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Cool Bacon Recipes: Main Dishes for Beginning Chefs
Gender neutral cooking instruction for meat eaters with an extra punch of flavor.
Super Simple Backyard Critter Crafts: Fun and Easy Animal Crafts
Gr 2–4—Young crafters gain practice with standard tools and materials, such as air-dry clay, hot glue, chenille stems, and craft paint, in the eight projects per volume of this series...
Super Simple Aircraft Projects: Inspiring & Educational Science Activities
Suitable offerings.
Each collection of activities explores the engineering principles and design features of historically important technological innovations in transportation, communication, and imaging. After background information about each invention, its principal innovator, and a timeline of development, readers can follow clear directions (illustrated with photos) to create their own prototypes from common items--a string phone and a balloon-powered car, for instance. Glos. Review covers these Super SandCastle: Amazing Super Simple Inventions titles: Super Simple Aircraft Projects, Super Simple Automobile Projects, Super Simple Camera Projects, Super Simple Phonograph Projects, Super Simple Telegraph Projects, and Super Simple Telephone Projects.
Cool Backyard Camping: Great Things to Do in the Great Outdoors
Delightful offerings: readers will be asking for s'more.
Each book provides an inviting introduction to outdoor exploration and recreation. The series offers a range of diversions, focusing on projects associated with the activities, such as glow-stick lanterns (Camping) and a plastic bag compass (Maps). There's not much depth to volumes, but with introductory chapters, materials lists, and step-by-step instructions with photos, these are accessible ways to foster enjoyment of the outdoors. Glos., ind. Review covers these Checkerboard Library: Cool Great Outdoors titles: Cool Birds & Bugs, Cool Maps & Geocaching, Cool Parks & Trails, Cool Backyard Camping, Cool Outdoor Activities, and Cool Outdoor Arts & Crafts.
Cool Breads & Biscuits: Easy & Fun Comfort Food
Solid additions to cooking collections.
Short sections on fresh foods, basic prep instructions, cooking
terms, equipment, and ingredients introduce eight fairly
challenging recipes. Photos of three prep steps and the final
dishes accompany each recipe. Pictures of very young "chefs" do not
reflect the advanced cooking knowledge required to complete many of
the dishes. Some items call for uncommon ingredients such as
tomatillos and rhubarb. Glos., ind. Review covers the following
Checkerboard Library: Cool Home Cooking titles: Cool Breads
& Biscuits, Cool Dips & Drinks, Cool Main
Dishes, Cool Sides & Salads, Cool Soups &
Stews, and Cool Treats & Sweets.
Super Simple Butterfly Gardens: A Kid's Guide to Gardening
Strong, original options to beef up craft sections.
Kids can practice their beginning gardening skills with these
appealing projects. Lots of introductory material is followed by
simple stepped directions with photo illustrations explaining the
basics for attractive, child-size growing experiments kids can do
themselves in homemade pots--from beans to peppers, ferns to
petunias. Most materials are easily accessible; add sunlight,
water, fertilizer, and good soil. Glos. Review covers the following
Super SandCastle: Super Simple Gardening titles: Butterfly
Gardens, Fairy Gardens, Hanging Gardens,
Indoor Gardens, Kitchen Gardens, and Salad
Gardens.
Cool Crocheting for Kids: A Fun and Creative Introduction to Fiber Art
Gr 4–8—Attractive projects and a clean, colorful page design will tempt readers to try out these traditional skills, which are making a comeback...
Miniature Birds
K-Gr 2 - Each title briefly introduces an animal type and then looks closer at four examples...
Science Experiments with Food
K-Gr 3—Prefaced by boilerplate on the scientific method and a complete list of easily available ingredients, the 9 to 11 new science demonstrations in each volume of this follow-up set to ABDO's "Super Simple Science" series offer clear directions, color photos (often of containers with visible brands), and lucid explanations of the scientific principles or processes involved...
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