Books published by publisher Ryland Peters

This interactive book is designed to help parents talk to children about the upcoming birth of a younger sibling. The book guides parents through the various stages: from telling them the news and sharing stories about when they were small to explaining the process (only at a high level) and introducing the new baby. Throughout, children are encouraged to write or draw their thoughts about themselves and their new brother or sister, allowing them to understand and embrace the changes happening to their family and welcome the baby with love.

Children find gardening fun and fascinating—it’s wonderful to witness the pride and amazement they feel when they produce their own juicy tomatoes or sky-high sunflowers.Gardening with Kids is packed with fun and interesting projects for both boys and girls. There are appealing ideas for growing flowers, fruit, and vegetables from seed or bulb as well as a multitude of fun garden-related crafts that kids will love, including decorating plant pots, making a bird bath or a nesting box, and pressing flowers. Just follow the simple instructions and step-by-step photography, and you can't go wrong.

Get kids into the kitchen whipping up gorgeous treats, cakes, party food, and edible decorations for the holiday season. Annie Rigg brings festive cheer to the kitchen with more than 50 recipes from around the world-all simple enough for children under 11 to make with minimum help from Muom or Dad. Little Treats & Gifts are for giving to friends, teachers, and family. Everyone loves a box of homemade Fudge or Chocolate Truffles. What better way to get into the Christmas spirit than by getting the kids to make their own Edible Decorations? Snowflake Cookies and Popcorn Garlands will look great on the Christmas tree. Cakes & Desserts like Marble Cake and Fruit Jellies will impress everyone at the dinner table and when guests are coming round, let the kids help with the Party Food, such as Pumpkin Soup and Christmas Morning Pancakes.

Kids love to cook and time spent with them in the kitchen can be huge fun. Weighing ingredients, stirring mixtures and rolling out dough are all absorbing tasks for any child. Linda Collister's "Baking with Kids" is the ideal book for any parent who is keen to teach their kids all about food and interest them in cooking from an early age. Teatime Favourites are the perfect place for budding chefs to start. Help the kids master delicious Cherry Berry Buns or Three Chocolate Cookies. With Linda's expert help and your supervision they can move on to the Big Bakes such as Fresh Raspberry Streusel or a Peanut Butter Cake. Breads is full of fantastic ideas for freshly-baked rolls and loaves. Help your children discover the pleasure of bread making with No-Knead Cheese Bread or Sun-dried Tomato Rolls. Savoury Snacks has a selection of tasty recipes - encourage the kids to make Giant Cheese Straws rather than snack on potato crisps. Puddings are a treat for the whole family so let the kids help out by making Ricotta Cheesecake or everyone's favourite, Sticky Toffee Pudding. *Linda's clear, step-by-step recipes are written for children and the point at which an adult's help is needed is clearly given. *Baking with Kids will help you show your children how to cook good food, how to appreciate it and, above all, that baking is fun! *Photography by Polly Wreford.

The festive season is the perfect time for crafting--getting busy with glue, paper, and scissors will fill kids with anticipation and excitement. Christmas Crafting with Kids is packed with more than 35 fun and imaginative seasonal projects for both boys and girls. There are dozens of achievable ideas for decorations, gifts, cards, and even handmade gift wrapping. Little crafters will enjoy making festive decorations such as paper chains, crackers, and handstitched stockings, as well as perfect gifts like cute snow shakers, decorated photoframes, and delicious chocolate brownies! All the classic crafting techniques are covered, from potato printing to sewing, baking, decoupage,modelling, stencilling, and more. * 35 funky projects clearly illustrated with step-by-step instructions * More than 60,000 copies already sold. * Creative family fun for parents and children alike.

Quirky, colorful and fun projects for preschool kids and their parents to make together.Small children love crafting and creating, and it’s educational as well as enjoyable—crafting can help develop fine motor skills and teaches small children to follow instructions and work alongside someone else. Kate Lilley’s hugely popular blog, Minieco, grew out of her desire to teach her own kids to be resourceful and use what’s around them for creative play. Parents and kids alike will love the 35 bold, colorful projects featured in the book and divided into sections that include Music, Nature, Sewing, Science and Recycling Bin. The final section contains a list of 50 quick boredom busters that harassed parents can pull out of the bag in an emergency!

Making jewellery and accessories is a great way for kids to express themselves - and is also a fun and creative way to introduce them to new skills. The 35 colourful projects in this book will let kids' imaginations run wild, and they will be so proud to wear what they have made - or give it as a gift. The book is divided into 3 sections: in Brilliant Beads kids will lear n how to thread beads and buttons of all sizes, plait friendship bracelets, and create pretty pendants from wire and beads. Fabric Fashions introduces sewing and cutting skills: kids will enjoy sewing a cupcake brooch or felt flower pendant; creating a bracelet from pom poms; and making their own tassel bag charm from fabric scraps. And in Modelling Magic card and felt are used to make a funky dinosaur badge; beads, brooches and hair clips are all created from colourful clay; and belts are decorated with hand-made buttons. With easily-achievable projects to suit a whole range of abilities for children from 3 years and upwards, and with simple step-by-step instructions, children will love crafting their own jewellery creations.

"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, CBE Children's reading books, toys and games are often targeted at specific age groups, and this new book by 'one of the country's leading children's food educators', Amanda Grant teaches core cooking skills designed for children aged 3-5 years, 5-7 years and 7-10 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. Amanda Grant is a food writer, broadcaster and mother of three young children. She has written many books, mostly specializing in children's food and nutrition including Healthy Lunchboxes for Kids and Grow It, Cook It with Kids, both published by Ryland Peters & Small. She adapted and wrote the recipes for The Silver Spoon for Children (published by Phaidon). She is the food expert for Sainsbury's Little Ones magazine and writes for several other publications. Amanda is on the committee for the first ever dedicated Children's Food Festival and travels the country teaching children about good food and nutrition. Her television credits include her own series Power Food and BBC2's Food and Drink. To keep up to date with Amanda's news, take a look at www.amandagrant.com

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!

Over 80 delicious recipes presented in creative themed menus for portable feasts to share outdoors with family and friends.Tori Finch understands the joys of a carefree picnic. There’s nothing quite like eating outdoors to capture a sense of adventure and add a little excitement to the feast. Whether you are entertaining a relaxed crowd or preparing a surprise romantic feast for two, hopping on your bike to work up an appetite, hitting the beach for a cook-out, or walking on a frosty day with a flask of hot soup; these all appear in themed menus, each featuring recipes for delicious, portable food as well as drinks to serve alongside. Wherever you are, whatever the occasion, armed with this book you will always pack the perfect picnic!