“Educational: Mathematics, science & technology, general” – The Bell Bookshop

Brain Stretchers: Number Puzzles

Emma — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This entertaining write-in book will make maths fun without ever feeling like a lesson. Use your number skills to make your way through mazes, crack codes, create art, catch crooks and solve all sorts of puzzles. Write, draw and colour in your answers as you practise key topics for ages 7-9, from times tables to fractions to mental arithmetic. Along the way, you’ll also discover how your brain works and tips on how you can help it to work better. With all the answers in the back of the book.

Knutz and Boltz and the cosmic code

Emma — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The second book in a new puzzle adventure series takes readers on a thrilling space adventure in the company of Knutz, a STEAM whizz-kid, and canine super-inventor Boltz.

Knutz and Boltz are blasting off to a top-secret space station. A huge asteroid is hurtling towards Earth and the World Space Agency needs four astronauts to embark on an urgent mission to destroy it. With time running out and a rival team of astronauts – a girl and her cat sidekick – sabotaging their every move, Knutz and Boltz will need to use all their STEAM skills to stop the asteroid and save planet Earth.

Featuring an innovative mix of graphic-novel, zany prose and integrated puzzles, this thrilling adventure is guaranteed to engage kids aged 9+ in STEAM subjects. Across six chapters, readers will develop key science, technology, engineering, art and maths skills as they help Knutz and Boltz work their way through the challenges.

Written by Tim Collins, author of Buster’s Dorkius Maximus and Sherlock Bones series, illustrated by Louise Forshaw, and developed with a specialist STEAM consultant.

Also available in the series:
9781780559377 Knutz and Boltz and the Sorcerer of Science: A STEAM Puzzle Adventure

Mission to Mars

Emma — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Congratulations! You have been selected to be one of the crew for the first ever human missions to Mars.

If your mission is triumphant, you will be the first Earthling to set foot on Mars. But the journey will not be without decisions, danger and distress! It will be up to you to get your crew to Mars safely. Along the way you’ll have to navigate the frontiers of space, carry out a challenging landing, decide how you’ll explore the red planet, all as you race to uncover whether life on Mars might be possible.

Each decision you make will lead you in a different direction, will you complete the mission and prove that Mars could support life? Get ready to blast off on an interactive voyage to Mars.