kinds of lip-smacking finger food with your child that's good for them, too. ...

From snaggers on the barbie to dainty desserts for dames, Stew a Cockatoo is the cookbook that every Australian has been waiting for. Not only is this book jam-packed (no pun intended) with good ol' Aussie recipes but it's full of anecdotal stories about how our cuisine came to be and fair dinkum de...

This series discusses what happens to common household items when you throw them in the bin, and then looks at fun or useful things that you could make out of them instead, for example musical instruments, decorations, bags, toys, and even a bird feeder! A final chapter in each book provides step-by...

Following the success of Yates Young Gardener: Growing Things to Eat, Janice Marriott's latest gardening book is packed full of ideas for outside fun and learning. With experiments like making shrunken heads, a butterfly feeding jar or fungus garden, or even designing a dream garden, this book is pa...