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The greatest European football teams are preparing for the continent's biggest tournament! Travel around Europe and search and find the footballers as they sightsee, ski and get lost in the busy crowds. Spot 11 players from each nation as well as extra items in each scene!From the crowded streets of Paris to the opening ceremony in Munich, this search-and-find is perfect to keep football fans entertained.Search, find and let the games begin!

A wickedly funny ‘Would you Rather’ game book, based on the upcoming Netflix film and inspired by the characters of Roald Dahl’s The Twits.The Twits are the meanest, smelliest, nastiest people in the world. They spend their days playing dirty tricks on each other. One day, when they go too far, two plucky young kids know exactly who to blame.Now YOU can be a part of this hilarious story, with this book offering you (and your friends) the chance to play Would You Rather.Would you rather eat spaghetti full of worms? Or a worm full of spaghetti?Would you rather be a swazzly little swamp rat or be a rat-brained sack of fuzz?Would you rather keep your dandruff or keep your earwax?Filled with hundreds of hilariously tricky questions and scenarios, can you choose between the grisly and the gruesome?

Can you rise to the Ultimate Challenge? It’s time to find out, with this interactive book of weird, wacky and bonkers challenges for kids. Can you master the task of drawing a cat while blindfolded? How quickly can you get a cookie from your forehead to your mouth without touching it? Can you win a rap-off? How about balancing an ice cube on top of your head? Work your way through each hilarious challenge, recording your best scores along the way. Some are solo challenges, some can be done against a friend, and for others you can rope in the entire family. You can do them indoors, outdoors or even turn them into party games. Just make sure you’re at the very top of your game!The Ultimate Challenge Book will have you holding in laughs, picking up peas with chopsticks, juggling like crazy and jumping around like the floor is lava. Beat that!

A laugh-out-loud book based on everyone’s favourite game, Would You Rather?Would you rather ...Be able to fly or be able to turn invisible? Eat rotten eggs or drink expired milk?Have hands for feet or have feet for hands?Containing hundreds of devious dilemmas and quick-witted questions on the silly, smelly and everything in between, this is a game book like no other. Featuring themed sections, flowcharts and treasure hunts as a fresh take on the format, it’s guaranteed to keep children (and adults!) entertained for hours on end.

"Yuck!" "Ewwww!" "NOOOOO!" Prepare yourself to yell all of these things when you read this spectacularly disgusting collection of the burpiest, fartiest, smelliest, squelchiest jokes around.Why did the baker have smelly hands? Because he kneaded a poo.Why was the sand wet? Because the sea weed.What’s the difference between bogeys and broccoli? Kids won’t eat broccoli.This gleefully revolting book is packed full of over 300 of the grossest jokes ever, plus loads of hilariously revolting illustrations.Also available in the 'Buster Laugh-a-lot' series:9781780556260 Jokes for Funny Kids: 6 Year Olds9781780556246 Jokes for Funny Kids: 7 Year Olds9781780556253 Jokes for Funny Kids: 8 Year Olds9781780557168 The Jumbo Joke Book for Funny Kids9781780557083 The Christmas Joke Book for Funny Kids9781780557847 Animal Jokes for Funny Kids9781780557854 Knock Knock Jokes for Funny Kids9781780559070 Dinosaur Jokes for Funny Kids9781780559087 Silly Jokes for Funny KidsPublishing in 2023:9781780559636 Jokes for Funny Kids: 5 Year Olds9781780559643 Jokes for Funny Kids: 9 Year Olds9781780559650 Jokes for Funny Kids: 10 Year Olds

A new title in the 'Buster Laugh-a-lot' series, this hilarious collection features over 150 simple and super-silly gags for 5-year-olds to share.Doctor, Doctor, I feel like a sheep.Oh no, that sounds baaaaaaaaaad.What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?A carrot.How do you start a bear race?Ready, teddy, go!Designed to be read by an adult to the child so they can share the giggles together, and with wonderfully funny illustrations for extra laughs, this laugh-out-loud collection will keep jokers entertained for hours on end.Also available in the 'Buster Laugh-a-lot' series:9781780556260 Jokes for Funny Kids: 6 Year Olds9781780556246 Jokes for Funny Kids: 7 Year Olds9781780556253 Jokes for Funny Kids: 8 Year Olds9781780557168 The Jumbo Joke Book for Funny Kids9781780557083 The Christmas Joke Book for Funny Kids9781780557847 Animal Jokes for Funny Kids9781780557854 Knock Knock Jokes for Funny Kids9781780559070 Dinosaur Jokes for Funny Kids9781780559087 Silly Jokes for Funny KidsPublishing in 2023:9781780559643 Jokes for Funny Kids: 9 Year Olds9781780559650 Jokes for Funny Kids: 10 Year Olds9781780559438 Gross Jokes for Funny Kids

Filled with over 150 of the best riddles around, this fun and challenging puzzle book is designed to give kids’ brains a workout.From quick, easy riddles to keep young minds ticking over to longer riddles that involve some serious thinking power, this book is packed with brain-bending, rib-tickling conundrums to develop logic and lateral-thinking skills.However, this is a riddle book with a difference. Once children have worked out the answer, they then need to find it in the illustration. Sometimes the answer will be hidden in a busy search scene, or sometimes it’ll be among an array of objects. This increases the number of activities to do per page, which makes it all the more fun. There will be decoy options in the scenes as well to make searching more tricky, but kids can find all the answers at the back of the book if they get stuck.Solve the riddle, search for the answer!

Put your detective skills to the ultimate test in this fiendish puzzle activity book.This book features a series of thrilling detective cases to work through, with brain-boggling puzzles to crack along the way. And the best part is YOU are the private investigator at the centre of the action.Can you track down a stolen ancient artefact, figure out who hacked the mayor’s computer network or solve a haunted house mystery? How about figuring out who has stolen an inventor’s prized robot? Other cases to investigate include a dognapping, a runaway train, a fairground mystery, an undercover mission and a tropical island puzzler.Crack codes, solve mazes, follow clues, figure out logic puzzles and so much more in this fun and engrossing collection of activities.With 10 cases to crack, you’ll be proving your worth as a super sleuth in no time!Also available in the series:9781916763173 The Top Secret Spy Puzzle Book

Where does a cow hang his paintings? In a mooooseum. What do you call a painting by a cat? A paw-trait What happened when a red ship crashed into a blue ship? The crew was marooned! A perfect pocket money purchase for young artists! Filled with over 250 jokes and riddles about art, colours, artists and lots, lots more! It will keep young readers laughing for hours.

"How much do you know about the art that surrounds you? There are amazing stories behind some of our best-known (and lesser-known) paintings. Some works of art are created by wacky geniuses and others by dark, tormented talents. Some artists have become even more famous than the work they created, because of the weird and wonderful methods they used. Where else but the art world can you find secret codes, sneaky heists, mysterious myths and even some very talented animals? A perfect pocket money purchase for young artists! Filled with over 250 facts about art, colours, artists and lots, lots more!"

Perfect for fans of Roald Dahl and Laura Ellen Anderson! 'This zippy fable is a triumph of nonsense.' THETIMES'Brimming with surreal silliness and illustrated byDotty Sutton, this is irresistibly fun.' THE I While lots of children have one or two problems, Melanda Notwitchhas three: her horrible aunts. They really are the absolute WORST! Luckily, Melanda meets Mitch, a young witch who knows of a magicspell that might make everything better. All they have to do is find one special ingredient. How hard can it be?  Book 1 in a big-hearted and funny adventure series inthe spirit of Roald Dahl, perfect for ages 7–11Brimming with loathsome villains, unexpected heroes,extraordinary set pieces and an almost-talking cat!With laugh-out-loud funny illustrations from Dotty SuttonThe adventure continues in book 2, The Notwitches:Prison Break!

The second adventure in this sparkling comic series,full of adventure, friendship and family.Melanda Notwitch is planning to break her parents out of the Darkand Horrible and Disgusting Prison for Witches.But first, she and Mitch will have to find a way in. All theyneed is a spell that will get them arrested.What could possibly go wrong? The return of your favourite witchy duo, accompaniedby a fabulous crew of brand-new charactersFor fans of Roald Dahl and Laura Ellen Anderson; perfectfor ages 7–11Brimming with loathsome villains, unexpected heroes,extraordinary set pieces and an almost-talking cat!With spectacular illustrations from rising star, DottySutton  PRAISE FOR THE NOTWITCHES:‘This zippy fable is a triumph of nonsense.’THE TIMES‘The Notwitches is an offbeat, funny story, which seesMelanda go on an adventure with a new friend, Mitch the Witch,and her cat Rolo.’ BOOKTIME‘Get ready to be bewitched and beguiled by a brilliantnew illustrated adventure series from the spellbinding team ofauthor, editor and doodler Gary Panton and talented new illustratorDotty Sutton. The Notwitches has a big heart, and the spiritand effervescence of Roald Dahl’ LANCASHIRE EVENINGPOST

Head back to the time of the dinosaurs with this colourful, fun-packed dinosaur activity book.Dinosaurs are as popular as ever with young readers, and dino-fans will love this adventure through prehistory. Starting in the Permian period and moving all the way through to the Ice Age, each era is full of puzzles and facts. Find what prey a Dimetrodon is hunting, survive a raptor maze, learn how to draw a T. rex and much, much more. Join the dots, spot the differences, follow the lines, colour-in and search for loads of ancient animals in jam-packed seek-and-find scenes.Along the way, readers can also discover fascinating facts about prehistoric creatures and their amazing lives and habitats. For example, did you know that ‘Velociraptor’ means ‘swift thief’, or that pterosaurs were around for over 150 million years? Find out all of this and more in this awesome activity book.

Prepare to laugh your Christmas socks off with this super-silly collection of very merry gags! What do snowmen eat for breakfast?Snowflakes!Why did the Christmas tree go to the barber?It needed a trim.How do Rudolph, Prancer and Dancer know when Christmas is coming?They check their calen-deers. This funny and festive book is packed with over 300 Christmas and winter-themed jokes, plus loads of hilarious illustrations by artist Andrew Pinder. Perfect for getting in the Christmas spirit and for sharing with friends and family.