Books published by publisher Ryland Peters

Encourage your kids to get in touch with their creative side with What Shall We Do Today?For children, the experience of creating is every bit as important as the end result. Crafting will fire their imaginations and offers an inspiring alternative to endless hours in front of the computer or TV screen. What Shall We Do Today? is packed with more than 60 colorful, fun, and imaginative projects designed for boys and girls aged between 3–12 years. The book is arranged by season, and each section is crammed full of vibrant, appealing ideas for fun crafting activities, great gifts, and pretty decorations. Every project can be completed using readily available materials – just follow the step-by-step instructions and you can't go wrong.

Keep your little one looking adorable and feeling comfortable with Cute and Easy Crocheted Baby Clothes. Using only the softest yarns, crochet expert Nicki Trench has created this striking collection of jackets, dresses, booties, hats and more that make the perfect gift for newborns and toddlers. Crochet Know-how covers all the techniques you will need and is a great resource for more confident crocheters to brush up on a stitch. In Sweaters and Cardigans you will find clothes to keep little ones warm and cozy, such as the Breton-style sweater for a boy or the cardigan with embroidered daisies for a girl. Outdoor Accessories has hats and blankets that are perfect for outdoor excursions, while Jackets and Booties has slippers, ponchos and more in a range of soft pastel colors. Finally, there’s Toys, Accessories and Room Decorations, filled with fun items including an adorable mobile with crocheted animals and blocks with a bell to stimulate your baby’s mind. With 35 cute and easy projects in total, there’s more than enough to keep even the keenest crochet hook busy.

Chic country girl and gourmet Tori Finch understands the joy of a carefree picnic.There’s nothing like eating outdoors to capture your sense of adventure, and add a flair to the food—whether you are entertaining a relaxed crowd of friends and family or preparing a romantic feast for two. Hop on your vintage bike to work up an appetite, hit the beach for a cook-out, or host a teddy bears picnic for little ones; these all feature within Tori’s 10 themed menus, each complete with recipes for savory and sweet dishes, as well as drinks. On a balmy summers eve, hang paper lanterns from trees and serve Asian-inspired food in the Indochine picnic, or lay luxurious rugs and evoke a sense of the middle east with a meze platter and spiced citrus couscous at a Bohemian picnic. Warm up during a fall walk in the woods with a thermos of spiced squash soup and slabs of zingy Jamaican Gingercake, or dream of sunnier climes with a Provenc¸al-inspired feast. Whatever the occasion, A Perfect Day for a Picnic is your guide to enjoying the outdoors life.

Tagines are the rich and aromatic casseroles that form the basis of traditional Moroccan cooking. These hearty one-pot meals, flavored with fragrant spices, are cooked and served from an elegant, specially designed cooking vessel, also called a tagine. In Ghillie Basan's collection of deliciously authentic recipes you will find some of the best-loved classics of the Moroccan kitchen, such as the sumptuous Lamb Tagine with Dates, Almonds, and Pistachios, and the tangy Chicken Tagine with Preserved Lemon, Green Olives, and Thyme. Also included are less traditional but equally delicious recipes for beef and fish—try Beef Tagine with Sweet Potatoes, Peas, and Ginger or a tagine of Monkfish, Potatoes, Tomatoes, and Black Olives. Substantial vegetable tagines include Baby Eggplant with Cilantro and Mint, and Butternut Squash, Shallots, Golden Raisins, and Almonds. Recipes for variations on couscous, the classic accompaniment to tagines, are also given, plus plenty of ideas for fresh-tasting salads and vegetable sides to serve alongside and complete your Moroccan-style feast.

Modern recipes for every occasion, from romantic meals for two to dinners with friends or lunch with the in-laws, presented in a beautiful book that makes the ideal wedding registry gift.Starting out on married life means enjoying time together at home, cooking good food for yourselves, and your loved ones, whether it’s friends or your recently extended family. The idea of eating and entertaining together in your new life can be a little daunting, no matter how much cooking you have done in the past. Here is the ultimate helping hand in the form of a carefully selected collection of essential recipes. Quick and healthy breakfasts, deliciously indulgent brunch ideas for lazy weekend lie-ins, nutritious lunches that can be whipped up and packed to take to work, easy midweek meals to maximize quality time together with that box set, plus smart ideas for effortless entertaining. From colorful smoothie bowls to spicy baked eggs; quick-fix Asian noodle bowls to sheet-pan saviors; indulgent freshly-baked pizza to light grain-based salads; impressive Sunday roasts to 5-minute pastas—all the recipes you will ever need are here. Whatever you want to cook and share, this go-to source of inspiration will make eating together a pleasure time and time again and it will find a place on the kitchen bookshelf for years to come and perhaps even become a family heirloom!

Claire Montgomerie'simaginative and colourful designs are guaranteed to appeal.Easy Kids Knitsfeatures 20 items for children aged between 3 and 10, as well as an introduction to essential knitting techniques. The first section,Getting Started, is illustrated with clear, easy-to-follow step-by-step photographs and includes all the basic stitches as well as tips on following a pattern and fixing mistakes.Clothesfeatures gorgeous garments for both boys and girls, including a shrug cardigan with satin ribbon detailing, a cozy toggle coat, and a vibantly striped sweater that's perfect for keeping out winter chills. InAccessoriesyou will find small-scale items such as a raspberry-pink and lilac beret and the cutest little slippers with animal faces. Finally, a usefulsuppliers sectionhelps you source yarns and equipment.*From the author ofEasy Baby Knits, (ISBN 978-1-84597-355-1: more than 28,000 copies sold).*Easy-to-follow patterns and imaginative projects are suitable for both complete beginners and more experienced knitters.*The perfect gift for eager knitters, especially mums and grandmothers.*Gorgeous photography bySandra Lane.

Today, people are rediscovering the joys of baking their own bread, not only as a cost-saving measure, but with the desire to go back to basics and enjoy making something rewarding.Emmanuel Hadjiandreou is passionate about bread and in his award-winning first book, he showed us how to make it, step by step. Now he invites the kids into the kitchen so that they too can discover the joy of baking but at an early age, just as his own young son has. The book starts by answering key questions such as “what is flour?” and “how is it milled?”and then the projects throughout the book—e.g. looking after your sourdough like a pet; making a bottle balloon; growing your own wheat, and so on—help bring the key scientific principles (and magic!) of turning flour, yeast, and water into something not only edible but delicious to life! Delicious and fun recipes are organized into kid-friendly sections such as Breakfasts, Lunchboxes, and Afternoon Snack Time with Friends and more than 20 easy-to-follow recipes include whole-wheat pitta pockets, sourdough pancakes, tiger bread, raspberry buns, sweet rice bread, and raisin and walnut rolls—all delicious, nutritious, and great fun to bake together!

“Cook School is a practical and inspiring cookery book for young children. Parents will be thrilled by the skills their children will develop.” Marguerite Patten, CBEChildren’s reading books, toys, and games are often targeted at specific age groups. In Cook School, Amanda Grant teaches core cooking skills designed for children aged 3–5 years, 5–7 years, and 7–11 years. Each skill is presented at the stage when a child’s development, self-confidence, and independence are ready. With plenty of step-by-step photographs for children to follow and easy, tasty, and fun recipes that they will love to learn, this is an invaluable book for parents to help teach their kids practical kitchen skills that will remain useful throughout life. As well as explaining hygiene and kitchen safety, there are more than 50 recipes specially suited to particular age groups.

Christmas is the perfect time for kids to get creative - so let them craft and bake their way to the most magical of Christmases. Catherine Woram's craft projects put busy little hands to work on per fect gifts to give, as well as great ideas for wrapping them and greetings cards to make. Kids can deck the halls with colourful garlands and make a stocking to hang up for Santa! Annie Rigg's tasty Christmas treats - from Marshmallow Snowmen to Coconut Ice - are per fect for giving as gifts, if they last that long! Irresistible edible decorations include snowflake cookies to hang on the tree and an adorable gingerbread house, while party foods will help get the festivities underway. Including over 60 exciting festive projects, which are suitable for children from ages 3 up to 11, this is the perfect guide to introducing kids to a world of exciting homemade Christmas crafts.

Children adore creating things with their hands-give them paper, paints and glue and they will entertain themselves for hours on end, allowing their imaginations to run wild and producing decorative objects that will amaze you. Crafting is a wonderful way to encourage your children to express themselves--and, for children, the creative experience is every bit as important as the end result. Crafting with Kids by Catherine Woram is packed with 35 colourful and enjoyable projects for boys and girls. There are appealing ideas for great gifts, fancy-dress costumes, seasonal decorations and fun things to do on rainy afternoons. All the classic crafting techniques are covered, from potato prints to papier-mache, taking in sewing, collage, modelling, stencilling and much, much more along the way, all imaginatively photographed by Vanessa Davies. *Little hands will enjoy getting to grips with lavender bags, wooden-spoon puppets and snow shakers, as well as crafting felt flowers, balsa-wood cars, Easter bonnets and spooky Halloween masks! *Every project can be completed in five or fewer steps and most of them use materials that you're likely to have around the house. Just follow the simple step-by-step instructions and you can't go wrong!