Books, Macmillan Child – The Bell Bookshop

Amazing Activities for 7 year olds

Emma — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A fantastic activity book for seven-year-olds that will turn any day into a fun-filled one!This entertaining, inclusive book will occupy busy hands and curious minds, designed to dip in and out throughout the first half of the year!Filled with an incredible range of activities, puzzles and prompts that will help every child to engage with themselves and their world’s surroundings. Activities include: write your own poem, draw your lunch, crosswords and word searches, solve this riddle, draw your mood, join the dots, and much, much more!Amazing Activities: Spring and Summer is sure to keep children entertained and will amuse and challenge all creative and curious seven-year-olds.

Amazing Activities for 6 year olds

Emma — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A fantastic activity book for six-year-olds that will turn any day into a fun-filled one!This entertaining, inclusive book will occupy busy hands and curious minds, designed to dip in and out throughout the first half of the year!Filled with an incredible range of activities, puzzles and prompts that will help every child to engage with themselves and their world’s surroundings. Activities include: write your own poem, draw your lunch, crosswords and word searches, solve this riddle, draw your mood, join the dots, and much, much more!Amazing Activities: Spring and Summer is sure to keep children entertained and will amuse and challenge all creative and curious six-year-olds.

Amazing Activities for 8 year olds

Emma — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A fantastic activity book for eight-year-olds that will turn any day into a fun-filled one!This entertaining, inclusive book will occupy busy hands and curious minds, designed to dip in and out throughout the first half of the year!Filled with an incredible range of activities, puzzles and prompts that will help every child to engage with themselves and their world’s surroundings. Activities include: write your own poem, draw your lunch, crosswords and word searches, solve this riddle, draw your mood, join the dots, and much, much more!Amazing Activities: Spring and Summer is sure to keep children entertained and will amuse and challenge all creative and curious eight-year-olds.

Amazing Activities for 9 year olds

Emma — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A fantastic activity book for nine-year-olds that will turn any day into a fun-filled one!This entertaining, inclusive book will occupy busy hands and curious minds, designed to dip in and out throughout the first half of the year!Filled with an incredible range of activities, puzzles and prompts that will help every child to engage with themselves and their world’s surroundings. Activities include: write your own poem, draw your lunch, crosswords and word searches, solve this riddle, draw your mood, join the dots, and much, much more!Amazing Activities: Spring and Summer is sure to keep children entertained and will amuse and challenge all creative and curious nine-year-olds.

The Moomin ABC

Emma — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

A is for Adventure!

Come on an adventure to the wonderful world of Moominvalley, introduced for the first time through the letters of the alphabet.

Meet all the most famous and beloved characters from Moominvalley, from brave, adventurous Moomintroll to sparky and mischievous Little My and thoughtful, philosophical Snufkin.

Each letter from A to Z is represented by Using Tove Jansson’s classic artwork with a bright, bold colour palette and newly-created lettering based on her archive drawings. Alongside the eye-catching artwork is easy-to-read text for little Moomin fans plus quotes from the original Moomin books, perfect for reading aloud.

Part of Reading, Writing and the Moomins, a global Moomin initiative designed to help spread love and happiness through the joys of reading and writing. Moomin ABC: An Alphabet Book showcases Moominvalley as you’ve never seen it before – a gorgeous book to treasure and read over and over again, and the perfect present for any Moomin fan.

Moomin fans should also look out for The Moomin 123: An Illustrated Counting Book.

The Macmillan Fairy Tales Collection

Emma — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

A beautiful hardback treasury, containing over fifty fairy tales from around the world, introduced by award-winning author Michael Morpurgo. The perfect gift for fairy tale lovers of all ages.

This glorious collection contains much-loved favourites from Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, such as The Little Mermaid, Rapunzel and Hansel and Gretel, alongside lesser known fairy tales, such as the Chinese story of Bayberry, who rescues his sister, Little Red, from a devious dragon.

Bringing together amazing stories from across the world, there are tales of witches from Russia, tree ghosts from India, magical moon spirits from Japan and many more. Fully illustrated throughout, with beautiful colour and line-work images from iconic Golden Age illustrators, including Arthur Rackham, Walter Crane and Warwick Goble.

A sumptuous 480 page gift hardback, complete with a foiled cut-through cover, gold foiled edges and a ribbon marker, The Macmillan Fairy Tales Collection is a book to share and treasure.

Macmillan has been publishing children’s books for over 175 years. Drawing on Macmillan’s rich historical archive, The Macmillan Fairy Tales Collection contains stories and artwork from treasuries first published in the 1800s and early 1900s. Plus an informative section about some of the authors and artists behind those original collections.

Bumper Book of Christmas Fun for 9 Year Olds

Emma — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

A fantastic stocking filler for fun-loving nine-year-olds, this jam-packed, illustrated activity book will provide hours of entertainment during the Christmas holidays. It contains hundreds of absorbing activities, including word and picture puzzles, codebreaking, mazes, riddles, wordsearches, crosswords, dot-to-dots, and more – as well as fun wintry crafts to make and do. The activities cover all kinds of themes – including Christmas – and will amuse and challenge all creative and curious nine-year-olds.

Bumper Book of Christmas Fun for 8 Year Olds

Emma — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The perfect stocking filler for fun-loving eight-year-olds, this jam-packed, illustrated activity book will provide hours of entertainment during the Christmas holidays. It contains hundreds of absorbing activities, including word and picture games, puzzles, codebreaking, mazes, riddles, wordsearches, dot-to-dots, and much more – as well as fun things to make and do. The activities cover a range of fantastic, festive themes – including Christmas – and will amuse and challenge all creative and curious eight-year-olds.Also available: The Funniest Jokes for 8 Year Olds and Spectacular Science for 8 Year Olds by Glenn Murphy.

Bumper Book of Christmas Fun for 6 Year Olds

Emma — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

A fantastic stocking filler for six-year-olds, this jam-packed, illustrated activity book will provide hours of entertainment during the Christmas holidays. It contains hundreds of absorbing activities, including word and picture puzzles, codebreaking, mazes, riddles, wordsearches, dot-to-dots, and more – as well as fun things to make and do. The activities cover all kinds of themes – including Christmas – and will amuse and challenge all creative and curious six-year-olds.