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Can you spy "a tortoise, a hare, a tea bag, a key/ a clock, and a flag on a house in a tree"? It's not easy--but readers of all ages will have a whole lot of fun trying. With more than a dozen I Spy picture books under their belts, including

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Lot's of fun
I bought this book for my kids ages six and seven.They both love it.This book is a nice mix of hard to find and easier to find items.These I spy books also made nice birthday gifts for some other children we know.

My favorite of the I Spy Series!
My family has enjoyed I Spy Picture Riddles for many years. I Spy Treasure Hunt is my personal favorite. The reader is invited to search for hidden items on pages that represent an imaginary seaside town. The first puzzle page features the train station, while the next two page spread is the "View from Duck Pond Inn". Eventually, the Pirate's treasure is revealed! I enjoy the less flashy and cluttered look of this particular book, though my kids seem to highly enjoy all the I Spy books. I recommend them for all ages!

i spy an educationaltool thats fun
Great BOOK...ITS FUN AND IT ENCOURAGES VOCABULARY AND WORD RECOGNITION ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Activity Books - Hidden Picture    2. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction    3. Children: Preschool    4. Games & Activities - Puzzles    5. Juvenile Nonfiction    6. Juvenile literature    7. Picture puzzles    8. Puzzles    9. Juvenile Nonfiction / Games & Activities / Puzzles   

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Start Exploring (tm) Gray's Anatomy
I recommend this to anyone interested in learning anatomy.It's a fun way to learn what's what in you body by coloring your systems.Excellent visual way to learn.

Great Learning Resource
This is a great learning resources.More pages to fill out than I have time for.

A Great reinforcer of previously learned lessons...
I was advised by a homeschooling guide to buy this book for my science classes some time ago. I am pleased to say that I did not regret the decision I made to purchase it, as this is an excellent book! At first, I was surprised that a coloring book would be recommended as an educational tool for a first year high school student, but it was actually very helpful to me. Once I was finished completing it, I was delighted to see how vivid and realistic the illustrations became. So delighted that I bought a copy for my younger siblings to try (aged 7-10). Unfortunately they found it a little too daunting, so I'd have to say that it's not the best book for a ten year old or younger.However, if you're looking for a challenging, educational book for a student aged eleven or up, then you should try this one. You might even find yourself picking up a marker and coloring with him. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Activity Books - Coloring Books    2. Anatomy    3. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction    4. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction    5. General    6. Medical    7. Colouring & painting    8. Human biology   

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Human Research
This book tells you all about the human body.It has lots of pictures and a model of the whole body.
Great fun with great learning
Since my daughter turned about 3--and now show is 5 and a half--she and I have enjoyed this book time and again each time we visit it. It generally sits in her bookshelf for a month or three, but I've seen come out during several of her playdates. If you use this book casually, every once in a while, your child will definitely learn human anatomy over time. So too, often, will the adult.
fun for all ages
My 7 year old, 4 year old and I all have fun looking at this book.it can be used as in introduction to the human body for younger children or to study more deeply for older children.And it's just fun to watch how all the parts interlock and open up. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's 9-12 - Science    2. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Science    3. Children: Grades 3-4    4. Juvenile Life Sciences    5. Juvenile Nonfiction    6. Science & Nature - Anatomy & Physiology    7. Science & Technology - Anatomy & Physiology    8. Technology - How Things Work/Are Made    9. Anatomy    10. Human biology    11. Interactive & activity books & packs    12. Motor cars   

Editorial Review

Olivia, like many young pigs, experiences life very intensely. She is utterly obsessed with having her mother make her a red soccer shirt (even though the team color is green), until, of course, she discovers that her favorite toy, her very best toy, is missing, at which point she becomes utterly obsessed with finding it. She looks under the rug, the sofa, and the cat. She shouts accusingly at both her younger brother Ian and her baby brother William, who responds with an unsatisfactory "Wooshee gaga." That night (a dark and stormy one), she hears a horrible sound emanating from behind a closed door, and, in a dramatic scene illuminated by her flaming candelabra and showcased in a fold-out spread, she sees the family dog Perry chewing her favorite toy to bits. As devastating as this is to a passionate young pig, "even Olivia couldn't stay mad forever." She sews up her dismembered toy and falls asleep that very night cozied up with both it and the toy-wrecking Perry. Read more

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Olivia ...and the Missing Toy
Olivia is the kind of book that is never boring. My children ages six and two absolutely adore this book. Needles to say, that is one of those books you will always remember. We own all of them.

The Magnificent Olivia
The Olivia series of books is simply wonderful.Olivia is a very independent, strong-willed little pig who is not afraid of anything and the result is truly entertaining and very comical.My children love this book the best because it is very well written and with just the right emphasis on certain wording when I read it, they roll on the floor giggling hysterically.My daughter walks around quoting the book out loud as she has most of the book memorized because the children have asked me to read it to them so many times.

Olivia back again
In this thrid adventure we find Oliva once again exerting her individuality, demanding a new uniform color...so she can look different from the rest of the team. She then becomes further self-absorbed in a quest for her lost toy. Also in this installment we meet her father, a somewhat dotng pig, Olivia doesn't seem to mind.
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Subjects:  1. Animals - Pigs    2. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction    3. Children: Preschool    4. Fiction    5. Humorous Stories    6. Juvenile Fiction    7. Lost and found possessions    8. Pigs    9. Preschool Picture Story Books    10. Social Issues - Lost & Found    11. Toys    12. Toys, Dolls, & Puppets    13. Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Pigs   

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First time preparing elite gr. 10 - 12 students for competition?
This is my top recommendation.

This book has most topics that you see at an Olympiad
This book has a lot of topics that you see at a mathematical competition, like IMO. It has Number Theory, Geometry, Games, Combinatorics and many strategies to solve a difficult and exciting problem. I recommend this book for you.

A book for everyone who loves mathematics
I disagree with another reviewer(Math Messiah) who thinks this is a book only for intelligent people like himslf. The problems are wide ranging and numerous and even dumb people (me, for instance) can find fun and excitement in many of them. I also have an advice for the Math Messiah who is on brink of some major discoveries: hold on to that brink, and don't drop. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. General    2. History & Philosophy    3. Mathematics    4. Mathematics (General)    5. Problem solving    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Study & Teaching    8. Brain teasers    9. Interactive & activity books & packs    10. Mathematics / General    11. Mathematics / Study & Teaching    12. Mathematics-History & Philosophy   

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Relaxing Coloring Book
Highly recommend Everyone's Mandala designs.Each one is different enough so I felt a sense of momentum as I colored through the book and complicated enough to keep my interest as well.On the other hand, each design had wide shapes so that I didn't get lost in the details.Coloring overall was relaxing.I'm definitely getting her other volumes.I might get this one again, too, because the designs can be colored in so many different color combinations.Really a treat!

Engaging the Center
I purchased the whole series and look forward to coloring or painting them all.They are deeply engaging, neither too simple nor too complex; calling me into a calm center where hope and healing not only feel possible but just seem to happen.A very thoughtful and creative bonus from the author that I've not seen in other Mandala books is the wide perforated margin at the center binding in every book so you can actually remove and display your favorite mandalas afterwards.This rare feature also makes it especially friendly to those of us who are left-handers!!!

EVERYONE�S MANDALA COLORING BOOK SERIES
Author, artist, transpersonal psychotherapist and business person alldescribe what Monique Mandali is, but do not tell you who she is. I've beenprivileged to meet Monique and I knowthat she is a seeker traveling herpath. Her walking stick is her love for all, especially children.Ms. Mandali offers a series of four coloring books forchildren and adults. There are three different delights in the originalEveryone's Mandala Coloring Book series, each consisting of 22 designs.While the original three books in the series contain designs by the author,the latest (and perhaps greatest) has 25 peace mandalas from children allaround the world. The Peace Mandala Coloring Book is very special becausethe mandalas are designed by children unencumbered by the pressure of adultliving. Further, they bring a variety of spiritual as well as geographicalcultures to bear. Read more

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What could be better than a magic cupboard that turns small toys into living creatures? Omri's big brother has no birthday present for him, so he gives Omri an old medicine cabinet he's found. Although their mother supplies a key, the cabinet still doesn't seem like much of a present. But when an exhausted Omri dumps a plastic toy Indian into the cabinet just before falling asleep, the magic begins. Turn the key once and the toy comes alive; turn it a second time and it's an action figure again. Read more

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Indian in the Cupboard
This book was great. i had a fun time reading it out loud because you could feel when somthing good was coming. it was very exiting when it got to the climax. this boy named omri and his best friend patrick was having a birthday party at omris house because it was omris birthday. omris sister got him a cupboard for his bathroom. he decides to store some of his plastic toys inclueding a indian named little bear and a cowboy named boone. they come live if you lock it with the key that the cupboard came with. that was what omri and patricks suprise was. i would totally recamend this book. it was great.

Indian In The Cupboard
Indian In The Cupboard was an interesting book. Omrey liked his presents he got, but he finally found the present he actually enjoyed.
Mary Johnson's Review
I enjoyed reading this book.It was a good story and I loved the fantasy about the Indian. I highly recommend it. ... Read more

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Very Cute & Useful Book
I got this for my son's 7th birthday (he loves to cook!) and this book is so handy!What I love about it is that the kids can have fun measuring and adding the ingredients to make their own desserts.I recommend this over the expensive easy bake packages any day!

This book should arrive with your Easy Bake Oven
After purchasing my first mix for my son's Easy Bake Oven, I knew there had to be a better, and less expensive, way.This book has some excellent recipes in it - things I am happy to make and eat with my son.The half-dozen we have tried so far have been consistently good.Further, it allows my son to actually cook, instead of just adding water.I have to help a little more with things, since there are more ingredients and more steps, but the results are satisfying for both of us.And best of all - the desserts and snacks are portion controlled.

Baking with Mommy Cookbook
I purchased it for my granddaughter who loves the Easy Bake oven.She loves it. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Juvenile Nonfiction / Cooking    2. Baking    3. Children's 4-8 - Cooking    4. Children: Grades 1-2    5. Cookery    6. Recipes    7. Stoves, Electric    8. Toys   

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Seventy-five years ago, that most beloved of "silly old bears,"Winnie-the-Pooh, came down the stairs, "bump, bump, bump," on the back of his head,behind Christopher Robin. And now, after generations of children have grown upon stories about Pooh's adventures with his forest friends, the four all-timechildren's classics from A.A. Milne and Ernest H. Shepard have been collected inone hefty, handsome volume for another multitude of generations to enjoy.Gathered together are the poems and tales that celebrate heffalumps, Eeyore'sbirthday, the unbouncing of Tigger, Disobedience, Buckingham Palace, andsneezles. The stories about Pooh getting stuck in Rabbit's doorway, Piglet doinga "Very Grand Thing," and Eeyore losing a tail (and Pooh finding one) aretimeless favorites for children--and grownups--of all ages. Four originalclassics are here, in all their glory: Read more

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Beautiful Collection of Classic Stories and Poems
Finding a "Winnie the Pooh" book is easy. It all depends what you are looking for. For the many parents and grandparents hoping to read the wonderful stories to younger people the adventures of Pooh, Christopher Robin, Tigger, Eyeore, Piglet, Kanga, Rabbit, Owl and the rest, this will be more than adequate.
I am Pooh!
ever since i can remember, my nick name has always been Pooh...because supposedly i am a bear of very litle brain! plus i'm blond! The reason for the nick name was that it is my favourite book in the world, and i never tire of it! Some may think that the name is vulgar, but once you start to read it, you love it more and more. Without doubt one of the best books ever written, if not the best. If you haven't read it, i advise you do, because it is every bit as magical, as everybody thinks it is.

A Must~Have Collection for Every Child's Library & the Child~Hearted
This is THE collection to buy.Look no further for the next gift for your child, grandchild, mom-to-be, Pooh-lover, etc. Beautifully done hard cover collection, pretty enough to display on a coffee table, in your library or on your child's shelf.
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Subjects:  1. Children's 9-12 - Literature - Classics / Contemporary    2. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction    3. Children's poetry, English    4. Children's stories, English    5. Children: Grades 4-6    6. Classics    7. Fiction    8. General    9. Juvenile Fiction    10. Toys    11. Toys, Dolls, & Puppets    12. Juvenile Fiction / Classics   

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When Christopher Robin asks Pooh what he likes doing best in the world, Pooh says, after much thought, "What I like best in the whole world is Me and Piglet going to see You, and You saying 'What about a little something?' and Me saying, 'Well, I shouldn't mind a little something, should you, Piglet,' and it being a hummy sort of day outside, and birds singing."Read more

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A Winning Book
The tales are lovable, enjoyable and moving, and perhaps the most important thing is that although written for kids, we adults can reflect on the way we live our daily lives. We live through the pages the feelings of all characters fear, amazement, joy, kindness, self-inflicted misery, competitiveness, good times, and most of all, positiveness and passion to enjoy and nature true friendship.We have these feelings and emotions as human beings.There are Rabbits, and Tiggers and Owls and Piglets all around us and we can barely seem to recognize them in our friends or the people we communicate with every day. Illustrations are gorgeous,an outstanding vision of life.
childhood favorite
Who doesn't love Winnie The Pooh? Don't answer that. This is an excellent and charming book to use for bedtime stories for children. I grew up with it and I still love it! It endears the simplicity of life and love...and honey.

Wonderful to read aloud
Just great to get back to the 'book' instead of just videos of Pooh. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Action & Adventure - General    2. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction    3. Children: Grades 2-3    4. Classics    5. Fiction    6. Juvenile Fiction    7. Short Stories    8. Toys    9. Toys, Dolls, & Puppets    10. Juvenile Fiction / Classics   

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My Whole Family Loves This Book
This story is delightful.We bought it because we were taking our 2.5 yr old along on a ski trip and wanted him to have a silly little story that related to the mountain and skiing (even though he's not on skis yet).Well, it is just that... and more.He's learned a lot, developed an interest in skiing (maybe next year) and always gets a good laugh out of this book!It's also fun that George seems to invent snowboarding - my husband and I got a big kick out of that and have shared the story with many adult friends (isn't everyone a Curious Geroge fan?)!
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excellent!
I ordered these books during the summer vacation for my son who will be entering the first grade.They were similar to books that he had been using in kindergarten so it was really a great way for him to keep up with his reading skills. He loves them because some of them are pretty easy so he feels really good about himself and some of them are more challenging so he has actually learned a few new words as well.I couldn't be happier.

Love Love Love it!
My 4 year old loves this set of books!They were challenging yet easy enough to experience success.The sentence patterns and picture clues are perfect for young pre-K/K readers.

Great books!!
This is a great set of books for someone who is having difficulty learning how to read.It covers 50 words that are taught in the first grade class.This easy to read set gives a child the confidence to read and feel good. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children: Kindergarten    2. Education / Teaching    3. Games & Activities - General    4. Games & Activities - Word Games    5. Juvenile Nonfiction    6. Readers - Beginner   

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Comics! Puzzles! Jokes! Laffs! Flip-O-Rama! Stickers! Sound too good tobe true? Captain Underpants (Read more

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*WARNING*! This is not an installment in the series!
If you are looking for the next ''book'' in the CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS series,look elsewhere. This is a collection of jokes,games and puzzles,great fun for car trips or long plane rides,but with no real story.
Great Fun
My nine year old really loves the entire captain underpants series. He cant wait for the next book!!!

Avoid bookopia
I bought a used copy of this book marked "in good condition," but when it arrived, all of the puzzles had been filled in. There was tons of writing. I had meant to give the book as a gift, but I ended up throwing it away. I was very disappointed. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Activity Books - General    2. Captain Underpants (Fictitious character)    3. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction    4. Children: Grades 4-6    5. Games & Activities - General    6. Juvenile Nonfiction    7. Juvenile literature    8. Literary recreations   

Subjects:  1. Children's 9-12 - Fiction - General    2. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction    3. Children: Grades 3-4    4. Juvenile Fiction    5. Toys, Dolls, & Puppets    6. Juvenile Fiction / Toys, Dolls, Puppets   

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Great books but be careful
My toddler eagerly opened and chewed on her new books only to find that our new set included 2 copies of the wild animals book, 1 farm book, and NO baby animals book.We ordered it directly from Amazon and with no listed phone numer or internet returns comment section, we feel we are stuck with this incomplete set.

Sturdy construction and excellent variety of textures
The other review by Lorrie M. accurately describes the different textures featured in each of the three books in the set.My son loves feeling each texture.
Touch and Feel Animals Box Set
This is a great box set for a baby's first gift of books.The photos are so charming and the tactile experience that even a nine-month-old can enjoy make these books an absolute must-have for every baby's book shelf! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Activity Books - General    2. Animals - General    3. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction    4. Children: Preschool    5. Concepts - Sense & Sensation    6. Juvenile Nonfiction    7. Juvenile Nonfiction / Animals / General   

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Good for 8-11 year olds
I think this book has a good amount of information in it for kids in the 8 - 11 year old age bracket.They introduce skills and strategies that many novice coaches may not be providing.I wish that some of the skills were illustrated in more detail.For example, just mentioning that you should keep your toe pointed down for an instep kick is not sufficient; it is critical to have the heel locked down.A better illustration would help emphasize points like this.Overall I would very much recommend this book.

a GREAT way to kick-off a love of SOCCER.
Attention soccer kids and soccer moms!
Super Book!
Excellent book! I am happy to have it in my library! Learned a lot of new techniques! Highly recommended! ... Read more

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NOT just for kids at all!
This book can be wonderful for anyone who does embroidery, quilting, or even tattooing! I wish I'd had it when I was making my art quilt with a Dias de los Muertos theme!

This book is ok, but very much a childrens coloring book
This book is ok, but very much a childrens coloring book. As that it is good. But if you want more detailed drawings then look for Maya Designs (Coloring Book) by Wilson G. Turner. Excellent art and lots of it.

Impressive & beautiful.
I bought this coloring book at a local shop. It is so beautiful i'm hesitant to begin coloring it.It doesn't need color.These illustrations are intricate and the samples in color are really great for inspiration of the actual full size illustrations. ... Read more

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A Winner!
My boys (ages 5 & 2.5) have enjoyed this book so much that we quicky hurried back to the bookstore hoping that Mini Grey had written a sequel! A definite winner!

Square-jawed satire
This spoof of superhero comics and their ubiquitous action figures is so darn funny it's impossible to get through a first reading without pausing to hold your ribs. But it has a Shrek problem: its best lines zoom straight over kids' heads and target Mom and Dad.
Best Ever!
This is a fantastic, fun, imaginative children's book that me and my husband love to read to our child. Mini Grey captures a child's imagination with such precision that it brings back hilarious memories of our own fantastic pretend worlds. Great work Mini! ... Read more

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