Usborne

This title presents seven new titles in the award winning Very First Reading series, designed for children who are learning to read. It is based on the principles of synthetic phonics as recommended by the DCSF (now DfE)'s 2006 Rose Report on the Teaching of Early Reading. Most schools now incorporate phonics in teaching beginner readers. It includes inspired rhyming stories on themes children love, including ships and sailors, magic and mix-ups, exploration and adventure, not to mention animals and pets (some distinctly spooky ones!). It contains superb artwork by world-class illustrators in a brilliant range of styles. It is designed for a child to read together with an adult, with the child taking a greater share of the story in each book to achieve confident, independent reading. It provides stories followed by fun puzzles to test comprehension and provide further practice. It gives guidance notes for parents in each book, with further extensive support for parents and teachers on the Usborne Quicklinks Website.

This title presents seven new titles in the award winning Very First Reading series, designed for children who are learning to read. It is based on the principles of synthetic phonics as recommended by the DCSF (now DfE)'s 2006 Rose Report on the Teaching of Early Reading. Most schools now incorporate phonics in teaching beginner readers. It includes inspired rhyming stories on themes children love, including ships and sailors, magic and mix-ups, exploration and adventure, not to mention animals and pets (some distinctly spooky ones!). It provides superb artwork by world-class illustrators in a brilliant range of styles. It is designed for a child to read together with an adult, with the child taking a greater share of the story in each book to achieve confident, independent reading. It includes stories followed by fun puzzles to test comprehension and provide further practice. It gives guidance notes for parents in each book, with further extensive support for parents and teachers on the Usborne Quicklinks Website.

This title presents seven new titles in the award winning Very First Reading series, designed for children who are learning to read. It is based on the principles of synthetic phonics as recommended by the DCSF (now DfE)'s 2006 Rose Report on the Teaching of Early Reading. Most schools now incorporate phonics in teaching beginner readers. It includes inspired rhyming stories on themes children love, including ships and sailors, magic and mix-ups, exploration and adventure, not to mention animals and pets (some distinctly spooky ones!). It contains superb artwork by world-class illustrators in a brilliant range of styles. It is designed for a child to read together with an adult, with the child taking a greater share of the story in each book to achieve confident, independent reading. It provides stories followed by fun puzzles to test comprehension and provide further practice. It gives guidance notes for parents in each book, with further extensive support for parents and teachers on the Usborne Quicklinks Website.

This is a timely addition to the extremely popular Sticker Dolly Dressing series. This enchanting new title has over 350 fantastic stickers to dress elegant brides as they prepare for their wedding and celebrate the big day itself. It includes over 350 stickers to choose from, dress the bride and bridesmaids as they attend a fitting, choose bouquets, arrive at the reception, pose for wedding photos and do lots more.

This is a magical picture book following Pipkin, the little penguin with big ideas as he travels back through time to find out 'How Big was a Dinosaur?' This is the latest of Pipkin the penguin's charming adventures, following the heart-warming titles How Big is a Million?, How High is the Sky? and How Deep is the Sea? It comes with a giant fold-out poster showing all the dinosaurs Pipkin meets, including the great big one at the end. Drawn to scale next to sweet, little Pipkin, it's sure to wow young children. It is gorgeously illustrated by Serena Riglietti.

This is an exciting sticker book packed full of fun and lively scenes with hundreds of big machines for children to discover. Each scene is begging to be filled with diggers, cranes, trucks, bulldozers and workers with simple text gently suggesting which scene needs which big vehicles. With over 300 of stickers to choose from, this book is guaranteed to last for hours and offers great value for money.

Carries EU Toy Safety Directive 'CE' logo. This delightful bedtime book contains 17 short animal stories to share with babies and little children. A beautifully illustrated hardback book that will lend itself to being read time and time again. Perfect for sending tiny children off to sleep at the end of a busy day.

Follow fashions across the globe with this fun and informative addition to the hit Sticker Dolly Dressing series. Help dress the men and women in their traditional clothes from nations and cultures across the world. This title includes national costumes such as the kimonos of Japan, saris of India, bubas of Nigeria and the flamenco costumes of Spain.

This 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. Step back in time to the excitement of life in a castle, with jousts and banquets and daring deeds. After the story, there are fun puzzles to consolidate learning. It is developed in consultation with Alison Kelly, who is a Principal Lecturer in Education and an early reading specialist from Roehampton University. Every title in this series features clear and compelling text accompanied by highly appealing illustrations. It is designed to motivate children as they learn to read.

This 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. In this delightful retelling of a Japanese fairy tale, a poor woodcutter follows his runaway rice ball to an underground kingdom ruled by magical mice. It is developed in consultation with Alison Kelly, who is a Principal Lecturer in Education and an early reading specialist from Roehampton University. Every title in this series features clear and compelling text accompanied by highly appealing illustrations. It is designed to motivate children as they learn to read.

This is a lively re-telling of the Greek myth, in which Pegasus, the flying horse, helps hero Bellerophon to defeat a fire-breathing monster. This is a new title in Young Reading Series One. Part of the Usborne Reading Programme, Series One has short stories that are full of excitement, aimed at children who are starting to read on their own. This title is developed in consultation with Alison Kelly, who is Principal Lecturer in education and an early reading specialist from Roehampton University.

This 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. Noah is told to build an ark that will hold two of every animal before the big flood comes. It is developed in consultation with Alison Kelly, who is Principal Lecturer in Education from Roehampton University and an early reading specialist. Every title in this series features clear and compelling text accompanied by charming and highly appealing illustrations. It is designed to motivate children as they learn to read.

This title presents seven new titles in the award winning Very First Reading series, designed for children who are learning to read. It is based on the principles of synthetic phonics as recommended by the DCSF (now DfE)'s 2006 Rose Report on the Teaching of Early Reading. Most schools now incorporate phonics in teaching beginner readers. It includes inspired rhyming stories on themes children love, including ships and sailors, magic and mix-ups, exploration and adventure, not to mention animals and pets (some distinctly spooky ones!). It provides superb artwork by world-class illustrators in a brilliant range of styles. It is designed for a child to read together with an adult, with the child taking a greater share of the story in each book to achieve confident, independent reading. It includes stories followed by fun puzzles to test comprehension and provide further practice. It gives guidance notes for parents in each book, with further extensive support for parents and teachers on the Usborne Quicklinks Website.

This title presents seven new titles in the award winning Very First Reading series, designed for children who are learning to read. It is based on the principles of synthetic phonics as recommended by the DCSF (now DfE)'s 2006 Rose Report on the Teaching of Early Reading. Most schools now incorporate phonics in teaching beginner readers. It includes inspired rhyming stories on themes children love, including ships and sailors, magic and mix-ups, exploration and adventure, not to mention animals and pets (some distinctly spooky ones!). It contains superb artwork by world-class illustrators in a brilliant range of styles. It is designed for a child to read together with an adult, with the child taking a greater share of the story in each book to achieve confident, independent reading. It provides stories followed by fun puzzles to test comprehension and provide further practice. It gives guidance notes for parents in each book, with further extensive support for parents and teachers on the Usborne Quicklinks Website.

This is a fantastic new sticker title filled with colourful scenes and fun sticker labels to act as an introduction to French. Each illustrated themed page is full of objects to identify with stickers to label them with, helping to reinforce word and picture association. To encourage comprehension, each page comes with a question in French for readers to try and answer. It is a must for language learners of all ages.

This is an exciting new series for boys who are reluctant readers. It is full of information on submarines from how they work, the different types (from exploration to military subs) to true stories of subs during the World Wars. Visually exciting and highly informative, each book presents its subject in a fun and accessible way with photographs, illustrated diagrams and comic strips. It includes three gatefold flaps showing the inner workings of a submarine and the large variety of submarines that exist today. Internet links offer a fascinating selection of recommended websites — with sound, animation, video clips and much more, which provide additional information for projects and homework.

This title offers five brand new Christmas stories for little children by Sam Taplin. It is magically illustrated by Violeta Dabija and perfect for sharing at bedtime. It includes the story of the smallest Christmas tree, the story of how little owl learnt about Christmas, and the story of Fox and Badger's Christmas stockings.

This bumper collection of titles is a brilliant extension of the best-selling «That's Not My» — series and gives children the opportunity to colour in the well-known illustrations of Rachel Wells. Each double page has a coloured picture to act as a guide and a black and white outline to colour in on the opposite page. Children can complete the simple phrase That's my — at the bottom of the page they've coloured in. It also includes colourful stickers to encourage creativity.

Includes scenes such as soldiers from across history, like the 'Red Coats' of the Napoleonic wars, Prussians on parade and soldiers of the Second World War. This title also features over 400 stickers.

This title presents seven new titles in the award winning Very First Reading series, designed for children who are learning to read. It is based on the principles of synthetic phonics as recommended by the DCSF (now DfE)'s 2006 Rose Report on the Teaching of Early Reading. Most schools now incorporate phonics in teaching beginner readers. It includes inspired rhyming stories on themes children love, including ships and sailors, magic and mix-ups, exploration and adventure, not to mention animals and pets (some distinctly spooky ones!). It provides superb artwork by world-class illustrators in a brilliant range of styles. It is designed for a child to read together with an adult, with the child taking a greater share of the story in each book to achieve confident, independent reading. It includes stories followed by fun puzzles to test comprehension and provide further practice. It gives guidance notes for parents in each book, with further extensive support for parents and teachers on the Usborne Quicklinks Website.

This is a brand new series on the world's most exciting vehicles, sure to appeal to boys of all ages and reading abilities. Visually exciting, highly informative, fun and accessible with photographs, illustrated diagrams and comic strips, this title is full of information on helicopters, from how they work to real-life helicopter missions in wartime. It covers all forms of helicopters from civilian to military used today and throughout history, including the fierce Apache Longbow. Internet-links offer a fascinating selection of recommended websites — with sound, animation, video clips and much more, which provide additional information for projects and homework.

This is a thrilling introduction to prehistoric times. It has fabulous illustrations and clear, simple text. It is an ideal reference book for school projects. It features a glossary, index and facts and records. It presents internet-links to amazing websites. What was the biggest dinosaur? When was the ice age? Why did the dinosaurs die out? Find out in this lavish and lively book. Simple text, beautiful illustrations, stunning photographs of dinosaur models and links to exciting recommended websites introduce young readers to the wonder of the prehistoric world.

The first in a brilliant new series of activity books for pre-schoolers, full of simple activities for little children to try out. These activities will help to develop important skills such as hand control, coordination and concentration.

There are dozens of different animals to discover in this fun sticker book. With over 450 stickers, children will love placing the right stickers on the different scenes. Themes include the zoo, pets, under the sea, wild animals, farm animals and more. WARNING! Not suitable for children under 36 months because of small parts. Choking Hazard.