The Football Colouring and Activity Book

Name: The Football Colouring and Activity Book
Brand: Arotahi Agency
SKU: 9781837251513
Price: 18.99 NZD
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Become an ultimate football hero with games, puzzles and more

By Clive Gifford

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Whether you're dodging defenders through tricky mazes, scoring goals in word searches, or bringing match day to life with your own colours, this football-themed colouring and children’s activity book is packed with fun challenges for every young fan. Packed with footie facts, quizzes, puzzles, and travel... Read More

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The Football Colouring and Activity Book

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A football book packed with games, mazes, puzzles and colouring fun – perfect for young footie fans.

A football book packed with games, mazes, puzzles and colouring fun – perfect for young footie fans.

Description

Packed with footie facts, quizzes, puzzles, and travel games, The Football Colouring and Activity Book is the companion for every young player who dreams of becoming an ultimate football hero. Practise free kicks like Cristiano Ronaldo, lead the defence like Lucy Bronze, dribble like Lionel Messi, strike like Harry Kane, or celebrate goals like Mohamed Salah. The book is full of goal-scoring excitement from kick-off to the final whistle!

Perfect for 7 year olds, 8 year olds, and 9 year olds, and for any passionate fan of the FIFA World Cup™, UEFA Champions League, or Premier League. It’s the perfect football gift to keep the excitement going long after the final whistle.

Please note, this book reuses material from 9781780553054 The Football Colouring Book and 9781780556369 Kick Off! A Football Puzzle Book, but it is fully updated to reflect the current players and the latest World Cups and Euros.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781837251513

Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 April 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Buster Books

Illustration: B/W

Contributors:

Illustrated by Julian Mosedale
Illustrated by . Clive Goodyer
Illustrated by Richard Watson

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 6.0mm

Width: 189.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 212g

Pages: 64

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Activity Books and Kits Children's Books Children's Picture Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Clive Gifford Colouring Books Drawing, Colouring and Painting Books for Kids FIFA and Soccer Football

About the Author

Clive Gifford is an award-winning author of over 200 books specializing in engaging and entertaining non-fiction books for children and young adults. His books have garnered much praise and won Children's Choice, NAPPA Gold Star, TES Book of the Year and Smithsonian awards. Refugees was shortlisted for The British Book Awards whilst Discover the Extreme World was on the four-book shortlist for the 2012 Blue Peter Book Award. In October 2018, Clive won the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Award for The Book Of Comparisons. He also won The Blue Peter Book Award 2019 for The Colours of History. Clive has contributed many articles to Encyclopaedia Britannica, appeared on radio and at live events and written hundreds of articles to a wide range of publications.

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