New Releases by Penny Warner

Over 200 Great Activities to Enjoy with Your Child! This book is packed with games and activities to help you and your child turn moments spent in the car, kitchen, bath, bedroom, yard, store—in short, anytime—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!!!"

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.

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

25 Exciting Slumber Party Themes! 25 Exciting Slumber Party Themes! This book offers 25 complete slumber parties, including ideas for invitations, decorations, games, activities, food, favors, and videos. PARTY THEMES INCLUDE: "Fabulous Fashions," in which guests parade down a fashion show runway. "Silly Olympics," in which guests compete in crazy events like the Sleeping Bag Obstacle Course. "Sixties Hippie Party," in which guests tie-dye pillowcases, make flower crowns, and compete in a sixties dance contest. "Cool Camp-In," in which guests tell spooky ghost stories, sing camp songs, and eat campfire fare -- all indoors. "Karaoke Celebration," in which guests perform their favorite tunes and have fun with activities like Wacky Lyrics and Rap It!

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.

C''est au cours des trois premières années de sa vie que l''enfant grandit et se développe le plus rapidement. Spécialiste du développement de l''enfant, Penny Warner nous propose ici 160 jeux et activités convenant à divers groupes d''âge, qui stimuleront et amuseront votre bébé durant des heures. Tous les jeux et activités proposés dans cet ouvrage comprennent : • une indication du groupe d''âge visé ; • une liste d''accessoires faciles à trouver ; • des instructions détaillées ; • des variantes propres à agrémenter le jeu et à stimuler l''apprentissage ; • des mises en garde destinées à empêcher l''enfant de se blesser en jouant ; • une liste des capacités que l''enfant peut développer en jouant.

35 Exciting Outdoor Theme Parties for Kids! This book offers 35 outdoor party themes, complete with invitations, costumes, decorations, games, activities, food, cake, favors, variations, and helpful hints. The parties can be thrown in your backyard, a park, or any other outdoor space. Party ideas include: • Archeology Expedition, with kid-sized pyramids, mummies, and mystery maps; • Circus, with lion taming, tightrope walking, and clown cakes; • Hayride, with songfests, scarecrow making, and painting with hay; • Hollywood Stunts, with bicycle slalom, leapin’ limbo, and other physically challenging games; • Olympic Gold, with decathlon events, team sports, and trophies or medals for everyone; • Outdoor Theater, with reenacting of favorite movie scenes, trivia games, and makeup makeovers; • Space: The Final Frontier, with alien invaders, flying saucers, and model rocket building.

"160 games and learning activities for the first three years."--Cover.

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.

Written for adults who want to have inexpensive but fun birthday parties for their children.

Who can alphabetize the most objects in the room in two minutes? Who can decipher eight puzzling codes? Creative games and activities like these will keep kids occupied for hours and away from the television. The tear-out duplicate game sheets are enough for eight players.

"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!

A young girl living on a farm gets a goat for a pet.

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.

50 different fun party themes for kids- ages 2 to 16.

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.

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.