Young football fans will love the games, puzzles and activities in this BIG activity book. It's packed full of football-related scenarios, from training drills and skills to big matches and celebrations. Puzzles include spot the difference, matching games, mazes and finding the odd-one-out.Sticker pages include dressing the footballers, training time and arriving for the big final. Press-outs include a football shirt door hanger, cards for Snap! and pairs, finger-puppet footb...
A boxed set of 52 beautifully illustrated cards perfect for playing the classic family game of snap - or other matching games. Delightful travel-themed illustrations - from trains and planes to cars and boats - will keep children engaged while they learn about turn-taking, rules and winning and losing. Great for keeping little ones busy on journeys or at home.- Cards can also be used for matching games of different types, suitable for younger children. - Snap can be played by...
Packed with diggers, cranes, tractors, trucks, bulldozers and other big vehicles, all driven by cast of fun animal characters, this delightful sticker book will keep young children entertained for hours. There are over 570 stickers to add to the busy scenes which include building sites, farms, docks and quarries.
Welcome to the Cosy Cafe, where there's a busy day ahead. Help to unload the deliveries and then join Kitty in the kitchen, preparing delicious treats for all the hungry and thirsty customers. Elevenses, lunchtime rush, afternoon tea...there are lots of stickers to choose. And the fun isn't over yet. In the afternoon, everyone is invited to a tea party to celebrate the birthday of cafe regular, Granny Ted!- Perfect entertainment on the go- Build creativity, imagination and fi...
A fact-packed introduction to a wide variety of topics, including History, Nature, How People Live and How Things Work. Full of extraordinary photographs, detailed diagrams and plenty of illustrations. Engaging text and clear explanations of what can be complex subjects.Also includes amazing facts about animals, Earth and space, and detailed maps and flags of the world. Chapters in this book include:- Our World- Animals and plants- How your body works- History- How people liv...
A magical collection of fairy tales, featuring retellings of favourites such as Aladdin, Little Red Riding Hood and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Each charming story in this hardback book is beautifully illustrated and takes just ten minutes to read - the perfect length for snuggling up and enjoying at bedtime.Chapters in this book include:- Little Red Riding Hood- The elves and the shoemaker- The emperor and the nightingale- The frog prince- The dragon painter- Snow White...
Take a whistle-stop tour through the alphabet from amazing aardvarks, big brown bears and crazy cats to dancing ducks, naughty narwhals and sleeping sloths. With gorgeous illustrations by Sophia Touliatou, simple facts and capital and little letters on every page, this is a lovely book to share with a young child.
Bursting with fun fingerprinting ideas, this colourful activity book comes with its own inkpad of seven bright colours. Decorate the garden scenes with dragonflies, squirrels, birds drinking from a fountain and much more.
There are simple instructions showing how to fingerprint each animal and the book has a spiral binding so that it lies flat.
A delightfully musical sound book, specially designed for sharing together with babies. Press the buttons to hear the tunes and animal noises for each picture, including cows in the field, ducks in the pond, a tractor chugging along and clucking chickens. With bold illustrations and tabs to easily locate their favourite picture, little children will enjoy singing along with the tunes and mimicking the animal sounds.
All aboard! This interactive sticker book includes over 150 stickers to bring the railway scenes to life. Children will love completing the pictures, including ‘At the station’, ‘Steam trains’ and ‘Rolling highways’, with the stickers provided.
A brilliant book for young train fans, and great preparation for a train journey.
Explore life on the farm with this beautifully illustrated sticker book.Meet a host of animals and discover the big machines that help farmers grow and harvest their crops. With over 140 stickers of cows, chickens, goats, ducks, tractors and much more to bring the busy scenes to life.- Labelled stickers help introduce new vocabulary- Sticker play is ideal for building fine motor skills
A sticker book version of the classic Usborne First Thousand Words in English, with over 500 colourful stickers which give learning an interactive element. Each sticker shows a picture with a word or phrase for children to hunt for and place on the correct scene.
Provides a treasury of learning opportunities, from early reading and word recognition to spelling and dictionary use.
Join Poppy and Sam for a tour of Apple Tree Farm and all of its noisy animals. There's a different animal to hear on each double-page, including Woolly the Sheep, Curly the Pig and Clucky the Hen. At the end, all the farm animals make their noises together. And, of course, the famous little yellow duck is hiding somewhere in each picture.
A fun and interactive way for children to learn and listen to over 100 everyday English words spoken by a native speaker. Children will love selecting a card with illustrations of a topic such as clothes, food, or animals, slotting it into the book’s special frame and pressing an illustration to hear the word read aloud. Each of the four double-sided topic cards shows sixteen words with colourful corresponding pictures. A fun and engaging way for preschool children to learn E...
Little children will love pressing each button in this exciting novelty book to see the lights and hear the sounds of all the different emergency vehicles. From fire engines and ambulances to helicopters and coast guard boats, each charmingly illustrated scene is full of busy vehicles to enjoy.
Would you like to be a wizard? Just grab the wand that comes with this book, and you're ready to go! When you press it onto each page and say the magic words, you'll hear an amazing sparkly spell. You'll learn how to conjure up a thunderstorm, make a cello play all on its own, and even make a kitten sound like an elephant! Step into an enchanting world where YOU get to make the magic happen in this beautifully illustrated book.Discover more magical Usborne Wand Books:- Fairy ...
How do blind athletes tell between silver and gold medals? How did a Finnish architect accidentally invent skateboarding? Why do footballers wear logos on their kit? Find 100 quirky and surprising facts about sports, from the science of sports to amazing sporting achievements. Perfect for sharing with family and friends.Ideal for fact loving readers aged 8+.Each book in this best-selling, award-winning series presents 100 bite-sized topics, with bold, graphic illustrations an...
From an old-fashioned biplane taking off to a helicopter flying over a canyon, there are all kinds of exciting flying machines to discover in this novelty book... and when you press the button on each page you can hear each one and switch on its lights. The charmingly illustrated animal pilots are shown landing a sea plane on the water, guiding a jet airliner through the clouds and wowing the crowds with a spectacular acrobatic display at the end.
Lift the flaps to explore all sorts of exciting vehicles - bulldozers rumbling around building sites, fire engines rushing to emergencies, and jumbo jets soaring into the skies. With fascinating facts about every vehicle, from speed machines to giant trucks, emergency vehicles, tractors, and planes all geared to delight enquiring minds. The colourful scenes are covered with flaps, each packed with even more detail to entertain young readers.
Move the sliders back and forth to hear the different vehicles zooming along in this unique and exciting sound book. When you move a slider one way you'll see and hear one vehicle... and when you move it back the other way you'll see and hear another one. There are planes, trains, cars, motorbikes and buses to discover, all driven by Ailie Busby's charming animal characters.
Discover the magical world of Sticker Dolly Dressing!Enter an enchanting world where unicorns with rainbow manes gallop across the sky, meet a woodland fairy princess, gaze at the Northern lights and rest in a crystal cave. Use the stickers to adorn the unicorns with headdresses and garlands, and choose outfits for the fairy dolls. - The number 1 bestselling sticker series with characters to dress and colourful scenes to decorate- Over 200 stickers in every book! - With 12 sc...
Each time you move one of the sliders in this unique novelty book, a jungle animal springs into view and makes a fun sound. But there's more! Move the same slider back again, and you'll see and hear a completely different animal. Babies and toddlers will love moving the sliders back and forth to enjoy all the jungle animals in this delightfully illustrated book - the first in an exciting new series.
Fully-illustrated and filled with real-world examples, this book explains the basics of psychology, from how people think, feel and behave to how scientists can study and be sure about what is actually going on in other people's brains.Chapters in this book include:- What is psychology?- So much to explore...- Looking for answers- Psychology's close relativesExperimentsPsychologists ask questions about how people think, feel or behave. They then find a way to test possible an...
Touchy-feely patches and animal sounds combine to induce giggles for babies and toddlers. You'd better not tickle the monkey, because it just might chatter if you do! Babies and toddlers won't be able to resist tickling the touchy-feely patches to hear the animal sounds in this unique and hilarious novelty book. As well as the monkey there's a warthog, a laughing hyena and an ostrich to be tickled, followed by a musical finale where you can hear all the animals being noisy at...
Part of the best-selling '...for Beginners' series that brings to life the wide world of physics. Rather than explaining details about how to do physics, this book focusses on explaining what different branches of physics are about, how we know about them, and what mysteries remain for budding physicists to uncover. It doesn't shy away from the hard stuff, tackling black holes, quantum mechanics and even Einstein's theories of relativity.Chapters in this book include:- What i...
This engaging and delightfully illustrated word book helps children boost their vocabulary and develop their speaking skills. A thousand really useful everyday words, carefully matched with detailed and amusing pictures, provide lots to spot and talk about. There are also QR codes to scan so you can listen to all the words.
A colourful book full of pictures to fingerprint and with its own inkpad of seven bright colours to paint with. Bursting with fun fingerprinting ideas, from decorating turtles’ shells and filling a vase with flowers to printing mice, a scary t-rex or a colourful caterpillar.
With fingerprinting tips and extra pages for children to fill with their own fingerprint creations.
An entertaining and thought-provoking guide to what laws are, who makes them and how people enforce them. It covers crime and punishment as well as social and citizenship issues such as politics and international law, using a mixture of debates, cartoon strips and clear diagrams.Chapters in this book include:- What is law?- Why do we need laws?- How does the law work?- Right and wrong- It isn't black and whiteCriminal LawAn unlucky accident, or a serious crime? Follow a story...
Do fish wear pyjamas? What's the sound of an iceberg melting? How many sheep did it take to launch a Viking longship? Which is faster - a tsunami or a bullet train? Find the answers to these and many more questions in a book that explores the history, science, environment and art of our planet's seas and oceans. Richly illustrated and perfect for broadening children's knowledge of an essential subject, away from the classroom.Ideal for fact loving readers aged 8+.Each book in...
This fun activity book is full of ideas for fingerprinting lots of different animals that you might see in a zoo. Print spots on a cheetah, hippos wallowing in a lake, stripes on lemurs' tails, koalas climbing trees and lots, lots more.
Complete with seven bright ink pads to choose from. The spiral binding means that the book lies flat as you fill the pages with your own fingerprints.
Nobody has everything they need, all the time - so how can we make do with what we have? Economics is all about understanding the choices we make to solve this problem. With bright, infographics pictures, this informative book describes why markets are so important, how businesses work out what to sell, and how governments choose how to run a country. Includes Usborne Quicklinks to specially selected websites for more information.Chapters in this book include:- What is econom...
This entertaining book is bursting with ideas for fingerprinting lots of creepy crawlies, from bees and ladybirds to spiders and ants. Create scenes with hungry snails, wiggly worms, fluttering butterflies and lots more. With an inkpad of seven bright colours and a spiral binding so that the book lies flat.
Lift the flaps to uncover the amazing inner workings of your very own body – from your bones, blood and brain to the bacteria in your belly button. Discover what happens when you eat, how your senses work, what your heart and lungs do and lots more fascinating facts. With links to specially selected websites for activities and videos about the human body.
Why don't animals have toothbrushes? Should everyone brush their teeth? And why do baby teeth fall out? Curious young children can discover the answers to these questions and many more in this entertaining book, with over 30 flaps to lift, gentle humour and easy-to-understand text on every page.
This entertaining book is bursting with ideas for fingerprinting dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. Create scenes with Velociraptors scurrying around a forest, a sky filled with swooping Pteranodons, add plates to Stegosaurs’ backs and much more. With an inkpad of seven bright colours and a spiral binding so that the book lies flat.
Did you know that rain sometimes falls red? Or that the equivalent of one truckload of plastic is dumped in our oceans every minute? This visually stunning book is filled with 100 fascinating facts, bright, infographic illustrations, information on ways we can help our planet and links to specially selected websites to find out more.Ideal for fact loving readers aged 8+.Each book in this best-selling, award-winning series presents 100 bite-sized topics, with bold, graphic ill...
Fill a park with all kinds of dogs, add toys and tunnels to a hamster home, fill a field with farm animals and much more in this adorable sticker book. With over 250 stickers of dogs, cats, guinea pigs and lots of other pets to add to the pages. Great for encouraging creativity and developing fine motor skills.
A highly illustrated, fun and easy-to-read guide to politics in the modern world.An informative guide to political systems, elections, voting and government, and issues including feminism, human rights, freedom of speech and fake news, all explained with clear text and bright, infographic style illustrations.Includes tips on how to argue and debate, a glossary, and links to specially selected websites with more information."Clearly explains the basic principles of decision-ma...
This book, with its own brightly coloured inkpad of seven colours, is bursting with ideas for fingerprinting animals from hedgehogs to crocodiles and koalas. Each page has step by step instructions, pictures to complete and lots of space for fingerprinting. With a spiral binding so the book lies flat to make it easy for children to create delightful pictures.
A colourful book full of pictures to fingerprint and with its own inkpad of seven bright colours to paint with. Bursting with fun fingerprinting ideas, from decorating turtles’ shells and filling a vase with flowers to printing mice, a scary t-rex or a colourful caterpillar. With fingerprinting tips and extra pages for children to fill with their own fingerprint creations.
A sticker book version of the classic Usborne First Thousand Words in English, with over 500 colourful stickers which give learning an interactive element.
Each sticker shows a picture with a word or phrase for children to hunt for and place on the correct scene.
Provides a treasury of learning opportunities, from early reading and word recognition to spelling and dictionary use.
From rockets to robots, monkeys to monsters and lots more, find out how to draw everything you've ever wanted to by following the simple step-by-step instructions in this inspirational draw-in book. Young children will feel a real sense of achievement mastering the simple drawing activities in this book. Includes plenty of space in the book for practising your own drawings. A fun pastime that adults are sure to enjoy, too!
A wind-up model of a red, double-decker London bus and four tracks take you on a tour of the famous city. Find out about London's most famous landmarks and attractions as your bus stops on its way. The four tracks can also be taken out of the book and joined together to make one huge track for the bus to travel around.
A colourful picture word book with illustrations of around a thousand everyday words.
Words are arranged by theme, providing lots to spot and talk about together.
A fun way to build a child’s vocabulary, with delightful pictures to pore over.
Listen to all the words read by a British English speaker at the Usborne Quicklinks website.
An exciting picture word book for beginner readers and English language learners, full of busy, colourful scenes with lots to spot and talk about. Featuring much-loved illustrations by Stephen Cartwright and the iconic Little Yellow Duck to spot on every double page. A special edition of this classic word book, revised and updated for the 40th anniversary of Usborne Publishing in 2013. Three generations of children have built their basic vocabulary with this entertaining and ...
From brains and blood to senses and skin – children will love exploring the ins-and-outs of the human body with this fantastic interactive book. Young readers’ minds will boggle as they learn about how their brains work, what happens when they eat, how their lungs use oxygen and much more. Full of surprises to keep enquiring minds entertained, including flaps beneath flaps and a cheeky peek inside a toilet cubicle.
An exciting sticker book packed full of lively scenes for children to cover with over 300 big machines stickers.
Each colourful scene is begging to be filled with diggers, cranes, trucks, bulldozers and workers. Simple text gently suggests which scene needs which big vehicles.
This book contains three First Sticker Book titles: Trucks, Diggers and Building sites.
Eight delightful tales of heart-warming fun and adventure. Stories include “King Donkey Ears”, “The Enormous Turnip”, “Danny the Dragon”, “The Inch Prince”, “Androcles and the Lion”, “Stone Soup”, “The Clumsy Crocodile” and “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”. Each story is brilliantly illustrated by artists from the Usborne Young Reading Programme.
Get ready for the new school year with this engaging activity book. From grammar and punctuation to addition and subtraction, this handy book is full of fun activities and puzzles to refresh skills. - Perfect preparation for going back to school.
- With over 50 activities and 4 pages of stickers. - Includes a host of friendly animal characters.
Discover the magical world of Sticker Dolly Dressing!Enter the magical kingdom where fairies light up the sky with sparkling gems, sprinkle crystals to create glistening snowflakes, explore a crystal cave and hunt for shiny treasure washed up on a seashore. Children can use the stickers to dress the dolls and decorate the fantastic scenes. - The number 1 bestselling sticker series with characters to dress and colourful scenes to decorate- Over 200 stickers in every book! - ...
This scratch activity book is filled with magical mermaids and inviting patches to scratch, along with mermaid-themed colouring and puzzles. Using the wooden scraper provided, scratch away whole patches to reveal hidden details, or scratch lines and patterns to create your own designs. - Every scratch-able page is accompanied by a page of mermaid-themed colouring and picture puzzles for even more activity fun. - Easy and relaxing, with satisfying results guaranteed. -...
A little girl encounters some last-minute nerves when she is almost ready to start school. Who will help make breakfast, walk the dog and keep grandpa company when she's not here? And what if she feels lonely being away from home? With good humour and a lot of patience, her grandparents help her see that school is the start of an exciting adventure that will open the world up for exploring, and enable her to make really good friends!- A reassuring story that gently explores w...
An easy-to-read introduction to world history for young children. A bright, lively introduction to world history - from the dinosaurs to the Civil Rights Movement - with simple text, amazing photographs and detailed illustrations. Provides clear explanations to questions such as "Who lived in the Forbidden City?", "Where did the Vikings come from?" and "What was the Industrial Revolution?"- Includes a comprehensive index, plus QR links to selected websites and videos at Usbor...
Meet five appealing axolotls - cute little salamanders from Mexico - swimming through this exciting addition to the much-loved That's not my... series. With their bright, bold, eye-catching illustrations and fuzzy, furry, smooth and soft tactile patches on each page, babies and toddlers love the best-selling That's not my... books. That's not my... books are designed to be shared, and support sensory and language development. Don't forget to spot the little white mouse on eve...
Set off on an adventure around the world with this delightful picture atlas. Maps of all the continents are full of fascinating details for young explorers to talk about. Discover people and places, cultures and wildlife from around the world, all brought to life with beautiful illustrations.
This guide is the perfect introduction to the most popular sport on the planet. Learn the basics of how to play, and find out what it's like to follow your team as a fan. These days, football can turn young players into superstars - but at its heart it's still just a simple game about kicking a ball around with your friends.
Discover the enchanting world of Little Sticker Dolly Dressing!Use the stickers to dress the dolls as they build a sandcastle, go for a walk in shady woods, build a den and eat delicious ice creams to cool off on a sunny day. - The number 1 bestselling sticker series with characters to dress and colourful scenes to decorate- Over 200 stickers in every book! - With 10 scenes to complete- Easy to remove perforated sticker pages for decorating each scene - Smaller format to fit ...
Perfect for all children who love dressing up, or princesses! Contains lots of charming outfits to dress children as pretty princesses - from a fairytale princess and a dancing princess to a fabulous rainbow princess. The stickers are specially designed to be easy for little fingers to peel and stick. A mess-free way to keep little children busy, at home or on the move.- Big stickers, specially designed for little hands. - Includes some special sparkly stickers!- Perfect for ...
What goes on behind the scenes in the world of football? This fun-filled flap book celebrates the world's most popular sport played by women, men, boys and girls all over the world. Learn about the history of the game, how footballs are made, and how YOU can become a top professional player. Find out how your local club is run, visit a team's training ground, and pick up tips to sharpen your football skills.
Open the giant fold-out pages of this bright, friendly book to discover some of the biggest and most amazing tractors ever built - and some little ones too. Colourful pictures show all kinds of machines, from combine harvesters to snow and sea tractors, with facts about their special equipment. Includes links to video clips to see tractors at work. The book covers different types of tractors, and the machines they pull, as well as showing some very specific - and absolutely...
Over 135 flaps to uncover fascinating facts such as what karaoke means in Japanese, how the Mona Lisa got her name and how many people are descended from Genghis Khan. Divided into subjects such as Living Things, Science Lab, Treasure Trove, and When Did It Happen? with topics including the periodic table, the formation of the Earth, saltwater crocodiles, the great pyramid of Giza and lots more. - Ideal for improving general knowledge - Containing 100s of facts- Guaranteed to...
