Parallel Play

An affecting memoir of life as a boy who didn’t know he had Asperger’s syndrome until he became a man. In 1997, Tim Page won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his work as the ch

She's still not quite sure how it happened. The biological part is fairly straightforward. It's the wife-and-mother part that Eve can't wrap her head around. Much to her surprise, Eve finds herself l

The eagerly anticipated second collection by poet and esteemed critic Stephen Burt Flaunting your useless knowledge has failed you again,Though it was all they had taught you.

A comprehensive overview of OpenMP, the standard application programming interface for shared memory parallel computing—a reference for students and professionals.

My Busy Barn is a barn-shaped board book with fun illustrations and sticky play pieces which can be used anywhere in the book.Children can play with the stickers and learn about life on the farm. Thes

Use the soft felt play pieces to complete each magical unicorn scene for enchanting, interactive fun.Children will love to complete every felt scene as they match the soft felt play pieces to the simp

This is the perfect novelty package for preschoolers – a six-spread pop-up storybook, which unfolds into a 3D farmyard playmat with press-out play pieces for total fun on the farm!Pop-Up and Play Farm is bright and sturdy, and will provide hours of play before being stored safely away in its own carry case – making it perfectly portable fun for journeys, play-dates and home-time too.Created by a highly-acclaimed paper-engineer, this robust and ingenious package comprises a storybook with six pop-ups, which then unfolds and transforms into a 3D farmyard landscape play-mat, with cut-out cardboard animals and farm vehicles for total fun on the farm! The colourful and stylish illustrations provide lovely detail and the simple story is packed with animal noises and actions – perfect for sharing as a book as well as at playtime.

Have fun and discover letter shapes in this moving-counter play book!Toddlers can start their writing journey without having to grasp a pen ­- just slide the counters around each track and have fun with the rhyming text!This book features curved tracks that mimic early handwriting patterns and with Waves and Wiggles little ones can become familiar with letter shapes: W, M, N, U and V. The five sliding counters in this book have fingerholes to help keep little hands steady and the rhyming narrative and bright illustrations from Ekaterina Trukhan will keep them entertained as they whizz around the tracks!This Learn&Play title:Boosts motor skillsIntroduces letter shapesRecommended for children 2+Look out for the other Ladybird Learn&Play title:Swirls and Squiggles

Have fun and discover letter shapes in this moving-counter play book!Toddlers can start their writing journey without having to grasp a pen ­- just slide the counters around each track and have fun with the rhyming text!This book features curved tracks that mimic early handwriting patterns and with Swirls and Squiggles little ones can become familiar with letter shapes: S, C, Z, E and O. The five sliding counters in this book have fingerholes to help keep little hands steady and the rhyming narrative and bright illustrations from Ekaterina Trukhan will keep them entertained as they whizz around the tracks!This Learn&Play title:Boosts motor skillsIntroduces letter shapesRecommended for children 2+Look out for the other Ladybird Learn&Play title:Waves and Wiggles

Maisy is fixing Cyril's car, and she needs your help! With easy-to-use pull, slide and play tabs on every spread, little ones will love this interactive garage experience. Uh oh - Cyril's car has broken down! Luckily Maisy and her friends know just what to do. Pull, slide and play with the tabs to jack up the car, lower in a new engine, check the lights and wipers, and finally drive out of the garage.A delightful story about teamwork with exciting, interactive spreads, ideal for imaginative play!

It's play time! Can you play on the swings and jump on the trampoline?In this fun new series, little ones learn first words and experiences by using satisfying sliders and sturdy flaps. Each spread in

Little Bear, Little Monkey, and their friends love to use a pacifier. But sometimes it gets in the way when they play, talk, or go outside. In this reassuring book, the grown-ups show them that giving

Join the farmer for a busy day on the farm and spot favourite animals along the way!Push and play your way through the story in this fun, interactive board book. Push out the tractor play piece on the

The second book in Geisel Award Honoree Jonathan Fenske's hilarious underwater early reader series!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early reader line, Acorn, aimed at children who are learning to read. With easy-to-read text, a short-story format, plenty of humor, and full-color artwork on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and fluency. Acorn books plant a love of reading and help readers grow! Plankton wants Crabby to play a game. Plankton tries to get Crabby to play Simon Says, Tag, and Hide-and-Seek. But Crabby does NOT want to play with Plankton. Will Plankton give up? Or will Crabby finally play along? With comic speech bubbles and full-color artwork throughout, Geisel Award Honoree Jonathan Fenske's early reader series is sure to be a hit with new readers!

Little children will delight in bringing the Christmas Story to life with this joyous sticker book. Dress the children in their costumes for the play, and read along the parts with them. With over 180

Join the Tiny Town friends for a fun picnic in the park in this interactive fun felt play book that's ideal for children age 3 and up. Children will love to complete every scene as they match the play

*試聽音檔為10-Garden Games*Penguin presents the audio CD edition of Peppa Pig: Play Days by Ladybird, read by John Sparkes. Come join Peppa and her all her friends as they explore and play in this collect

Help your child learn to identify colors with this engaging early-learning play set. Little ones will enjoy matching the puzzle pieces with the colors on the pages, while also learning core vocabulary

Play inside Maisy's house and garden! A spectacular carousel book opens out to an interactive 3-D setting that kids will want to visit again and again. Welcome to Maisy's place, where the famous mouse

OKIDO's Let's play a game contains everything you need to play six re-imagined board games. The box opens to reveal six pop-out coloured counters and an integrated, numbered spinner that functions as a die. Inside a wallet are three folding double-sided games boards.The simple rules for each game are printed on the inside of the lid, and the whole is printed on durable card. Each board game is suitable for two to six players. The games are boisterous and sometimes silly but also help children (aged 4+ at pre-school, school and at home) with first maths, coordination and matching and sorting skills.

A concert gets out of hand when the animals at the neighboring zoo storm the stage and play the instruments themselves.

Geza Ottlik had a remarkable talent for discovering and analyzing strange and fascinating aspects of card play in bridge. This brilliant book is the result of his collaboration with Hugh Kelsey—whose skill at high-level analysis of bridge problems was equalled only by his ability as an instructive writer. Adventures in Card Play is universally regarded as one of the all-time great classics of bridge.

Play ball! Brother Bear and Sister Bear are teaching the younger bears to play T-ball. But it's tough when the cubs don't know the difference between running to home plate and running home! Will Bro

Another laugh-out-loud monster adventure in the Billy and the Mini Monsters chapter book series, perfect for newly independent readers and fans of Wigglesbottom Primary.Billy LOVES football! He wants to play as well as his football hero... But in the first match of the season, Billy's game does NOT go to plan. The Mini Monsters are worried, too. Does Billy love football more than them? Maybe it's time for the Mini Monsters to start playing football... What could possibly go wrong?

Build incredible LEGO® models unlike any you’ve ever seen before, with the amazing transparent pieces included in this fun set. Shine lights through the LEGO elements to create colourful reflections, crystal-like effects and fun new ways to play. Use the pieces to build animals, monsters, magical creatures and loads more, before shining lights through them to see the full effect.Create an enchanting underwater world, funny faces, spooky ghosts, frozen treats, fairy-tale friends and so much more. Included in the book inside are more than 100 amazing ideas for LEGO builds, activities and challenges. Each of the play ideas featured in the book can be accomplished using the 46 LEGO pieces included (not all models can be built at the same time).LEGO, the LEGO logo and the Brick and Knob configurations are trademarks of the LEGO Group. ©2025 The LEGO Group.

Who says you need lessons to start making music? With The Story Orchestra: I Can Play: Swan Lake, every child can be the star of the show. Discover the enchanting world of Swan Lake in this interactive musical storybook – just press the keys to play Tchaikovsky’s spellbinding score!The Story Orchestra: I Can Play: Swan Lake invites children to step into the story and make the music themselves – no lessons needed, just a sense of fun. With a built-in keyboard that sounds just like a piano and colour-coded notes on every page, children can play along as they follow the scenes from Tchaikovsky’s magical ballet.Using a simple one-finger method, budding musicians can learn 8 short, memorable melodies from Swan Lake, building confidence as they go. With a clear colour and letter-coded system, even the youngest players can follow along independently. And when they’re ready, there’s space to get creative and compose their own tunes using the full 14-key piano.This interactive musical book brin

本書由瑞典插畫家 Ingela P Arrhenius 設計，以立體場景呈現精美的紙上娃娃屋。收合起來是一本輕巧的書，展開後便成為可站立的立體空間，孩子能在廚房、浴室、客廳和臥室的場景中自由佈置，享受操作與探索的樂趣。書中包含可站立的角色紙偶、可組裝的家具紙板零件，以及彩色貼紙，孩子能依照自己的想法打造專屬的小屋。結構堅固、收納便利，全部配件都能放入書中的小抽屜，外出也能攜帶。展開即可變成立體娃娃屋內含角色紙偶、紙板與貼紙可自由佈置四個場景，玩法多樣配件全數可收納於抽屜，方便攜帶與保存This fantastic fold-out book effortlessly transforms into a stylish 3D doll’s house that children can explore and play with!There are stand-up characters to bring to life, pieces of press-out furniture to build and colourful stickers to decorate the house with. You can make the kitchen, bathroom, living room and bedroom your own and then enjoy hours of play in your customised doll’s house.Fold-out + Play Doll’s House is perfect for playtime on-the-go or for those with limited space, as all the press-out pieces can be stored away in the sturdy drawer attached so you are ready for play wherever you go!

Press-out the pieces and explore the farm with Let's Learn & Play! On the Farm from Priddy Books. This fantastic new novelty format is aimed at children aged three and over. Each of the illustrated pages is full of things for children to spot and look for as they learn about farm life from feeding the animals to shearing sheep, milking the cows and more. Packaged in a sturdy case with a magnetic fastening, there is a board book with die-cut spaces to fit in over 20 play pieces to complete the busy scenes. There are prompts on the page, as well as word labels to help children work out where to put the pieces which is a great way of encouraging hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills and problem solving. Each spread also includes simple fun facts about farms to inspire learning with different farm processes to find out about and encourage further discovery. This is a great gift as the pieces can be stored back in the clamshell and taken out and about. Perfect for entertaining on the

Preschoolers are introduced to core science concepts with this playful format featuring 20 hands-on activities that use everyday household materials, including a vinegar volcano, a hula hoop count, and a kitchen sink or swim experiment. In this fourth book in the Busy Little Hands series, preschoolers get ready for a science adventure! Preschoolers wonder and explore with 20 hands-on experiments using everyday household objects and making daily activities such as snack time and play time into learning opportunities. Each play activity demonstrates a simple principle of physics, earth science, chemistry, or biology, including the Kitchen Sink or Float (demonstrating density), the Vinegar Volcano (pressure) and Blooming Colors (chromatography). Featuring bright, easy-to-follow photos specially designed for pre-readers, this book is packed with learning fun, plus it sets the groundwork for science success in kindergarten and beyond.

Jorg Muhle小兔子互動硬頁書。可愛溫馨的睡前晚安故事，簡單圖文卻充滿吸引力，讓小寶貝不經意想要跟著小兔子一起躲進毛毯裡，大玩躲貓貓，不知不覺進入夢鄉。Join in with Little Rabbit, playing all the games that toddlers love in this new board book in the internationally bestselling Tickle My Ears interactive series that will have toddlers, adults and rabbits all playing together.Little Rabbit wants to play. He hides behind a blanket, then peeks out: Peek-a-boo! He splashes in the bath, swings back and forth, and plays with his own little rabbit too—one, two, three, whee, rabbit flies!Young children will love taking part in these familiar sequences and laugh at the cheeky finish, because Little Rabbit has grown up enough to play a joke on his readers.Jorg Muhle’s warm and accessible illustrations encourage children to take on all the roles in the story as they copy Little Rabbit. This new book in the bestselling interactive board book series will have toddlers jumping to play.Follow-on from Tickle My Ears: “A wonderful interactive bedtime book for children and l

Create your own games with magnets of Bluey, Bingo and their friends. Bluey and Bingo love to play! Use your magnets of Bluey and her friends to join in on the fun and create games at home, in the forest and at school. Featuring twelve magnets for endless imaginative fun!

《Let's Play, Cheetah》是 Jo Lodge 的「The Googlies」系列之一，透過滑動機關與圓滾滾的眼睛，讓小獵豹栩栩如生地陪伴寶寶認識遊戲時間的第一個詞彙。書中色彩鮮明、圖像簡單，搭配清楚情境，有助於語言發展與觀察力，是適合嬰幼兒啟蒙閱讀的互動硬頁書。其他系列還有《Time for Bed, Panda》、《It's Lunchtime, Monkey!》等。Meet The Googlies by Jo Lodge! In Let's Play, Cheetah, children will learn first words about playtime. Bold, googly eyes and a sliding mechanism bring this adorable cheetah to life, while children share the simple story and point at the bright pictures. An ideal book for babies, this title combines bright illustrations, a simple story and first words - a perfect introduction to playtime for little ones.Read more in the series: Time for Bed, Panda; It's Lunchtime, Monkey!; Let's Go Out, Elephant

Specially devised to entertain and delight very young children (and incidentally to help along their vocabulary and cognitive skills) here are sixteen original play-rhymes with child-friendly illustra

Bumble and Bee are ready to PLAY! Will Froggy join their fun and games?Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early reader line, Acorn, aimed at children who are learning to re

Duck just wants to play with his best friend Bear... the final story in the hilarious Duck and Bear series from an award-winning team!Duck wants to play in the snow.But Bear thinks it's waaaaay too co

For many young children (and sometimes their parents), bathtime is a chore. Kids can think of a million things they'd rather be doing than take a bath. The latest title in the Pull and Play Books™ ser

It rumbles and grumbles and the sky shines in all its glory. It is just two children who are having fun. Up high, Leia and Theo play hide and seek and the clouds are their playground. In this funny pi

Today, Maisy is going to nursery! Join Maisy and her friends as they play with building blocks, count to five and sit down for story time. This brilliant board book includes a bonus pop-up and play sc

Little Wolf is bored, and so he asks some other animals to play. But no one wants to join him-not the squirrel, nor the bunny, nor the fox. Their parents have told them not to play with wolves. But wh

It's never too early to encourage children to talk about how they feel. This newest title in the Pull and Play BooksTM series provides reassurance and support through gently humorous situations. Child