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Ciccolino Books and games for kids
✨ Ages 6 to 8

Ninety puzzles. One treasure hunt. No screens.

Word searches, crosswords, mazes, sudoku and secret codes for children aged 6 to 8. Some puzzles hide a letter: collect them all and you reach the treasure.

  • 90 puzzles per book
  • All answers included
  • Full colour inside
  • No screens
Puzzles and Pastimes for Kids Ages 6-8 — Animals
Puzzles and Pastimes for Kids Ages 6-8 — Space and the Universe
Puzzles and Pastimes for Kids Ages 6-8 — Pirates and Treasure

Why read it

It isn't a workbook. It's an adventure to solve.

Adventure

Every few puzzles, a square with a red border hides a letter. The letters you collect spell out the treasure message: the book isn't a pile of exercises, it's one story to walk through.

Mystery

Five different kinds of puzzle — word searches, crosswords, mazes, sudoku, secret codes — that take turns and get harder page after page, from rookie to champion.

Independence

Big squares made for small hands, words a child that age can already read, and all the answers at the back: they can check their own work without asking.

Real pages, not mockups

This is what it looks like inside

On the left, a story to read, with the words in colour; on the right, the crossword built from those same words. Every book has twenty-two pairs like this.

Animals
From «Animals» — real pages, straight out of the print file.

The series

The books

The same layout in every book: the world changes, the five kinds of puzzle stay, and so do the treasure hunt and the certificate at the end.

Puzzles and Pastimes for Kids Ages 6-8 — Julius Caesar

History and adventure

Julius Caesar

From the legion's camp to Cleopatra's Egypt, twenty-two corners of the Roman world.

◇ In the works
Puzzles and Pastimes for Kids Ages 6-8 — Vikings

History and adventure

Vikings

From the longhouse to the far north, twenty-two corners of the Viking world.

◇ In the works
Puzzles and Pastimes for Kids Ages 6-8 — Sardinia

Places to explore

Sardinia

From the sea to inside a nuraghe, twenty-two places on one island.

◇ In the works

The thread that ties the book together

How the treasure hunt works

  1. 1

    Solve the puzzle

    One square has a red border and a little star in the corner: that's where the clue is hiding.

  2. 2

    Write down the letter

    Under the square there's a box to note it in. Around twenty puzzles out of ninety give up a letter, spread from the first page to the last.

  3. 3

    Reach the treasure

    The letters you collect spell out the final message. Whoever gets there fills in the certificate with their own name.

Inside every book

Ninety puzzles, five kinds, difficulty that grows

You start as a rookie and finish as a champion: in the word search the words start hiding diagonally and backwards, the free letters get fewer, the mazes get trickier, the sudoku move from shapes to numbers. All the answers are at the back, so a child can check their own work.

See the books
  • 30 Word searches Grids ten or eleven squares a side, each square over a centimetre wide.
  • 22 Crosswords Written clues and a few letters given away.
  • 14 Mazes With dead ends, like the real ones.
  • 14 Secret codes Symbols to decipher to read the message.
  • 10 Sudoku Four by four: shapes first, then numbers.
  • 22 Reading pages A full-colour illustrated story for every crossword.

What readers say

The series has only just come out. The first words from readers, parents and teachers will show up here: we only publish them when they are real and signed.

Have you used one of these books at home or in class?

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Paper, a pencil, nothing else

Ninety puzzles that end with a treasure

A gift for children who learn better by playing. Big format, full colour inside, all the answers, and a certificate at the end to fill in with your own name.

Featured book: Animals · $14.99