Books with author piers-harper

"The mazes are satisfyingly tricky . . . and puzzle-minded kids who are beyond WHERE'S WALDO? should enjoy this for hours." — BOOKLISTChess City has been captured! The king and queen are missing, and it’s up to readers to rescue them. As children learn how each chess piece moves, their task is to strategically maneuver knights, pawns, bishops, and rooks through mazes filled with hungry wolves, dangerous swamp monsters, and poisonous spiders. Each step leads them closer to the captive king and queen, in a perfect introduction to the challenges and excitement of a real game of chess. Now, with a compact chess board at their fingertips, they’ll be eager to put their skills to the test!

Little Snow Bear is planning a big surprise for his mom. With the help of his friends, he sets out to gather the prettiest, most sparkly things he can find to decorate their den. Meanwhile, Mom has her own very special surprise to share with Snow Bear... With soft-to-touch furry animals on every page-and glittery surprises!-this is a charming sequel to the much-loved best seller Snow Bear

Doodle decorations for the holiday! Like our bestselling Do You Doodle? and Beautiful Doodles, Christmas Doodles calls on kids to enter and play. Prompts on each of the generous-sized pages invite you to open your imagination and finish incomplete images. For example, “What’s in Santa’s bag?” Show us! Doodlers will be flying across pages as fast as Santa cruising the sky on Christmas Eve. With more than 100 pages to complete and create in this book, even overtaxed adults will want in on this simple activity that will broaden anyone’s spirit of adventure, imagination, and creativity.