The book opens with brief information for getting started and the most popular breeds, the tools and materials needed, and some sample drawing exercises to warm up. Each drawing lesson begins with a basic shape, such as a square, a circle, or a triangle, and progresses to a finished colored piece of artwork, making it easy for children to follow along. Along the way, engaging text describes interesting facts about each breed.

Twenty five activities support an overview of the science of archaeology as well as some of the secrets it has revealed from ancient civilizations throughout the world.

A children's instructional book on how to use readily available materials to turn the house into a science lab. Physics teacher Bobby Mercer provides readers with more than 50 great hands-on experiments that can be performed for just pennies, or less. Turn a plastic cup into a pinhole camera using waxed paper, a rubber band, and a thumbtack. Build a swinging wave machine using a series of washers suspended on strings from a yardstick. Or construct...

Discover the age-old art of hand shadows! Children and adults around the world delight in hand shadows, and this little activity book shows how to perform the ancient art. Learn how to entertain friends and family with shadow pictures of a bird, bunny, elephant, and other figures. Detailed illustrations, accompanied by charming verses, depict the formation of 28 images using only hands and fingers.

In this illustrated book made for children and adults alike, you'll learn about the greatest and most intelligent game of all time: chess! With all the rules of the game simply explained, you'll become acquainted with the three stages of a chess game, as well as every single chess piece, one-by-one. But before this, you'll take a fascinating tour of the history of chess, reaching back to the game's very beginnings almost 2000 years ago. Turn the...

Bursting with laugh-out-loud jokes and fun facts, LOL Jokes: Portland combines the best of humor and history for young readers! Inspired by all the wonderful sights, sounds, and . . . smells of the City of Roses, this local joke book delivers kid-friendly punchlines that will have readers laughing 'til they cry! Alongside hilarious jokes and puns are fascinating facts, goofy tidbits of local history, and engaging graphics that will keep readers chuckling...

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Bright, full-color and black and white historic photographs, illustrations, and maps detail the historic journey of Lewis and Clark. Strongly correlated to the Common Core Standards for Informational Text, readers explore the relationships between a series of historical events.

This book is about a lovely old man called Mr Hawkins who lived in a small village called Blossomhill. One very hot day all the people of the village wished that they could have some ice-cream. However they all had to travel to the next village, about ten miles away. A cross old man called Mr Poke owned the ice-cream shop there. He made everyone wait and wait in the hot sun before serving them any expensive ice-cream to cool them down. One day Mr...

Here are a dozen, kid-tested, rainy day activities to do with your child or grandchild. None of these ideas require special supplies. The beauty of them is their simplicity -- the fact that they require only household items you probably already have around the house. No computers, TV's, phones or screens of any kind are used here --just good, old fashioned creativity.