Laurence King Publishing Ltd

The exquisite Japanese hikaru dorodango, or shiny mud ball, is created by rolling earth by hand into a perfect sphere and polishing it until it gleams. Not only are the results truly impressive, but this calm and meditative practice, once a playground game, has been rediscovered as a peaceful pastime.

These 50 cards are a wake-up call to your senses. How much of the world's beauty have we become indifferent to, caught up in the bustle and rush of day-to-day life? Take a break from the madness, and from your smartphone, and rediscover the magic of the world around you with prompts that encourage you to experience the wonder of being alive.

Not just a guide to keeping your plants alive and happy (though we've got that covered), Plantfulness is about finding the perfect plant for you! These cards will guide you through 50 houseplants that can give back in a symbiotic relationship in which you both thrive.

Play your favourite card games with Romeo and Juliet as King and Queen of Hearts, Lady Macbeth as Ace Villain, and let Adam Simpson's artwork bring Shakespeare's plays to life. Arranged in four suits - with hearts = lovers, clubs = fools, diamonds = heroes and heroines, and spades = villains, plus two jokers, of course - this artist-illustrated deck of playing cards

Check into the Monster Hotel...if you DARE! Each room is occupied by a different fiendish but friendly creature. The 28 room cards can be moved around to create different configurations and stories. The cards come in a box that looks like the outside of a hotel. Kids will have hours of fun rearranging the rooms and creating new monster scenarios.

Learn about wines from all over the world in this deluxe happy families game. With two decks of cards – one for red wines, one for whites – covering all the major wine-producing regions and some unexpected gems, this is the perfect way to dip in to the world of wine. Includes a booklet with brief descriptions of each region along with some tips on which labels to look out for.

Pick a card, any card! Now pick another. With one landscape card and one animal card, there will only ever be one animal that features on both. Can you be the first to find it? Featuring Caroline Selmes's delightful animal illustrations and jungle scenes, Who Is Hiding in the Jungle? will have the whole family in stitches!

Travel back in time to Ancient Egypt with this new children's matching game, developed in partnership with the British Museum. Locate and match up the pairs to learn more about how the Egyptians lived. Why did they shave their heads but wear wigs, use dark eye make-up and worship dung beetles? How did they invent toothpaste and which internal organs did they keep before mummification?

Unleash thousands of stories from the depths of your imagination! Pick a subject card and a technique card and use them to create your own madcap tales. These 80 cards will provide hours of storytelling and creative writing entertainment. All you need is a pencil and paper, and a pirate ship, and a warrior princess, and an elephant...

Enter the world of huge hair, sparkling make-up, glitter galore, fake eyelashes and … the fine art of the tuck and tape, with these drag queen playing cards. Featuring 14 of the most famous, most beautiful and most outrageous queens from across the carnival court of drag, this deck is sure to liven up your next game of canasta.

Pair up the cats with their humans in this hilarious card game.

Get crazy with The Wild Bunch! This shedding game, based on Crazy Eights, will have you up to your ears in lions, monkeys, wombats and whales as you try to get rid of your cards before anyone else. The deck features animals instead of numbers so kids of any age can understand and play, and there are loads of exciting action cards to change things up: ...

Bring some stardust to your card table with 54 of the most influential movie directors and stars, arranged into four suits. Hearts = Romance, Clubs = Drama, Diamonds = Crime, Spades = Sci-fi Includes illustrations of all the big names, from Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles to Sofia Coppola and Samuel L. Jackson - plus two jokers: Wes Anderson and Charlie Chaplin.