Usborne

Filled to capacity with jokes to laugh and groan at, this pocket-sized joke book is ideal for the classroom, the playground and at home.

This simple retelling of the classic Dickens Christmas story has been adapted for children starting to read independently and remains faithful to the original text. With illustrations by Alan Marks, children will shudder at Marley's ghost and sympathize with Tiny Tim's plight.

A joke book all about the perennially popular subject of schools and teachers. Brightly illustrated, it seeks to keep children laughing from cover to cover. The size and format of the volume should make it easy to pop into a school bag.

This series consists of simple illustrated guides to answer children's questions about history and invite comparisons with life today. This particular title deals with castles.

Young children should be fascinated by the engaging detail in this bright and lively word book, which features everyday scenes of miniature characters and objects, as well as six pages of stickers. Individual pictures of characters and objects from each scene appear around the edge of each page, and are labelled in German. Each scene is designed to help readers learn, revise and enrich their vocabulary quickly and enjoyably, helped by the bright stickers of all the named objects featured.

This puzzle book consists of four titles in one volume, including 1001 Things to Spot on the Farm, 1001 Things to Spot Long Ago, 1001 Things to Spot in the Town, and 1001 Animals to Spot.

This series consists of simple illustrated guides to answer children's questions about history and invite comparisons with life today. This particular title deals with the Romans.

A collection of illustrated Christmas stories, activities, carols and songs, including the stories of Jesus and St Nicholas. Activities include the making of pop-up Christmas cards, wrapping paper and decorative biscuits.

This charming Farmyard Tales story, incorporating four jigsaws will amuse little hands for hours. Each puzzle has a themed, animal-shaped central piece and different textures to feel. — Each jigsaw has velvety touch and feel flocking — Stephen Cartwright’s illustrations will delight young children — Part of the best selling Farmyard Tales series

These flashcards are designed to help young children learn to read, each card has a word and a picture on one side and the same word, alone, on the other. Also included is a card with notes for parents and teachers that explains how the cards can be used at home or in the classroom. — Fun-filled practice in recognizing words and pictures — 50 cards based on the popular Farmyard Tales series — Illustrations by Stephen Cartwright

This delightful collection of new and traditional stories is perfect for reading again and again. With beautiful and gently humorous illustrations, both children and adults will be enchanted by these special bedtime stories.

The pages of this chunky storybook are filled with 17 delightful stories, both new and traditional, which have been specially written for reading out loud. With wonderfully entertaining illustrations by Stephen Cartwright, these stories will delight adults and children alike.

- Packed with fun, facts and entertaining illustrations. — Contains links to recommended Web sites. — Published in association with English Heritage.

Full of familiar things to find and read, situations to talk about and chances to guess what will happen next, this sticker book has big, detailed pictures on each page that children can match the Spanish words to.

Five mini edition picture book guides to new words in foreign languages. There are Internet links with pronunciation advice. Colour illustrated by Stephen Cartwright. Readership level: 8+.

This box contains four double-sided boards and two sets of matching cards which can be used to play games of varied difficulty according to the age and ability of the child. It should be suitable for children who can't read yet and those who are becoming confident with reading their first words.

This is a talk-about book for children, who can match the stickers to the words on each page. It is intended to help children build their Spanish vocabulary. A full word list appears at the back that covers all the words used and has a pronunciation guide.

These Farmyard Tales flashcards are suitable for helping young children learn to read French. Each card has a word and picture on one side, and the word, alone, on the other. There is also a card with notes for parents and teachers that explains how the cards can be used.

This reduced format book introduces the reader to world history from the first civilizations to the early 20th century, using short, visual chapters.

Providing snippets of history, entertaining anecdotes and information on London's most famous attractions, including the Millennium Dome, and the London Eye, this book with Internet links aims to add interest to visits to the capital.

Packed with facts, this miniature encyclopaedia is designed to be both fascinating and fun to use and covers a vast scope of information, from the Earth, its plants and animals, to its people and discoveries.

This collection of the best-known of the Greek myths has been carefully written to appeal to young children who will find these stories of gods, mortals and monsters irresistible. Beautiful illustrations by Linda Edwards bring the myths to life for children of all ages.

Part of the TIME TRAVELLERS series, an introduction to the Vikings which provides information about their homes, villages and way of life, such as war campaigns in longboats, raids on England, and eventual domesticity and acquiescence of trade. Illustrated in full colour, by Stephen Cartwright.

A collection of nursery rhymes. The book contains words and music for nearly 30 nursery rhymes, arranged with children's voices in mind. Easy-to-play music for piano and melody instruments is included along with guitar chords and other forms of accompaniment.