New Releases by Penny Warner

This book is packed with games and activities to help you and your child turn routine activities into bonding and teaching time! These activities help you strengthen your relationship with your child and teach values and skills that will be useful for the rest of your child s life.

A fun and creative companion for the 6.5 million children who attend summer camp each year, their parents, and camp counselors.The idea is great: Send a child to a summer camp full of peers and fun activities and no parents to deal with. While many kids have the time of their lives, it''s not always a perfect match. So wouldn''t it be great if kids and parents had a resource to help them find the right camp -- one that ensures an exciting, fun, and positive experience and at the same time shows them how to prepare for it?Parent''s and Kid''s Complete Guide to Summer Camp Fun provides such a tool. Broken into a unique format -- the first half of the book is for parents, the second for kids -- inside is detailed information on how to deal with such issues as: For Parents: -- Finding the right summer camp for your child-- What to pack (including surprises for added fun!)-- How to discuss homesickness and safetyFor Kids: -- Campfire games, stories, and songs-- Nature crafts and survival exercises-- Keeping a journal and ideas for keepsakesIt''s great! Now parents and children can find the perfect summer c

From the author of 30 parenting and kids'' activity books, a collection of easy and imaginative ideas to ensure stimulating summer fun for kids! The fact is, children aren''t as smart at the end of summer as they were at the beginning. It''s true -- children forget up to 50 percent of what they learn in school by the end of summer. Parents are desperate to engage their children in activities that will help bridge the summer educational gap. This creative book is perfect for parents and great for young kids, ages 5 to 12. The 101 activities inside will engage any child''s mind, provide mom and dad with much-needed breaks, and best of all they are easy to organize, inexpensive, and captivating. Activity categories include: -- Everyday or after work activities -- Fun and simple weekend fun -- Nifty nighttime adventures -- Mini-field trips -- Activities for kids on their own -- And much, much more! Parents will cure their kids'' summer blahs and won''t ever again hear the words, "I''m bored!!!"

Buford the Bullfrog is dead. And that''s only the beginning. Connor Westphal, the feisty deaf publisher of the weekly Eureka , jumps into the annual Jubilee festivities when her sidekick and main squeeze, private eye Dan Smith, is retained by Buford''s jockey to find the murderer. With the help of Sheriff Elvis Mercer and the eccentric denizens of Flat Skunk, Connor and Dan think it''ll be a snap, until the sheriff''s son Jeremiah comes under suspicion and a human body surfaces in Critter''s Creek, along with a lot more dead frogs. Connor, with the aid of a new blind friend, sets about finding out who is killing the frogs and people of Calaveras County.

Provides ideas for parties for children based on stories including "Curious George" and "Bunnicula", for children ages three to six, six to nine, and nine to twelve.

Smart Start for Your Baby is the only book that offers a 52-week guide to a baby''s first year of physical, cognitive, and psychological growth--plus tips for enhancing each area of development.

Four friends search for treasure during a scout outing to California gold rush country.

A fisherman is hired to scatter human ashes found stashed at a storage facility. When he turns up dead, Conner, a hearing-impaired journalist, must navigate mortician politics and skinhead teenagers to find the truth. But someone is determined to make sure that Connor bites the dust, along with the biggest story of the year.

Warner offers 20 complete birthday party ideas, from the invitations to the food, favors and cake. Themes include: Mother Goose, Teddy Bear picnic, Dolly''s tea party, and more.

Last night''s earthquake has the California Gold Country town of Flat Skunk buzzing; and over her morning mocha, deaf newswoman Connor Westphal is shaping it into a lead story for her local paper, the Eureka Then her TTY phone brings more sensational news: a twisted corpse has been found on a construction site owned by her rival publisher, Harlan Truax. What was the dead soil engineer doing there at midnight, and was it the quake that toppled him four stories to his death? An act of God--or human malevolence? Connor is soon back in the sleuth business, uncovering Flat Skunk''s darkest secrets: from toxic dirt to tainted relationships. But someone''s out to stop her, and they''re saying it with flowers, verses, menacing e-mail--and a series of murders that could knock the numbers off the Richter scale and silence one lip-reading reporter forever.

"Are we there yet?" If you never ever want to hear your child ask that question again, then this is the book for you. America''s #1 kids'' fun expert, Penny Warner, gives you over 240 easy-to-learn games and activities that make traveling by car, plane, train, boat --or whatever --fun for the whole family. Requiring little preparation and few materials, these great travel games will not only keep kids of all ages involved and entertained, but also exercise their minds. You''ll be surprised at how quickly time flies when you''re playing: - ABC-XYZ - Bridge Words - Eye-Spy - Magazine Scavenger Hunt - Window Watcher - See the USA - And many more! Each game lists the materials and number of players needed, as well as the recommended age ranges appropriate for each one. Penny Warner also offers variations for almost every game so the fun never stops. Turn bored kids into busy kids with "Great Games for Kids on the Go!

Thirty-seven year old journalist, Connor Westphal, has relocated from San Francisco to Flat Skunk, a mining-turned-tourist town in the foothills of the Sierras, to start up her own weekly paper. Suddenly, dead bodies begin turning up in the most unusual places, setting Connor on a hunt for a killer. You might say Connor has a sixth sense when it comes to investigating...but she only has four of the usual five senses. Connor Westphal is deaf. But being hearing impaired doesn''t stop Connor from pursuing the murderer. Without sound to distract her, she attends to subtleties that others overlook and ultimately unravels the mystery. From the Paperback edition.

This updated version of a best-selling titles combines the new thinking on nutrition with sensible strategies for snacking. The author shows how to smuggle nutrition into every meal and how to use humour to coax children to eat well. The food pyramids and a nutritional analysis make preparing healthy meals easy.

Presents a variety of games and activities to do in and with water.

""Birthday Parties for Kids!" is filled with creative suggestions for unique home-made celebrations! This book reveals quick, easy, and inexpensive ideas that show adults how to customize a party for the birthday child, involve the child in the planning process, and make sure kids have a fabulous, memorable time. About the Author "Penny Warner is America''s foremost party expert. She is author of thirteen party books--with more than a half-million copies in print. She lives in Danville, California.

175 recipies geared towards children''s parties that have reduced sugar and fat content.

This year-round guide provides fresh new ideas, month by month, for holiday activities the whole family can enjoy together. Ideal for busy parents, the guide organizes every holiday clearly, with detailed "what-you-need" lists and time guidelines for each activity. Illustrations.

Clear step-by-step instructions plus helpful illustrations and trouble-shooting tips to guarantee a successful party.

Offers invitation ideas, decoration tips, and other advice for planning birthday and anniversary parties, bridal showers, baby showers, retirement parties, and other celebrations.

Provides instructions for organizing a murder mystery party game and includes brief scripts, clues, a list of props, and the solution to the murder of Brother Parker, a game company owner who had invited six detectives to a mystery party game

O livro mais completo de jogos e de actividades pedagógicas para bebés e crianças até aos 3 anos, período em que o bebé cresce e se desenvolve com mais rapidez. Assim, Penny Warner, terapeuta de desenvolvimento infantil, apresenta 160 jogos e actividades que proporcionarão várias horas de aprendizagem e de divertimento. Esses jogos e actividades incluem - uma lista das faculdades (cognitivas e linguísticas) que o bebé desenvolve enquanto brinca; instruções passo a passo; informação sobre a idade recomendada; dicas para garantir que a criança não se magoa; uma lista detalhada de materiais fáceis de obter e ilustrações demonstrativas.