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Brain Teasers, Puzzles, Mazes

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Hidden Pictures 2006 Book Set icon

This Highlights 4-volume set of books is filled with the "find the Hidden Pictures" activity you know and love, all new for 2006. Each book features puzzles tied to anniversary events and recurring themes. Includes both word and pictures clues. Each book is softcover, with 48 pages per book.

 

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Highlights two-book set is packed with fascinating, full-color mazes for hours of puzzle-solving fun. The unique and colorful illustrations make these books irresistible. Softcover, 64 pages each. Age 8+

 

Puzzlemania Mazes 4-book Set icon

These Highlights maze books offer more color, variety and fun than any others we've seen. Each illustrated puzzle has a unique theme and design to keep pathfinders happily engrossed for hours. It's perfect entertainment for travel time and rainy days. Mazes include favorites from our best-selling PUZZLEMANIA® series plus plenty of new challenges. 51 pages each. Ages 8+ 

 

Mathmania

This six-book Mathmania set is loaded with a fantastic variety of entertaining math puzzles kids just can't resist. An excellent way to exercise existing math skills and learn new ones too. Colorful illustrations and fun word problems offer puzzle-solving fun on every page.  

 

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Puzzlemania entertains and challenges kids unlike any other puzzle book with a delightful variety of activities to keep kids happily entertained for hours. Set includes 6 books, each with 48 pages of challenge and surprise. Includes brainteasers, Hidden Pictures, mazes, dot-to-dots and much more! Ages 6+

 

Puzzlemania CD-ROM Set

Wildly popular with children and parents, the PUZZLEMANIA series now comes to CD-ROM. Kids have fun solving a variety of interactive, challenging puzzles including mazes, brainteasers, word and math games, Hidden Pictures and many more. All have colorful animation, sound effects and special surprises. Two levels of play for continued challenges. For both Win and Mac. Ages 6+ 

 

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Easy Spanish Crossword Puzzles

As children fill in the correct Spanish word for tree (arbol), cup (taza) or bull (toro) in this mini-treasury of 25 six-word crossword puzzles, they’ll enjoy all the fun of puzzle-solving as they build their basic Spanish vocabularies. With fun-to-color pictures of each word, an alphabetical list of Spanish words with their articles, English translations and solutions to all the puzzles.

 

Spanish Search-a-Word Picture Puzzles

Spanish Search-a-Word Picture Puzzles

Enjoyable, effective learning aid invites English-speaking children to find 250 Spanish words hidden in 25 different puzzle grids. (Book will also help Spanish-speaking youngsters develop spelling and word identification skills.) Words in each grid share a common theme: fruits (limón/lemon), flowers (margarita/daisy), clothing (camisa/shirt), and so on. Great for developing spelling and word identification skills

The Big Book of Brain Games

 

Children's Literary Magazines

 

Preschool Playroom

It's where Bear in the Big Blue House, Spot, Maisy, Mr. Potato Head, Paddington Bear and Peter Rabbit make learning fun. Perfect for preschoolers, each issue contains drawing, matching, counting, coloring, and reading activities. Ages 2 to 6. 

 

Babybug

Babybug begins a lifelong love of books for infants and toddlers 6 months to 2 years. For babies who love to be read to, And parents who love to read to them. Babybug is fun. It's filled with colorful pictures and simple rhymes and stories that babies and parents will delight in reading together over and over again.
 

Cricket

Cricket feeds the minds and imaginations of readers. Every issue of CRICKET is filled with stories, poems, puzzles, recipes, and science and nature articles- all designed to stimulate the imagination and help young people discover and explore the world around them.
 

Cicada

CICADA is a magazine for teenagers and young adults. It offers high-quality fiction and poetry dealing with the issues of growing up, leaving the joys and pains of childhood behind, and becoming an adult.
 

Spider

Spider weaves a web of wonder for kids. It is a fun magazine for independent young learners. It's specially written and edited for children who have reached that amazing age when they first get excited about reading on their own.

 

Ladybug

Ladybug opens the door to reading for children. Every page of Ladybug is beautiful, colorful, and a delight to read. Each issue is filled with charming characters, games, songs, poems, and stories.

 

Humpty Dumpty's Magazine

AWARD WINNER! Cartoons, crafts, stories, puzzles, healthful recipes, kid question & answer column and more.

 

Child Life

AWARD WINNER! Stories, games, people, profiles & many more entertaining & healthy activities!

 

Children's Playmate

This highly recommended magazine features illustrated stories for beginning readers, puzzles, games, activities, simple recipes, and book reviews. You'll find articles, short stories, poetry, and learning activities that teach about animals, health, science, and more.

Eight issues, ages 6-8.

Children's Digest

This magazine features contemporary fiction and articles for preteen. It emphasizes good health nutrition, and safety, plus stories, science articles, crafts, games, poetry, humor, and more to stimulate young minds and imaginations.
 

Highlights for Children

Highlights Magazine is dedicated to helping children grow in basic skills and knowledge, in creativeness, in ability to think and reason, in sensitivity to others and in high ideals. Packed full of stories and activities, Highlights is the world's best-loved magazine for children!

 

Jack and Jill

This popular magazine is written for children ages 7-10 with an accent on humor and adventure. It focuses on teaching readers health and self-confidence in its regular features and by publishing readers' stories, poems, and pictures.
 

Creative Kids 

Creative Kids magazine is the nation's largest magazine by and for kids. The magazine bursts with games, stories and opinions all by and for kids ages 8 14. Throughout the pages of Creative Kids, you will find such fun activities as brain teasers, contests, stories, poetry, pen pals, mysteries, and much more. This interactive magazine also includes activities that stimulate and encourage the creativity of readers of all ages.
 

 

Science Activity Books and Magazines

 

A Practical Guide for The Amateur Naturalist by Gerald and Lee Durrell

In one lavishly illustrated and photographed volume, Gerald Durrell takes readers on a pocket tour of the infinite variety of the creatures that inhabit planet Earth as he explores a variety of habitats; and at the same time provides a brief tutorial on the methods and importance of simple, hands-on