Fifty popular Yo-Yo tricks along with an illustrated history of the toy and its variations plus tips for keeping your Yo-Yo in top condition. Helpful diagrams accompany the easy instructions.

Simple, easy-to-follow guide enables even young children to draw 28 dinosaurs in convincing detail: tyrannosaurus rex, dimetrodon, megalosaurus, triceratops, ankylosaurus, archaeopteryx, and other prehistoric creatures. Easy lessons show the basic shapes of the torso, head, and tail, and demonstrate how to add legs and other key features.

Presents a history of yoyos and yoyo tricks, along with tips and easy stepbystep instructions for performing several tricks.

The Eskimo Yo-Yo is the most simple, yet most complex, cultural artifact/toy in the world. Chris Kiana, the best Eskimo Yo-Yo operator in the world, and first person to see the potential of the Eskimo Yo-Yo, is the inventor of these 100 tricks. At first glance, you may think the cultural artifact looks simple to operate, but once you get into learning how, you may think differently. Learning to correctly operate the Eskimo Yo-Yo will give you a high degree of confidence in yourself as you master the ability of the wide variety of tricks, feats, or stratagems necessary to accomplish the multitude operations of the Alaska Eskimo Yo-Yo. If you master all 100 tricks, Chris will send you beautiful Alaska Eskimo Yo-Yo Master Certificate, suitable for framing, confirming that you have mastered all 100 tricks.

Knowledge comes in all shapes and sizes, and This Book Made Me Do It celebrates it in all its vastness and variety. This Book Made Me Do It gives step-by-step instructions on everything from hacking their gadgets and toys to making clouds in bottles and creating music from the most surprising of everyday objects. There is something here for the hobbyist, the amateur, or just the fantastically curious. The reader will learn not only how to make a barometer, but why barometers matter, and how to use them to forecast weather. This lively and engaging book--through its clarity, levity, and well-researched information--will keep readers of all ages busy learning, making, creating, hacking, thinking, and doing for a very long time.

Connect, Second Edition, is a fun, four-level, multi-skills American English course especially written and designed for young adolescents. The comprehensive, interleaved Teacher's Edition 4 provides step-by-step instructions to present, practice, and review all new language for Student's Book 4. It also features the audio scripts, optional exercises, and informative notes.

Help students develop their own special talents and interests while supporting student literacy, social development, and a lifelong interest in reading through connecting books to children's hobbies. Each of the book's 30 chapters focuses on a different hobby through an annotation of a picture book in which the targeted hobby has a key role. Jurenka further explores each hobby ranging from bird-watching to tap dancing through a starter activity, a language arts activity, a poem citation, a glossary of associated vocabulary, references to related societies and associations, and five annotations of nonfiction informational books. Not only will students enthusiastically read about their chosen hobbies, they will develop healthy lifelong passions for activities that positively affect their social and intellectual development.

Kids should have a ball creating such wonders as an edible ocean or a greenhouse grown in a plastic bag. Among the 78 recipes are instructions for making such revolutionary new artistic mediums as whipped cream finger paint, dryer lint clay, and toothpaste putty. Quite a few of the concoctions are edible while others make great party activities or simple gifts. Illustrations.

In a series of playful and startling prose meditations, celebrated writer Lorna Crozier brings her rapt attention to the small matter of household objects: everything from doorknobs, washing machines, rakes, and zippers to the kitchen sink. Operating as a sort of literary detective, she examines the mystery of the everyday, seeking the essence of each object. She offers tantalizing glimpses of the household's inhabitants, too, probing hearts, brains, noses, and navels. Longing, exuberance, and grief color her reflections, which at times take on the tenor of folktales or parables. Each of the short portraits in The Book of Marvels stands alone, but the connections are intricate; as in life, each object gains meaning from its juxtaposition with others. Crozier approaches her investigations with a childlike curiosity, an adult bemusement, and an unfailing sense of metaphor and mischief. With both charm and mordant wit, she animates the panoply of wonders to be found everywhere around us and inside us.