Hobbies

Fison, Josie: Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes
Random House Children's Books, 1996

You have surely sometime wanted to taste how the candies of Charlie’s Chocolate Factory taste. Here you have all kinds of easy and nauseating recipes of Roald Dahl’s books, Green Pea Soup from “The Witches” for example. Cooking can’t be funnier than this.

Kent, Sarah: Creative Book of Kites
Smithmark, 1997

This is a colourful book with the history of kite, some flying techniques and different types of kite. There is too instructions for nine kites, from easy to hard ones. The difficulty of making is practically marked with little yellow stars.

Lowery, Dave: Model Railways - a Complete Guide to the Hobby
Argus Books, 1992

How to build a landscape for your model railway? Building and painting – you can really start from the beginning. Recognize different kinds of locomotives and carriages. The tools and techniques are easy to learn from the book. This book is meant to people, who are really into model railways and children aged over 12 years, but young children can do these things with their parents.

Mitton, Jacqueline: Zoo in the Sky - a Book of Animal Constellations
Frances Lincoln, 1999

Are you interested in stars? This book will take you on a magical tour of the skies, 19 constellations named after animals, birds and fishes. Beautiful pictures, interesting text, the sky maps and the background information about the stars make a book that is very fascinating for children of all ages.

Morrissey, Peter: Figure Skating School
Apple, 1997

This is a gorgeous book of skating. You can find all of the tricks here, from “the first steps” to really hard pirouettes. This book is good if you just want to read about the tricks but if you really want to learn them, you will need much of practise and a good teacher.

Powell, Michelle: Printing
Search Press, 2000

How about making an Egyptian Dominoes –game? Or do you like modern art socks? Here you can find ten inspiring and colourful ideas for having fun with printing. Instructions are easy to understand and carry out. Materials, that you can easily get, are listed in the beginning of the book.

Stanford, Maureen: The Teddy Bear Book
Bramley Books, 1998

This book is a lovely companion for teddy bear lovers and collectors. Book is full of excellent coloured photos of and tells extensively about the teddy bears’ history all over the world. Maybe you can find your own teddy bear from the group. If you get exited, there are patterns in the end of the book for you to make a cute teddy bear by yourself.

Starke, Katherine: Dogs and Puppies
Usborne, 1998

Have thought about having a puppy? Here’s is a brilliant guide with lots of information about training, brushing and bathing for young dog lovers who want to know how to take care of their little pets.

Stiles, David: Tree Houses You Can Actually Build
Houghton Mifflin, 1998

Here you can find the basics of building a tree house. Many different types of a tree house are listed in this book. Instructions are complicated but working and detailed. Children, especially small ones, will need help from the adults but the final result will be worth the effort.

Walters, Jennie: Gardening with Peter Rabbit
Warne, 1992

Here you have easy instructions with practical tips for gardening. They are shared for four parts: what can you do on winter, on spring, on summer and on autumn. The book is full of lovely pictures from Beatrix Potter’s beautiful tales. Even if you are not interested in gardening, it’s fun to flip this book because of the pictures.