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This book has large pictures for looking and talking, surrounded by small, labelled pictures of 1000 of the most familiar things, to build up and practice German vocabulary. This is backed up by an alphabetical word list wit h pronunciation guides.

This volume is designed to encourage early language learning and word recognition in French, while keeping children entertained. The illustrations are presented in everyday scenes so that each object is easily identifiable.

Latest in the series to help you build up and practise your foreign language vocabulary. Clear pictures are surrounded by labelled pictures of the most familiar things. Includes an alphabetic word list with pronunciation guides. Humorous and simple illustrations by Stephen Cartwright.

This title deals with everyday situations in which children may find themselves while abroad. Italian grammar is clearly explained, and puzzles provide plenty of practice. This title is part of a series providing a thorough grounding in useful, basic language skills.

This sumptuous book covers every era of visual art from ancient to modern. It includes works from every major genre, from Classical to Cubist; focuses on every major theme, from still-life to society; and contains works by the world's most renowned and influential artists. It offers over two hundred superb illustrations are combined with authoritative, informative and fascinating text, which brings the paintings and other artworks to life and also explains how to get the most out of looking at art. Key works, including the «Arnolfini Portrait», «Supper at Emmaus», and «Les Demoiselles d'Avignon», are explored in detail. It contains a timeline, biographical details about all the included artists, and an extensive glossary that explains key terms clearly and precisely. It includes approved Internet links, which can be accessed through the Usborne Quicklinks website, to lead the reader to hundreds more works of art, in addition to the masterpieces included in this wonderful and exciting book.

A fantastic treasury of stories guaranteed to delight and entertain young children. Includes ten classic fairytales from the collection of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen and others, including The Elves and the Shoemaker, Little Red Riding Hood and The Swan Princess. Perfect for reading aloud to younger children too. A brilliant gift that is sure to become a family heirloom. Beautifully bound in a traditional style with real cloth, head and tail bands, a ribbon marker and foil blocking. Shrink-wrapped for protection.

1000 Doodles Featuring over 1000 doodles, this title includes: hundreds of individual pictures to decorate; more than 20 full-page scenes to complete; for boys: racing cars and robots; for girls: flowers, bags and butterflies; and for everyone: all the rest. Full description.

Girls will adore this fantastic book filled with pretty stickers. There are colourful pictures to fill with which ever stickers the reader chooses to create delightful scenes of their own. Scenes include a ballroom in a castle to fill with dancing princesses, a moonlit forest to fill with unicorns, a stage for a girl band, and a flower garden for with fluttering butterflies. Extra stickers are included to be used to decorate letters, cards and envelopes.

This large board book contains one thousand pictures of vehicles, with their names. Children need to add lots of words to their spoken vocabularly and this fantastic look-and-talk book will provide them with plenty of opportunities to do so. Each double-page spread shows a wonderful array of trucks, tractors, diggers, cranes, cars, trains, ships, planes and more.

This is a fantastic activity book, brimming with 1000 exciting ideas from the successful '365' series of make and do books. Easy instructions, some step-by-step, describe how to create amazing drawings, paintings, collage and 3D models. This is a perfect gift, as well as an excellent resource, for anyone who looking for ideas to do with children of all ages.

This is a fantastic collection of 365 fun, environmentally friendly activities using paper, card and all manner of materials to be found around the house. There's something to do for every day of the year, including a 3D cardboard city, sock monkeys, loo roll mice, foil birds, sweet wrapper bugs and many, many more. Every activity is clearly and vividly illustrated in an appealing and colourful style, with easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions.

This charming introduction to animals and how they live is packed with simple stencils to help you draw some amazing animals from around the world. 14 pages with 6 stencils.

Packed with recipes for delicious goodies, including rich chocolate cake, strawberry tarts, crispy apple pies and tropical fruit cake, this title will give little cooks plenty of inspiration in the kitchen. Alongside recipes, basic baking techniques and skills such as making pastry are explained, as well as ideas for how to decorate your creations. Recipes are accompanied by illustrated step-by-step instructions to ensure perfect results. Beautiful colour photographs show the mouth-watering end results.

This is a comprehensive and inspiring guide to drawing and painting, ranging from people and animals to dinosaurs and buildings. Whatever their level of skill, each idea will inspire readers and give technical information on how to improve their standard of drawing. The reference section provides details of artists' materials and how and when to use them.

Suitable for budding cartoonists of all ages, this drawing book provides simple step-by-step instructions that show how to produce colourful cartoons ranging from simple animals and people, to superheroes and comic strips. It includes hints and tips for making cartoons look humorous or dynamic.

A set of 100 sturdy flashcards with over 200 essential English words to learn. On the front and back of each card, there is an English word illustrated with a simple picture. Readers can listen to all the words read by a native English speaker at the Usborne Quicklinks Website.

This is a new paperback edition of «Usborne's Illustrated First Dictionary» with over 2,500 carefully chosen words and definitions. It is packed with lively and humorous illustrations and photographs that help demonstrate the meanings of words. It includes an alphabet sequence on each page to help children find their way around the dictionary, example sentences showing how words are used and word panels giving suggestions for alternative words. It comes with over 700 internet links to websites with fun activities, information and animations.

A bright and fun first sticker book that is packed full of exciting underwater scenes to fill with stickers. It allows children to fix the colourful picture stickers onto each fun scene, including a coral reef, a shipwreck, icy waters, dolphins and by the seashore. It features over 130 stickers.

A colouring and activity book full of brave knights, magnificent castles and dreadful dragons. It includes scenes to colour such as knights charging into battle, competing in a joust, getting dressed and fighting a fire-breathing dragon. It also comes with lots of drawing activities including designing a shield and how to draw a dragon.

This new edition in a smaller format is perfect for little hands to hold and explore. Full of festive surprises, babies will love looking at the colourful Christmas scenes full of chirping robins, skating penguins, sledging mice, a tree and presents. This title is fully safety tested according to British and European Safety Standards.

A satisfyingly challenging puzzle adventure for young children with a picture puzzle to solve on every double page. Designed to help develop essential skills including visual discrimination, sorting and matching, it also tests readers' comprehension, maths and logic skills. It also features stickers that add a further interactive element.

An interactive sticker book that is full of busy, detailed illustrations of various animal habitats. It shows items to spot within the main picture in the border as silhouettes and each has a corresponding sticker which children can find, match and add in the correct place.

Packed with write-in activities for preschool children including dot-to-dot, mazes, spot the difference, colouring and puzzles, with over 100 stickers. Children will love to help their favourite Farmyard Tales characters Poppy and Sam, Rusty, Curly and Woolly to complete their tasks. Hours of fun and entertainment, which will also help develop essential pre-reading and writing skills and pencil control.

A picture book with over 30 flaps to lift, in which the Boot family prepare for Christmas, and Poppy and Sam wonder whether Santa will bring them what they asked for. An interactive reading experience for young children, who will love to lift the robust flaps to find out what Christmas surprises are hiding underneath.