Books published by publisher Perseus Distribution

Help your little readers practice their visual thinking, pen control, and hand-eye coordination with these simple mazes and dot-to-dot puzzles.Straightforward questions spur them on to solve puzzles while tracing over and connecting dotted guidelines helps them to complete colorful pictures. Get them thinking, writing, counting, and laughing as they take on each intriguing challenge. This book offers hours of age-appropriate fun to kids that are just starting to enjoy thinking through problems and finding answers all by themselves. Children will challenge themselves as they solve questions like, "What did the pirate find?" "Where did the king go?" "How many friends did the frog find?" and more.

Saying Nighty, Night is special, but first, Bear has lots to do! Help Bear put his toys away; eat dinner; take a bath; brush his teeth; say nighty night; and more! This padded cloth book features charming scenes that toddlers will recognize and enjoy. Illustrations in the book come with pockets where Baby can insert Bear as part of the picture. Little ones will love helping Bear move onto his next adventure! The tiny bear is attached to the book's spine with a ribbon, so he can't get lost. There is a cloth carrying handle on the book's spine and a Velcro tab to keep the book closed. The book and bear come packaged in a clear plastic carrying case.

Aspiring writers love to dream up stories…but getting them down on paper may be a challenge. That's where How to Write Your Best Story Ever! can help. This book is bursting with creative ways to help youngsters craft all types of stories. Helpful features include:Hints and tips to create amazing characters and settingsStory Sparks to help young writers come up with exciting plotsWord Webs that offer choices that add flair to storiesWays to wrap it all up with a brilliant endingInspiration along the way from fantastic fiction and advice from bestselling authorsChapters devoted to writing stories such as Adventure, Romance, Science Fiction, Mash-ups, and moreWith this essential guide to writing and a little bit of imagination, kids can write their best story ever!

Where's the frog? Where's the pirate? Where are the ducks? Challenge little ones to spot and name each object on the page while building language skills too. This series of books challenges kids to open their eyes and find special hidden treasures. All of the objects in the colored boxes are hiding inside each picture. Can kids spy them? Can they name each one? Whether they're searching for a boat full of penguins in the ocean or spying dinosaurs in a prehistoric scene, children will have fundiscovering new words with these big, bold, and brightly illustrated books.

Vampires are over. Werewolves are passé. Witches are so yesterday. It's the zombie's time to shine! Freakishly strong, disgustingly decayed, and always up for a slow chase through deserted streets, the army of the undead have stolen our hearts (or brains if they can get their hands on them), and we can't get enough! Little Zombie Activity Book will keep young zombie fans entertained for hours. They can:Solve puzzles to help zombies relocate missing body partsMake yummy yet foul-looking treats, like zombie jelly and edible eyeballsLearn Gross-but-True trivia and interesting facts about the brain Complete color-by-number, fill-in-the-blanks, and connect-the-dot drawingsThere are also coloring and doodle pages, quizzes and games, projects to do with friends, and the ever popular Zombie-doku (like Sudoku, but with brains, eyeballs, and bones instead of numbers). Zombie lovers of all ages will agree, Little Zombie Activity Book is wonderfully warped!

Each Find Out About book introduces boys and girls to a different country, its people, its history, its culture, and its language. The books are divided into four parts: Part One: Introduction--Takes readers on a journey across the country, pointing out major cities, places of special interest, and favorite sports and pastimes. Part Two: Everyday Life--Kids attend school and enjoy after-school activities, while the grownups pursue their professions, occupations, and trades. Part Three: History and Culture--Readers learn about a country's political leaders and cultural figures, and visit distinctive landmarks and monuments. Part Four: The Language--Readers learn fundamentals of the country's native language, including phrases for meeting people, finding their way around cities and towns, counting, telling time, and more. The titles in this series are: Find Out About China, Find Out About France, Find Out About Italy, and Find Out About Spain. Here are fine supplements for elementary social studies and language classes, as well as books that kids will enjoy having at home to read. They're the next-best alternatives to traveling to foreign lands. Color illustrations throughout.

Your most exciting creative challenges start HERE!There's no doubt about it: coloring is a great way to spur on creativity, while mazes make your brain work harder and better. But what if kids think coloring books are for babies--or mazes are just plain boring? Tell them to think again, because Picture Puzzles, from the Çhallenging…Books series, gets the puzzle challenges started right here! Every puzzle starts easy and gets harder, with time challenges to see if kids can beat the best of the rest. You can even color them in! Challenging… Books are perfect for kids who like to kick things up a notch. The only question is…are they up to the test? Encourage them to say yes, and they'll enjoy hours of stimulating fun!

This new title in B.E.S. A First Look At series encourages kids of preschool through early school age to understand and overcome problems that might trouble them in social and family relationships. Written by an experienced psychotherapist and counselor on a level that is always understandable to younger children, this book seeks to promote positive interactions among children, parents, and teachers. Thoughtful text is supplemented with child-friendly color illustrations on every page. A two-page How to Use This Book section for parents and teachers appears at the back of each book. In I Miss My Pet, younger children who lose a beloved puppy, kitten, or other pet are introduced to the idea of death. They are encouraged to understand that sadness is a first important step in the process of emotional healing, after the death of a loved one.

From the author of A-MAZE-ING Animals and Myths & Monsters!Here comes another wonderfully wacky collection of mazes from Joe Wos . . . and this time, has has gone the way of the dinosaurs! MAZE-O-ZOIC features 50 colorfully illustrated mazes with fully solvable characters, cartoon elements, and dinosaurs along every start-to-finish path. Kids and parents will enjoy navigating through a T.Rex-inspired maze, the Triceratops' horns, the Spinosaurus' amazing sail, and more. Open the pages and get lost in this prehistoric world that's filled with twists, turns, and scary good fun!

Find 50 Fun, colorful cartoons-within-a-maze from the designer of the world's largest hand-drawn maze and internationally-acclaimed creator of MazeToon! Mazes are a great way to increase hand-eye coordination, bolster problem-solving skills, sharpen reasoning, and more. You'll get all that and then some with these 50 colorfully illustrated mazes that feature fully solvable characters, cartoon elements, and imaginative creatures that figure prominently along every start-to-finish path. Themed, integrated animal illustrations (set within the mazes) are fun, playful, and perfect for big kids and grown-ups too. Besides navigating the usual twists and turns of a traditional maze path, puzzle-solvers will have to navigate through crazy cartoon features, like a dinosaur's mouth, a bat's wings, a vulture's beak, a frog's tongue, and more. There are dozens of dead ends, illusions, twists and turns that increase with the difficulty level. It's not just thoroughly entertaining... it's absolutely A-MAZE-ING!

From the bestselling, brain-training and puzzle book author! Do you know the name of the game when it comes to brains? Then get ready kids—because here's a collection of 100 brain-busting challenges that you won't want to miss. Build a pyramid, count the number of rectangles on the page, find the hidden battleship, whizz through a maze without making any mistakes, and more! Packed to the brim with logic, reasoning, and problem-solving puzzles, these books are built to help kids make the most of their gray matter. Any game can be tackled on its own, but since the puzzles get harder the farther the books go, you might want to start at the front and work your way towards the back. Let the Brain Games begin!

Place your fingers in the two small holes to turn the moveable eyes and watch each one of your monsters come alive!Kids will love this drawing and activity kit that gives them everything they need to create the cutest and coolest monsters ever. Inside the pages of My Moveable Eyes Monster Fun, kids will find step-by-step instructions explaining how to draw different creatures, including a Yeti, Scaly Serpent, Fluffball, Blobbie, and more. The handy pull-out drawer includes 4 sticker sheets, 6 felt tip pens, 2 pencils, an eraser, and a sharpener, so you've got everything you need to complete over 30 fiendishly-inspired activities and create your own original monsters.