Give your kids their first taste of crafting with Green Crafts for Children a brilliant introduction to a world of endless creative possibilities. Kids love to make their own toys games gifts & ornaments. It encourages them to give full rein to their creative flair
- & if they can use component parts that are adapted or recycled so much the better for them & the planet! None of Emma Hardy's projects in Green Crafts for Children use any special materials. Instead they all rely on items that are likely to be in the cupboard can be found around the house or garden or collected on walks in the park or at the beach. There are recipes for salt dough & methods for easy felting plus ways to imaginatively use old gift-wrapping paper & worn-out clothes as well as pine cones tree bark shells & other natural bits & bobs. Gifts for relatives & friends are here together with games & toys that can be made & then played with again & again. From painted stones & a friendship bracelet to a simple dolls' house & a driftwood boat children will love the projects in this engaging book. In fact kids need never be bored again.
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Recycle fallen flowers & leaves. Preserve the beauty of nature in your own home by making pressed flower crafts. Materials for making trinket boxes greeting cards & bookmarks are included. Contents include: flower press cover base (10cm x 10cm) corrugated cardboards white blotting paper plastic screws & wing-nuts trinket boxes cards envelopes bookmarks brush glue ribbon double-sided adhesive tapes & detailed instructions. ...

Have fun making paper beads with our specially designed tool. Simply insert strips of paper from newspapers or magazines in to the tool & turn the handle. Recycle a drink bottle by screwing on the handle to make a neat store for your beads. Also makes a nice decoration. Contents include: paper bead winding tool patterned paper strips elastic string glue plastic dabber with a foam end & detailed instructions. Plastic bottle is not included. Not suitable for children under 36 months due to small parts. ...

Appreciate the sculptural art from nature
- rocks may be common but they are all unique. Turn them into cute little creatures &
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1552. Fifteen years after Henry VIII's brutal reformation of the monasteries Catholics in England still live in fear. When thirteen-year-old Celia da Bohun first meets Stephen Marsdon a young Catholic priest protestant Edward VI has been on the throne for five years. Reluctantly Stephen agrees to be her teacher but as Celia grows older her girlish adoration of him & his affection for her deepens into a passionate love that will not be extinguished
- even by her violent death. 400 years later history seems poised to repeat itself. Not long after the marriage of Richard Marsdon & his American wife Celia something seems to go terribly wrong between them. It is only when Celia is forced to look deep in to the past that she has a chance to prevent another tragedy.. .
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Another perceptive novel about a boy on the edge of adult responsibilities. It is the story of Shellie a Trinidadian boy who moves to a new village & there meets two girls. He is charmed by Rosalie but he is attracted to the more cheerful & accessible Joan. Introduction by Gareth Griffiths. ...

When Sam-I-am persits in pestering a grumpy grouch to eat a plate of green eggs & ham perseverance wins the day teaching us all that we cannot know what we like until we have tried it! With his unique combination of hilarious stories zany pictures & riotous rhymes Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children & helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat & ranked among the UK's top ten favourite children's authors Seuss is firmly established as a global best-seller with nearly half a billion books sold worldwide. As the first step in a major rebrand programme Harper Collins is relaunching 17 of Dr. Seuss's best-selling books including such perennial favourites as The Cat in the Hat Green Eggs & Ham & Fox in Socks. In response to consumer demand the bright new cover designs incorporate much needed guidance on reading levels with the standard paperbacks divided into three reading strands
- Blue Back Books for parents to share with young children Green Back Books for budding readers to tackle on their own & Yellow Back Books for older more fluent readers to enjoy. Green Eggs & Ham belongs to the Green Back Book range.
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Dr. Seusss much-loved classic Green Eggs & Ham is now available for the first time in picture book format. When Sam-I-am persists in pestering a grumpy grouch to eat a plate of green eggs & ham perseverance wins the day teaching us all that we cannot know what we like until we have tried it! This is a wonderful addition to the Dr. Seuss shelves. ...

Dr. Seuss's much-loved classic Green Eggs & Ham is combined with an audio CD performed by Adrian Edmondson with added music & special effects. Will Sam-I-am convert you to green eggs & ham? Would you eat them in a box? Would you eat them with a fox? When Sam-I-am persists in pestering a grumpy grouch to eat a plate of green eggs & ham perseverance wins the day teaching us all that we cannot know what we like until we have tried it! Adrian Edmondson reads a crazy classic with wild music & mad sound effects! This is a wonderful addition to the Dr. Seuss shelves. ...

Step into the world of Great Uncle Zef & enjoy the wonderful stories he recounts to the children of the village. Tales of the wicked Drylon & Henrietta & their evil deeds along with his own daring adventures The Green Emerald in the Book of Dreams will captivate you. ...