Books in Pocket Pals series

Wise up to science! Curious chemists, budding biologists, and future physicists will find it's fun to get smart with great experiments, brain-testing challenges, and intriguing facts and feats. Twirl a chemistry wheel to find out which elements make what compounds; play the Bubble Board game; watch irresistible attraction at work with mega-magnets; and fill out the Radical Results Chart for a record to remember all of your science successes and surprises. Who's a super scientist? YOU!

Are beads, bangles, and braids your passion? Then get nifty with knots and practice your plaits! Just follow the guidebooks straight to stunning styles and dazzling jewelry. There's one handbook with beady basics and handy hints, and another for making a bonanza of bracelets, necklaces, fancy bandanas, and much more. Join the Braid Parade and perfect your plaiting power-not just for hair, but also for straps, wall hangings, and other projects. Facts and Fashions takes you on a worldwide tour of beaded gems and wonderful weavings. Plus: a birthstone chart, twin card pom-pom rings, sheets of stickers, a beautiful bookmark, and--of course--some beads and braids to get you started!

Are you ready to meet the mini-monsters of the outside world? Brush up on your insect hunting with the handbook; start bug-buzzing projects (including a compost heap swarming with slimy secrets); find out the yikes and yucks of woderbugs; and take a test to see if you've got what it takes to be an expert entomologist. Beat your friends at Bug Battle, set up a Fly-on-the-Wall chart, and fill out your Creepy Crawly Official Entry Pass...by the light of the glow-in-the dark bug!

Make a colorful splash with your paint box, go crazy with cartoons, and dazzle with design! Bring out the artist in you with all these great-looking ideas for paper, paint, and print. Get your art start with a book-full of tips for perfect pictures, then go wild with the guides on conceiving comic scenes, jazzing up your world with pattern, and coming up with cool crafts and stupendous projects. Mix it up with our color mix wall chart; twirl the whirligig illusion wheel, and paste on pages of stickers in magnificent arrangements. And, don't forget your arty bookmark and the super surprise present: a mini paint set. You don't need anything else to create your masterpiece.

No child will ever be lonely with a Pocket Pal. Pocket Pals are a great early reading resource, full of real information about animals from all over the world. Pocket Pals are appealingly shaped, easy to keep clean and eminently collectable. A sturdy die cut book just right for tiny hands and parents' pockets, each in the "Pocket Pals" series shows favorite animals and its activities. The simple text and pictures make observations about each animal's most common characteristics.