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Lonely Planet Kids Games on the Go

By Nicola Baxter and Lonely Planet Kids and Sally Morgan
Series: Lonely Planet Kids
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Lonely Planet Kids Games on the Go offers a delightful variety of engaging activities and games designed to keep children entertained during travel. Packed with puzzles, quizzes, and fun challenges, it combines creativity and learning to make journeys enjoyable for young travellers. This book is perfect for sparking imagination and ensuring children stay amused on the road, in the air, or wherever adventure takes them.
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You might enjoy this book if you're looking for fun and engaging activities to keep children entertained during car journeys or travel. It offers a collection of interactive games and puzzles designed to capture young imaginations and make travel an exciting adventure.

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Keep kids entertained on short and long journeys with this fun and colourful mix of spotting games, drawing challenges, word searches, dingbats and more. A must-pack addition on any family trip, it fits easily inside hand luggage and comes with 40 wipe-clean cards and a dry-erase pen, all stored in a small, handy box.

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Are we there yet?

Banish the boredom of long car journeys and big trips with Games on the Go, a fun and colourful mix of spotting games, drawing challenges, word searches, dingbats, and more.

A must-pack addition on any family trip, it fits easily inside hand luggage and can be deployed in seconds! Comes with 40 wipe-clean cards and a dry-erase pen, all stored in a small, handy box.

Games include:

  • Road trip bingo
  • Turning fingerprints into colourful friends
  • Amazon rainforest-themed crossword
  • Wildlife watching
  • Drawing suitcase contents
  • Dingbats and puzzles
  • Mazes
  • Drawing favourite meals
  • Making star constellations
  • Designing flags
  • Noughts and crosses
  • Drawing city skylines

About Lonely Planet Kids: Lonely Planet Kids - an imprint of the world's leading travel authority Lonely Planet - published its first book in 2011. Over the past 45 years, Lonely Planet has grown a dedicated global community of travellers, many of whom are now sharing a passion for exploration with their children.

Lonely Planet Kids educates and encourages young readers at home and in school to learn about the world with engaging books on culture, sociology, geography, nature, history, space, and more. We want to inspire the next generation of global citizens and help kids and their parents approach life in a way that makes every day an adventure. Come explore!

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Book Details

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ISBN: 9781788683296

Publisher: Lonely Planet Global Limited

Format: Cards

Date Published: 25 March 2019

Country: Ireland

Imprint: Lonely Planet Kids

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 27.0mm

Width: 122.0mm

Height: 165.0mm

Weight: 395g

Pages: 41

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    Pocket Observology
    Pocket Observology is a practical field guide designed for those who love to explore and understand the natural world around them. Slip this guide out of your pocket to identify, measure, compare, or find clues to the things you encounter every day in nature. This pocket guide is a useful tool and a fun reminder of how to engage with...
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    The Day of the Dinosaur Disaster
    Angry anacondas, blizzarding blobs, carnivorous cactuses ... what kind of twisted curse will Glam-Evil think up this time?!Only it's not just Glam-Evil's curse the gang needs to worry about; they've got a few other problems, too. Swooping Pteranodons, a hungry T-Rex, a missing mother, and ... is that ... an ASTEROID?!Join MILES AND JONES as they face their biggest challenge...
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    A world of richly-imagined wonder Cressida Cowell It’s the Midsummer Feast on the Islet of Glimt and on this magical moonlit evening, the word on everyone’s lips is bandits. Reports of masked men burning villages are spreading throughout the Archipelago, but worse is still to come: Christopher and Anya are ambushed and one of the people they love most is...
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    A charming, cosy and thought-provoking tale about a wonderfully unconventional little witch, by bestselling author of BUTTER, Asako Yuzuki. Perfect for fans of WICKED, KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE, and THE HATMAKERS series by Tamzin Merchant - and anyone who likes an enchanting adventure with just a hint of mischief. Mari the Unwonderful Witch introduces us to Mari, an eleven-year-old witch who...
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