8 Amazing Activity Books to Make Kids Enjoy Reading
Reading can be fun! Some kids have a hard time focusing when it comes to following a narrative—but activities that speak to their interests will always get them engaged.
These 8 interactive activity books will help your kids unleash their imagination while exploring the world. Art, science, geography, and culture are just a few of the topics that will come to life.
My Stencil Kit
Award-winning children’s author Hervé Tullet helps young readers unleash their powers of artistic expression. With over 200 stencil shapes and six boards, endless creative possibilities emerge from My Stencil Kit. 
It’s a great way to help young artists get adept at drawing a multitude of common shapes and forms while giving them the freedom to arrange them with imaginative inspiration.
This Book Thinks You’re a Scientist: Experiment, Imagine, Create
Do you think your child is a future astronaut, explorer, or physicist? Opening This Book Thinks You’re a Scientist, developed by London Science Museum that will be like entering a secret laboratory for them.
Let your little scientist explore these key areas of science like force and motion, electricity, magnetism, earth, space, matter, sound, light, and mathematics—not just by reading, but through interactive experiments and drawing activities.
This Book Thinks You’re An Artist
Dealing with a little Van Gogh or Picasso in need of a serious outlet for artistic expression that doesn’t involve scribbling on the wall?
This Book Thinks You’re an Artist is filled with activities spanning a range of styles throughout art history. Your young artist will get educated in the skills of observation, drawing, color pattern, design, sculpture, art criticism and how to find inspiration in the work of other artists.
Mountains of Colors Coloring Book
Designed by local Hong Kong artist Assia Bennan, Mountains of Colors will help young readers master the art of water coloring—or any other medium they like. Aspiring artists can fill in the remaining blank spaces of this beautiful story printed on high-quality paper.
Every book sold will finance on a month of education for a Miao girl in China, so Mountains of Colors is really a gift with a purpose.
Illustration School: Let’s Draw a Story
Great for artists of all skill levels, Illustration School is drawn from the mind of Sachiko Umoto, one of the Japan’s most popular artists. The author’s special and distinct style is simple, appealing, happy, and cute and offers artists, crafters, and art enthusiasts.
Young artists will enter a fantastic world filled with magical characters and follow an engaging storyline that they must finish with their own creative cast by drawing and sketching, and Illustration School will show young artists how to tell a story through art.
Paris Up, Up and Away
What else would the Eiffel Tower do when it’s boring but cut loose and sail over the city of lights? Paris Up, Up and Away is an incredible artistic masterpiece of fanciful laser cut art that depicts the unique hustle and bustle of one of the world’s cultural bastions. 
From the hustle-bustle of the pedestrians on the Champs Elysees to the bells of Notre Dame, your child will get a unique tour of Paris, through the eyes of the world’s most famous tower.
Oskar and Ellen Baby Activities Books
From sleepy bunnies to household pets to cheerful woodland friends, your littlest one won’t be able to stop playing and exploring between the cloth covers of the Oskar and Ellen activity books.
With removable stuffed figures and gentle, cuddly scenery, the Oskar and Ellen activity books are specially crafted to help develop your child’s fine motor skills while enhancing hand-eye coordination. Best of all, it is perfect for those times you need your child to be seated quietly.
Leap & Hop Activity Book Series
From the Gargoyles of Medieval Paris to the exotic Southeast Asian mystique of India and Bali, the Leap & Hop Coloring Books will turn the grown-up idea of travel into a book-sized adventure for children.
These interactive books aimed at getting children to discover a new country or city and learn about history, culture, currency, food, architecture, and local religious customs as they color their way around the world. As kids play along by drawing, writing, and collecting items of interest throughout the journey, they’ll find themselves creating a very personal souvenir as the book is transformed into a travel scrapbook for them to keep.
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