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Notable American Women
This latest volume brings the project up to date, with entries on almost 500 women whose death dates fall between 1976 and 1999. You will find here stars of the golden ages of radio, film, dance, and television; scientists and scholars; civil rights activists and religious leaders; Native American craftspeople and world-renowned artists. For each subject, the volume offers a biographical essay by a distinguished authority that integrates the woman's personal life with her professional achievements set in the context of larger historical developments.
Cross Codes
What do you get when you mix a crossword and a cryptogram? Cross Codes! This title features puzzles that have grids which look like a crossword but with small numbers from 1 to 26 in every square. Those numbers are the starting point: and readers are told what letters a few of them represent.
Chicken Games & Puzzles
Peck your way through chicken wire mazes and crack some codes while collecting eggs. Kids 6 to 9 will delight in this romp through a barnyard full of brainteasers, word searches, tongue twisters, picture puzzles, and much more. Rudy and Buttercup, two chickens who know their way around the farm, lead you through this engaging and informative book of chicken-themed fun. Cluck and cackle as you solve one fowl riddle after another.
Ultimate Puzzle Challenge: Mind Mashers
Matching drivers with their cars, with the help of some tricky license plates? That "auto" be fun...and it's just one of the cool brainteasers in this mind-mashing collection! Play the "name game" by using a name to fill in the blanks and complete a word. Or enjoy "rhyme time" by answering clever clues with two-word rhyming phrases. There are hours of enjoyment on these pages!
The Outrageous Crossword Puzzle and Word Game Book for Kids
Riddle Me This! Can you name four things you eat with a spoon? The largest state in the USA? The sound made by a lion? If so, this brand-new collection of word searches, fill-in-the-blanks, crossword puzzles, and word scrambles is just for you! Full of riddles and jokes, these puzzles are not only fun, but funny, too. A special introduction by Will Shortz, the crossword editor of The New York Times, points out just how fun these games can be.
The Incredible Science Puzzle Challenge
Help! A mad scientist has unleashed a throng of deadly robots on the world--and only by joining the characters and solving every one of these science-based puzzles can kids stop the destruction and save humanity. Learning about anatomy, astronomy, nature, secret codes, and more becomes a delightfully challenging game when these scientific subjects are woven into a thrilling and stylishly illustrated story. There's art throughout, created in a cool 1950's sci-fi style, and each puzzle focuses on a different topic. Through crosswords and riddles, word games and word searches, all kinds of fascinating facts emerge. Best of all, on the last page a "grand finale" uses all the solutions from other puzzles in the book.
Pony Play Games and Puzzles
Jackie the little Jack Russell terrier and Barney the barn owl see all the goings-on around the horse farm every day. They provide lively running commentary and silly horsy humor in this delightful collection of connect-the-dots, word games, mazes, fill-in-the-blanks, and logic problems — each puzzle specially created for horse-crazy kids. Five sections — Walk, Trot, Show Time, Canter, and Gallop — feature puzzles that progress in difficulty, encouraging children to take the challenge and expand their skills as they work their way through the book, and perhaps through their riding lessons as well! By the time children are galloping through the final chapter their puzzle skills will be blue-ribbon impressive. Each illustrated page is packed with complementary drawings, clever asides from Jackie and Barney, perhaps a riddle or a joke, and the puzzle itself. There is always plenty of room for small fingers to solve the challenge, even when the child makes a mistake or two. Educational and entertaining, Pony Play stimulates kids' imaginations and feeds their desire to learn more about horses.
CLUE Code-Breaking Puzzles
For more than 50 years, CLUE, Hasbro’s popular board game, has kept everyone guessing with irresistibly clever whodunits. Now the fun continues with these 60 mini-mysteries, all related to the characters, weapons, or rooms made famous in the original. Why did the telephone suddenly go dead while Mr. Boddy was talking to Mr. Green? Where did the blood on Mrs. White’s apron came from? As they try to solve these conundrums, young sleuths will test their ability to decipher clues, break codes, and become word detectives. What’s happening in the ballroom when Mrs. Peacock sees a strange man with his arms around Miss Scarlet? Replace each symbol with its corresponding letter to find out. Colonel Mustard receives a note about a lost item; to read what it says, change each letter to the one that comes just BEFORE it in the alphabet. Of course, answers are provided for those who need a peek!
Tough Trivia for Kids
What summer month has no major holidays? Which Australian critters live on eucalyptus leaves? In connection with Mensa, renowned author Helene Hovanec--the creator of 38 kids' puzzle books--gives children a pleasurable brain workout with some challenging kid-centered trivia. It's absolutely fun to see if you know the answers to questions such as: Which kind of test is given to determine if somone is telling the truth? Which hero from children's literature traveled to a land called Lilliput? Some quizzes are multiple choice, while others simply ask the questions or feature fill-ins, and the subjects range from art to music, sports to food, with many categories in-between.
