Shape Shifter - Coph Nia

Advantages: Quick to flick through
Disadvantages: ...Quick to flick through

...Shape is not a magazine I would normally chose to buy, but when a copy ends up in my hands, as it invariably does, I usually flick through before chucking it under my bed where all things that need to be banished from sight but still can't, for some unknown reason, be thrown away, live. Published monthly by Dennis Publishing, Shape is, as the name would suggest, concerned with all things healthy and fitnessey. They're a little over the top with their accepting yourself and worshipping life emphasis - all their sections have the L word in the title - love your health, love your body, love your world and so on. Unlike some other magazines, this one manages to strike a nice balance between health issues (good detail, but only about those affecting 20 - 40 year old women really), fashion (not too many pages, "average" sized models... Read review

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Advantages: Great educational values, active participation, brightly coloured!
Disadvantages: Absolutely None!!

...□□□ Price □□□ My paperback, ISBN: 0-7445-8205-9 was £5.99. Cheaper versions are available from amazon, priced at £1.38 and the pop up book from £1.84 □□□ The book □□□ This is a non-fiction children's book, the main focus of which is shapes, however it does give a lot of information about animals so is therefore science based as well as maths. □□□ Sue Hendra / The Author □□□ Sue Hendra graduated in 1994 and has worked as an illustrator of over 70 children's books. I have listed some of the books that she has written and /or illustrated: ~ Counting in the sea, 1, 2, 3. ~ Dinosaur Dinner ~ Colours ~ Mole digs a hole ~ Overground ~ What's that shape? ~ My Daddy's favourite things ~ Scary Party □... Read review

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Advantages: good teaching puzzle
Disadvantages: none

...A puzzle at my work place. We have the jigsaw shape puzzle by PHB at my school. This puzzle is a wooden inset puzzle with 12 pieces. Each piece and corresponding hole to position it into is a geometric shape. There is sometimes one of a shape sometimes two of the same shape but they are different sizes, there's circles, squares, rectangles triangle, hexagon, pentagon, semicircle. The puzzle tray is a natural wood colour; each wooden shape is a different colour. This puzzle is quite a large one sorry I did not measure it at work but it must be about12 inches/30cm by9 inches/23cm possibly a bit bigger. The individual shapes about 2 inch pieces. These wooden shape puzzle pieces do not have pegs on to aid their fitting. This puzzle is good to help the learning of shapes and their quantities. Sit with your child while they... Read review

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