Hoakes Island, a fiendish puzzle adventure
ISBN 9781786270337
Regular price $26.99 Sale price $25.50 Save 6%by Helen Friel and Ian Friel
Henry Hoakes has gone missing and Hoakes Island Amusement Park is in grave danger. This notebook, a hastily assembled collection of diary entries, notes, puzzles and clues, is the only key to find out what’s happened to Henry and stop the dastardly developers who want to knock down the park.
Solve the puzzles and discover keys and clues as you travel around the island on a quest to rescue Rita the anteater, Granville the gorilla and the rest of the talking animals who live there. It’s a race against time that only a puzzle master can win!
This ingenious and immersive puzzle adventure comes with a fold-out map of Hoakes Island and a special red lens to discover secret messages and clues. Can you solve the mystery and save Hoakes Island? We’re counting on you!
Recommended for ages 7-11 years (grades 2-5).
Hardcover. Published by Laurence King.
Please note that this version of Hoakes Island is in English, but it is available elsewhere in German. One may also purchase the book in English, and refer to the online version of the map in German, for German language study, found here.
About the Authors:
Helen Friel is a freelance paper engineer and illustrator, living and working in London. Her commercial clients include Vogue, The Telegraph, Ted Baker and Time magazine. She is also the author of Midnight Creatures: A Pop-Up Shadow Search.
Ian Friel became a freelance writer and historian in 2007, after a long career in museums. He has published several books on maritime history, and has co-written Billy Bow, a musical set during the Napoleonic Wars. Hoakes Island is his first children’s book, written with his daughter, Helen Friel.
building bridges experimental kit
WK 5860
Regular price $85.00Bridge constructing has always been exciting! A variety of bridges are constructed and advanced, many of them collapsed. A bridge constructor has to consider several forces when constructing a solid bridge. Different materials and techniques in this experiment box show advantages and disadvantages of different types. The superb manual included not only leads one through the history of bridge construction but also encourages building different types of bridges over ditches and streams.
Assembly and play recommended for 10+ yrs.
Instructions and explanations in English & German.
Made in Germany.
A Consultation with a Midwife
ISBN 9783943793000
Regular price $46.50A Bestseller and recommended by midwives for years in Germany - over 500,000 copies sold in Germany - now finally available in English.
Ingeborg Stadelmann is Germany's most popular Midwife and mother of three children. She wrote her book for expectant parents and fellow midwives. Consultation with a Midwife takes readers from the beginning of pregnancy to childbirth, then going on to discuss breast-feeding and the postnatal phase. It provides advice and tips on herbal medicine, homoeopathy and aroma therapy. This book is a veritable treasure trove for anyone seeking information on natural pregnancy, childbirth and childbed. Since the publication of Consultation with a Midwife, there has been a perceivable change in the way pregnancy, childbirth and childbed until the end of the breastfeeding period are dealt with.
Magdalene Weiss, Former president of the German Midwives' Association. Sensitive, natural guidance through pregnancy, childbirth, childbed and breast-feeding with herbal medicine, homoeopathy and aroma therapy.
Translation by Judith Rosenthal.
Softcover.