Children’s Children's Baking Book - Dorling Kindersley
Synopsis :Inspire your child to bake beautiful bread, perfect pastry, marvellous muffins and charming cakes and cookies.

Over fifty fabulous recipes from chocolate brownies and sticky flapjacks to banoffee pie are guaranteed to stir any baker. With twists on old favourites and delicious new ideas there's something for everyone.

Easy-to-follow step by step instructions make sure creations turn out exactly as they should and top tips and advice on preparation and cooking will help budding chefs become brilliant bakers!

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Hot Brands Verdict
Here at Hot Brands we have a real passion for cooking, and our junior reviewers are fast following in our footsteps. This comprehensive book has
over fifty delicious recipes ranging from Easy to Hard and is a great guide to encouraging children to take their real first steps into cooking more sophisticated food. It shows them how to make beautiful bread, delicious cakes, mouth-watering savoury dishes and cookies and biscuits. Although designed for children, the step by step instructions and delicious recipes would be really useful for novice adult cooks too! Highly Recommended!

Mister Maker Let's Make It! - Dorling Kindersley

Synopsis: If your child loves CBeebies Mister Maker and can’t wait to get out the glue, scissors or paint, then here are some fantastic things for them to make and do at home.

Featuring over 50 fantastic makes from the series and some brand new ideas, your child can have fun creating ‘Minute Makes’, ‘Medium Makes’ and even ‘Massive Makes’ depending on how much time you have!

Featuring all the best ‘Minute Makes’, ‘Frame Its’ and ‘Main Makes’ from the TV show, it is guaranteed to keep Mister Maker fans busy for hours.
© Mister Maker © The Foundation 2007 for the BBC, All Rights Reserved.

MisterMaker™ & ©2009 The Foundation

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Hot Brands Verdict
Our junior reviewers love Mister Maker and the ingenious creations he makes! This book is a great selection of over 50 wonderful ideas, that are so imaginative and yet so simple to make with his easy to understand instructions. We loved the Shell Butterfly and we have all had a go at the fabulous Peacock Handprint picture. Charlotte and Annabelle love the Minute makes, Mouse Finger Puppets, Pom Pom Acrobats, and there are lots of other great makes, including the wonderful Splat Monster, Pasta Pictures, Monster skittles, and many more in this book. Lots of fun, very creative, Highly Recommended!

Made By Me - Jane Bull
Synopsis: Help your child get creative with activity expert Jane Bull. Can you never find those all important accessories or would you like to give an original present? Then read this together with your child; they’ll learn basic sewing, embroidery, knitting and appliqué techniques, and enjoy using the simple patterns for lots of fabric fun.

From bags, badges, and bobble hats, to jazzing up clothes and jewellery, there are lots of inspiring projects for your child to design and create.

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Hot Brands Verdict
We love this book! It’s a delightful collection of projects, absolutely perfect for people learning to knit, sew and embroider.

There is plenty to make during these cold and icy weekends, easy ways to knit, gorgeous little bags and flowers to make, and adorable little dolls. Although designed for children the projects are fun for adults too.

Highly recommended!

Cook It Together Annabel Karmel

From tomatoes and sweetcorn to strawberries and yogurt, take 10 top ingredients and find out how they are grown or made; then help your child turn them into fantastic food!

Annabel Karmel shows you how to transform tasty basic ingredients into delicious dinners and mouth-watering snacks like honey glazed salmon and strawberry cheesecake. Step-by-step photos show exactly what to do and will help your child develop basic cookery skills from measuring to mixing.

You’ll even find out how to grow some of the ingredients together at home too. Scrumptious food that’s as much fun to make as it is to eat!

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Hot Brands Verdict
What we loved about this book, was that it was more than just a book of recipes, there was really accessible and easy to understand information about the products used in the recipes. For example a fascinating section on flavours including Herbs and Spices, what they are called, where they come from, how to keep them fresh and how to grow your own parsley.

The same approach is used throughout the book, How to grow tomatoes for example next to a delicious recipe for Tomato Bruschetta. There are step by step instructions and photographs illustrating each recipe. This is a truly delightful book. Highly Recommended!

Skating School – White Skate Wishes - Linda Chapman

Synopsis A magical snowy world where friendship and ice-skating come together to make the perfect new series for young readers that every little girl will want to be a part of!

The first four Skating School titles will be launching simultaneously to form a gorgeous collectible must-have set, coinciding with both Dancing on Ice and the Winter Olympics

Welcome to a magical world where dreams come true . . .

Join Emily and her skating-school friends as they get the chance to invent their own routines, design their costumes and learn daring new steps. There are competitions galore as the skating-school girls compete against each other for the chance to win dazzling skates from precious pink to wonderful white. However, as Emily takes to the ice, the girls’ eagerness to succeed begins to cause problems…

Will they discover that friendship and working together is the greatest prize of all?

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Hot Brands Verdict
This is ideal for little people inspired by ice-skating, with perfect timing as Dancing on Ice starts again. Skating School-White Skate Wishes ,follows the experience of Emily as she grows in confidence and learns some important lessons about friendship. We loved the fact that it is one of a series of four, Pink Skate Party, Scarlet Skate Magic, Violet Skate Friends are released at the same time, the first 4 come out this Jan – 2 more in May and then the rest next year meaning that keen junior readers can follow the adventures without waiting. Skating School are charming stories of a magical world where dreams can come true ! A delightful series. Highly Recommended!