Learn how to safely photograph a solar eclipse and how to use the contents of your nose to eradicate a scratch on a negative! Find out how ravenous soldiers jeopardised the success of Pigeon-Cam in the First World War, and learn how to take photographs on wood or even apples. Meet the mad, genius, daring and sometimes fraudulent pioneers and practitioners of all things photographic. Discover that the principal of the camera obscura was known in China as early as the 5th century BCE. How did Kodak company get its name? Who invented the Minox Spy Camera? Were there really fax machines in the mid 19th century? What would a photographer use a Mod Podge for? Full of arresting images and exquisitely typeset by the author himself, the book is packed with the origins of the photographer's craft, tip and tricks of the greats, a host of revealing quotes and fascinating trivia. Watch the birdie! 96pp, illus.

Beano and The Dandy gift box set and a companion to code 93691, become a real life film director and create characters and storylines and watch them come to life. The box contains 12 strips of plasticine ranging from green, blue, purple, grey, orange, brown, yellow, red, two white and two black, a tiny yellow envelope containing five jagged Sound Cards (Fazoom!, Fwump!, Blam!, Krash! and Pyonnnng!) First you'll need to find a phone app that allows you to create stop-motion animation movies with your phone. Place the Dennis the Menace black wall backdrop enclosed in your box and start your first scene. You can fold your backdrop to create street corners, cut out scenes from your favourite magazine and place them over the back drop and place the Sound Cards close to your phone lens to make a big impact! Includes a cardboard phone stand and long yellow plastic arrow for direction and animation. Time to get modelling and creative with this branded family fun item.

Put together your favourite family game Charades with real plasticine that does not dry out. Can you make a model of Dennis the Menace or the Statue of Liberty and will your teammates be able to guess what you've made before the sand runs through the timer? Elephant, aeroplane, dinosaur, chair, there are 54 challenge cards, a real sand timer and 12 strips of plasticine ranging from green, blue, purple, grey, orange, brown, yellow, red, two white and two black. Imagination is fun with this modelling-with-a-twist box set.

Between 80 and 87 Cryptic clues across and down and the same number of quick clues for the same grid, the choice is yours across all 100 giant sized crosswords, one per right hand page in this extra large softback. A cracking collection of super-sized grids from the Daily Mail Saturday newspaper, how you solve the puzzle is up to you, whether you choose a relaxed approach or race for results. A perfect test of your vocabulary and mental agility, the book is discounted for the first time. Paperback.

Cause family chaos and make sure siblings actually get along with these super-competitive games in an ultimate battle of the generations. You'll never again be stuck as the box set contains instructions for 100 card games including Chain Gang, Got Your Number, Draw Me A Clue, Who? What? Where?, Charades, Musical Chairs, Spoons, Musical Statues, Yes or No, Simon Says, Human Knot, Bite the Bag, Hum it Again, Hot Potato, Balloon Race, Pass the Parcel, Guess the Song, Toilet Roll Mummy, Great Minds, Defend the Fort, Categories, Two Truths and A Lie, I Never Have, Buzz and more. Also includes 60 Forfeit cards to really help the winners feel smug and a one minute timer, 3" long, with green plastic ends and green sand inside. A good quality box set, colour illus.

Published in association with The National Gallery, we explore the world's greatest artists in 100 visually stunning puzzles. We zoom in on focal points of famous paintings by Degas like Combing the Hair, match the missing grid, find the twins, work out which is a fake or fortune. Many jigsaws have missing pieces where two small squares have been removed from a painting and five duplicates made of each of them. Can you identify which is correct? Discover little known facts about masterpieces like Canaletto's Venice: The Grand Canal and the quality and level of light in Rembrandt's Self Portrait at the age of 34 and the graceful postures of the figures in Piero della Francesca's The Baptism of Christ and the glowing skin with pallor perfection and blushing pink at points of Velázquez's naked woman in The Toilet of Venus. There are quizzes by century, several versions of artworks, but are they by the same artist? Answer which artworks founded or is the exemplar of a new artistic school, which artworks show an imaginary location or a fictitious one, which artworks are considered worthless and which artworks were previously owned by another well known artist, which are by women or created by a high-ranking aristocrat and which artworks show a location that still looks the same today? Constable's The Hay Wain or Millet's The Church at Arbonne? Mythic, cryptic, obscure, with answers at the back, a very glamorous 240 page large paperback, hundreds of colour illus.

In the Retro Games series with Victorian looking striped packaging, the box set contains two full sets of playing cards and a set of five dice and a fantastic 64 page colour instruction paperback to learn all the rules of favourites like Pontoon, Stud, Whiskey and Draw Poker, Old Maid, Knaves, Knock-out Whist, Honest John, Fan-Tan and English Hazard among them. Full instructions, number of players, equipment, aim and rules.

If you love Scrabble here is a large range of 18 different types of word puzzles, some short which will be relatively quick to solve, others more of a challenge. In addition to several common types of word searches and word wheels, there are anagram-based puzzles adapted to make use of scrabble tiles, for instance new versions of word ladder and word square puzzles. Find the highest scoring words with these enjoyable challenges in this bumper book of more than 250 fun puzzles in all 18 varieties, suitable for the whole family. 288pp, illustrated paperback.

Fluid, fast and expressive life drawings start here with a wonderful comprehensive course based on classic principles. Here are essential techniques for drawing gesture, figures, clothing, expression, body language and to render fleeting gestures from memory and capturing expressions simply and quickly. Along the way develop a more spontaneous approach for successfully working from life as you learn skills about construction, hands and expressions, use photographs to draw an eye, nose or mouth and mould the features into expressions, interlock folds of clothing, pipe folds of clothing and practice spherical figures, cubic forms to settings and perspectives and the asymmetrical balance of light and dark called compressing the values. The world is constantly in motion - capture it. 128pp softback, illus. 21 x 27.4cm.

Wally-watchers of all ages will love this travel book filled with fun facts and tomfoolery with a bonus set of sensational story cards. Simply shuffle the cards and go - and who knows what crazy capers are on the other side? Unscramble the words as you pack the suitcase, write out your own boarding pass where you are going to, who with, what you're looking forward to and how you are travelling. Spot ten differences at the train station, go backwards forwards upwards and down in a huge wordsearch for passport, suitcase, walking stick etc. Follow the lines to find out if truck number one, two or three is refuelling the aircraft. Spot the sea-themed silhouettes in the double page illustration, follow the path of the plundering pilots, doodle in the empty mini portrait frames, find the secret hiding place of the Aztec gold hoard by finding a Spanish Conquistador holding a flag with a double-headed eagle on it. Play Whacky Wally Consequences, Write Like an Egyptian, send a message in a bottle and much more. With answers, perforated cards, colour illus. and all in a strong Walker Books hardback with elasticated fastener.