Maker Lab: 28 Super Cool Projects

Posted on March 28, 2017 by Merry

Supporting STEM education initiatives and the maker movement, the National Parenting Publication Award-winner Maker Lab includes 28 kid-safe projects and crafts that will get young inventors’ wheels turning and make science pure fun.

Each step-by-step activity is appropriate for kids ages 8-12, and ranked easy, medium, or hard, with an estimated time frame for completion. Requiring only household materials, young makers can build an exploding volcano, race balloon rocket cars, construct a solar system, make a lemon battery, and more. Photographs and facts carefully detail the “why” and “how” of each experiment using real-world examples to provide context so kids can gain a deeper understanding of the scientific principles applied.

With a foreword by Jack Andraka, a teen award-winning inventor, Maker Lab will help kids find their inner inventor and create winning projects for school projects, science fairs, and beyond.

Where to Purchase: https://www.dk.com/us/9781465451354-maker-lab/

Children Just Like Me

Posted on March 28, 2017March 28, 2017 by Merry

A favorite in classrooms, libraries, and homes, Children Just Like Me is a comprehensive view of international cultures, exploring diverse backgrounds from Argentina to New Zealand to China to Israel. With this brand new edition, children will learn about their peers around the world through engaging photographs and understandable text laid out in DK’s distinctive style.

Highlighting 36 different countries, Children Just Like Me profiles 44 children and their daily lives. From rural farms to busy cities to riverboats, this celebration of children around the world shows the many ways children are different and the many ways they are the same, no matter where they live.

Meet Bolat, an eight-year-old from Kazakhstan who likes to cycle, play with his pet dogs, and play the dromba; Joaquin from New Jersey who enjoys reading and spending time with his family, and whose favorite food is bacon; or Yaroslav from Moscow who likes to make robots. Daily routines, stories of friends and family, and dreams for the future are spoken directly from the children themselves, making the content appropriate and interesting to draw in young readers.

To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of this special project, all-new photography, maps, and facts give unique insight to children’s lives in our world today showing their homes, food, outfits, schools, families, and hobbies.

A passport to a celebratory journey around the world, Children Just Like Me is perfect for children who are curious about the children of the world and their stories.

Where to Purchase: https://www.dk.com/us/9781465453921-children-just-like-me/

Baby Touch and Feel: I Love You

Posted on March 28, 2017 by Merry

The perfect book to share with your baby and celebrate how much you love them.

Babies can explore different textures and expand their senses as they discover this padded board book’s tactile elements. They can touch soft bunnies, fuzzy teddy bears, sparkly hearts, and more, and feel all the love you have for them. Baby Touch and Feel: I Love You promotes sensory development and early language skills, and is the perfect size for small hands to hold.

With simple images that are clearly labeled, and an amazing range of novelty textures, Baby Touch and Feel books capture the attention of the very youngest children and create an experience they’ll want to repeat again and again.

Where to Purchase: https://www.dk.com/us/9781465457639-baby-touch-and-feel-i-love-you/

Calidou Protective Cream

Posted on March 28, 2017 by Merry

As the name suggests, Calidou’s Protective Cream protects the fragile and sensitive skin against harsh external factors such as wind, cold, chlorinated pool water. Its formula is made of 1% Colloïdal Oatmeal Flour that protects and helps relieve minor skin irritations. It also contains Peach Kernel Oil, Carnauba Wax, Cocoa Butter, Organic Elderflower Extract and Safflower Oil to maintain a nourrished, well hydrated and soft skin.

Active Ingredients :
1% Colloidal Oatmeal Flour: Temporarily protects and helps relieve minor skin irritation and itching due to rashes, eczema, poison ivy, poison oak or poison sumac and insect bites.

Peach Kernel Oil : Rich in vitamins and omega-6 and 9 fatty acids, it calms and softens the skin.

Organic Elderflower Extract : Its property as an emollient helps facilitate cleansing. Calms and softens the skin.

Safflower Oleosomes : Safflower oleosomes have a special balance of humectants and emollients that combine to hydrate the skin.

Cocoa Butter : Cocoa butter contains vitamin E and polyphenols, which have antioxidant properties. Its fatty acids make it rich in nutrients and help it to form a film on skin.

Carnauba Wax : Emollient and moisturizing, used for its skin protectant properties.