Central Kansas Library System

Get crafty and help save the planet too! With easy step-by-step instructions Cool Glass and Ceramics Projects offers kids a chance to get creative by turning their trash into handmade treasures. All projects feature common everyday glass and ceramic items to reuse in a fun new way. From glass jar lanterns to terrific tile coasters, kids will love making useful crafts and helping the environment. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing...

Get crafty and help save the planet too! With easy step-by-step instructions Cool Plastic Projects offers kids a chance to get creative by turning their trash into handmade treasures. All projects feature common everyday plastic items to reuse in a fun new way. From a button bouquet to a keyboard calendar, kids will love making useful crafts and helping the environment. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

Get crafty and help save the planet too! With easy step-by-step instructions Cool Paper Projects offers kids a chance to get creative by turning their trash into handmade treasures. All projects feature common everyday paper items to reuse in a fun new way. From woven paper bookmarks to scrap paper curtains, kids will love making useful crafts and helping the environment. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

This title is a terrific introduction to simple prefixes and suffixes for young readers. Easy-to-read sentences about sports, alongside supporting photographs, show how prefixes and suffixes change the meaning of words. Kids will enjoy the fun and simple illustrated rhyming story, The Unknown Ballplayer, which reinforces the word building concept. A multiple-choice quiz is also included. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

Illustrates how to care for pet dalmations.

Discusses the nature of tolerance, which means accepting people no matter what they look like, how they live, what they like, or how they do things.

Defines patriotism as being proud of your country and provides examples and symbols such as the flying of the flag, saying the Pledge of Allegiance, and voting.

This playful title includes double page, beautiful photos of tigers in their natural habitat. Supplementary text boxes provide additional information about tigers.

Provides step-by-step instructions for projects readers can make for their bedrooms, such as no-sew throw pillows, decorated drawer knobs, and a necklace holder.

Presents step-by-step instructions for simple homemade projects that kids can make for their family and friends, including a mouse pad, draft blocker, coasters, a necklace, and candles.