Books in Dover Children's Activity Books series

What bird can lift the heaviest weight?What is worse than finding a worm in an apple?What animal doesn't play fair?These and about 600 other howlers and teeth-gritters will be found in this entertaining collection. You'll find rib-tickling riddles on all sorts of subjects, from animals, plants, fruits and people, to love and courtship, and eating and drinking.You'll have loads of fun baffling friends and relatives with this nearly inexhaustible treasury of favorite riddles that have puzzled people for generations. Parents and teachers will remember the fun times they had when they endlessly recited these humorous stumpers in their own younger days. Ready to tickle the funny bones and challenge the wits of riddle lovers of all ages, these brain-teasers, puns, and puzzles are perfect for enjoying by yourself or to liven up parties, family gatherings and other group occasions.Answers: The crane. Finding half a worm. The Cheetah.

Add up the money in a wallet full of yen, fold an origami hat, and follow a maze through the sights of Kyoto! These and other playful activities for children ages 6 to 10 offer a warm welcome to the Land of the Rising Sun. A host of crosswords, jumbles, cryptograms, spot-the-differences, and other puzzles acquaint kids with Japanese geography, language, food, arts, sports, and festivals.

At first glance, the scene looks like any other cozy camping spot. But look closer and you'll see it has all the trappings of an enchanted forest. This and 23 other delightfully drawn tableaux challenge sharp-eyed sleuths to ferret out cleverly concealed objects in artist Joe Boddy's immensely entertaining hidden picture puzzle book.Puzzlists of all ages will enjoy grappling with such pictorial bafflers as helping a young boy deep in a jungle find a fishing pole, hiking boots, compass, and other survival equipment; finding tools for an absent-minded tree-house builder; locating good things for a little lad to eat in an apparently foodless kitchen, and much more.Solutions are provided for the optically frustrated; and for coloring book fans, these intriguing pictures also offer hours of coloring pleasure.

Won't you help George Washington find his false teeth? And guide Barack Obama to his lost basketball? Perhaps you'd like to seek out Van Buren's bag of gold, discover Harding's teapot, and locate Taft's gavel? More than 30 mazes, search-and-find puzzles, and spot-the-differences activities feature playful illustrations and intriguing tidbits about all our nation's leaders, including Donald J. Trump, from their nicknames and birthdays to their hobbies and pets.

Follow the numbers for holiday coloring fun! Kids will get into the Christmas spirit with these 30 charming color-by-number pictures. Illustrations of jolly carolers, busy elves, window shoppers, and other seasonal scenes feature numbered color guides on each page. Great fun for home or school, this book will provide hours of entertainment for children ages 4 to 7.

If you like to color and love to solve puzzles, too, this entertaining activity book is just for you. Connect the dots and you'll find out how a jolly frog is going out to sea, which lovable bird can't fly but is a great swimmer, what animal is very good at juggling a ball, and lots of other interesting things. And when you've finished connecting the dots, the fun's not over, because now you'll have 30 pictures to color! There are hours of fun in store for you, and all the while, you'll be learning new things, too.

Birdwatchers, or "birders," keep life lists in which they note their first sighting of a species — indicating the date, place, habitat, etc. This easy-to-read, fact-filled workbook will help young birdwatchers begin keeping their own life lists as they learn about 48 common North American birds — among them the blue jay, American crow, ruby-throated hummingbird, yellow-billed cuckoo, mourning dove, barn owl, red-tailed hawk, northern oriole, red-winged blackbird, and red-headed woodpecker.Written and illustrated by nature artist Sy Barlowe, the book includes space on each page for a numbered sticker illustration of the bird described, along with information on bird size, habitat, nesting and eating habits, number and color of eggs, and range. There's also a place for recording the date, time, and locality of the sighting and for adding personal remarks.A great way to combine sticker fun with an educational experience, this hands-on record-keeping book will motivate young naturalists and perhaps stimulate a lifelong interest in the rewarding hobby of birdwatching.

Delightful collection of 60 limericks includes famous rhymes by such masters of the form as Gelett Burgess, Oliver Herford, and Edward Lear, as well as lesser-known works by these and other humorists, including the editor himself. Fun to read, easy to memorize and great to share with family and friends, each entertaining snippet of verse is accompanied by an equally humorous illustration.

A barber in Chicago says he'd rather cut the hair of ten red-headed men than the hair of one brown-haired man. Can you guess why?Ask Professor Picanumba, a master of riddles who carries dozens of surefire tricks up his sleeve. He'll show you how to astonish your friends and family by predicting the answers to 88 word and number challenges. These tricks require only simple props — a deck of cards or a couple of pairs of dice, a calculator, and a pencil and paper. With or without an audience, these foolproof feats of mental magic offer hours of amusement. Solutions appear at the end, with 64 illustrations in between.Author Martin Gardner has written more than 70 books on subjects from science and math to poetry and religion. Well known for the mathematical games that appeared in Scientific American for decades and for his "Trick of the Month" column in Physics Teacher magazine, Gardner has had a lifelong passion for magic tricks and puzzles.

Here's a fun-filled book for young Russian speakers — and at the same time, an easy, effective way for students of Russian to build and strengthen their vocabulary skills. The book consists of 15 common scenes (14 double-page and one single-page), each devoted to a different theme or topic: picnic, on the farm, classroom, living room, bathroom, kitchen, at dinner, supermarket, at the beach, my town, at the zoo, at the park, vehicles, and more.Each scene contains dozens of familiar objects, all clearly identified by Russian words. By studying the pictures, students can learn over 500 terms for a variety of household items, clothing, foods, furniture, animals, parts of the body, types of stores and public buildings, and other subjects.To help reinforce words and meanings (and for more fun), all scenes can be colored. In addition, a complete list of Russian words and their English translations is located at the back of the book. Altogether, the result is an attractive and useful language resource that will appeal to any student of basic Russian, child or adult.