First Published in 2006. Guaranteed fun for children and practitioners alike, the Ready, Steady, Play! series provides lively and STIMULATING activities for children. Each book focuses on one specific aspect of play, offering clear and detailed guidance on how to plan and enjoy wonderful play experiences with minimum fuss and maximum success. Ready, Steady, Play! helps practitioners to: Develop activities easily, using suggested guidelines; Ensure that health and safety issues are taken into account; Plan play that links to the early years curriculum. For early years practitioners and students on early years courses and parents looking for ideas and inspiration. Play Using Natural Materials shows that natural materials can equal ready-made toys as an exciting stimulus for play in order to promote the learning and development of children within early years settings. Use this book to: Get out and do; Support a child''s investigation of the natural world; Encourage first-hand exploration of natural objects.

First Published in 2006. Guaranteed fun for children and practitioners alike, the Ready, Steady, Play! series provides lively and STIMULATING activities for children. Each book focuses on one specific aspect of play, offering clear and detailed guidance on how to plan and enjoy wonderful play experiences with minimum fuss and maximum success. Ready, Steady, Play! helps practitioners to: Develop activities easily, using suggested guidelines; Ensure that health and safety issues are taken into account; Plan play that links to the early years curriculum. For early years practitioners and students on early years courses and parents looking for ideas and inspiration. Play Using Natural Materials shows that natural materials can equal ready-made toys as an exciting stimulus for play in order to promote the learning and development of children within early years settings. Use this book to: Get out and do; Support a child''s investigation of the natural world; Encourage first-hand exploration of natural objects.

Fish is a delicious and healthy food option, but many people find cooking it quite daunting, tending to default to a limited range of well-tried dishes. Alison Howe is here to inspire cooks to change that in her debut cookery book, Pescatarian Paradise. In this book, Alison encourages readers to create tasty seafood dishes packed with flavour, based on a wide range of cooking styes, including recipes for everyday meals and for special occasions. It provides the technical and cooking support needed to give readers the confidence to try something different and which tastes way better than they thought possible with a fish dish!This book focuses on fish caught in British coastal waters, and therefore widely available. Through the use of appropriate herbs, spices and cooking techniques it creates dishes that the author has personally enjoyed while travelling in regions as diverse as SE Asia, Europe, Scandinavia and North America. There are tips throughout the book anticipating issues that the reader might encounter, and ensures first-time success with each new recipe. This will make preparing these dishes stress-free, fun – and a pleasure to eat.Author proceeds will be donated to Cancer Research UK to support their vision to bring forward the day when all cancers are cured.

First Published in 2006. Guaranteed fun for children and practitioners alike, the Ready, Steady, Play! series provides lively and STIMULATING activities for children. Each book focuses on one specific aspect of play, offering clear and detailed guidance on how to plan and enjoy wonderful play experiences with minimum fuss and maximum success. Ready, Steady, Play! helps practitioners to: Develop activities easily, using suggested guidelines; Ensure that health and safety issues are taken into account; Plan play that links to the early years curriculum. For early years practitioners and students on early years courses and parents looking for ideas and inspiration. Play Using Natural Materials shows that natural materials can equal ready-made toys as an exciting stimulus for play in order to promote the learning and development of children within early years settings. Use this book to: Get out and do; Support a child''s investigation of the natural world; Encourage first-hand exploration of natural objects.

First Published in 2006. Guaranteed fun for children and practitioners alike, the Ready, Steady, Play! series provides lively and STIMULATING activities for children. Each book focuses on one specific aspect of play, offering clear and detailed guidance on how to plan and enjoy wonderful play experiences with minimum fuss and maximum success. Ready, Steady, Play! helps practitioners to: Develop activities easily, using suggested guidelines; Ensure that health and safety issues are taken into account; Plan play that links to the early years curriculum. For early years practitioners and students on early years courses and parents looking for ideas and inspiration. Play Using Natural Materials shows that natural materials can equal ready-made toys as an exciting stimulus for play in order to promote the learning and development of children within early years settings. Use this book to: Get out and do; Support a child''s investigation of the natural world; Encourage first-hand exploration of natural objects.

Fish is a delicious and healthy food option, but many people find cooking it quite daunting, tending to default to a limited range of well-tried dishes. Alison Howe is here to inspire cooks to change that in her debut cookery book, Pescatarian Paradise. In this book, Alison encourages readers to create tasty seafood dishes packed with flavour, based on a wide range of cooking styes, including recipes for everyday meals and for special occasions. It provides the technical and cooking support needed to give readers the confidence to try something different and which tastes way better than they thought possible with a fish dish!This book focuses on fish caught in British coastal waters, and therefore widely available. Through the use of appropriate herbs, spices and cooking techniques it creates dishes that the author has personally enjoyed while travelling in regions as diverse as SE Asia, Europe, Scandinavia and North America. There are tips throughout the book anticipating issues that the reader might encounter, and ensures first-time success with each new recipe. This will make preparing these dishes stress-free, fun – and a pleasure to eat.Author proceeds will be donated to Cancer Research UK to support their vision to bring forward the day when all cancers are cured.