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From such nostalgic activities as hand shadows and stamp collecting to kakuro, sudoku, and mental magic, these books offer wonderful alternatives to video games and television.
Recommendations... |  |  A First Cookbook for Children
by Evelyne Johnson, Christopher Santoro
Helpful introduction includes a basic list of necessary ingredients and equipment, cooking hints, and sample menus. Total of 60 recipes: pizza, hamburgers, salads, cookies, cakes, macaroni and cheese, much more.
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Products in Hobbies for Children | | |  | Amazing Things for Boys to Make and Do
by John Kelly, Cathy Tincknell
Prepare for a ton of pirate fun! Learn secret writing, solve puzzles, and build a model galleon. Other activities include a punch-out board game, recipes, and more than 90 stickers.
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|  | Amazing Things for Girls to Make and Do
by John Kelly, Cathy Tincknell
Make your own compass, follow a mountain maze, search for stolen jewels, and solve puzzles galore. Colorful fun includes punch-out board game, more than 90 stickers, mask-making, other imaginative activities.
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| | |  | Be Good to Your Body--Healthy Eating and Fun Recipes
by Roz Fulcher
More than 50 illustrated recipes encourage kids to delight in preparing and eating healthful foods. Simple dishes and snacks feature Fruit Pizza, Cheesy Spaghetti Squash, Frozen Grape Pops, and Turkey Joes.
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|  | Be Good to Your Body--Learning Yoga
by Roz Fulcher
Do a pretzel twist, a ragdoll, a flamingo, and a downward dog! Kids can color playful illustrations and follow simple instructions to learn more than 40 stretching, breathing, and balance exercises.
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|  | Beginning Birdwatcher's Book: With 48 Stickers
by Sy Barlowe
Fact-filled book with sticker images of blue jay, American crow, mourning dove, barn owl, and 44 other birds, plus informative text noting bird's size, habitat, eating habits, and other data.
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| |  | Brain Busters: Games, Puzzles and More!
by Charles Snape, Juliet Snape
Fifty colorful puzzle pages test math and logic skills and powers of observation. Perfect for 8- to 14-year-olds, they involve calculating the weight of plundered treasure, mapping pirate ship routes, other exciting challenges.
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|  | Break the Code: Cryptography for Beginners
by Bud Johnson
Simply and clearly written book, filled with cartoons and easy-to-follow instructions, tells youngsters 8 and up how to break 6 different types of coded messages. Examples and solutions.
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|  | Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! Activity Book
by Tony J. Tallarico, Jr.
Each of these 35 word searches, secret codes, mazes, hidden pictures, and other puzzles features a caption with fascinating facts about butterflies, beetles, boll weevils, grasshoppers, fleas, and other insects. Solutions.
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|  | Car Crazy: Tricked Out Activity Book
by Curtis David Bulleman
Dozens of mazes, word searches, crosswords, and other puzzles feature sleek, futuristic cars. The flashy vehicles offer plenty of coloring fun and include a pair of street racers to cut out and customize.
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|  | Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing
by Martin Gardner
Cipher and decipher codes: transposition and polyalphabetical ciphers, famous codes, typewriter and telephone codes, codes that use playing cards, knots, and swizzle sticks . . . even invisible writing and sending messages through space. 45 diagrams.
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|  | Color & Cook Activity Book with 30 Stickers!
by Monica Wellington
This 48-page activity book is filled with a tasty mixture of mazes, word games, spot-the-difference puzzles, creative coloring pages, and more — all with a cooking theme. Includes 30 bonus stickers plus easy recipes.
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|  | Color & Garden Activity Book with 50 Stickers!
by Monica Wellington
This activity book offers a happy mixture of garden-themed mazes, dot-to-dots, word games, and creative coloring pages, plus 50 colorful stickers of flowers, vegetables, fruits, insects, and other playful images.
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| |  | Dinosaur Rampage Activity Book
by Chuck Whelon
Guide a Maiasaura mother through a maze to her missing babies, spot the differences among a flock of pteranodons, match fossilized skulls to the appropriate species, and solve other wacky dinosaurian dilemmas. 27 puzzles.
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|  | Doodle Design & Draw DREAM ROOMS
by Ellen Christiansen Kraft
Young decorators can practice their craft with this doodle book of trendy room-design ideas. More than 60 drawings offer empty rooms and materials for decorating, plus inspiring model rooms.
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|  | Easy Carpentry Projects for Children
by Jerome E. Leavitt
Teaches boys and girls age 7 and up basic carpentry skills through easy-to-make projects: bird feeder, sailboat, tie rack, flower box, and 11 more. Over 100 black-and-white illustrations.
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|  | The Fair Weather and Rainy Day Handy Book
by Daniel C. Beard
This book features dozens of indoor and outdoor activities, with simple instructions and easy-to-follow diagrams for building a backyard clubhouse, setting up a workshop, picnic games, papercrafts, and other diversions.
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