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Healthy Habits: Kangaroo's Guide to Keeping Fit

Series: Healthy Habits
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In Healthy Habits: Kangaroo's Guide to Keeping Fit, young readers join Kangaroo on a delightful adventure filled with fun activities and practical tips for staying active. The book encourages children to adopt healthy lifestyles through engaging exercises, vibrant illustrations, and playful storytelling. It's an ideal introduction to fitness for kids, emphasising the joy of movement and the benefits of healthy routines.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This delightful children's book combines whimsical storytelling with important lessons on staying active and healthy. You might enjoy this book if you’re looking for a fun way to engage children in developing good fitness habits, as it features a lovable kangaroo character who motivates young readers to get moving while having fun.

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Healthy Habits: Kangaroo's Guide to Keeping Fit by Lisa Edwards is a charming tale about Kangaroo and his family's love of staying fit. This book follows a day in the life of the kangaroos, illustrating the benefits of keeping fit and providing plenty of advice for its human readers. Children will learn about different types of exercises they can try and how to exercise safely.

The Healthy Habits series, designed for children aged 4 and up, offers key information on maintaining both mental and physical health. The series is simply told and enlivened by a relatable animal guide, paired with bright and gently humorous illustrations. These books offer valuable advice for children while imparting a bit of knowledge about the animal world, sure to captivate young animal lovers.

Titles in the series include:

Dog's Guide to Helping Others

Sloth's Guide to Keeping Calm

Kangaroo's Guide to Keeping Fit

Lemur's Guide to Healthy Eating

Koala's Guide to Sleep

Leopard's Guide to Keeping Fit

Panda's Guide to Mental Wellbeing

Elephant's Guide to Making Friends

Series: Healthy Habits

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  • Healthy Habits: Kangaroo's Guide to Keeping Fit
    Healthy Habits: Kangaroo's Guide to Keeping Fit by Lisa Edwards is a charming tale about Kangaroo and his family's love of staying fit. This book follows a day in the life of the kangaroos, illustrating the benefits of keeping fit and providing plenty of advice for its human readers. Children will learn about different types of exercises they can try...
    Paperback
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  • Healthy Habits: Koala's Guide to Sleep
    Koala likes to sleep all day – he knows that sleep will give him the energy he needs to move around at night, when it's cool. This book follows the story of a sleepy koala and provides lots of advice on sleep for its human readers. Topics include why sleep is important and it gives some hints and tips on...
    Hardback
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781445182360

Publisher: Hachette Children's Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 July 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Franklin Watts Ltd

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Siân Roberts
  • Illustrated by Siân Roberts

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 4.0mm

Width: 218.0mm

Height: 218.0mm

Weight: 131g

Pages: 32

About the Author

Lisa Edwards (Author)

Lisa Edwards is an author, editor and former publisher of children's books. Across her 25-year career, she published many award-winning and bestselling titles, including Stick Man by Julia Donaldson, the Tom Gates series, His Dark Materials, The Hunger Games and Horrible Histories.

Lisa and her teams have won many prestigious awards including the Carnegie and Greenaway Medals, the Waterstones Prize, the Costa Book Award, the Blue Peter Book Award, the Royal Society Prize and the Roald Dahl Funny Prize (now the Lollies).

Sian Roberts (Illustrator)

Sian is an illustrator based in Surrey, UK. She developed her love for children's illustration whilst at the Arts University Bournemouth and graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Illustration in 2018. She works digitally to create colourful worlds whilst having fun exploring characters and narratives.

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  • Healthy Habits: Koala's Guide to Sleep
    Koala likes to sleep all day – he knows that sleep will give him the energy he needs to move around at night, when it's cool. This book follows the story of a sleepy koala and provides lots of advice on sleep for its human readers. Topics include why sleep is important and it gives some hints and tips on...
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