Product Type: Books
Age: Late Elementary School Years
Categories: Activity Books
2011 Award
(by Jean Marzollo, illus. Walter Wick, Scholastic $13.99 Score:
) To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the ever-popular series, this is truly a spectacular new edition. It is a compendium of many Walter Wicks' classic photographs accompanied by new riddles by Jean Marzollo. This is a fun take-along for summer travels choice. Young readers will be able to share reading the riddles and then the two of you can hunt for the items you must try to spy. The images are crisp and complex and good fun for the whole family. For extra spying fun use the extra riddles added to the back of the book.
This is just one of a collection to share whatever the season. All ages.
Play It!
Riddle Me This
Play your own riddle games with the images in the book. Choose one of the big pictures and then make up your own riddle about one of the small objects on the page. You don’t need to make a rhyming riddle. but you could use a rhyme as one of your clues. For example, if your riddle is about a bear...you could say I spy something that walks on four legs, it has a shaggy coat and it rhymes with chair.
Rhyme Time Game
Give everyone a pencil and paper. Use a timer from another game.
Agree on an object in one of the big photos in the book.
When you say go, everyone writes as many rhyming words they can think of that rhyme with the object selected. For example: if you zoom in on a picture of a cat...how many words can players write that rhyme with that? When time is up each player reads her list. Others must cross out any words that others have also written. Everyone scores any words that are left. (With younger players everyone gets a point for each word without regard to other players lists.)Choose another picture and play another round. Winner is the first person to get 10 points—or decide what the points to win will be depending on the ability level of the players.
A few years ago we published several books with suggested books and follow-up games that extend the book experience. One collection Read It Play It is for playing with babies and toddlers. The other is for preschool and early school years children. We also did a collection in Spanish, featuring books that were in Spanish or were bilingual.
Click here to buy Read It! Play It!
Age: Preschool, Early School Years, Later School Years. Award Year: 2011. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.
2009 Award
(I See Me! Inc $29.95 Score:
) What a neat idea! Grandparents can fill out a form and send photos to this publisher and they will produce a book about your life to share with your grandkids. You use their template that covers your likes and dislikes, your school years and family, too. Send it back to the company with photos and your cherished memories become family history that kids can treasure. It's a 20 page book that covers your life from childhood to the present and can include your grandchild and his parents. For more info visit their website, ISeeMe.com.
Age: Preschool, Early School Years, Later School Years. Award Year: 2009.
Awards
(Pleasant Company Editors, Pleasant Company $7.95 Score:
) A guided family history for interviewing moms and grandmothers and themselves. Generations get to share experiences from their own girlhood and how they celebrated birthdays, holidays, or summer vacation. 8 and up.
Age: Early School Years,Later School Years. Award Year: .
2001 Awards
(by Julie Collings & Candice Elton, Klutz $16.95 Score:
) We were impressed with the clear directions that set this book/bead kit apart. Fun for making a variety of beaded bugs. However, not all colors shown in photos come with the kit and you'll need more beads to do all of the projects. 10 and up. Also one of our favorite activities around, Tissue Paper Flowers with clear instructions for making a bouquet with a variety of shapes. 8 and up. Age: Later School Years. Award Year: 2001.
2001 Award
(by the editors of Klutz Press, Klutz $14.95 Score:
) We had great fun experimenting with the many funny ideas for making "body art" with six nontoxic body crayons. Our 7-year-old tester likes drawing jewelry and messages. A good gift for campers or for a sleep-over/party game. They say 4, but we'd say more like 6 and up. Age: Early School Years,Later School Years. Award Year: 2001.
2001 Awards
(by Jean Marzollo/photos by Walter Wick, Scholastic $13.95 Score:
) Read the riddles and find the answers buried in the amazing photos. Combining images from earlier editions with new riddles, this is the latest in a consistently winning series the whole family will enjoy!
Age: Early School Years,Later School Years. Award Year: 2001.
2001 Awards
(by Susan Milord, Williamson $12.95 Score:
) Activities such as making your own time line or "fossil," classifying plus a variety of games and art projects that relate to the natural world. A resource to use with kids. 6–12. Also, Summer Fun, Cut-Paper Play! and Super Science Concoctions. 5 and up.
Age: Early School Years,Later School Years. Award Year: 2001.
2002 Award
(Klutz $17.95 Score:
) A 35mm camera comes with a book that's loaded with all kinds of trick photography know-how inside. Use your pet dog to make Wegmanesque photos; play around with perspective and optical illusions. An exciting choice for getting kids involved with reading, doing, and creative thinking! Age: Later School Years. Award Year: 2002.
2002 Awards
(by Ed Emberley, Little Brown $6.95 Score:
) Forget the rubber stampers—use your fingers, an inkpad, colored pencils, and Emberley's playful step-by-step lead to create a world of birds, bees, and chugging choo-choos. It's one way to get kids to look at details and work in a sequential way. This newest edition suggests using a greater variety of washable ink pads and paints with a brighter palette than those in his earlier books. 6 & up. Age: Early School Years,Later School Years. Award Year: 2002.
2002 Award
(by Don Mayne, Williamson $7.95 Score:
) Cartoonist Don Mayne gets aspiring artists on their way to their own creations with some basic steps that take the mystery out of drawing by having kids start with simple shapes. Unlike many books that go too fast too quickly, this one is just right in pace. 8 & up.
Age: Later School Years. Award Year: 2002.
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