Purchase here Children everywhere will welcome this new edition of a classic activity book - as will their teachers and parents (especially those seeking to simplify). A "best of" compilation of two volumes, it is a unique, affordable, and child-sized handbook that doesn't talk down to anyone. In fact, it is mostly pictures drawn in a simple and elegant style clear enough for anyone to follow, whether or not they read (though some projects, like paper making or batik, ask for adult supervision). Thirty years later, author Ann Sayre Wiseman says "I still meet people who say 'Making Things was . . .