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A perfect Valentine’s Day gift for young puzzlers, this collection of Hidden Pictures puzzles offers a unique puzzling experience! Kids can use the included neon pink highlighter to find over 300 valentine-themed hidden objects and create fluorescent scenes.This Valentine’s Day activity book with inverted white-on-black puzzles combines the fun of coloring with highlighters and the enduring popularity of intricate Hidden Pictures puzzles. From scenes of classroom parties to a polar bear family's igloo, the reverse-image puzzles will glow with fun as kids illuminate bouquets, cards and more Valentine's Day surprises!This Hidden Pictures book offers 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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Eggs-tra special Hidden Pictures fun! A perfect addition to any Easter basket, this 96-page puzzle book features more than 600 hidden objects throughout color and black-and-white puzzles. Little bunnies ages 4 and up will love the 100+ stickers, plus craft ideas and more egg-citement.This delightful activity book features a wide variety of Easter puzzles, from Hidden Pictures scenes and spot-the-differences to springtime activities showing bunnies, chicks and flowers. Bonus pages at the end of the book have recipes, hands-on activities and crafts like a make-your-own bunny headband, as well as colorful Easter egg cut-outs.This book will delight every child who loves celebrating Easter. Plus, puzzling offers a fun way for kids to build important school skills like concentration, attention to detail and determination. Stickers are an irresistible way to improve fine motor skills, too. Like all Highlights products, Hidden Pictures Easter Puzzles Deluxe is crafted by experts to bring kids meaningful benefits and maximum fun!

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Nobody does puzzles like Highlights! Brilliantly bursting with more than 120 engaging activities, The Great Big Book of My First Puzzles is the perfect way to introduce younger kids to the world of puzzling. Kids ages 3-6 will love the puzzles designed just for them, including My First Hidden Pictures puzzles, That’s Silly, matching, thinking puzzles and more.With a variety of puzzle types, colorful scenes, cute characters and wholesome humor, this 256-page collection will boost kids’ puzzling confidence and keep them entertained for hours—at home or on the go. The experts at Highlights know how to design puzzles with a just-right level of challenge and fun for young puzzlers: easy enough to ensure success but hard enough to encourage perseverance. Like all Highlights products, The Great Big Book of My First Hidden Pictures is well researched, well constructed and visually appealing, to bring kids age-centric Fun with a Purpose.

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With more than 210 oversized stickers and over 60 pages of puzzles, activities and scenes to create, Giant Sticker Monster Fun is perfect for young creative puzzlers.Kids 3-6 will enjoy inventing their own unique monsters by mixing and matching stickers or giving monsters new expressions with silly-eye stickers. They can also use the giant monster stickers, each approximately 2 inches tall, to decorate playscenes and complete activities like Hidden Pictures puzzles, That’s Silly scenes, mazes and more.Stickers aren’t just great for quiet, screen-free entertainment, they help young children improve their fine motor control, all while expressing their creativity! Designed with little hands in mind, the colorful jumbo stickers in this 64-page book will make it a favorite for Halloween and year round.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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The Highlights Book of How answers questions like... How was the moon formed? How does hair grow? How exactly does popcorn pop? Hearing a lot of questions like this lately? Highlights has the answers! The Highlights Book of How features some of kids’ most inquisitive science questions about how things work submitted by real readers over the years alongside expert answers so curious kids everywhere can learn exciting new things. Integrating STEM content, experiments and activities, this 352-page how-things-work book offers in-depth explanations based on things kids are curious about. Focusing on numerous branches of science sprinkled throughout exciting chapters like Everyday Technology, Amazing Animals, Wild Weather and many others, kids keep entertained and excited as they flip through the highly visual, full-colour pages of this how-to book that will elevate their collection of STEM books. Kids can enjoy hours of hands-on fun as they discover how things are made by creating clouds in jars, building model dinosaurs out of marshmallows, making their own shampoo and more with tons of screen-free activities and crafts. Not only does this new playtime staple treat kids to hours of screen-free fun, but it also promotes a love for STEM learning through information, exercises and activities that don’t feel like homework. By applying methods of critical thinking, engineering and more, kids can thrive as they continue to question the world around them and excitedly seek out answers to those questions. Companion to Highlights’ best-selling Book of Things to Do, this can’t-miss book will have curious kids of all ages eager to explore the world around them. The Highlights Book of How is the winner of the 2022 National Parenting Product Award and Mom’s Choice Award.

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Where do carrots eat Easter dinner? At the vege-table! This hilarious 32-page pad pairs wholesome Easter jokes from Highlights with wiggling googly eyes that peek through every page. A perfect Easter basket stuffer, little peeps ages 6-9 will love reading and sharing the 30+ age-appropriate and silly jokes inside this book.This laugh-out-loud joke pad combines wacky googly eyes, silly cartoons and dozens of zany jokes, including knock-knock jokes and riddles about the Easter bunny, colored eggs and more springtime silliness. Guaranteed to amuse any kid on Easter morning, on a road trip, or during other "I'm bored" moments, this book contains jokes the whole family can enjoy. Plus, sharing jokes is a great way for kids to build confidence and social-emotional skills.

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Winner of a Mom’s Choice Gold Award! The Highlights Book of Things to Draw is the essential book for young artists. Kids ages 7 and up will find over 175 how-to-draw instructions, games and creative ways to practice drawing. From open-ended art prompts that invite kids to explore themselves and their world, to tips and how-tos, this 160-page book is the ultimate way for kids to express themselves through their artwork.This drawing companion journal to The Highlights Book of Things to Do opens doors for kids to flex their creativity. As kids work through this illustrated, flexi-bound book, they will enhance their illustration skills and expand their imaginations by creating characters, exploring patterns, interacting with their community, learning about art history and so much more. Kids can put themselves on the page and look back on this keepsake in years to come. It’s a wonderful gift for any occasion or special holiday, giving young artists hours and hours of screen-free fun and entertainment with these unique activities and age-appropriate ideas.

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Get ready to fall in love with this Valentine’s Day scratch-off set. Kids ages 6 and up can scratch off their own messages and solve puzzles on 10 valentines. 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 valentine to share and one to keep!The perfect Valentine's treat, this set of 10 double-sided cards allows kids to customize scratch-off Valentine's Day designs with kid-favorite themes like dinosaurs, pets, space and more. 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. Great Valentine’s Day activities, Hidden Pictures puzzles also 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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Trick or treat, this Halloween activity book is sweet! Explore 48 colorful pages of Hidden Pictures scenes, mazes, spot-the-differences and other puzzles featuring monsters, haunted houses, jack-o’-lanterns and candy. With over 150 stickers, plus bonus crafts and recipes to round out the fun, this book makes fa-boo-lous treat for puzzlers ages 3-6.Match the brooms, spot silly pumpkins, solve witchy riddles and much more! Halloween-themed puzzles, activities, crafts, recipes and stories are all in one place, and are handy for celebrating the holiday year after year. Kids can complete all the writing activities with just a finger, but the wipe-clean pages also work with any dry-erase marker. The die-cut handle allows little hands to tote their book anywhere—great for puzzling on the go!Halloween Fun is not just a spook-tacularly good time. The puzzles in this activity book help kids develop skills in concentration, critical thinking and attention to detail and encourage kids’ persistence. Placing stickers hones fine motor control while also creating a positive learning experience.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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Puzzle, scratch and draw! Perfect for kids ages 6-9, this whimsical book combines the excitement of solving Hidden Pictures puzzles with the visual thrill of scratch art. From colorful unicorns and cupcakes to adorable animals, there’s something fun to discover on every page of this rainbow-themed activity book.Featuring 20 scratch-off pages, 20 black-and-white puzzles and 16 full-color activity pages, young artists will find endless ways to show off their talents and express their creativity. In addition to solving puzzles and revealing scratch-art, kids can explore mazes, doodle pages, jokes and more. Plus, the included wooden stylus makes it easy to reveal the exciting scratch-off scenes!The concealed spiral binding makes the pages lie flat, so scratching, drawing and doodling is easy on any surface. This dazzling book will keep kids entertained for hours of screen-free fun, all while helping them build focus, concentration and fine motor skills.

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Silly Sticker Stories Halloween is packed with spooky stories that get silly when readers get involved! Kids will have a blast solving the Hidden Pictures(R) puzzles, then placing the corresponding stickers in the blank spaces of the stories in whatever order they choose, creating a unique silly story from a multitude of possible combinations. This collection contains friendly witches, zany monsters, costumed trick-or-treaters, glowing jack o' lanterns, tricks and treats--and of course, stickers!

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Designed for expert puzzlers, this collection is packed with our trickiest, most mind-boggling Hidden Pictures puzzles-without picture clues! Each book contains more than 100 intricate puzzles paired with only a list of objects to find. And for true puzzle masters, 16 puzzles come with no hints at all. Just right for experienced puzzlers ready to advance to the next level of difficulty.

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Baby’s first seek-and-find fun! This adorable puzzle board book, inspired by a popular feature in Hello magazine, encourages interactivity and invites babies, toddlers and their caregivers to read and explore together. Every page helps spark early learning by combining vibrant, baby-friendly illustrations and developmentally appropriate challenges.Touch and feel the embossed pages while searching for animals in the backyard, on the farm, in the ocean and more. The last page offers a bonus learning activity about colors, with a red crab, yellow chicks and brown deer.Ready for hands-on fun, this book’s wipe-off surface protects against spills, and rounded edges provide a safe reading experience. Find It board books are easy to take on the go to entertain the littlest readers anywhere—a perfect gift for new parents! This interactive and tactile board book is designed by childhood experts to enhance learning and encourage bonding through play.

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This engaging activity book is packed with 80 pages of drawing prompts designed to spark creative thinking. Includes 3 double-sided markers for a total of 6 colors. Featuring 75+ open-ended drawing activities designed to get kids' imaginations flowing this flexi-bound activity book helps kids' dive into their creative side. Every page will be a new adventure! This collection includes a wide variety of prompts like mix-and-match drawing activities, Hidden Pictures puzzles, and scenes to finish. The fun content and included colorful markers make this a great gift that provides hours of fun.

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Bursting with dinosaur fun! With 5 write-on wipe-off cards and a 96-page activity pad, this set is packed with colourful illustrations of dinosaurs alongside a variety of ways to create, puzzle and play. Keep petite palaeontologists ages 3-6 engaged in screen-free fun for hours!

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With more than 100 amazing nature scenes to explore, this Hidden Pictures puzzle book is a delightful addition to any young solver’s collection. Featuring illustrations of gorgeous landscapes, wild critters and other intricate nature-themed scenes, these iconic black-and-white puzzles have over 1,800 hidden objects tucked away for kids to discover. Explore our incredible planet through Hidden Pictures puzzles! A great gift for puzzlers 6-12, this 144-page puzzle book offers a breath of fresh air with its detailed black-and-white illustrations of diverse biomes. Perfect for summer camp or a family camping trip, Amazing Nature Puzzles is carefully designed to engage children while helping them develop their attention to detail and concentration skills. Plus, it’s easy to take on the go to keep kids entertained with age-appropriate challenges and Highlights’ signature silliness. This book is sure to delight every adventurous, nature-loving kid!

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Discover over 50 spooky scenes and more than 600 hidden objects inside Hidden Pictures Halloween Puzzles Deluxe — a perfect treat for Halloween! A great gift for puzzlers ages 4-8, this activity book features a mix of Hidden Pictures scenes, mazes and other frightful Halloween puzzles showing ghosts, werewolves, jack-o’-lanterns and candy.This jam-packed book includes both full-color and classic black-and-white puzzle scenes. Kids can add over 135 glow-in-the-dark stickers of ghosts, bats and other friendly Halloween faces to the scenes for even more spooky fun. Bonus pages at the end of the 96-page book feature tasty recipes and engaging crafts, including 6 masks to cut out and decorate for make-believe play.The variety of activities in this book will keep puzzle enthusiasts engaged for hours and help them practice essential skills while having fun. Stickers offer an irresistible way for children to hone their fine motor control, while puzzles develop concentration, attention to detail and more skills needed for school. This book makes a spook-tacular gift for any child who loves Halloween.

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Calling all junior detectives and super seekers! This engaging 144-page puzzle collection celebrates the very best of Highlights Hidden Pictures puzzles. Kids will love searching for 1,500+ hidden objects in a variety of innovative seek-and-find puzzles, including full-color, photo and classic black-and-white scenes.With more than 20 different types of Hidden Pictures puzzles, as well as fun and silly facts about these unique creations, there's something for everyone in this "best of" collection. Created for puzzle-loving kids ages 6 to 106, this book is bursting with classic puzzles, photo puzzles, inverted puzzles, two-player puzzles, and more, all woven together with Highlights’ signature wholesome humor. It provides hours of puzzling fun for seek-and-find fans.While kids have a blast finding hidden objects, they’re also improving their visual perception, concentration and attention to detail. This collection is perfect entertainment for rainy days, after school, car trips and a great addition to family game night, too! Like all Highlights products, The Best Hidden Pictures Puzzles EVER is well thought out, well constructed and visually appealing in order to bring kids meaningful benefits and maximum fun.

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The perfect gift for any dinosaur-loving child, this collection of Hidden Pictures puzzles offers a unique puzzling experience. Kids can use the included bright green highlighter to find hundreds of hidden objects and create fluorescent scenes. This dinosaur activity book with inverted white-on-black puzzles combines the fun of coloring with highlighters and the enduring popularity of intricate Hidden Pictures puzzles. Dinosaur-themed images such as dinosaurs at the dentist, a dinosaur construction site, and a dino rock band pair with Highlights' trademark humorous illustrations, creating a fun and engaging puzzling activity perfect for the whole family.

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This colourful, sturdy board book features wipe-clean pages and a marker so preschoolers can practise writing their numbers 0 to 10 and solve age-appropriate Hidden Pictures puzzles, mazes and other fun activities over and over again. Learning numbers and counting are essential building blocks for future learning and Highlights brings "Fun with a Purpose" into these formative skills. The award-winning content blends number tracing and writing practice with number-themed puzzles and humour, which will help kids develop a lifelong love of learning - all in a take-along format perfect for learning on the go.

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Solve colorful My First Hidden Pictures puzzles by using the included dry-erase marker to find dozens of hidden objects in engaging, write-on, wipe-off scenes. This book contains more than 25 fun and colorful Hidden Pictures puzzles for the youngest puzzler along with bonus drawing and tracing activities, to do over and over with a dry-erase marker. Each puzzle is specially designed to help kids ages 3-6 develop visual perception and problem-solving skills, offering a unique and entertaining first-puzzling experience. Erase and puzzle again!

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What did the dad say when his son said, "I'm hungry"? "Hi, Hungry. I'm Dad!" This laugh-out-loud humour collection contains over 900 kid-friendly dad jokes that leave kids groaning and giggling. Are you looking for a joke so corny that only a dad could tell? This book contains 256 pages of jokes by, about, and for dads (and their humorous kids)! With hilarious black-and-white cartoons and the cheesiest jokes, young and old readers will love this book of knee-slappers. It makes a great gift!

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Kids will roar for this Hidden Pictures scratch-off 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 dino-mite 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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What do you get when you cross Christmas Hidden Pictures fun with lift-the-flap jokes? A holly jolly activity book! Perfect for young puzzlers ages 3 and up, this joke and puzzle book features flaps that fold out to reveal punchlines as well as 130+ hidden objects to spot in hilarious scenes.Budding comedians will enjoy sharing Christmas jokes like “How do Christmas trees like their ice cream?” and “Who did the reindeer invite to his party?” This book is perfect for beginning readers who like to laugh and even grown-ups who like to giggle! Plus, kids can solve some tree-mendously fun puzzles as they go.Kids love learning and sharing funny jokes, which makes this the perfect book to entertain them all season. Humor is an important social and developmental skill, and it helps take the pressure off of learning new skills like reading. It makes kids more relaxed and eager to try new things! Highlights lift-the-flap books are created by childhood experts to bring kids meaningful benefits and maximum fun.

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Winter, spring, summer or fall, this pun-believable book will bring laughs for all! Get ready for a year of knee-slapping, side-splitting, rib-tickling laughs with this 352-page joke book, perfect for young comedians ages 6 and up. Hundreds of jokes will keep kids smiling and reading for fun all year long.With jokes about all major holidays and every day in between, this joke collection will create a year’s worth of anticipation and excitement. Kids will look forward to finding what the next day’s joke brings! Curated by the kid experts at Highlights, these jokes offer humor and silliness the whole family can enjoy.Perfect for reluctant readers, joke books provide screen-free entertainment for road trips, rainy days and more. 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 that will help them succeed in school.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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What do you get when you cross Halloween Hidden Pictures fun with lift-the-flap-jokes? A monstrously silly activity book! Perfect for young puzzlers ages 3 and up, this Halloween joke and puzzle book features flaps that fold out to reveal punchlines as well as 130+ hidden objects to spot in hilarious scenes.Budding comedians will enjoy sharing Halloween jokes like “What is a ghost’s favorite treat?” and “How do you fix a broken jack-o-lantern?” This book is perfect for beginning readers who like to laugh, and even grown-ups who like to giggle! Plus, kids can solve some spook-tacularly fun puzzles as they go.Kids love reading, learning and sharing funny jokes, which makes this the perfect book to entertain them all Halloween season. Humor is an important social and developmental skill, and it helps take the pressure off of learning new skills like reading. It makes kids more relaxed and eager to try new things! Like all Highlights products, this joke and puzzle book is created by childhood experts to bring kids meaningful benefits and maximum fun.

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This irresistible book is packed with more than 100 favorite puzzles straight from our beloved magazine. Drawn in Highlights' classic black-and-white style, each puzzle is carefully designed to engage and entertain children while honing their concentration skills and attention to detail. With more than 1,200 objects to find, this book provides kids of all ages with hours of puzzling fun. A surefire hit with Hidden Pictures fans who just can't get enough!

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A unique blend of age-appropriate tracing and writing activities are combined with puzzles to make learning fun while helping young children build early maths skills and develop lifelong learning confidence. Identifying numbers, skip counting, and understanding basic addition and subtraction are important steps toward maths readiness, and Highlights (TM) infuses Fun with a Purpose(R) into these essential learning activities. With vibrant art and engaging prompts, Kiindergarten Math Concepts exposes young children to maths through numbers practice and the fun of puzzles and other activities.

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Christmas trees, reindeer, snowmen and more are featured in this holiday inspired Puzzlemania activity collection for kids ages 6 and up. Decked out with a wide variety of Highlights' best puzzles and games, this 144-page activity book will have kids even more excited to celebrate the season, while keeping their minds engaged with expertly crafted activities. This collection is packed with activities including mazes, number puzzles, wordplay, brainteasers, matching - even Christmas Hidden Pictures puzzles. With more than 100 activities delightfully designed around presents, snowflakes, reindeer, elves, and more, this activity book is a perfect Christmas gift for kids or solution to winter-break boredom for the whole family. Kids love working to achieve a goal, and every puzzle solved encourages them to take on new challenges and builds their "elf-esteem." Like all Highlights products, Puzzlemania Christmas Puzzles is well thought out, well constructed and visually appealing in order to bring kids meaningful benefits and maximum fun.

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This oversized lift-the-flap board book of a child's first 101 words has big, clearly labelled photos of objects in a baby and toddler's world with an interactive puzzle activity on each spread. Identifying words and their meanings is an important foundational step in language development for babies and toddlers, and Highlights brings Fun with a Purpose(R) into this essential learning. Babies will love looking at and naming the photos in this sturdy book, while toddlers and parents will enjoy the lift-the-flap questions and answers that help them find the cute red bird hidden on each spread.

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Animal Mazes contains over 35 fun and colorful animal themed mazes for the youngest puzzler, including traditional mazes, string mazes, pattern mazes, and more! Specifically created for kids ages 3-6, this activity book is filled with mazes -- and every twist and turn offers a unique first-puzzling experience! Beginning puzzlers will have fun and feel successful as they travel through each age-appropriate maze. Along the way, they'll help a cow find her mama on the farm, guide sleepy koalas in pajamas to their beds, and splash across the sea with dolphin friends.

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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 letter-recognition and develop lifelong learning confidence. Identifying letters 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, Letters exposes preschoolers to letters through tracing and writing practice and the fun of puzzles and other activities, including mazes, dot-to-dots and matching puzzles.

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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 number recognition and develop lifelong learning confidence. Identifying numbers and counting are important steps toward math readiness, and Highlights(TM) infuses Fun with a Purpose(R) into this essential learning activity. With vibrant art and engaging prompts, Numbers exposes preschoolers to numbers through counting, tracing, and comparing practice and the fun of puzzles and other activities, including That's Silly!(TM) and Hidden Pictures(R) puzzles.

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Kindergarteners will learn number recognition and counting through fun activities such as Hidden Pictures® puzzles, mazes, and more, all in an affordable, travel-friendly pad format.It's no secret: kids tend to learn best when they are having fun. Number Puzzles is a full-color, 64-page pad designed to build kindergarteners' confidence as they learn numbers and practice counting -- important steps toward success in math.

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Preschoolers will develop important pre-writing fine-motor skills and hand-eye coordination through cutting and pasting activities, using That's Silly(TM) puzzles, matching, and more, all in an affordable, travel-friendly pad format.Being able to cut and paste is an important step toward school readiness, and Highlights infuses Fun with a Purpose® into this essential learning skill. Cutting and Pasting is a 64-page full-color pad that gives preschoolers plenty of practice with scissors through interactive puzzles, cutting lines and shapes, cutting out and assembling simple toys, and other activities that improve manual dexterity.

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This kindergarten phonics and spelling workbook combines curriculum-based language arts skills practice with puzzles, humor, and playful art in a lightweight, single-subject format designed to make learning phonics and spelling rewarding and funPhonics and spelling skills are important building blocks for reading success, and Highlights brings "Fun with a Purpose" to this essential learning activity with this forty-eight-page, full-color activity-based workbook with included achievement certificate. Created with education experts, this book covers consonant blends, rhyming words, vowel sounds, spelling patterns, and more--all designed to help kids improve reading and writing skills and build confidence in the classroom. Hidden Pictures puzzles, mazes, and other fun activities help reinforce the learning and add to the fun.

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This preschool STEAM-based learning workbook features hands-on experiments, projects, and activities to get kids thinking critically and creatively while having fun.STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) learning encourages kids to experiment and engineer, to make mistakes and learn from them, and to be problem-solvers and critical thinkers--now and for life. Highlights brings "Fun with a Purpose" into this exciting approach to learning. This book features more than fifteen age-appropriate projects (using common, household materials) for preschoolers to tinker with. Simple step-by-step instructions guide kids in exploring concepts in physical, life, and earth sciences, while sprinkling in lots of open-ended questions and prompts for further investigating. Our award-winning content blends important skills with puzzles, humor, and playful art and photos, which make learning exciting and fun. Includes parent tips for talking with kids about each project.

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Get ready for second grade and keep learning skills sharp all summer with this innovative activity-rich curriculum-based workbook. Organized week-by-week and aligned with state standards, kids will love the puzzles that make skills-practice fun plus the bonus pull-out Hidden Pictures progress poster, fun reward stickers, award certificate and the extra activities that they can take outdoors.Expertly crafted to combat "summer slide", The Big Fun Summer Learning Workbook (1&2) will give kids a head start on their upcoming school year. This book provides the right balance of review to keep skills sharp and a preview of what's to come, and features a wealth of Fun with a Purpose® puzzle-based activities. The book also includes ideas for simple ways to extend the learning through fun outdoor activities.Includes:Vowels and consonantsSyllablesParts of speechCursive writingReadingPunctuationShapesAddition and subtractionFractionsTimeMeasuringRegroupingMap skillsSciencePLUS -- a bonus pull-out progress poster, reward stickers, and a Certificate of Achievement!Winner, Family Choice AwardWinner, PAL (Play Advances Language) AwardNational Parenting Seal of ApprovalWinner, Teachers' Choice AwardPAL (Play Advances Language) Top Ten Pick

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This wipe-clean workbook for ages 5-7 is a playful way to practice early math skills--combining math practice with Hidden Pictures puzzles and humor in a convenient reusable format. Building math confidence is important for school success, and kids will love learning and practicing math with this teacher-approved, 56-page, full-color, write-on wipe-off book with included dry-erase marker. Highlights' award-winning content blends essential curriculum-based math practice with puzzles, mazes, and other activities to make learning exciting and fun. This book, created with education experts, covers counting to 50, skip counting, basic addition and subtraction, size comparisons, data sorting, shape identification, and more.

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Power up kids’ first-grade skills! With pages of fun puzzle-based activities including Highlights Hidden Pictures, this workbook offers age-appropriate fundamentals in language arts, math and science, plus skills like word recognition, digraphs and consonant blends. They’ll also learn about homophones, shapes, numbers, addition, subtraction, sequencing, science and more! Every exercise will boost their confidence and supplement what they’re learning in school. This 256-page workbook also features simple tips for parents to extend learning, a Certificate of Achievement to celebrate their hard work, plus links to online activities. Developed with educational experts, teacher-approved and aligned with state standards, the First Grade Big Fun Workbook will engage students and get them excited about learning. It’s a Family Choice Award Winner, PAL (Play Advances Language) Award Winner, a Parents' Choice Recommended Book and a PAL Top Ten Pick.

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Blast off into space with this 'Hidden Pictures' puzzle book featuring over 100 out-of-this-world scenes and more than 1800 hidden objects in Highlights black-and-white puzzles. With illustrations of astronaut activities, wacky aliens and other intergalactic adventures, each puzzle in this book is carefully designed to engage and entertain children while honing their concentration skills and attention to detail. This book is sure to please every space-loving child!

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This collection, organized around the ever-popular topic of things that go -- such as trains, planes and cars - is a new title in the best-selling Hidden Pictures' Sticker Puzzles series for kids ages PreK - K. This appealing book for Preschoolers and Kindergarteners is filled with vibrant full-color Hidden Pictures' puzzles featuring trains, planes, cars and other things that go, plus classic black-and-white puzzles and eight pages of high-quality stickers to mark the hidden objects. This collection will engage boys and girls alike.

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In this comprehensive analysis of thirty-five years of population change in the People's Republic of China, the author highlights China's shifting population policies and pieces together the available data, assessing and adjusting them as necessary in order to discover the actual population changes.

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Focusing on the evolution of Northern Illinois University since 1965, the author highlights the process by which the university has accomplished its goals. He also introduces the key men and women who have helped make the university what it is today.

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