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Wipe-Clean First Sums: Start School with Topsy and Tim

Wipe-Clean First Sums: Start School with Topsy and Tim

Summary

This Topsy and Tim activity book has shiny, wipe-clean pages and also comes with a special pen to make practising first sums as easy as 1, 2, 3!

Number bonds from 1-10 are introduced in the order that they are taught in schools and content has been approved by an educational consultant. Simple sums and interesting maths activities help to reinforce first adding and subtracting skills, while colourful pictures of Topsy and Tim and their world are fun and reassuring.

Help your child to fill in the answers, then they can wipe clean using the special eraser on top of the pen and practise again! The last page has space for your child to practise their own sums, too.

Perfect to help support children learning to add and subtract single numbers at school, and the ideal companion to Topsy and Tim's Wipe-Clean First Numbers.

About the author

Jean Adamson

Jean Adamson is the creator of more than 100 much-loved children's books spanning five decades.
She studied Illustration at Goldsmiths where she met her future husband and writing partner Gareth Adamson (1925-1982). They worked on children's books together, with Gareth producing the storylines and Jean the illustration, including Topsy and Tim.
More than 140 Topsy and Tim titles have been published, selling upwards of 21 million copies around the world. Since 1998, over a million copies have been sold in the UK alone. Sixty episodes of an animated TV series followed, and three seasons of a live-action version have broadcast on CBeebies, which won the BAFTA Pre-school Live Action award in 2016.
In 1999 Jean Adamson was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature.
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