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This is a festive addition to the best-selling and award-winning touchy-feely series. The enduring appeal of Rachel Well's illustrations and the opportunity to touch a variety of textures make these books baby and pre-school classics. Very young children will enjoy the bright and colourful illustrations while the different texture patches help develop sensory awareness.

A picture book with sound panel, featuring 14 sounds, incorporating the familiar tune and lively sound effects. It is suitable as a gift to treasure for Christmases to come.

This is the first in a fantastic new range of science books, explaining biology in an informal, fun and informative way. Written in a conversational style, this book offers children an approachable source of information on key subjects such as the life cycle, the human body, plantlife, evolution and ecosystems. It is filled with up to date information straight from the headlines on such topical issues as stem cell research and the latest dinosaur discoveries. Complicated topics are kept fun with a variety of techniques including comic strips, fact boxes and 'nerdy notes' post-its with handy mnemonics written on them. It offers fun yet simple experiments that give children working examples to learn from.

This new, shrink-wrapped, deluxe edition is presented in cloth binding and larger format. Beautifully illustrated throughout, it is a collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen retold for younger readers. It includes The Emperor's New Clothes, The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, The Snow Queen, The Princess and the Pea and other classic stories, as well as a short biography of Hans Christian Andersen.

This is a wonderful collection of retellings of six of William Shakespeare's best-loved plays — a perfect mix of comedy, tragedy, magic and romance — retold for younger readers. Full of colourful illustrations from the Usborne Young Reading Programme. It contains A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest and Twelfth Night. It includes a section at the back on the life and times of William Shakespeare. It comes now in a shrink-wrapped, luxurious cloth-bound edition, making it a gift to treasure.

This is a stunning sticker book, packed with information about Ancient Egypt, and over 100 stickers. The reader can discover all about life in Ancient Egypt while adding stickers of beautiful ancient artefacts to the different spreads. Spreads include — the Treasures of Tutankamun, magical amulets, coffins and mummies, mighty gods, and famous pharaohs. Stickers include some of the most famous artefacts from the British Museum, the MET, the Berlin Museum and the Cairo Museum, as well as intriguing items that might be less familiar. There is also a map scene to which readers can add stickers of famous archaeological sites and temples in Egypt.

Features step-by-step recipes that may encourage children to cook safely. This title presents colourful illustrations and recipes to make as Easter gifts or as tasty treats for yourself. It includes recipes such as: Spring flower sweets, Easter fruit bread, chocolate nests and daisy biscuits, as well as creative gift-wrapping ideas.

This is a fun colouring and sticker book with scenes perfect for young boys including castles, trucks and diggers, and farm animals and machines. With over 200 stickers to add to the pages, this title contains three Usborne titles: First Colouring Book: Trucks and Diggers, First Colouring Book: Farm and First Sticker Book: Castles.

This is a lively introduction to the fascinating lives of tigers, complete with beautiful photographs, illustrated step-by-step diagrams and weird and wonderful facts. It comes with easy-to-read text specially written with the help of a reading expert, aimed at children who are beginning to read on their own. It is part of the exciting Beginners series, now containing more than 50 titles on topics ranging from Trucks and Ancient Greeks to Planet Earth.

This is a new edition of a great-value sticker book with brightly coloured, intricate illustrations and photographs of the major sights, cities and landmarks of each country. It is updated to include the 2012 Olympics stadium. It features over 140 stickers for children to place on the maps. It also features the key towns of Britain and Northern Ireland, as well as sculptures, bridges and galleries, from the countries' most famous places to their hidden secrets.

In this title, bright and attractive scenes show animals from around the world in their natural habitats, including under the sea, farm animals, pets, the rainforest, the African savannah, and creepy crawlies. It contains simple information about the animals shown, such as how a spider makes a web and how elephants take showers. It is illustrated with the charming models of Jo Litchfield. It includes robust board pages perfectly sized for little hands to turn.

A sticker book with lots of different types of cheeky monkeys and apes to discover. It allows young children to hang monkeys from the trees, put playful orangutans in the zoo, and place gorillas in the jungle. It features over 100 stickers to bring each picture to life.

This title explores the fabulous world of princesses as you search palace gardens, royal forests and splendid ballrooms for golden crowns, royal swans and gorgeous gowns. It features beautiful watercolour illustrations of princesses playing in the palace gardens, dancing at candlelit balls and even doing everyday things such as reading a bedtime story. It introduces new words and lots of things to look for and talk about with your child.

This is a new series for the very young, with large colourful stickers of wheels, vehicle parts and drivers that can be put together on the page to create big, chunky trucks and attractive scenes. Interchangeable stickers provide a wealth of picture-making possibilities. Themes and scenes include a motorway, a truck race, a building site, removal trucks, farm trucks and a fire truck.

This is a new series for the very young, with large colourful stickers of wheels, carriages, engines, drivers and passengers that can be put together on the page to create attractive scenes. It offers interchangeable stickers that provide a wealth of picture-making possibilities. Themes and scenes include a busy station, a steam train, freight train, a monorail, bullet trains, underground trains, and funiculars.

Little children will love discovering all the animals on Apple Tree Farm. You can create fun scenes by adding Curly the pig, Woolly the sheep, Daisy the cow and all the other animals to the pictures. With charming illustrations by Stephen Cartwright and a little yellow duck to find in every picture, it contains over 100 stickers to add to the pages.

This is a bright, imaginative doodling book specially aimed at young doodlers with simple doodles to doodle. It offers lots of opportunities to turn shapes into people, bugs, monsters and robots or just add spots, dots, swirls and curls to make patterns. Young children won't be able to resist grabbing their felt-tips or pencils to add feet to caterpillars, scales to dinosaurs, wiggly legs to jellyfish or complete a castle.

Following on the success of 100 paper planes, 100 More Paper Planes to Fly has new planes based on four different layouts, each decorated with its own unique colours, motifs and patterns — ranging from Aztec prints to fighting tigers to sci fi. This title features clear and concise instructions on how to fold and throw the planes. Each plane is printed on its own special tear-out page.

This is a ghoulish addition to the Usborne 1000 Sticker Book series which will delight and entertain children not only at Halloween, but throughout the year. It helps them complete colourful scenes with wicked wizards, witches, ghosts and ghouls, mixed in with sinister bats, swamp monsters, skeletons and oozing slime. It includes extra stickers that can be used to make pictures or to embellish cards, invitations, trick-or-treat bags and envelopes.

Specially designed for the very young, these lively, chunky board books will improve a child's vocabulary and early word-recognition skills. Fabulously illustrated throughout with Jo Litchfield's hand-made models, each page has a robust tab attached to help children find their favourite scene. With lots to look at and learn, young children will be fascinated by the colour and detail on every page. It is spot laminated throughout.

A charmingly illustrated first alphabet book for the very young. It includes a picture for each letter and carefully controlled vocabulary and phonically regular words. It features pictures that provide lots to talk about for pre-readers and will aid vocabulary building.

Space-mad kids can discover how real spacecraft work, and what life's really like as an astronaut with this fun, accessible book about real-life spaceships, offering short chunks of simple text, stunning photographs and detailed diagrams. Full of cutaway illustrations of spacecraft, from the Apollo 11 Moon landing craft to the Space Shuttle and beyond, plus comic strips about the excitement and danger of space travel. Includes carefully selected internet links to websites with games allowing you to build your own rocket, video clips of space launches and panoramic views inside the International Space Station.

This is a sumptuous addition to the exciting Usborne Sticker dressing series. You can travel back in time and find out what kings and queens have worn through the ages, from Nefertiti's elaborate double crown, and Catherine the Great's sumptuous gown to Elizabeth II's coronation regalia. With over 150 stickers to choose from, you can dress each regal figure in accurate historical costumes, including medieval ermine-lined robes, Elizabethan lace ruffs and an Indian Mughal headdress.

This is a perfect general introduction to how people lived. It is now published in a new edition providing excellent value for money. Usborne World History books offer an excellent introduction to history, explaining key topics in clear and simple language. Exploring contemporary opinions of the period from artists and explorers, to the ideas and inventions of the time, the series offers an international perspective on events. Each book also contains a chronology, word list and time chart.