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The Creative Year

Celebrate the seasons with simple creative projects using discarded household materials

Books Around the World

Did you know that books are made from palm leaves, wood, and animal skin as well as paper? Books Around The World shows you pictures and tells you about books from Egypt, Bali, Thailand, Spain, Japan, Mexico, and China.

Multicultural Books

Susan's first and most popular book, Multicultural Books To Make And Share, has sixteen cross-cultural and cross-curricular projects.

Getting to Know You

Help children celebrate their identity and get to know each other with for four fun projects.

Making Books for Young Learners

17 projects, detailed step-by-step directions, and lots of reproducible pages make bookmaking easy and fun for you and your pre-K to 1st grade children.