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The Giant How to Catch Activity Book for Kids

More than 75 awesome activities and 12 magical creatures to discover!
Series: How to Catch
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The Giant How to Catch Activity Book for Kids by Sourcebooks offers a fun-filled adventure with a variety of engaging activities for children. This book combines puzzles, games, crafts, and challenges, all centered around the whimsical world of imaginary creatures. Young readers will be inspired to unleash their creativity and problem-solving skills as they embark on catching these mythical beings.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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You might enjoy this activity book if your child loves interactive fun, as it offers a variety of puzzles, colouring pages, and engaging activities designed to entertain and educate. Perfect for young minds eager to explore and use their imagination, this book is a great way to keep kids creatively engaged.

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From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling How to Catch series comes an epic activity book for kids! Fans of the hilarious traps the Catch Club Kids build throughout the series will be delighted by this fun, hands-on book that includes STEM activities, mazes, colouring pages, puzzles, and so much more!

Can you catch all the differences in Spot the Difference? Can you catch sight of all the hidden pictures? Join in the fun and become a member of the How to Catch Club!

From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling How to Catch series comes an epic activity book for kids! Discover the magic. Conquer the challenges. Catch the fun!

With over 75 awesome activities, this fun-filled activity book is packed with unicorns, dinosaurs, monsters, and more fantastical creatures to discover. Search for hidden pictures under the sea, colour a winter wonderland, spot the differences in a zoo, solve winding mazes, connect dot-to-dot traps, and complete your very own stories to ultimately become a member of the How to Catch Club!

A delightful at-home activity for kids, holiday stocking stuffer, birthday gift, and classroom activity book with endless hours of screen-free and educational fun! This interactive workbook for ages 6-10 is perfect for parents, guardians, or teachers looking for summer bridge materials and books for reluctant readers and back to school.

What's inside?

  • Learn to draw all 12 magical creatures in the How to Catch series
  • Illustrated, step-by-step STEM traps and simple recipes with STEAM connections
  • Hilarious hidden picture and spot the difference puzzles
  • Marvelous mazes and dot-to-dots
  • Creative colouring pages and complete the story activities to inspire the imagination
  • A special Catch Club certificate in the back!

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781728235158

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 August 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Sourcebooks Wonderland

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Andy Elkerton
  • Illustrated by Andy Elkerton

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 219.0mm

Height: 278.0mm

Weight: 615g

Pages: 160

About the Author

Andy Elkerton (Author) Andy Elkerton is a children's book illustrator who loves to create creatures that are impossible to catch! He is known for his work on the New York Times bestselling How to Catch series and is based in the United Kingdom.

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