If you’re keeping yourself isolated at home right now and you’ve got kids, you’re probably on the hunt for ways to keep them entertained and engaged. You’ll be ecstatic to hear that I’ve got you covered! I’ve gone and found a whole bunch of books that are perfect for keeping kids occupied – activity books, sticker books, colouring books, look and find books, and even some amazingly fun fiction reads.
Read on for my picks!
ACTIVITIES
Bluey: Easter Fun!
Bluey and Bingo love being creative! Get making with loads of egg-cellent Easter activities for the whole family.
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Eddie Woo’s Magical Maths
A bumper book of fun with maths stuffed with things to draw, puzzle, invent, order, unscramble, code and decode for kids aged 7+ years from Australia’s best known maths man!
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Build Your Own History Museum
Calling all archaeologists! A crate has arrived for you and it’s packed with treasures from the ancient world! Can you assemble them and assign each to the right room in time for the museum’s big opening?
Fun, interactive and with lots of facts to discover, Lonely Planet Kids’ Build Your Own History Museum is a hands-on way to learn about ancient people, cultures and traditions.
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PUZZLES
Where’s Wally? Wow
Six classic Where’s Wally? books and a jigsaw presented in a magnificent slipcase. Hours of eye-boggling, puzzling fun!
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Under the Sea Picture Puzzle Book
A wonderfully illustrated puzzle book full of things to spot, count and match under the sea. An activity book children will want to show and talk about.
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STICKER BOOKS
Sticker World: Theme Park
From designing death-defying roller coasters to choosing what sweets are sold and picking the park’s mascot, kids can build the theme park of their dreams in this fun and interactive sticker book.
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Bluey: Time to Play! A Sticker Activity Book
There are stickers to place, puzzles to solve and so much more. It’s time to play with Bluey!
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First 100 Animals Sticker Book
There are 100 amazing animals to discover inside this fun, early learning activity book that includes over 500 stickers!
Learning becomes interactive as children look for, find then match the correct stickers to the spaces on the book pages. Helps children to learn about animals, as well as building vocabulary and developing hand-eye coordination skills.
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LOOK & FIND
Seek and Find: Cities
Join travellers Cat and Bird as they explore the world in this fun search-and-find book. With every turn of the page, there’s a new busy city scene to discover – a colourful carnival in Rio, a funfair in Paris, a treasure-filled souk in Morocco.
In each city there are all kinds of things to spot, from tasty festival food and traditional hats to a famous landmark, a unique souvenir and a local animal or two.
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Roblox: Where’s the Noob?
Join Builderman, Ezebel: The Pirate Queen, Mr. Bling Bling, and other iconic characters as they journey through the imaginative worlds of Roblox on a quest to find the mischievous Classic Noob.
There are over a dozen intricately illustrated game worlds to experience, including the hustle and bustle of Theme Park Tycoon 2 and the gigantic realm of Hide and Seek Extreme, as well as hundreds of things to find along the way.
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COLOURING BOOKS
Bluey: Big Backyard
Colour Bluey’s backyard, the creek, the playground and more in this fun-filled colouring book.
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Owen Davey’s Travelogue
In Owen Davey’s Travelogue, 12 cities are given a retro, vintage-travel appearance by popular illustrator Owen Davey. Includes London, Paris, New York, Beijing, Barcelona, Berlin, Rome, Tokyo, Marrakesh, Sydney, Moscow and Rio de Janeiro.
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CAPTIVATING READS
E-Boy
by Anh Do (Limited Signed Copies Available!)
Ethan is supposed to be doing regular teenage things – like playing sports and hanging out with friends. He is not supposed to be in the hospital getting a brain tumour removed by Gemini, a high-tech android doctor. But just as the operation begins, the medical facility is hit by an unusual bolt of lightning…
When Ethan wakes up he discovers that things are different. He’s always been good with computers, but now his skills are next-level. Ethan almost feels like he’s…part of the machine.
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Aurora Rising (Aurora Cycle: Book 1)
by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the Academy would touch.
And Ty’s squad isn’t even his biggest problem–that’d be Aurora Jie-Lin O’Malley, the girl he’s just rescued from interdimensional space. Trapped in cryo-sleep for two centuries, Auri is a girl out of time and out of her depth. But she could be the catalyst that starts a war millions of years in the making …
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Jane Doe and the Cradle of All Worlds (The Jane Doe Chronicles: Book 1)
by Jeremy Lachlan
When a fierce quake strikes the remote island of Bluehaven, and her father disappears, Jane Doe is thrown headfirst into an epic quest to bring him home.
But this ain’t no ordinary rescue mission. Her father is lost in a place between worlds; a dangerous labyrinth of shifting rooms, infernal booby traps and secret gateways. And Jane has to find him fast, because someone else is searching for him, too. A man who knows her father’s secrets. A man who has an army …
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The Land of Roar
by Jenny McLachlan
When Arthur and Rose were little, they were heroes in the Land of Roar, an imaginary world that they found by climbing through the folding bed in their granddad’s attic. Roar was filled with things they loved – dragons, mermaids, ninja wizards and adventure – as well as things that scared them (including a very creepy scarecrow).
Now the twins are eleven, Roar is just a memory. But when they help Granddad clean out the attic, Arthur is horrified as Granddad is pulled into the folding bed and vanishes. Is he playing a joke? Or is Roar … real?
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The Monster Who Wasn’t
by T. C. Shelley
This is the story of a creature who is both strange and unique. When he hatches down in the vast underground lair where monsters dwell, he looks just like a human boy much to the disgust of everyone watching. Even the grumpy gargoyles who adopt him and nickname him ‘Imp’ only want him to steal chocolate for them from the nearby shops. He’s a child with feet in both worlds, and he doesn’t know where he fits.
But little does Imp realise that Thunderguts, king of the ogres, has a great and dangerous destiny in mind for him, and he’ll stop at nothing to see it come to pass.
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About the Contributor
Sarah McDuling
Sarah McDuling is Booktopia's Category Manager for Children's and Young Adult Books. She has been in the bookselling game for almost a decade and a dedicated booklover since birth (potentially longer). At her happiest when reading a book, Sarah also enjoys talking/writing/tweeting about books. In her spare time, she often likes to buy a lot of books and take photographs of books. You can follow her on Twitter and Instragram @sarahmcduling
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