November’s Explorer Box:

Adventure!

Picture book surrounded by fun craft and stem activities for children

Welcome to November’s Box!

November’s book and activity box is packed with fun activities for your child to explore their own Desert Island.

This box is based on the action-packed and beautiful picture book ‘Hom' written by Jeanne Willis and illustrated by Paddy Donnelly.

Together with the book, this box teaches children more about friendships and how we treat people who appear different to us.

This box will be posted from Monday 31st October.

Subscribe today from £21 to receive this box.

Inside page of the picture book Hom and a child's wooden racing car

Included in this box:

The book, step-by-step instructions, our words of the month card and four activities designed by teachers.

  • Create your own Desert Island

  • Write your own message in a bottle

  • A car STEM experiment

  • Design your own cave drawings

  • Plus many more activities from our activities section!

Our sibling box will contain enough resources for two children to complete all the activities.

You will receive:

  • A copy of the picture book

  • Activity cards

  • Words of the month poster

  • Wooden toy car

  • Yellow playdough

  • Tissue paper

  • Eye stickers

  • Glass bottle

  • Crayola chalks

  • Paper

  • PVA glue

  • Lolly stick

‘Hom is the last of his kind. I don’t know what kind of creature he is, and nobody knows he exists... apart from me.’


When a boy washes up on a desert island, he is sure he’s on his own in the world. But there’s someone else living there: Hom, a peace-loving creature who has lost his family, too. Alone on the island together, they learn from each other and become the best of friends. So when a rescue ship appears on the horizon, the boy has a big decision to make...

Please Note:

  • This activity box is not suitable for children under 36 months and contains small parts that may be choking hazards. Children must be supervised.

  • The playdough contains plain flour, salt, coconut oil, cream of tartar, glycerine and food colouring. All our playdough has been UKCA tested by an independent UK lab.

  • Due to the nature of the product, the colour of the playdough may vary slightly from the image.

  • The colour of the car may vary from the picture shown.

  • Although we have taken every precaution possible, we cannot guarantee that there are no traces of nuts or other allergens in our products. Our boxes are made in an environment in which nuts and other allergens are used.