New Releases by Charles Snape

Putting your thinking cap on has never been more fun! These50 colorful pages of activities test math and logic skills aswell as powers of observation. Perfect for 8- to 11-year-olds,the brain games involve calculatingthe weight of plunderedtreasure, mapping pirate shiproutes, solving secret codes,and other exciting challenges.

Prepare to be puzzled! This full-color book is bursting with brain games based on math, logic, and observational challenges. More than 50 pages of puzzles geared toward 8- to 14-year-olds involve cracking a spy''s encrypted message and identifying individuals from a parade of extraterrestrials, plus palindromes, hidden pictures, and more.

Collects fifty math mazes, each of which requires a correct answer in order to advance and find a way to the end.

Maths Mazes makes maths feel fun! There are 4 action-packed volumes, of puzzles, mysteries, investigations and mazes, to exercise your mental maths skills in crazy, creative contexts. With dazzling full-colour artwork, they make an irresistible set of activity books for the mathematical, or not so mathematical, 7-11 year-old.

Theo Starglow and his robot pal, Skywag, must find their way through maze after maze to return home to the Twilight City. Flaps on every spread reveal hidden creatures and mysterious lairs for a maze challenge that''s out of this world!

Mazes puzzles are not only entertaining, they also help children develop early maths skills. The 12 counting mazes in this book introduce basic concepts such as number, pattern and shape, as well as addition and subtraction. Included are illustrated answers and ideas for further activities.

Theo Starglow and his little robot Skywag live on Zuton. Skywag has had an accident which bent his antenna and Theo can no longer keep in touch with his friend. Skywag is wandering off on his own. Theo must catch up with him. The paths of Zuton are a confusing maze full of hidden horrors. What''s more, somewhere on the planet lies Vogor''s Cave - the home of the mutant rockman who sabotages friendly robots to make his own horrible creatures.Can you help Theo catch up withSkywag before anything terrible happens to him?

Offers ten mazes to solve that feature exotic backgrounds and gnomes, fairies, genies, leprechauns, and mermaids to complicate each puzzle''s solution.

Providing hours of eerie fun for the entire family, this clever activity book features twisting tunnels, dark passages, and dangerous dead ends. Those who dare will join a headless ghost, a werewolf, a mummy, the Abominable Snowman, Dracula and other monsters on illustrated journeys through strange worlds. Full color.

Following the success of their innovative activity books Marvelous Mazes and The Great Double Maze Book, Juliet and Charles Snape offer a new and intriguing challenge: double mazes based on popular children''s literature. Includes nine four-page mazes in full color plus solutions.

Mazes, hidden objects, matching pairs and spot the differences are some of the picture puzzles included in this book. The puzzles vary in difficulty, with answers given at the back of the book.

This book follows the style of How Puzzling and How Amazing by the same authors. It combines a brief history of some aspects of the development of numbers with puzzles, problems and investigations based on number manipulation and number patterns.

Contains a collection of mazes that were specially created to stretch the reader''s imagination. Solutions are provided at the back of the book.

A lively and amusing story about a plucky girl and a haunted house. Juliet and Charles Snape''s previous books include The Boy With The Square Eyes (shortlisted for the 1988 Children''s Book Award) and Giant (shortlisted for the 1989 Smarties Book Prize).

When a construction project forces the frogs to lose their pond, they venture into the city to find a new home.

Eric, a city frog, liberates a Brazilian tree frog named Carla from a collector''s jar and sets about finding her a new home. Suggested level: preschool, junior.

When Charlie''s eyes turn square from watching television and everything else starts looking square too, he cures himself by stimulating his mind with books, puzzles, pictures, and nature.