Books with author Cathy Beylon

For spooky fun the year round, youngsters can create their own haunted house complete with ghosts, witches, scowling pumpkins, and other scary (but amusing) characters. The eerie three-story house, shown in a laminated backdrop on the inside covers, reveals broken windows, drooping shutters, and a front door ominously ajar. To populate the place, select any of the 36 reusable stickers depicting spiders, bats, black cats, a vampire, tombstone, skeleton, mummy, and other fiendish figures.

Here's your very own Easter basket to fill with chocolate bunnies, chicks, and ducks, Easter eggs, and more. Just remove the staples and sticker pages from the book. Peel any of the 26 stickers off the pages and place them in the basket.The stickers can be applied and peeled off many times, so you can fill your basket with different goodies and arrange them in many different ways for Easter fun.

With this fun-filled activity book you can create your very own underwater world. Included are 29 reusable sticker illustrations of tropical fish, snails, leafy plants, driftwood, rock formations, a scuba diver, small boat, and even a sunken treasure. To create a variety of different scenes, simply apply the stickers to different parts of the aquarium backdrop on the inside covers of the book. You can use the stickers again and again.

This delightful activity book features a cheery doctor's office, with colorful draperies, cabinets, and examination table on the inside covers. Children can bring the room to life with 34 sticker images of a doctor and her nurse, young patients, a wall chart and scales, microscope, wall phone, stethoscope, fish bowl, toys, Band-Aids, tongue depressors, and more.

With this fun-filled activity book, youngsters can decorate their very own Easter eggs. Included are two "blank" colored eggs on the inside covers. Children simply choose any of 32 full-color stickers — bunnies, tulips, a lamb, and more — and apply them to the blank eggs to create a personal Easter egg design. Best of all, these reusable stickers can be removed and replaced again and again to create a host of different designs.

The large, easy-to-color pictures in this book help youngsters prepare for an exciting plane trip. Twenty-two captioned illustrations — all designed to ease children through their first flight — depict a young couple and their two children at the airport, going through security checks, and waiting to board a plane; a jet being refueled; a pilot and copilot seated in the cockpit; flight attendants giving instructions; air traffic controllers tracking planes; and fifteen other scenes.

The baby Jesus, his mother, and father are all resting in a cozy stable. To find out who's visiting them, put this simple puzzle together. First have an adult carefully remove the staples to separate the pages. Then, using the finished picture as a guide, place the stickers in the blank spaces to finish the puzzle. The stickers and spaces are numbered to help you.