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Brain Games: Big Book of Boredom Busters (National Geographic Kids: Disney)

By Gareth Moore
Disney
Series: National Geographic Kids
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This companion series takes the experience beyond the screen by giving you activities, puzzles, and games in which to exercise your egghead right on the page! Build your brain in the car, mould your mind at the park, or nurture your noggin anytime of day! Including... Read More
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This companion series takes the experience beyond the screen by giving you activities, puzzles, and games in which to exercise your egghead right on the page! Build your brain in the car, mould your mind at the park, or nurture your noggin anytime of day!

Including awesome challenges, perplexing puzzles, mind myths busted, and hilarious brain breaks, Brain Games: Big Book of Boredom Busters (National Geographic Kids: Disney) will put your thinker to the test while expanding your smarts. Try your hand at some wacky logic puzzles, optical illusions, and brain-busting riddles to see if you’re a cranium commander.

Write-in pages include both games and short explanations of the neuroscience at work to satisfy your curiosity as you unleash your inner creativity and become the genius we all know you are.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781761814877

Publisher: Scholastic Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 August 2026

Country: Australia

Imprint: Scholastic Australia

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 276.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 160

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