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Name: Summer Fun
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SKU: 9781836041450
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By Fiona Watt and Rosie Dickins

Series: First Activities

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Simple but satisfying arts, crafts and puzzles for young children.
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Great for entertaining young children during the holidays, it will provide hours of screen-free fun and help them to develop their hand-eye coordination and concentration skills. Easy activities using everyday materials include paper ice-cream cones, printed sandcastles and a paper plate sunflower.

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Summer Fun

Simple but satisfying arts, crafts and puzzles for young children. This cheerful summer activity book is full of easy ideas to draw, paint and craft, as well as some simple picture puzzles. Great for entertaining young children during the holidays, it will provide hours of screen-free fun and help them to develop their hand-eye coordination and concentration skills. Easy activities...

By Fiona Watt and Rosie Dickins

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781836041450

Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 June 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Usborne Publishing Ltd

Contributors:

Illustrated by Katie Lovell

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 3.0mm

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 276.0mm

Weight: 200g

Pages: 32

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Activity Books and Kits Children's Books Children's Picture Books Children’s & Teenage Non-Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Drawing, Colouring and Painting Books for Kids Fiona Watt Kids & YA Pre-orders Pre-order Books Pre-Order Children's Books Pre-orders Pre-orders by Release Date Rosie Dickins Series: First Activities

About the Author

Fiona Watt is an Editorial Director and writer at Usborne Publishing. She graduated from Exeter University with a Bachelor of Education in Art and Design. She taught for three years at a primary school in Kent, before spending two years at a British school in The Netherlands. She started working at Usborne in 1989 and has written and edited hundreds of books including baby and novelty, sticker, art and craft, cookery, science and activity books. She has written all the titles in the award-winning THAT'S NOT MY(R) series and many in the highly successful Sticker Dolly Dressing series. She is the sixth biggest-selling UK children's author, with over 10 million of her books sold in the UK since records began.

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