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Alison Lester's Wonderful World: Colour Your Favourite Drawings for ages 5+. $16.75. A colouring book for children, a relaxing enjoyable activity for adults - or you can colour in together. -
Building Your Own Robots: Build and Program Your First Robot! $12.50. Ages 7-11. There are three other great books in this can-do series. Getting Started with Electronics, Experimenting with Science and Writing Computer Code. -
Japanese Paper Toys Kit: Origami Paper Toys That Walk, Jump, Spin, Tumble and Amaze $16.95. -
Supercool Paper Airplanes Kit: 12 Pop-Out Paper Airplanes; Assembled in About a Minute $16.95. -
Art Play $23.75. Marion Deuchars has created a surprising and engaging range of activities and games organised into seven sections of Drawing, Colour, Shapes, Paint, Paper, Printing and Pattern. -
The Super Lettering Book $16.75. Think you know how to write the alphabet? We'll teach you how to DRAW it. The Super Lettering Book is BURSTING with themed alphabets, phrases and words to help you create EPIC posters, signs, greeting cards and school projects. Inside, super lettering artists share their secret tips, teaching you how to draw the best lettering, EVER! -
Adam Spencerâs Number Crunchers $16.95. After last yearâs runaway bestseller Adam Spencerâs Enormous Book of Numbers, Australiaâs funniest maths dude is back with another bumper activity book for young and eager minds! Packed full of games, puzzles, quizzes â along with heaps of stuff to draw, cut out, decipher and decode â this is the perfect book for kids aged 8 and above. They wonât believe numbers could be this much fun! -
The Magic Show Book $26.95. Ever imagined you are a master of magic? Now you can be one! Delve into the weird and wonderful world of magic with The Magic Show Book - a performance in a book. Bursting at the seams with the latest magic tricks, get ready to deceive, astonish and wow your audience with a show-stopping, jaw-dropping performance with The Magic Show Book. -
Make your own Mini Erasers $20.80. Making mistakes has never been this much fun! Sculpt your very own creations with eraser clay, and then bake them in the oven to make absolutely adorable, slightly squishy erasers that really work. With 8 bright colors of clay and 35 eraser designs to choose from, you'll never have to worry about making an error again. Make no mistake, this kit is fun for the whole family! -
The Curious Guide to Things That Aren't: Things You Can't Always Touch, See, or Hear. Can You Guess What They are? $16.50. The Curious Guide to Things That Aren't teaches creative thinking through deductive reasoning, listening skills, and imagination. -
Destination Space $22.80. Hop on board the space shuttle and get ready for the ride of your life as you explore deep space with your five fellow space cadets. This journey of discovery takes you through our local solar system and beyond, to galaxies far and wide. With every encounter, learn more about the science behind the stars, planets, meteors and comets in our sky, and the history of our universe. -
Day of the Dinosaurs $23.25. Learn everything you ever wanted to know about dinosaurs in this book that allows you to compare the biggest, fastest and fiercest creatures of the land, sea and sky from four different prehistoric periods: the Triassic, the early Jurassic, the Late Jurassic and the Cretaceous. -
Illuminature: Discover 180 Animals with Your Magic Three Colour Lens $35. Explore ten of the world's most diverse environments and reveal their hidden secrets with a magic coloured lens that illuminates each page in a kaleidoscope of colour. -
Aliens, Ghosts and Vanishings: Strange and Possibly True Australian Stories $21.75. Explore the strangest tales, most incredible encounters and creepiest urban legends in Australiaâs history. Read about the investigations and weigh up the facts â do you believe the official explanations for these weird and wonderful events? -
Why is Art Full of Naked People? And Other Vital Questions About Art $23.75. A thoughtful introduction to art and its interpretation for children, with a sense of humour. -
Botanicum $30.75. Enter Botanicum and discover the strange and wonderful kingdom of plants, in all its colourful, surprising majesty. -
How Cities Work $13.50. Get ready to explore the city in a whole new way. This innovative book for younger readers is packed with city facts, loads of flaps to lift, and unfolding pages to see inside buildings and under the streets. -
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World $12.75. From Coco Chanel to Rosa Parks, Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World is bursting full of astounding facts and incredible artwork on some of the most brilliant women who helped shape the world we live in. -
City Trails - London $11.75. Also available are the New York and Paris books. Here's a book about London that's seriously streetwise! Let Marco and Amelia, our Lonely Planet explorers, take you off the tourist trail and guide you on a journey through London that you'll never forget. This book is perfect for anyone who has been to London, plans to go there or is just interested in finding out more about this amazing city!
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They might be into novels, but it never hurts to fill their shelves with books full of activities for a rainy day, and information books to show them the wonders of the world.
Here are the the top recommended activity and information books for kids published by the Kids' Reading Guide for 2016/17.