Brain Teasers for Bright Sparks

Name: Brain Teasers for Bright Sparks
Brand: Arotahi Agency
SKU: 9781780557823
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By Gareth Moore and Dr Gareth Moore

Series: Buster Bright Sparks

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Brain Teasers for Bright Sparks, by Dr Gareth Moore, offers over 80 engaging puzzles designed to develop young minds. Tailored for children aged 7-9, the book features a variety of challenges such as codes to crack, matching pairs, and logic puzzles. The tasks increase in difficulty to help young readers progressively sharpen their problem-solving skills.
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More than 80 mind-boggling brain games, including codes to crack, pairs to match and logic puzzles to solve.

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From Dr Gareth Moore, the author of Buster's bestselling Brain Games for Clever Kids series, comes a new collection of puzzles to get kids training their brains from an early age.

For children aged 7-9, the Bright Sparks series is aimed at sharpening the minds of the next generation of puzzle masters. Brain Teasers for Bright Sparks contains more than 80 mind-boggling brain games, including codes to crack, pairs to match, and logic puzzles to solve.

The activities gradually get more difficult as the book progresses, allowing the reader to get to grips with each puzzle style and then build on their skills.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781780557823

Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 July 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Buster Books

Illustration: B&W

Contributors:

Illustrated by Jess Bradley
Illustrated by Jess Bradley

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly, Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 11.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 125g

Pages: 160

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Children's Books Children’s & Teenage Non-Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Dr Gareth Moore Education & Reference Gareth Moore Series: Buster Bright Sparks

About the Author

Dr Gareth Moore (B.Sc (Hons) M.Phil Ph.D) is the internationally bestselling author of a wide range of brain-training and puzzle books for both children and adults, including Anti-stress Puzzles, Ultimate Dot to Dot, Brain Games for Clever Kids, Lateral Logic, Extreme Mazes and The Ordinance Survey Puzzle Book. His books have sold over a million copies in the UK alone and have been published in 29 different languages. He is also the creator of online brain-training site BrainedUp.com and runs the daily puzzle site PuzzleMix.com.

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