Books in Dover Children's Activity Books series

Enter a delightful, make-believe world filled with unicorn-themed puzzles that will provide hours of enchanting fun! More than 30 activities — each featuring whimsical drawings of the lovable fantasy creatures — include mazes, word puzzles, secret codes, spot the differences, hidden pictures, and loads of other entertaining challenges. Answers included.

Enter the enchanting world of fairies and discover their hidden secrets! It's a treat to tiptoe into the dazzling realm of pixies, leprechauns, wizards, and unicorns. With this magical book of 24 hidden pictures, you can be a fairyland detective and search out the everyday items concealed under a gnome's toadstool, beside a dragon's tail, and next to an elf's shoe. Clues appear at the bottom of each page, and solutions are provided at the end.

Hundreds of years ago, warriors identified themselves in battle by using certain colors and symbols on their shields. Later, these distinguishing marks also appeared on surcoats worn over armor. Thus, the term "coat of arms" was born.Now, with genealogist Rosemary Chorzempa's fascinating new book, anyone interested in the ancient and distinctive language of heraldry can create his or her own coat of arms. This easy-to-read, profusely illustrated guide to the history, symbolism, and construction of heraldic devices allows even a child to fashion authentic designs.Step-by-step directions tell how to trace the shape of the shield and its divisions and how to select symbols that reflect personal origins, traits, and achievements. (Forty-seven illustrations include human forms and manmade objects such as forearms, helmets, crowns, whips, books, crosses, bells, and much more. Celestial, plant, and animal shapes include suns, roses, trees, eagles, bars, dolphins, dragons, and serpents.) You'll find tips on necessary materials, how to color and outline your design, how to achieve professional results, and even how to register your coat of arms. You'll also find sample coats of arms belonging to some of the world's most famous people, corporations, and nations.Once you've finished your emblem, you may want to display your work on personal belongings such as a hooked rug, a wall hanging, or other needlecraft projects. Decorate a plate, mug, or other ceramic objects — or make sew-on patches, pin-on badges, and T-shirt decals. Rubber stamps, bookplates, stationery, and jewelry can be custom-made to depict your coat of arms.Here's a book for lovers of traditional design and for those interested in the study of family histories, relationships, and accomplishments — a veritable treasury of information for anyone wishing to display his or her family's roots in a long-cherished form.

More than 70 holiday-themed activities feature all kinds of colorful, seasonal treats: gingerbread men, sugar plum fairies, Christmas trees, flying reindeer, and, of course, happy unicorns! It's packed with all kinds of festive fun, from memory and matching games to spot the differences, word searches, mazes, math challenges, drawing lessons, and lots more. Answers included.

Chemistry is all about what's happening in the air, under the sea and ground, and inside every living thing — including you! With 46 pages of fun-to-color illustrations and fact-filled captions, children ages 8 to 12 can explore atoms and molecules, why carbon is so important, how our bodies break down food, what is causing global warming, and much more.

This book is a triple treat for children: a collection of fairy tales, a puzzle book and a coloring book — all at the same time! You will enjoy reading these brief versions of The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel, Pinocchio, and 15 other favorite fairy tales. A delightful drawing by Anna Pomaska accompanies each story. Look very carefully: hidden in each drawing, in the most unexpected places, you will find a whole grab bag of objects from the story. And while you are hunting, you can color the picture any way you choose. Solutions to all the puzzles are given in the back of the book.

When you get your hands on this classified maintenance manual, you'll have security clearance for Area 51 Desert Station, the restricted site of captured UFOs. Follow the mazes to perform repairs on alien artifacts, from fixing ion-vapor leaks and stabilizing a plasma core to rebooting time-sequence initiators, synchronizing power cube pulses, and sustaining bio-bubble species. Solutions included.

It's sea-to-shining-sea fun as young explorers try to find what's different in drawings of our nation's greatest landmarks. Twenty double-page spreads include illustrations of the Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate Bridge, Old Faithful, Everglades National Park, Graceland, Kennedy Space Center, and 12 other sights, plus informative captions. It's a great way to introduce kids to these American treasures — and they can color the drawings once they find the answers. Solutions included.

“Know thyself” is good advice; one fascinating, deeply satisfying path to self-knowledge is through your own relatives and ancestors. This workbook helps bring you in direct, active contact with your heritage, using the tools of genealogy.Genealogy (from a Greek word meaning ‘tracing generation or descent’) is a very old, honorable discipline for determining who truly belongs (by blood or marriage) to a family. Its visible result is a family tree, or pedigree. Formerly pedigrees were necessary to princes and aristocrats to prove their birthright; today anyone may take pride in his or her family past. This book enables beginning genealogists, including young children, to take the first steps in discovering the origins and growth of their lineage.Rosemary Chorzempa began tracing her Polish immigrant family’s roots as a teenager and now lectures on genealogy. She has designed this introductory volume as a workbook in which the reader is a participant, researcher, recorder, and pedigree-maker. The pages provide the family historian space to document information (including photos) on self, father, mother, brothers and sisters, and other relatives paternal and maternal. Instructions clarify the making of a basic family tree and pedigree chart; important rules of research method and etiquette teach the beginner good genealogical technique. In addition there are pages on autographs, family tales, heraldry, geography, foreign languages, ethnic crafts, foods and customs, a sample notebook filing system, correspondence record, glossary, bibliography, ideas on further study and projects. As a final note, Mrs. Chorzempa includes her own autobiography and family tree.Easily accessible to the youngest of historians, this volume assists in learning fundamental research principles and beginning the search — part science, part detective story — that may ultimately lead to years of discovery, enjoyment, and even self-knowledge.

Two versions of 25 paintings by some of the world's greatest artists appear side by side. Look closely — can you tell which is a true reproduction and which isn't? Featured works include Edward Hicks' Peaceable Kingdom, Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, and paintings by Renoir, Whistler, Velázquez, Cassatt, and others. This book encourages art appreciation and offers fun facts about paintings and artists.