Usborne

This title presents a fun and innovative way for young children to get to grips with numbers. It covers first numerical concepts including counting up to and down from ten, number recognition, number patterns and sequences, more and less, one more and one less and ordinal numbers. Simple number puzzles throughout encourage little children to learn through interactive activities. It is illustrated with the charming models of Jo Litchfield.

Featuring over 400 brightly illustrated self-adhesive labels and decorative stickers to use on books, bags, notes, diaries and pencil cases, this title includes fun stickers to personalize and decorate belongings, and share with friends.

Light-weight and wipeable, this is the perfect first book for babies wherever they are, not only in the bath!

Au fil des pages, amuse-toi à placer tout un tas d'autocollants dans cette magnifique maison de poupée: des meubles aux décorations, en passant par les jouets, les chats endormis, les vêtements et bien d'autres objets encore.

This is a colourful first picture wordbook, filled with familiar objects for small children to spot and name. It encourages vocabulary building, talking, and colour recognition.

An illustrated number book for the very young, this title provides lots to talk about for pre-readers and will aid vocabulary building.

An introduction to 15 famous works of art from around the world — each accompanied by a creative colouring project. It features artists who range from Monet and Matisse to Pop Art and traditional Japanese prints. It also includes stickers.

This imaginative sticker book allows children to take part in a monster hunt through time and space, using the vivid stickers provided to add beastly details to each scene. If you dare to look inside, you'll meet monsters old and new: from mummies and zombies to monsters as yet unnamed; mini-monsters and maxi-monsters and slimy monsters from sewers and swamps. You can greet unusual aliens from distant planets, meet bumbling boogie monsters partying in the park, judge an unsavoury cookery competition, and see monsters that go bump in the night... It comes with over 300 frightful stickers to choose from.

This is a new edition of the popular and successful encyclopedia describing the remarkable history of Ancient Egypt. You can discover remarkable facts of one of the world's oldest civilisations from its origins as a group of settlements along the banks of the Nile, its rise to one of the world's greatest civilisations to its decline at the hands of the Roman Empire. It is filled with stunning photographs and detailed illustrations. It includes a comprehensive factfinder featuring a time chart, a list of who's who and details of recent archaeological finds. It includes internet links that offer a fascinating selection of recommended web sites — with sound, animation or video clips which provide additional information for projects and homework.

This is an engaging retelling of an Anansi story, written for children just learning to read. Anansi, the African trickster spider, tells Elephant and Rhino he can beat them both in a tug of war. To their astonishment, he does... or does he? This title features easy reading text that is brought to life with delightful illustrations. There are puzzles at the back of the book that consolidate learning. It is part of the successful Usborne First Reading series, developed in consultation with Alison Kelly, Principal Lecturer in Education and reading specialist at Roehampton University.

This is a charming retelling of the traditional folktale, perfectly matched with witty illustrations by Fred Blunt. Rabbit's burrow is far too small so he goes to Wise Owl for advice. But is Owl serious when he tells Rabbit to invite all his friends and family to stay? It includes easy-to-read text, with fun comprehension puzzles at the end. It is a wonderful addition to the Usborne First Reading series, developed in consultation with Alison Kelly, Principal Lecturer and reading specialist at the University of Roehampton.

Dress the dolls as they travel on holiday in this delightful addition to the incredibly successful Sticker Dolly Dressing series. You can design the outfits the dolls should wear as they check in for a flight at an airport, on board a ferry in Greece, as they wait for a vaporetto in Venice, and as they board an intercity train to go snowboarding in France. It is absolutely perfect for any long journey or keeping little girls (and some big ones) busy during the holidays. You can choose the clothes and accessories from over 300 stickers.

Choose the dolls' clothes for different kinds of parties in this delightful addition to the incredibly successful Sticker Dolly Dressing series. Design the party clothes as the dolls go on a summer picnic party, go to a pirate party, dress up for a Halloween party and keep warm at a firework party.

This is a wonderfully entertaining activity book for young vehicle enthusiasts, with over 300 stickers of wheels, cabs, carriages, tracks, trailers, animals and drivers that can be put together on the page to create attractive scenes. Large, colourful stickers, many interchangeable, provide a wealth of picture-making possibilities. Vehicles include trucks, trains and tractors of all different kinds, from old-fashioned steam trains to monster racing trucks.

Helps young children create their own tractor pictures using the big, colourful stickers, specially designed for little fingers. This title includes stickers of wheels, lights, cabs, tracks, trailers and animals that offer children countless picture-making possibilities.

This is a beautiful board book, with over 60 flaps. It provides friendly, charming answers to challenging questions that young children love to ask. Bold, question word headings (Who? Why? Where? etc.) bring together an eclectic mix of subject areas, making it the perfect book to dip into. The illustrations are both entertaining and informative, and the text is written simply and clearly, with an added touch of humour.

This title presents a fast-track Spanish course for beginners, which makes learning Spanish easy and fun. It provides a thorough grounding in Spanish grammar and everyday phrases, using up-to-date Spanish and building up the reader's knowledge in simple stages. It presents a lively and colourful adventure story is woven into the text, following a trio of characters on a treasure hunt, in quest of buried gold, with a wanted criminal hot on their trail... Grammar points are introduced and explained clearly and simply, with learning tips, a pronunciation guide, and a Spanish/English word list. Readers can practise the skills they have learned with puzzles and tests.

This fast-track German course for beginners provides a thorough grounding in German grammar and everyday phrases, using up-to-date German and building up the reader's knowledge in simple stages. A lively and colourful adventure story is woven into the text to make learning fun and readers can practise the skills they have learned with puzzles and tests. Grammar points are introduced and explained clearly and simply, with learning tips, a pronunciation guide, and an German/English word list.

This is an absolutely fabulous addition to the incredibly successful Drawing, Doodling and Colouring series, which will appeal to anyone with a flair for fashion or a desire to doodle. Stylish pictures invite you to decorate dresses, fill in shop windows, design fashion items such as catwalk outfits, handbags, jewellery and even children's clothes. You can doodle hairstyles and make-up, draw funky T-shirt designs, design Christmas party dresses and colour in patterns influenced by fabric designs, buttons and bows.

This fabulous book is as stylish and fun as the original Drawing, Doodling and Colouring and has been specially created to appeal to girls. The variety of styles and subjects will inspire girls to get creative, with pictures to fill, drawings to finish and designs to doodle. From birds to butterflies, fairies to fashion, and rainbows to shooting stars, its gorgeous, original artwork will be irresistible to girls who love to doodle and colour.

You can have lots of fun creating scenes with the dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals in this amazing book.

An accessible, visually stunning introduction to the wonders of space, from the stars and planets themselves to the astronauts and robots who've explored the Solar System. Packed with stickers, both illustrated and photographic, showing everything from the bubbling surface of the Sun to the distant clouds of space dust where stars are born. Written in consultation with an astronmer and astrophysicist.

This is a charming retelling of the timeless classic by Hans Christian Andersen, in the popular First Reading series. It is full of engaging characters, sure to appeal to young readers, brilliantly brought to life with modern, beautifully detailed illustrations. It is developed with a reading expert from the University of Roehampton, with lively, easy-to-read text. It is a new title in the fantastic First Reading series, part of the Usborne Young Reading Programme. It is aimed at children who are beginning to read.

Includes 30 illustrated cards that help children recognize numbers and learn basic number skills and mathematical vocabulary. This title contains cards for 0 to 20, 30, 40, 50 and 100 as well as the mathematical symbols +, — and =. It also includes suggestions for how to use the cards.