This treasure trove of boredom-busting ideas will keep you entertained - wherever, whenever. Whether it’s a rainy afternoon or a long summer’s day, whether you’re at home or on a journey, whether you’re on your own or with friends, you’ll never get bored with this book.

Whoever opens this book will unearth an amazing hoard of fun things to do outdoors, throughout summer – and the other seasons, too.

Find out how to build with old newspapers and turn them into trees that grow before your eyes. Then, transform junk mail into jewels and coil strips of paper into creepy crawlies. You can fold origami frogs for a race, test paper planes and parachutes, and design your own board game.

A new addition to Usborne’s popular Write your own series, this book explains how to make homemade magazines or ‘zines’ from scratch. With step-by-step instructions and tips on everything from making comics or writing advice columns to printing magazines and finding readers.

This illustrated, write-in book is an unworry toolkit, for distracting you from any anxieties, calming you down, and providing a place to sort through your worries and thoughts. It includes a variety of activities, from things to write, color and design, to calm-down tactics and relaxation exercises.

This write-in activity book is all about taking a little time to breathe, focus, and be calm, with the help of some friendly sloths.

This inviting draw-in book is filled with drawing activities to help soothe busy minds and shrink down worries.

This is a companion to the very successful Write Your Own Storybook - for kids who want to tell stories, but gravitate toward pictures. Has a mix of partially-drawn comics and blank panels with intro comics as instructions - lots of space for kids to draw their own comics, but they're never left fully alone with a scary blank page.

A write-in book filled with a wide range of writing activities, tips and advice to inspire a new generation of sci-fi and fantasy writers. Learn about world-building, suspense, and other tools to be the perfect sci-fi or fantasy writer!

This book will help you write all kinds of scripts – scary ones, exciting ones, and hilariously silly ones.

Provides helpful advice on choosing the best words for creating characters, setting scenes and shaping stories, as well as special vocabulary for different story themes. Young authors can create their own stories and build up a word bank of favorite words and phrases, so that they need never use "nice" again…