Experiment, learn, and imagine as you make the 20+ bubbling, honking, and illuminating projects in Curious Creatable Creatures. What can a creatable creature do? They stick, spit, glide, and one of them can even double as a wallet. Add a pair of legs, subtract a wheel...the best thing about these creatures is that they're part experiment, part imagination, and 100 percent customizable. Author Sam Haynor draws on his experience with the San Francisco Exploratorium, Oakland Toy Lab, Goldiblocks, and designing STEAM curriculum to create projects packed with features. While, on the outside, most appear to be built completely from common craft materials, they contain springs, circuits, magnets, and much more. The projects are safe and fun for younger kids working with adults, and most of them can be tackled by middle-graders with minimal adult help. This unique project book built for open-ended exploration is perfect for crafternoons, homeschool activities, and parties.

Experiment, learn, and imagine as you make the 20+ bubbling, honking, and illuminating projects in Curious Creatable Creatures. What can a creatable creature do? They stick, spit, glide, and one of them can even double as a wallet. Add a pair of legs, subtract a wheel...the best thing about these creatures is that they're part experiment, part imagination, and 100 percent customizable. Author Sam Haynor draws on his experience with the San Francisco Exploratorium, Oakland Toy Lab, Goldiblocks, and designing STEAM curriculum to create projects packed with features. While, on the outside, most appear to be built completely from common craft materials, they contain springs, circuits, magnets, and much more. The projects are safe and fun for younger kids working with adults, and most of them can be tackled by middle-graders with minimal adult help. This unique project book built for open-ended exploration is perfect for crafternoons, homeschool activities, and parties.

Curiosity is essential for a child's development. In curious creatures children have the space and time to be curious and to play as they discover what they can create with everyday objects. The art in this book was created by the attending children, using everyday materials, curiosity, and experimentation.

Six silly stories for children with a taste for rhyming stories that bite Introducing the Curious Creatures: the Booger Fish—a creature with a wicked sense of hum∨ the Hungry Hippocrocopus—a dangerous and despicable creature; the Shrieking Hoolie Boolie Bird—a creature with an explosive surprise; the Incinerator Bee—a creature with more than a sting in its tail; the Chikimunki Marmoset—a practical joke loving creature; and the Velociraptor Worm—a creature from your worst nightmares. Are you curious? Then read on. The book features six gloriously silly creatures brought to life with vibrant illustrations.

Which invented animal is as long as two cars, has armour on its back, and eats scraps and leftovers on your back porch? The Croc-o-coon. Never heard of that? It's just one of the crazy creatures kids can invent playing with this book. Just turn the different sections of the pages to mix-and-match heads, bodies, and, legs and create the funniest, most imaginative animals ever! AUTHOR: Agnese Baruzzi graduated with a degree in graphic design from the ISIA in Urbino; currently she lives and works in the hills between Imola and Bologna. Since 2001 she has worked as an illustrator and author for about 40 children's books published in Italy, the UK, Japan, Portugal, the US, and South Korea. She holds labs for children and adults in schools and libraries, and works as an illustrator with agencies, graphics studios, and publishers. For White Star Kids she has illustrated "Frankenstein," "Peter Pan," "Dracula," and "Il Libro della Giungla" ("The Jungle Book"). Colour illustrations

Make way for the world’s weirdest, most wonderful creatures—from the author of the forthcoming A Curious Collection of Dangerous Creatures Publisher’s Note: A Curious Collection of Peculiar Creatures was previously published in Australia as The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ugly Animals. What’s your favorite animal—a majestic lion, a graceful horse? Those are great choices, but have you considered the fangtooth moray eel? It has two rows of icicle-shaped teeth! And the monkey slug caterpillar is ready to cuddle . . . just look out for the stingers all over its body (and its six limbs that technically aren’t legs)! It’s true, these animals are a little different—but their unusual features often give them incredible superpowers. Take the nearly blind star-nosed mole: Its pink, flower-shaped nose can detect the microscopic texture of everything it touches, and it does this at warp speed—up to 12 objects per second! What’s more, many of these weird, wonderful creatures need our help: They’re endangered, and we can’t afford to ignore their well-being any longer. It’s time to find a peculiar creature to love! Why not the blobfish?