Most Popular Books by Workman Publishing

Lili''s back! Oh, is she ever. Introducing the super-cool new "Rule the School Organizer," a marvel of bold, appealing design and colors that positively pop. A super-stylish and practical way to keep girls'' assignments, activities, and busy school lives in order. For fabulous girls, only fabulous accessories will do.

Your kids love Brain Quest®, now it''s baby''s turn! Imbued with the core value “It''s Fun to Be Smart!®”, the My First Brain Quest board book program is Brain Quest at its best: not only making learning fun, but encouraging the kind of interaction between children and caregivers that makes early learning meaningful. My First Brain Quest: ABCs is a delightful alphabet book that helps babies and toddlers learn the letters of the alphabet, expand their vocabulary, and develop phonics skills. Smart, colorful, grounded in educational principles, reviewed by a panel of early learning experts, and defined by the signature question-and-answer format, this board book introduces the alphabet with bright images and engaging language.

Give your toddler a strong social emotional foundation for early learning with this charming introduction to nine familiar emotions. My First Brain Quest: Feelings introduces babies and toddlers to nine core emotions--happy, sad, scared, excited, angry, shy, proud, surprised, and calm--to help develop essential emotional literacy skills, promote social and emotional health, and set a strong foundation for early learning. Each brightly illustrated spread features an emotion in context, spotlighting facial expressions, body language, and social situations. Brain Quest''s signature question-and-answer format encourages self-reflection and gives young readers the opportunity to practice talking about their feelings.

"Provides support for students at all levels as they navigate foundational concepts in algebra--featuring helpful recaps, hundreds of practice opportunities, a variety of question types, and a stepped-out solution process"--From publisher''s description.

Move over, coloring books! Here’s an entirely new craft that kids will love: Paint by Sticker Kids. Paint by Sticker Kids is the same compelling craft first introduced in Paint by Sticker, but just for kids! The book includes everything you need to create 10 bright, playful, full-color illustrations—illustrated templates printed on perforated card stock, and 10 pages of stickers to fill in and create the artwork. The fun, vibrant images are rendered in “low-poly,” a computer graphics style using geometric polygon shapes to create a 3-D effect. As in paint-by-number, each template is divided into hundreds of spaces, each with a number that corresponds to a particular sticker. Find the sticker, peel it, and place it in the right space. Add the next, and the next, and the next and voila! It’s a rocket ship blasting through space. A Tyrannosaurus rex prowling his domain. A pickup truck hauling its load. A friendly toucan hanging on his perch. Kids will love watching these pictures come to life. Plus, each is suitable for framing or the fridge.

The next title in Workman''s bestselling Paint by Sticker adult line, Paint by Sticker: Works of Art presents 12 stunning pieces by famous artists for you to complete, one sticker at a time. Peel the sticker, place the sticker, and watch your painting come to life. Paint By Sticker: Works of Art includes everything you need to create 12 bold, colorful paintings: Vincent van Gogh''s The Starry Night, Dancers in Blue by Edgar Degas, The Kiss by Gustav Klimt, and more. Plus the card-stock pages are perforated, so every finished picture can easily be removed for framing.

Your kids love Brain Quest®, now it''s baby''s turn! Imbued with the core value “It''s Fun to Be Smart!®”, the My First Brain Quest board book program is Brain Quest at its best: not only making learning fun, but encouraging the kind of interaction between children and caregivers that makes early learning meaningful. Color identification is an important pre-math skill, and My First Brain Quest: Colors introduces children to ten basic colors through lively illustrations and a catchy, rhyming text. Smart, colorful, grounded in educational principles, reviewed by a panel of early learning experts, and defined by the signature question-and-answer format, each spread includes bright images and engaging questions to help the youngest readers discuss their observations and build on their prior knowledge.

They’re reusable! The sticker book series that kids love has a new addition: EyeLike Stickers: Baby Animals. Each book contains 400 full-color stickers that are amazingly detailed and lifelike in quality and are designed to be stuck on, peeled off, and stuck on again without tearing or losing their “stick.” The books’ inside covers are glossy illustrated backgrounds on which kids can create lively and original sticker scenes—and then change them whenever they like. Packed with roly-poly pandas, round little bunnies, sweet puppies, fuzzy owlets, and pink piglets, Baby Animals is pure, unadulterated cuteness on every page.

Perfect complements to the top-selling EyeLike Stickers: Baby Animals, EyeLike Stickers: Kittens and EyeLike Stickers: Puppies are the newest additions to the bestselling sticker book series. The full-color photograph stickers are adorable, beautifully detailed, and lifelike, featuring a variety of breeds that will delight every kid and crafter who loves cuddly pets. For dog lovers, EyeLike Stickers: Puppies is the sticker collection that will spruce up any surface with over 400 adorable pups. And they’re durable enough to be reusable. Decorate journals, binders, laptops, and phone cases: Stick them on, peel them off, and stick them on again without tearing or losing adhesive.

Paint by Sticker: Travel celebrates a time when elegant posters, in an Art Deco style, beckoned visitors to faraway romantic places—from Venice, with its canals and gondolas, to Cairo, gateway to the pyramids—all through the absorbing activity of painting by sticker. Paint by Sticker is a compelling new activity for crafters and artists, doodlers and coloring book enthusiasts of all ages. As in paint-by-number, each template is divided into dozens of spaces, each with a number that corresponds to a particular sticker. Find the sticker, peel it, place it. And then the next, and the next, and the next, until your “poster” comes to life. Paint by Sticker: Travel includes everything you need to create twelve vibrant, nostalgic travel posters—the stickers, the templates, the intuitive directions. The works include Moscow, home of St. Basil’s Cathedral and its candy-colored onion domes. India and the Taj Mahal, crown jewel in a world of fascinating destinations. Bermuda. Monaco. Japan and its cherry blossoms and pagodas. Bon voyage!

The magic of Paint by Sticker Kids continues, combining the fun of coloring and stickers with the creativity of paint by number. The series just keeps growing, with another much-loved nature-themed topic: Bugs! Paint by Sticker Kids: Beautiful Bugs includes everything kids need to create 10 full-color illustrations of their favorite creepy-crawlies: a firefly, a praying mantis, a ladybug, butterflies, ants, a painted grasshopper, a dragonfly, beetles, a bumblebee, and a weevil. Simply find the numbered sticker, peel it, and place it in the right space. Add the next, and the next—and watch a dazzling image come to life with color and spirit in the modern “low-poly” style (using geometric polygon shapes). The card-stock pages are perforated so artwork can be easily removed for framing or the fridge. Creating sticker art is as fun and meditative as coloring, and it’s a refreshing shake-up from the usual crayons and markers. Plus, the peel-and-place system allows kids to practice recognizing and learning numbers in an interactive, stress-free way. And it’s a great rainy day or travel activity (no cleanup!) that delivers hands-on fun for less than $10.

Something NEW for Big Fat Notebook middle school fans: a write-in workbook for practicing and perfecting the concepts a student is learning in middle school math class.

Workman now publishes a separate full-color calendar catalog that includes detailed sales copy for all 1998 wall calendars, desk diaries. Page-A-Day "RM" calendars, and other calendar products. Calendar titles for 1998 are listed here also and, for your convenience, can be ordered through this catalog. Please see the order form for display information. In addition, calendars ship in August unless noted on the order form. If you have not already received a copy of the full-color calendar catalog, please call us at: 1-800-722-7202.

Strengthen your toddler''s pre-math skills and vocabulary with this fun and engaging introduction to the concept of opposites, featuring 10 foundational opposite pairs. My First Brain Quest: Opposites introduces the concept of opposites, a foundational pre-math observation skill, through ten visually engaging scenes depicting common opposite pairs--up and down, hot and cold, awake and asleep, wet and dry. Smart, colorful, grounded in educational principles and defined by Brain Quest''s signature question-and-answer format, each spread features two illustrations that present the opposite pairs in context while encouraging conversation and observation.

Blast off into outer space with this mess-free sticker craft! Includes everything you need to create ten sticker paintings on sturdy card stock. Kids will love stickering a Mars rover, a space shuttle, an astronaut, iconic celestial bodies like Saturn, Jupiter, and the Sun, and more! Plus, the back of each image includes a fascinating scientific fact about each galactic subject. Includes glow-in-the-dark stickers! Step 1: Find the sticker. Step 2: Peel the sticker. Step 3: Place the sticker. Add the next, and the next, and watch your enchanting paintings come to life! All the pages are perforated, making it easy to tear out each finished work to frame and share!

The bestselling Paint by Sticker adult book series meets garden and houseplant love! Here are 12 beautiful images of all kinds of plants, from a stargazer lily to a white lotus floating on a pool, to a Saguaro catcus and a trio of potted succulents.

It’s a total crime wave: A mini encyclopedia of true crime, packed with stories of killers, cons, survivors, forensics and more! More than 200 stories of killers, con artists, master thieves, and brazen kidnappers—and strong survivors, detectives, forensic breakthroughs, and legal minds on all sides of the action. In other words, a mini-encyclopedia perfect for newcomers and hard-core crime fans alike. Here are the big names—Bundy, Manson, Berkowitz, Borden, and the Black Dahlia. The lingering mysteries—like JonBenet Ramsey and Natalie Wood. The disturbing puzzle of the Zodiac Killer. The true story behind the most lurid headline ever: “Headless Body in the Topless Bar.” Plus a feast of trivia and more, including the Psychopath test, how DNA profiling began, tattoo analysis, and quizzes like “Where Did They Hide?” and “Serial Killer Trophies.”

This revised edition of Everything You Need to Ace U.S History in One Big Fat Notebook is the same indispensable resource so many students depend on, updated with new and improved content that thoughtfully explores the most difficult chapters of US history. By providing well-rounded context, decentering Indo-European perspectives, and using language that recognizes the humanity of historical subjects BFN US History will be cutting edge tool for students as education styles shift toward this informed approach to history. Updates include: - New material covering Indigenous history in the US, including sections on Indigenous culture, settler colonialism, the relationship between Indigenous nations and the US government, and the use of preferred names for Indigenous nations. -Reworked sections on European exploration, colonialism, and US imperialism that include the perspective of colonized nations. - Reworked sections on slavery that provide context for the role of European nations in the growth of the Atlantic slave trade, the unique system of race-based, chattel slavery developed in the US, the African Diaspora, and use respectful, person centered language ("enslaved person" instead of "slave"). - A new final chapter that covers the current events into the 2020s, including recent elections, presidents, social movements, climate change, and the Covid-19 pandemic. Big Fat Notebook is a first of it''s kind series of subject specific study guides that present each subject''s most important information in a streamlined and organized format, complimented by humor, mnemonics, maps, and doodles that make learning fun, and help information stick. BFNs meet students at their level and offer the support of a knowledgeable teacher in the form of an approachable peer—the notes of smartest kid in class.

Welcome to the world of things that go! On your mark! Get set! Go! With hundreds of stickers featuring vehicles of all shapes and sizes, from the space shuttle to the horse and buggy, muscle cars to pirate ships, ice cream trucks, submarines, Zambonis, and more. Plus, put on an airshow, build a train, win a boat race, and invent a brand-new vehicle as you learn about the machines that take us over land, across the water, through the sky, and all around the world! How it works: Peel a sticker to reveal a fascinating fun fact Use stickers, markers, crayons, and more to decorate the activity pages—make them your own! Once all the stickers are peeled, remove the overlay for a Peel + Discover surprise

Pharaohs, pyramids, gods and goddesses, the Valley of the Queens, the order of the kings, and the 50 sons of Ramesses. Walk with Howard Carter into the tomb of Tutankhamen. Discover the collection of spells, incantations, passwords and advice of The Book of the Dead. Learn the secrets of embalming, including the only vital organ to be left in the preserved body. Illustrating the entries is a rich selection of images drawn from tomb paintings, statues, archaeological finds and museum exhibits.

Workman now publishes a separate full-color calendar catalog that includes detailed sales copy for all 1998 wall calendars, desk diaries. Page-A-Day "RM" calendars, and other calendar products. Calendar titles for 1998 are listed here also and, for your convenience, can be ordered through this catalog. Please see the order form for display information. In addition, calendars ship in August unless noted on the order form. If you have not already received a copy of the full-color calendar catalog, please call us at: 1-800-722-7202.

Welcome to a world of watery wonders! Discover the world’s oceans using hundreds of stickers featuring puffins and penguins, horseshoe crabs and clown fish, and mysterious deep-sea creatures like the Dumbo Octopus, the Vampire Squid, and more. Plus build your own coral reef, wade into tide pools, and explore water so deep that sunlight can’t reach it as you learn about the amazing diversity of life under the sea. How it works: Peel a sticker to reveal a fascinating fun fact Use stickers, markers, crayons, and more to decorate the activity pages—make them your own! Once all the stickers are peeled, remove the overlay for a Peel + Discover surprise

Paint by Sticker, the bestselling all-ages activity book series, is now purrfect for cat lovers! Create gorgeous illustrations of felines in low-poly (geometric polygon shapes) style, one sticker at a time. An engrossing activity for crafters and artists, doodlers and colorers, Paint by Sticker: Cats brings 12 irresistible cats to life, piece by piece. There’s a playful ginger tabby hanging from her paws, an elegant, blue-eyed Siamese angling for a head scratch, and more! As in paintby number, each image is divided into dozens of spaces, each with a number that corresponds to a particular sticker. Find the sticker, peel it, and place it in the matching space. Add the next, and the next, and the next—and relish the growing satisfaction of watching a “painting” emerge from a black-and-white illustration to a dazzling image with color, body, and spirit.

EyeLike Stickers: Christmas celebrates the biggest holiday of the year with 400 high-quality, photographic images that are amazingly lifelike in color and detail. The durable, reusable stickers are designed to be stuck on and peeled off over and over again without losing adhesive. Ornaments and Santa hats, reindeer and an old-fashioned sleigh, trees to decorate, stockings to hang, presents to unwrap—every page of stickers captures the feeling of Christmas. Use them to decorate notebooks, cards, scrapbooks, crafts, party invitations, lunchboxes, even windows; create a lively scene on the book’s inside front and back covers—which double as glossy illustrated backgrounds—and change them up when the mood strikes.

A totally new idea in sticker books, combining the joy of learning with the joy of stickers. It’s an innovative, kid-friendly approach to beloved topics for ages 6 and up, featuring a cutting-edge sticker sheet design that allows for text and color images to appear underneath the sticker. Here’s how it works: Read a question, then peel off the corresponding sticker to reveal the answer underneath. The fun doesn’t stop there—place the sticker on the facing activity page to create a book of facts and images that can be enjoyed again and again. Once all the stickers are peeled, kids are left with a beautifully designed, information-rich book full of diagrams, facts, and personalized pages to read again and again. In Sticky Facts: Animals, with its pygmy marmosets and the deadly black mamba, meerkats, orangutans, and the giant squid (with eyes as big as a soccer ball!), here are some of the most fascinating animals in the world—tundra to savanna to rain forest to the desert—along with a new world of information.

Paint by Sticker is the most exciting new idea in activity books, both for grown-ups and kids. A compelling activity for crafters and artists, doodlers and colorers of all ages, each Paint by Sticker book includes everything you need to create twelve vibrant, full-color “paintings.” The original images are rendered in low-poly, a computer graphics style using geometric polygon shapes to create a 3D effect. As in paint-by-number, each template is divided into dozens of spaces, each with a number that corresponds to a particular sticker. Find the sticker, peel it, and place it in the right space. Add the next, and the next, and the next—it’s an activity that’s utterly absorbing, both in the pleasure of peeling and sticking and the growing satisfaction of watching a “painting” come to life, emerging from a flat black-and-white illustration to a dazzling image with color, body, and spirit. Paint by Sticker: Music Icons brings us face-to-face with Elvis, The Beatles, Beyoncé, David Bowie, Cher, Prince, Michael Jackson, Kurt Cobain, Madonna, Nina Simone, Dolly Parton, and "Weird Al" Yankovic.

Written and vetted by educators and aligned with math standards, discover the ultimate Kindergarten math workbook from America''s #1 educational bestseller. It''s fun to be smart! From the brand that''s loved by kids, teacher approved, and parent trusted, Brain Quest Math Workbook: Kindergarten is packed with hands-on activities that introduce and reinforce essential math concepts that prepare children for kindergarten and beyond. The workbook includes kid-friendly explanations and targeted support throughout, plus an illustrated glossary and additional resources in the back. Concepts featured Adding & Subtracting Measuring & Sorting Flat & Solid Shapes Order & Position Comes with Stickers Progress map Completion certificate Mini Smart Card question-and-answer deck

"SOMEONE IS GETTING LUCKY TONIGHT." And that someone could be you, if you play your postcards right. Here are 50 colorful--and sometimes off-color--ways to say, "I love you." Or, at least, "I want you." The method of delivery is up to you--in the mail, slipped under a door, left teasingly on a crush''s desk. Who knows where it will lead? After all, there''s nothing sexier than a sense of humor: I WILL GLADLY INDULGE YOUR WEIRDEST FANTASIES. I THINK YOUR FRIENDSHIP SHOULD COME WITH A FEW MORE BENEFITS.

Written and vetted by educators and aligned with math standards, discover the ultimate Pre-Kindergarten math workbook from America''s #1 educational bestseller. It''s fun to be smart! From the brand that''s loved by kids, teacher approved, and parent trusted, Brain Quest Workbook: Pre-Kindergarten Math is packed with hands-on activities that introduce and reinforce essential math concepts that prepare children for kindergarten and beyond. The workbook includes kid-friendly explanations and targeted support throughout, plus an illustrated glossary and additional resources in the back. Concepts featured Counting & Comparing Sorting & Matching Shapes & Patterns Order & Position Comes with Stickers Progress map Completion certificate Mini Smart Card question-and-answer deck

A totally new idea in sticker books, combining the joy of learning with the joy of stickers. It’s an innovative, kid-friendly approach to beloved topics for ages 6 and up, featuring a cutting-edge sticker sheet design that allows for text and color images to appear underneath the sticker. Here’s how it works: Read a question, then peel off the corresponding sticker to reveal the answer underneath. The fun doesn’t stop there—place the sticker on the facing activity page to create a book of facts and images that can be enjoyed again and again. Once all the stickers are peeled, kids are left with a beautifully designed, information-rich book full of diagrams, facts, and personalized pages to read again and again. Sticky Facts: Construction features dozens of stickers of sky-high cranes and earth-scraping excavators, monster trucks, and clattering power tools. It shows how to create a construction site—and lets kids learn all about the special tools and vehicles we use to build.

Workman now publishes a separate full-color calendar catalog that includes detailed sales copy for all 1998 wall calendars, desk diaries. Page-A-Day "RM" calendars, and other calendar products. Calendar titles for 1998 are listed here also and, for your convenience, can be ordered through this catalog. Please see the order form for display information. In addition, calendars ship in August unless noted on the order form. If you have not already received a copy of the full-color calendar catalog, please call us at: 1-800-722-7202.

This Page-A-Day Perpetual desktop calendar features declarations of friendship and words of devotion, romance, wit and sentiment from famous writers and poets. It can also be used year after year.

-- All about the Bible, an essential part of many children''s educationIntroducing the perfectly fight new subject for Brain Quest. Celebrating the Bible both as sacred writing and cultural touchstone, Bible Brain Quest and My First Bible Brain Quest reinforce what kids are learning in Sunday school and in the home -- and make it fun.My First Bible Brain Quest brings the wonders of the Bible to kids ages 2 to 5. Illustrated throughout in full-color, this innovative marriage of a first Bible and learning tool combines 40 of the best-loved biblical stories with interactive questions. One card retells a story -- David Fights a Giant, Jesus Walks on Water, Paul Is Shipwrecked, Daniel in the Lion''s Den -- and subsequent cards contain related questions and answers.Bible Brain Quest, suitable for ages 6 and up, is structured and designed like a traditional set, with two decks presenting 1,000 questions and answers about the Old and New Testaments -- People, Important Places, Miracles & Parables, Stories & Events, Animals, Objects & Things, and a catch-all category called Grab Bag. Here are Jesus and Moses, angels and Apostles, the burning bush and a plague of frogs, the wisdom of King Solomon and the kindness of the Good Samaritan.

Consists of 3 each of the following titles: - - Shoes - Handbags - 365 Ways To Relax Mind, Body & Soul - Really Important Stuff My Kids Have Taught Me - Feng Shui Dos & Taboos

Consists of standard 72-copy assortment: 6 each of 12 signs