Advantages: Well written, lots of beautiful illustrations. Great for kids of all ages. A useful tool for supplementing school projects or as part of a home-school theme on ships. Disadvantages: To do this book justice, you really need the time to examine each page carefully.
Another masterpiece from the winning duo of Stephen Biesty and Richard Platt, and part of the Dorling Kindersley "Cross-Sections" series is "Castle". This book shows the inner workings of a 14th Century English castle, and as always, provides so much inf ...
Advantages: Good range of vocabulary, useful grammar supplements, easy to search for words Disadvantages: The design makes it a bit harder to use
Back when I started secondary school my mom thought it a good idea to buy me and my sister dictionaries for each language subject we took (our school is a specialized language college before you think I went to an international one!). These languages were ...
Advantages: Educational AND fun, with lots of pretty pictures Disadvantages: The history is more overview that nitty gritty details
...Who doesn't like a nice comic, eh? There's something so accessible about the lovely picture and text combos, and facts are far from dull when they come via speech bubbles, don't you think? Taking full advantage of this fact, Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turn ...
Advantages: Acheivable Craft Ideas Disadvantages: Too short!
This is one of quite a number of craft-based books for children by Jane Bull.
- Contents-
The book is made up of 46 pages, yet only 8 main craft / arty activities:
~ woolly webs
~ cross-stitch
~ Pirate Pete and the gang. A simple sewing act ...
Christmas Fun
With Christmas just around the corner it's time to start our Christmas crafts, and it was with this in mind that i bought this latest addition to my Christmas collection.
The book itself is slightly bigger than A4 size and has a nice t ...
