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176 pages of stickers, puzzles and fun! Packed with over 800 stickers and 100 activities, this jumbo book provides a wide variety of engaging challenges for puzzlers ages 4-8. Each puzzle and game pairs with colorful stickers kids can place to complete Hidden Pictures scenes, solve mazes and more.Kids will love to sticker their way through this activity book, which features all of Highlights’ best sticker puzzles in one jumbo collection. With a wide variety of puzzle types, it's the perfect entertainment for both young puzzlers and seasoned pros. It makes a fun activity for family game night or a great gift for any occasion!Puzzles and stickers are so much fun for kids — and this activity book is packed with both to bring kids hours of skill-building, screen-free fun. Searching for objects in Hidden Pictures scenes helps develop vocabulary, concentration and attention to detail, while placing stickers builds kids’ fine motor skills. Crafted by the puzzle pros at Highlights, every puzzle in this collection encourages independence and persistence, reinforced by humor and fun.

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Get ready for preschool with this fun, colorful activity book. Designed for children who are about to begin school for the first time, this 256-page activity-rich workbook combines teacher-approved skills practice with puzzles, humor, colorful illustrations and sing-along songs — all designed to lower the barriers to learning and set children up for early-learning success!Packed with fun activities including My First Hidden Pictures puzzles, games, recipes, crafts and songs, this unique, age-appropriate book will get young learners excited about school before they even begin. Created with education experts, this workbook introduces essential early-learning skills and concepts like fine motor control, coloring and tracing, letters, numbers, counting, shapes and colors. The book also includes access to 12 sing-along songs to stream. QR codes are featured throughout the pages so little ones can listen to and learn interactive songs they might hear at preschool.This book also encourages the development of fundamental building blocks of learning like focus, following directions and attention to detail. It introduces what to expect in a preschool classroom, like circle time and center time, and in a child’s community. The book also includes social-emotional learning activities and tips for parents to extend learning at home.

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Highlights Puzzle Readers offer an innovative approach to learning that integrates puzzles and stories to develop motivated, confident readers. These Level 2 books are perfect for kids starting to read longer and more complex sentences.Knox, a snail mail carrier, delivers packages with a smile--and a hilarious joke for each recipient. In this pun-filled Level 2 Highlights Puzzle Reader, readers must solve six mazes to help Knox deliver the mail with time to spare so he can celebrate his birthday. With bonus knock-knock jokes, Knox Knocks: Special Delivery is perfect for beginning readers.

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Highlights Puzzle Readers offer an innovative approach to learning that integrates puzzles and stories to develop motivated, confident readers. These Level 2 books are perfect for kids starting to read longer and more complex sentences.Knox, a snail mail carrier, delivers packages with a smile--and a hilarious joke for each recipient. In this pun-filled Level 2 Highlights Puzzle Reader, readers must solve six mazes to help Knox deliver the mail with time to spare so he can celebrate his birthday. With bonus knock-knock jokes, Knox Knocks: Special Delivery is perfect for beginning readers.

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Highlights Puzzle Readers offer an innovative approach to learning that integrates puzzles and stories to develop motivated, confident readers. These Level 2 books are perfect for kids starting to read longer and more complex sentences.Join Kit and Kaboodle as they pick apples on the farm in this Level 2 Highlights Puzzle Reader. Kids can help the duo by finding items for their journey in six Hidden Pictures puzzles that double as story illustrations. With a bonus picture dictionary, Kit and Kaboodle Visit the Farm is perfect for readers who are starting to explore reading.

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Highlights Puzzle Readers offer an innovative approach to learning that integrates puzzles and stories to develop motivated, confident readers. These Level 1 books are perfect for kids who are reading simple sight words and sounding out decodable text.Fans of Amelia Bedelia will love these bird buddies! Maggie, a scatter-brained magpie, and Pie, a rule-following pigeon, love to cook together, but sometimes Maggie gets a little mixed up! In this Level 1 Highlights Puzzle Reader, kids solve visual logic puzzles to help find the right ingredients. With a bonus recipe so kids can make their own pizza, Maggie and Pie and the Pizza Party is perfect for beginning readers.

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Highlights Puzzle Readers offer an innovative approach to learning that integrates puzzles and stories to develop motivated, confident readers. These Level P books are perfect for kids learning to recognize letters and sounds.Fox is looking for a pet, but everything Bear, Mouse, and Squirrel suggest isn't quite right. In this Level P Highlights Puzzle Reader, kids can join in the search and then find hidden letters throughout the book. The simple text has lots of picture support that will keep readers turning the pages. With a bonus matching activity to reinforce vocabulary, kids will love playing along in this forest adventure.

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Stories + Puzzles = Reading Success! Highlights Puzzle Readers offer an innovative approach to learning that integrates puzzles and stories to develop motivated, confident readers. These Level P books are perfect for kids just beginning to read simple sentences.Mouse and Squirrel can't find their friend, Bear. In this Level P Highlights Puzzle Reader, readers can join in the search for Bear and then find hidden letters throughout the book. The simple story text has lots of picture support that will keep readers turning the pages, while the puzzle encourages re-reading. With a bonus matching activity to reinforce vocabulary, kids will love playing along with this forest adventure.

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Get ready for preschool! Designed for children who are about to begin school for the first time, this activity-rich, teacher-approved workbook combines skills practice with puzzles, humor, and reward stickers. This book lowers the barriers to learning and sets children up for early learning success.Highlights brings "Fun with a Purpose" into this 144-page workbook to get kids excited about school before they even begin. This workbook introduces essential early learning skills and concepts, such as fine-motor control, letters, numbers, shapes, and colors. The book also encourages the development of other fundamental building blocks of learning--like focus and attention to detail--and it introduces what to expect in a preschool classroom. Plus, kids will love the bonus pull-out Hidden Pictures progress poster, fun reward stickers, award certificate, and extra activities that they can take outdoors.

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Stories + Puzzles = Reading Success! Highlights Puzzle Readers offer an innovative approach to learning that integrates puzzles and stories to develop motivated, confident readers.Soar with Kit and Kaboodle as they take their first plane ride in this Level 2 Highlights Puzzle Reader. Kids can help the duo by finding items for their journey in six Hidden Pictures puzzles that double as story illustrations. With a bonus picture dictionary, Kit and Kaboodle Fly the Skies is perfect for readers who are starting to explore reading.

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Stories + Puzzles = Reading Success! Highlights Puzzle Readers offer an innovative approach to learning that integrates puzzles and stories to develop motivated, confident readers.Nick and his robot pal Nack love to build things. As they make bubble wands and bubble mix in this Level 1 Highlights Puzzle Reader, kids can find supplies in Hidden Pictures scenes. These puzzles double as picture support for the simple story text, which is full of repeated words. With bonus craft directions, Nick and Nack Blow Bubbles will appeal to junior makers who are just discovering reading.

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Stories + Puzzles = Reading Success! Highlights Puzzle Readers offer an innovative approach to learning that integrates puzzles and stories to develop motivated, confident readers.Get ready for fun as Kit and Kaboodle visit an amusement park in this Level 2 Highlights Puzzle Reader. Kids can help the duo by finding items for their journey in six Hidden Pictures puzzles that double as story illustrations. With a bonus picture dictionary, Kit and Kaboodle Ride a Roller Coaster is perfect for readers who are starting to explore reading.

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A fun homage to the Mexican holiday, Day of the Dead Hidden Pictures to Highlight will make a sweet puzzle treat for kids ages 6 and up! Just use the included orange highlighter to find 300+ hidden objects and create exciting fluorescent scenes.This 32-page puzzle book combines the fun of coloring with highlighters with our most-loved puzzles: Hidden Pictures scenes! The inverted, white-on-black puzzles celebrate a variety of Day of the Dead traditions, including decorating calaveras, creating ofrendas, baking pan de muerto and more. This puzzle book creates a fun, brain-boosting activity that the whole family can enjoy together!Hidden Pictures books offer kids tech-free entertainment and age-appropriate challenges. At home or on the go, puzzling helps kids improve their attention to detail, persistence, focus and more skills to help them succeed in school. Like all Highlights products, this puzzle book is created by childhood experts to bring kids meaningful benefits and maximum fun.

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Kids ages 3-6 will love the magical fun that awaits in this unique activity set! It includes 6 adorably illustrated, fold-out scenes on 3 double-sided playsets. Plus, you’ll get more than 150 vinyl cling stickers to use again and again. The reusable stickers and playscenes come inside a resealable storage folder, so sticker fun is easy to take on the go.Four scenes in this set double as Hidden Pictures puzzles with lots of hidden objects to find. Kids can place a sticker over each object, then remove the stickers to solve the scene all over again! Two open-ended playscenes invite kids to use their imaginations and fill the page with stickers of unicorns, fairies, centaurs, dragons and more.With reusable stickers, each scene can be completed multiple times for hours of screen-free play. Placing stickers is an irresistible way for kids to improve their fine motor control, while searching for hidden objects helps kids develop focus, visual perception and more skills they’ll need in school.

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In this key civil rights and social justice book for young readers, Scipio Africanus Jones—a self-taught attorney who was born enslaved—leads a momentous series of court cases to save twelve Black men who'd been unjustly sentenced to death.In October 1919, a group of Black sharecroppers met at a church in an Arkansas village to organize a union. Bullets rained down on the meeting from outside. Many were killed by a white mob, and others were rounded up and arrested. Twelve of the sharecroppers were hastily tried and sentenced to death. Up stepped Scipio Africanus Jones, a self-taught lawyer who'd been born enslaved. Could he save the men's lives and set them free? Through their in-depth research and consultation with legal experts, award-winning nonfiction authors Sandra and Rich Wallace examine the complex proceedings and an unsung African American early civil rights hero.

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Over 500 school-arious jokes for kids! This entertaining collection of back-to-school jokes will make kids 6 and up laugh on the way to school and home again. Curated by the editors at Highlights, Best Kids' School Jokes Ever has hundreds of age-appropriate, hilarious jokes in a variety of types, like riddles, knock-knocks and more. How do sheep carry their homework? In baaa-ckpacks, of course! This clever humour collection features clever school-themed jokes as well as lots of hilarious black-and-white cartoons to round out the fun. School jokes really appeal to kids' sense of humour and are great for sharing at school, play dates or parties. Relatable school topics like classes, sports, music, school supplies and backpacks will entertain everyone for hours. Joke books encourage kids to read for fun and provide screen-free entertainment for road trips, rainy days and more—a great option for reluctant readers! Plus, sharing jokes with friends and family isn’t just fun; wordplay found in jokes and riddles boosts young readers’ language skills. Telling jokes also helps kids build confidence and social-emotional skills to help them succeed in school.

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With bright neon puzzles, this mermaid-themed activity book combines the fun of coloring with markers and the enduring popularity of Hidden Pictures puzzles. Kids ages 6 and up will love seeking objects hidden in over 20 scenes of mystical mermaids, magical sea creatures and more!This 32-page Hidden Pictures book offers a fun, brain-boosting activity that young puzzlers and mermaid fans will love. The included purple gel marker makes it easy to create eye-catching, fluorescent scenes as kids find and color over 385 hidden objects. Plus, it’s a handy travel size that’s easy to pack up and take puzzle fun anywhere.Hidden Pictures books provide kids tech-free entertainment and age-appropriate challenges. At home or on the go, puzzling helps kids improve their attention to detail, persistence and focus. For over 75 years, Highlights has inspired children to become Curious, Creative, Caring and Confident individuals. With products that encourage thinking, creativity and self-expression, Highlights helps kids build essential skills, all while having fun.

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Young children will delight in�learning about Earth and discovering ways to care for the planet while playig with the�habitat-themed puzzles,�cool wildlife stickers, and other super-fun�activities 75+ wild facts, 80+ stickers, and more than 50 activities will engage and challenge young readers and also introduce them to the wonders of Earth. The book focuses on a variety of natural habitats�from the ocean to the rain forest to the desert. Inside the book, children will find Hidden Pictures puzzles, mazes, crafts, and writing and drawing practice, along with exciting habitat profiles, nature fun facts, and cute wildlife stickers. The puzzles and activities strengthen problem-solving skills and creativity, whle the nonfiction content gets kids excited about exploring their world and teaches them new facts.

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The 2022 edition of the most engaging activities from Highlights has 304 pages jam-packed with hundreds of brand-new puzzles, activities, jokes, crafts, quizzes, recipes, facts, and more for kids to enjoy all year long. Get ready for a year of fun in 2022 with favorite Highlights puzzles and activities that celebrate traditional and wacky holidays, historical anniversaries, world events, and everything in between. Kids can puzzle their way through each month while learning lots of interesting facts and documenting their own occasions!

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This original picture book version of a timeless Christmas story is also a Hidden Pictures book of puzzles, making it the perfect gift for families to enjoy year after year! Build a whole new holiday tradition with this special edition of a beloved holiday poem. Find more than 120 holiday-themed hidden objects in a vibrantly illustrated storybook that can be read aloud to the whole family. This storybook is a Christmas gift that is sure to keep on giving for many holidays to come!

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Explore the farm while searching for hidden objects, farmyard places, and animals from A to Z. Includes 3 double-sided playscenes enclosed in resealable folder and four pages of vinyl cling stickers. Learning the alphabet is reinforced with the fun of reusable stickers and Hidden Pictures puzzles. Young children will love creating scenes of anthropomorphic animals in an adorably-illustrated farm while identifying each letter of the alphabet-and finding over 140 hidden objects. It includes easy storage for the stickers and playscenes-perfect for playing again and again!

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The Highlights(TM) Big Fun Book of Preschool Activities offers over 200 pages of age-appropriate, Common Core--related activities that reinforce getting ready for school and what kids are already learning in the classroom. The book provides engaging and satisfying learning-based puzzles and games that kids will find both fun and challenging. Exercises include ABCs, 123s, matching, opposites, colors, shapes, and much more. In addition, the book includes an introduction with helpful tips for parents on working through and discussing the activities with their preschoolers. Developed by experts who understand the combination of fun and learning like no one else, these books deliver a unique and engaging learning experience. Curriculum includes: ABCs Word recognition 123s Number names Story basics Matching Colors Shapes Opposites Sorting Patterns

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Tracing and writing activities combine with puzzles to make learning fun while helping young children build letter recognition and develop lifelong learning confidence. Word recognition is an important step toward reading readiness, and Highlights (TM) infuses Fun with a Purpose(R) into this essential learning activity. With vibrant art and engaging prompts, Kindergarten Reading exposes young children to early reading concepts through alphabet, rhyming, and tracing practice with the fun of puzzles and other activities.

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Tons of tricky tongue twisters will have kids laughing repeatedly in Tongue Twisters! A companion to Highlights’ Laugh Attack and Knock Knock joke books, this hilarious humour collection contains over 1,500 kid-friendly tongue twisters covering topics about animals, school, travel and more. With funny phrases and rib-tickling bonus cartoons, kids will amuse themselves—and their friends and family—with this ultimate tongue twister collection. Great for budding comedians ages 6-12, this joke book is filled with 352 pages of wholesome humour specially curated by the editors and kid experts at Highlights. This illustrated collection is filled with silliness and tongue twisters’ kids will love to share with friends, parents, and siblings. Plus, telling jokes is a great way for kids to develop social-emotional skills and build confidence all while having fun. Fun for all the family!

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From codes and logic puzzles to mazes and math games, this Jumbo Pad of Number Puzzles will stretch kids’ minds with hours of brain-boosting fun. With more than 125 puzzles of varying difficulty and easy pull-out pages, this big book of problem-solving fun is perfect for sharing with friends and classmates. Nobody does puzzles like Highlights! More than 125 engaging number puzzles and activitiesmake this collection an excellent gift for any occasion, perfect for kids 6-12 and busy families on the go. With 256 easy pull-out pages, these math puzzles can be shared with a large group at a birthday party, in the classroom or during sleepovers and playdates. This jumbo pad is sure to challenge, entertain and delight kids who can’t get enough of numbers. Kids of every ability will find their favourite puzzles, including: Logic puzzles Codes Mazes AND MANY MORE! Every puzzle is developed to improve math skills, visual perception, and concentration skills. Puzzles also help children develop their vocabulary, improve attention to detail, support good work habits and build self-confidence—all while being incredibly fun to solve.

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What do you get when you cross a lift-the-flap joke book with Hidden Pictures puzzles? The "funnest" and funniest joke book around!This joke and puzzle book features flaps that fold out to reveal punch lines as well as 100+ hidden objects to find in hilarious scenes. With jokes perfect for beginning readers, budding young comedians will enjoy sharing the jokes and solving the puzzles.

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Stories + Puzzles = Reading Success! Highlights Puzzle Readers offer an innovative approach to learning that integrates puzzles and stories to develop motivated, confident readers.Blast off with Kit and Kaboodle as they visit a space camp in this Level 2 Highlights Puzzle Reader. Kids can help the duo by finding items for their journey in six Hidden Pictures puzzles that double as story illustrations. With a bonus picture dictionary, Kit and Kaboodle Blast Off to Space is perfect for readers who are starting to explore reading.

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Share a classic Bible story with this one-of-a-kind Hidden Pictures storybook. Winner of the Mom’s Choice Gold Award and National Parenting Seal of Approval, this unique 32-page storybook makes a perfect gift for religious holidays or milestones like a baptism, First Communion or confirmation. It's sure to be a treasured gift for years to come.A perfect read-aloud story to share with the entire family, this book tells the story of Noah's quest to build an ark to save Earth's animals from a great flood. This hardcover picture book follows Noah's journey through simple language and vibrant Hidden Pictures scenes. Find more than 120 hidden objects throughout the beautifully illustrated pages.Children ages 4-8 will enjoy this special retelling of the beloved story with engaging, fun puzzles to solve along the way! Crafted by childhood experts, this storybook will foster a love of reading while helping improve children’s concentration, attention to detail and more important school skills.

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This jumbo book is packed with more than 175 colorful mazes of various puzzle types and features the fun and humorous Highlights! illustrations that kids know and love. Each maze is carefully designed to engage and entertain children while honing their concentration skills and attention to detail. In addition to irresistible traditional mazes, kids will enjoy untangling string mazes, solving code-word mazes, quiz mazes, number-logic mazes, riddle mazes, and more!

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A portable puzzle book with a built-in spinner is a brand-new way to enjoy Highlights activities and games whenever you are traveling! Designed for one or multiple players, kids can play more than 20 games--from Hidden Pictures(R) puzzles to fill-in story challenges to silly brain-teaser games--with this innovative puzzle book that includes a built-in spinner. Each game challenges players to think creatively and fosters fun competition. It's perfect to take along on airplane or car trips, as a rainy-day activity, and makes a spectacular gift for any occasion.

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Hop into Easter with this egg-cellent activity book with a die-cut handle and spot glitter cover that features all the best Highlights puzzles in a convenient format for grab-and-go Easter fun. Includes 3 pages of bonus stickers!This jam-packed activity book features 48 colorful pages of Hidden Pictures puzzles, mazes, spot the differences, and other activities showing bunnies, chicks, Easter eggs, flowers, and more. It includes 3 sticker sheets. Bonus crafts and recipes round out the Easter fun. The die-cut handle allows tiny hands to tote their book wherever they go. This book is sure to delight every child on Easter morning!

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Red reveal glasses and an invisible ink pen with UV light bring a unique puzzling experience to this engaging puzzle book. This activity book combines the fun of secret codes and invisible ink. Packed with Hidden Pictures puzzles, codes puzzles, mazes, criss crosses, and riddle puzzles, kids can use the glasses and invisible ink to solve and enhance the puzzles.

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Highlights Puzzle Readers offer an innovative approach to learning that integrates puzzles and stories to develop motivated, confident readers. These Level P books are perfect for kids learning to recognize letters and sounds.Fox is looking for a pet, but everything Bear, Mouse, and Squirrel suggest isn't quite right. In this Level P Highlights Puzzle Reader, kids can join in the search and then find hidden letters throughout the book. The simple text has lots of picture support that will keep readers turning the pages. With a bonus matching activity to reinforce vocabulary, kids will love playing along in this forest adventure.

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Stories + Puzzles = Reading Success! Highlights Puzzle Readers offer an innovative approach to learning that integrates puzzles and stories to develop motivated, confident readers.Soar with Kit and Kaboodle as they take their first plane ride in this Level 2 Highlights Puzzle Reader. Kids can help the duo by finding items for their journey in six Hidden Pictures puzzles that double as story illustrations. With a bonus picture dictionary, Kit and Kaboodle Fly the Skies is perfect for readers who are starting to explore reading.

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Stories + Puzzles = Reading Success! Highlights Puzzle Readers offer an innovative approach to learning that integrates puzzles and stories to develop motivated, confident readers.Join Kit and Kaboodle as they visit the sights in Sillyville in this Level 2 Highlights Puzzle Reader. Kids can help the duo by finding items for their journey in six Hidden Pictures puzzles that double as story illustrations. With a bonus picture dictionary, Kit and Kaboodle Explore the City is perfect for readers who are starting to explore reading.

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Stories + Puzzles = Reading Success! Highlights Puzzle Readers offer an innovative approach to learning that integrates puzzles and stories to develop motivated, confident readers.Nick and his robot pal Nack love to build things. As they make bubble wands and bubble mix in this Level 1 Highlights Puzzle Reader, kids can find supplies in Hidden Pictures scenes. These puzzles double as picture support for the simple story text, which is full of repeated words. With bonus craft directions, Nick and Nack Blow Bubbles will appeal to junior makers who are just discovering reading.

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Make some magic with this scratch-and-play unicorn set! Puzzlers ages 6 and up can scratch off their own messages and solve puzzles on 10 illustrated cards. One side is a scratch-off design, the other is a Hidden Pictures puzzle to solve. With two cards of each design, kids can scratch one card to share and one to keep!This set of 10 double-sided cards allows kids to customize magical unicorn designs. The included wooden stylus makes it easy to reveal bursts of color in each scratch-off scene. There’s plenty of space for kids to add their own doodles, names and other unique additions, too. The on-the-go format includes resealable storage for the stylus and a pocketed folder for the scratch-off sheets to take creativity anywhere!In addition to a punny message, every card features a Highlights exclusive puzzle for added fun and engagement. Hidden Pictures puzzles help children develop their vocabulary, improve attention to detail, establish good work habits and build self-confidence — all while being incredibly fun to solve and share with friends!

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The fight for women's suffrage between women's rights leader Alice Paul and President Woodrow Wilson is creatively presented as a four-round boxing match in this energetic nonfiction picture book.When Woodrow Wilson was elected President, he didn't know that he would be participating in one of the greatest fights of the century: the battle for women's right to vote. The formidable Alice Paul led the women's suffrage movement, and saw President Wilson's election as an opportunity to win the vote to women. She battered her opponent with endless strategic arguments and carefully coordinated protests, calling for a new amendment granting women the right to vote. With a spirit and determination that never quit--even when peaceful protests were met with violence and even when many women were thrown in jail--Paul eventually convinced President Wilson to support her cause, changing the country forever. Cleverly framed as a boxing match, this book provides a fascinating and compelling look at an important moment in American history. Sarah Green's bright, detailed illustrations perfectly accompany award-winning author Barb Rosenstock's captivating narrative.

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This puzzle book for kids provides horse lovers of all ages with hours of activity and puzzle fun! Kids who love puzzles will keep busy with this activity book packed with more than 100 horse puzzles drawn in the classic Highlights(TM) black-and-white style. With more than 1,200 objects to find, each puzzle is carefully designed to engage and entertain children while honing their concentration skills and attention to detail.

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Christmas Tales is packed with festive stories that get silly when readers get involved! Kids 6-9 will have a blast solving the Hidden Pictures puzzles, then placing the corresponding stickers in the blank spaces of the stories in whatever order they choose. They’ll create unique silly stories from a multitude of possible combinations.This collection contains Santa, reindeer, festive Christmas trees, surprise gifts--and of course, stickers! Over 250 colorful stickers pair with fill-in-the-blank stories that kids will complete for laugh-out-loud entertainment—the sillier the better. Fun to share with the whole family, Christmas Tales is filled with wholesome humor kids and grown-ups can enjoy together—a perfect activity to fill long winter breaks. Placing stickers also improves hand-eye coordination and helps kids with concentration, focus and more. This 48-page book is great to take on the go to bring puzzling fun to little elves anywhere.For over 75 years, Highlights has inspired children to become Curious, Creative, Caring and Confident individuals. With products that encourage thinking, creativity and self-expression, Highlights helps kids build essential skills, all while having fun.

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This latest installment in the popular Strange and Wonderful series introduces readers to spider species from all over the world—from the common garden spider to the elusive black widow. Pringle’s comprehensive, lively, and informative text includes an overview of the many thousands of species in the world and describes spiders’ habitats, physiology, mating habits, web-making, what and how they eat, and how they protect themselves from predators. It also explores why people are so frightened by spiders and shows that those fears are largely unfounded. Accompanied by Meryl Henderson’s beautiful and illuminating paintings, this book perfectly hits the mark for budding entomologists. Includes a glossary, index, and further resources.

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In this unusual counting book, playful poems tell the stories of one elk, two birds, three fish—from one through ten and then many—as they go about their day. For an added bonus, numerals, Roman numerals, and words related to the numbers are included in the page design. Jason Stemple's intimate photographs give us a unique look at some common creatures that enjoy the company of others.

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A unique blend of age-appropriate tracing and writing activities are combined with puzzles to make learning fun while helping preschoolers build fine-motor skills, prepare for writing success, and develop lifelong learning confidence. Tracing is an important step toward writing readiness, and Highlights (TM) infuses Fun with a Purpose(R) into this essential learning activity. With vibrant art and engaging prompts, Preschool Tracing and Pen Control gives preschoolers lots of tracing and pre-writing practice along with the fun of puzzles and other activities, including mazes and Hidden Pictures(R) puzzles.

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