Games & Puzzles

Let's go outside! This inspiring and fun-filled guide is bursting with ideas to help kids discover the great outdoors and get closer to nature. The pocket-size companion contains fifty fantastic activities and is full of handy tips, nature facts, and activity checklists. It's the perfect nature journal, with lots of space for notes, photos, leaves, doodles, and more--and rainy day activities ensure that no day is a washout.

500 Fun Origamis is pocket-sized origami book with 500 pages and basic folding instructions.

Its two companion books are:
500 Irresistible Origamis (9780228101505)
500 Fluorescent Origamis (9780228101499)

Each of these books features 250 double-sided origami papers decorated with original designs and patterns by Mayumi Jezewski. Sixteen pages of basic folding instructions are illustrated and explained with arrows and clear lines -- perfect for beginners.

The Guardian newspaper called origami "2016's craft trend" and reported that sales of origami books have surged as customers look for alternatives to the popular coloring books. Like coloring, origami presents children and adults with a creative meditative challenge away from the screen.

Origami has no age barrier and benefits everyone, from children to the elderly. Studies show that origami activates the whole brain. It develops eye-hand coordination, sequencing skills, attention skills, temporal spatial skills, mathematical reasoning, language skills and patience. It also promotes hand and finger dexterity.

Here are three colorful stocking stuffer-sized books ideal for the holidays.

Featuring 200 prompts from books, movies, television shows, and songs, this pocket-size take on classic charades makes for a lively guessing game for friends and family.

With fifty naughty truths and fifty challenging dares, this game is perfect for couples looking for delectable after-dinner fun!

Puzzles, intricately detailed worlds, and stylish scenes are sure to appeal to readers of all ages

Inspired by Jules Verne's iconic novel, this stunning puzzle book is a treat for readers of all ages. Aleksandra Artymowska's imagining of the classic tale is packed with steamships, airships, railways, penny-farthings, and any other kind of transport you can imagine -- and it will take you on a voyage like no other. Each intricate puzzle, from labyrinthine mazes to missing-object hunts, is guaranteed to fascinate, puzzle, and inspire. It's a book to pour over again and again.

Featuring a beautiful image of a well-loved library, this jigsaw puzzle would make a great gift for the book-lover in your life.

Featuring a beautiful image of a well-loved library, this jigsaw puzzle would make a great gift for the book-lover in your life.

THE COLLECTION

Fall in love with this stationery range featuring gorgeous images of books in the home. Inspired by stunning libraries, studies and reading spaces, these items will be perfect for organizing your work or home life. Complete with notecards, notebook, address book, a jigsaw puzzle, a birthday book, and even a journal for your notes about books, you'll never forget an appointment or birthday again!

Enjoy this beautifully designed keepsake box that includes the original unabridged story in paperback and a 500-piece puzzle. This timeless love story will take you on a magical adventure with brilliant characters that fill your heart with emotion and teach the importance of finding the beauty within. This box set will capture the essence of this magical fairytale featuring a new, original work of art on the cover and on the 500-piece puzzle.

WOULD BLETCHLEY PARK--THE TOP-SECRET HOME OF BRITISH WORLD WAR II CODEBREAKERS--HAVE RECRUITED YOU?
PUT YOUR MENTAL AGILITY TO THE TEST WITH THESE FIENDISHLY CHALLENGING PUZZLES AND FIND OUT.

Have a knack for mastering Morse code? Want to discover whether your crossword hobby might have seen you recruited into the history books? Think you could have contributed to the effort to crack the Nazis' infamous Enigma code? Then this book about Bletchley Park was custom-made for you.
When scouring the population for codebreakers, Bletchley Park recruiters left no stone unturned. They devised various ingenious mind-twisters to assess the puzzle-solving capacity of these individuals--hidden codes, cryptic crosswords, secret languages, and complex riddles. These puzzles, together with the fascinating recruitment stories that surround them, are contained in this book, endorsed by Bletchley Park itself.

Though they had diverse backgrounds, the codebreakers of Bletchley Park were united in their love of a good puzzle. If you are of the same persuasion, put your intelligence to the test with the mind-boggling puzzles on these pages and ask yourself: Would Bletchley Park have recruited YOU?

"Puzzles are the new book club!"

1,000 pieces

Invigorate your brain and brighten your day with a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle from Gibbs Smith. Gathered around a table with family or friends, or tackled solo: images inspired by our books, and book-lover proclivities, means there is a puzzle for everyone and every interest.