/FREE STUF/ The 1994 edition of the world's #1-selling children's activity book, with more than 3.25 million copies in print, features exciting new educational and just-for-fun item
Like the first Free Stuff for Kids, this 1994 edition of More Free Stuff features more than 300 free and up-to-a-dollar items kids can send away for by mail. Includes tie-in memorabilia from TV shows; fun science offers; sports offers; items on how kids can help save animals; Wilderness Society stickers; and more.
/FREE STUF/ Over the past 19 years, more than 3.5 million copies of Free Stuff for Kids have been sold. Now, the Free Stuff editors have collected all the best free stuff from the 1994 edition, along with the best new offers. Children, teachers, and parents will love using this guide to get no-cost and low-cost "stuff" in the mail.
Instead of spending hours surfing the Internet, families can use this quick guide to find the Web's hundreds of free offerings for kid-friendly projects, such as organic, coloring books, paper airplanes and kites, needlecrafts, soap making, cartooning, wood and soap carving, and other craft projects for the whole family. 75 illustrations.
The Highlights Book of Things to Do is the essential book of pure creativity and inspiration. Kids ages seven and up will find hundreds of ways to build, play, experiment, craft, cook, dream, think, and become outstanding citizens of the world. This highly visual, hands-on activity book shows kids some of the best ways to do great things--from practicing the lost arts of knot-tying, building campfires, connecting circuits, playing jump rope, drawing maps, and writing letters, to learning how to empower themselves socially, emotionally, and in their communities. The final chapter, Do Great Things, inspires kids become caring individuals, confident problem solvers, and thoughtful people who can change the world. Full List of Chapters: Things to Do Inside Things to Do Outside Science Experiments to Do Things to Build Things to Do with Your Brain Things to Do in the Kitchen Things to Draw Things to Write Things to Do with Color Things to Do with Paper More Things to Do with Recycled Materials Do Great Things National Parenting Seal of Approval Winner, National Parenting Product Award (NAPPA) Winner, Mom's Choice Award, Gold
All Australian children's books published from 1989 to 2000 are listed in this essential reference for those who appreciate the richness of Australian writing for children. Following the same format as volumes 1 and 2 in this series chronicling books published as early as 1774, entries include publishing details, the number of illustrations, and the awards received for each book. This third volume follows the continuing careers of authors such as Mem Fox, Bob Graham, Robin Klein, and Paul Jennings, and traces changes in the popularity of Australian themes and settings to identify publishing trends. Varied cultural aspects of modern-day life are shown, from globalization, commercialism, and the rise of the middle class in Asia to desktop publishing, outcome-based school curricula, and the modern obsession with celebrities all of which are reflected in the type and quantity of books produced by Australian writers and publishers. The wealth of included material will extend researchers' understanding of the range of Australian children's books. "