Books in Mad About... series

Find out how to perfect your skills, from dribbling and passing to scoring and saving goals, play competitively for a club and expand your abilities into captaining a team. Whether you're new to football or looking to develop your skills, this book will tell you everything you need to know, from finding out what are the best things about being able to play football well to discovering what it takes to become a champion footballer.Discover advice from experts and top tips on how to improve, plus a quiz so you can find out how mad about football you really are!The Mad About series of books helps children age 8+ perfect a variety of hobbies and skills, from art and cartoons to football and gymnastics.

Aimed at seven-to-11-year-olds and designed for learning at home, the "Mad About Maths" series follows international curriculum guidelines emphasizing the importance of developing children's abilities through games and the use of visual and structural materials. The three books in the series are packed full of multicultural, imaginative theme-based activities, such as number games, quizzes and picture puzzles, motivating children and stimulating their own thinking and exploration of mathematical ideas. Each book also contains six tip-in leaves with press-out numbers, strips, boards and counters to use in the games and puzzles. Bright, eye-catching artwork makes the series visually stimulating as well as educational. Numbers are incredibly versatile and interesting. This title looks at the magic that you can conjure up with prime numbers, "think-of-a-number", Pascal's triangle and Egyptian fractions, to name but a few. The attention given to spotting numerical patterns and differences s

"Shape & Space" is one of three titles in the "Mad About Maths" series. This is a bright, colourful series designed to help Key Stage 2 children (7-11s) develop their number skills and mathematical confidence, mainly by learning at home in support of their National Curriculum classroom studies.Each book is packed with mathematical puzzles and games and includes 12 pages of press-out pieces to use with the activities (counters, board games, etc). The books are fun and stimulating and turn a subject which many children find slightly forbidding into something which is accessible and enjoyable. Generally speaking, the activities are designed for small groups as well as individuals and so encourage social as well as individual play.

"Plants & Animals" is one of four titles in the Mad About Science series. This is a bright, colourful series designed to help Key Stage 2 children (7-11s) develop their scientific skills and knowledge, mainly by learning at home in support of their National Curriculum classroom studies.Each book is packed full of easy-to-perform experiments illustrating basic scientific theories and processes. No special equipment is needed for the experiments; everything required can easily be found in the average home. As well as the experiments there are lots of Amazing Facts and Did You Know? boxes to intrigue and amaze.The books are fun and stimulating and make science truly accessible and enjoyable.