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.
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Animals
Puzzles and Pastimes for Kids Ages 6-8
From the farm to the bottom of the sea, twenty-two places to live.
The woods, the savanna, the jungle, the pond, the snowy mountains, a day at the zoo — with the sounds they make, the homes they build, their babies and the way they move. Ninety puzzles to meet them one at a time, and twenty-two stories to read beside the crosswords.
- 90 puzzles
- 131 pages
- Ages 6-8
- Full colour
- Answers included
$14.99 · paperback
8.5 × 11 in · Ciccolino Books · English
Why read it
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
Look inside the book
On the left, a story to read, with the words in colour; on the right, the crossword built from those same words. There are twenty-two pairs like this in the book.
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The reading page
A full-colour illustrated story for every crossword.
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The word search
Ten or eleven squares a side, each one over a centimetre wide.
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The crossword
Written clues and a few letters given away.
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The sudoku
Four by four: shapes first, then numbers.
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.
- 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.
The twenty-two worlds in the book
Each world has its own words, its own crossword and its own illustrated reading page.
- On the farm
- In the woods
- Under the sea
- On the savanna
- Birds
- Bugs and critters
- In the jungle
- At the pond
- Along the river
- In the mountains
- Pets at home
- At the zoo
- When it gets dark
- On the beach
- In the garden
- What they eat
- Fairy tale animals
- Baby animals
- Animal homes
- Animal bodies
- Animal sounds
- How they move
For parents and teachers
- Big 8.5 × 11 inch format: the grids stay readable and there's room for a pencil.
- No battles, no violence: even the history books tell about everyday life.
- The twenty-two reading pages are written to be read alone at that age, or together with an adult.
- The same layout in every book of the series: the child recognises the structure and gets faster at it.
- Full colour inside, complete answers, a certificate at the end to fill in.
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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.
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