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Carries EU Toy Safety Directive 'CE' logo. A touchy-feely board book with simple, repetitive text, tactile patches and bold illustrations suitable for babies and toddlers. A little white mouse appears on every page, for children to spot. |
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A hardback treasury of stories including traditional fairytales such as The Princess and the Pea, The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Rapunzel, alongside brand new stories about mermaids, fairies, princesses and dolls. This book will last for years as children enjoy having the tales read to them, and then reading them themselves. |
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A collection of seven tales of piracy and adventure suitable for reading aloud to young children or for older children to read themselves. |
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This is a lively retelling of an old Chinese tale. Lee is too lazy to grow any food, so he gets very hungry. Then he plants a magic melon — but things don't go as planned... Easy-to-read text is brought to life with delightful illustrations, and there are fun comprehension puzzles to try after the story. 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. |
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The classic Portuguese bi-lingual word book, illustrated by Stephen Cartwright, has been revised and updated to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Usborne Publishing. A thousand everyday words illustrated with busy scenes and labelled pictures to help children learn key vocabulary. Incorparates the official new Potuguese spelling standards, to be applied from 2014. Incorporates the official, new Portuguese spelling standards to be applied from 2014. |
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Rudyard Kipling's classic 'Just So' story, retold for young readers. According to this much-loved fable, elephants didn't always have long trunks — that is, until one day when the elephant's child could contain his curiosity no longer, stepping closer than he should have to the Crocodile. Part of the Usborne Reading Programme. |
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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 provides 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 includes stories that are followed by fun puzzles to test comprehension and provide further practice. It provides guidance notes for parents in each book, with further extensive support for parents and teachers on the Usborne Quicklinks Website. |
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That turnip's ready, said the farmer, one morning. But he can't pull it out of the ground. Soon he has a string of helpers but the turnip just won't budge. How big can this turnip be? |
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Open this book to see stylish, black and white illustrations showing various Christmas scenes and seasonal motifs. Then brush water over them using the aqua pen provided (or an ordinary brush) and see them transform before your very eyes, as a rainbow of colours magically reveal themselves and bring each scene to life. |
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A fun, challenging adventure for young children with a picture puzzle to solve on every double page, plus stickers to add along the way. It's the day of the Puzzle kite-flying competition and Marcy plans to steal the precious Soaraway Bird and use its feathers to make her kite fly highest of all. James, Cath and Max set out to stop her. |
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Suitable for young language learners, this book includes over a thousand words of basic Spanish vocabulary. A picture associated with each word aids learning, there is a bilingual word list at the back of the book, and links to hear pronunciation by a native speaker online. |
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A big picture book with giant fold-out pages to satisfy the curiosity of every young space enthusiast. Everything children need to know about the solar system, which is dispalyed on a hige double-gate fold. Makes a substantial gift which children will pore over for hours. |
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An interactive story filled with things to spot, picture puzzles to solve and over 140 stickers. Puzzle Train is going to the seaside, but there's a problem: the Lightning Locomotive wants to get there first. Will Puzzle Train be able to deliver its passengers safely? |
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A festive sticker book containing 13 Christmassy scenes and over 600 reuseable stickers to dress the dollies for different occasions. Pick out clothes, bags, shoes, hats and jewellery to get the girls dressed for Christmas shopping, to go ice-skating, for a Christmas party and ready for bedtime on Christmas Eve. |
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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, this book also tests readers' comprehension, maths and logic skills. Stickers add a further interactive element. |
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Beth and Harry are left in charge of Puzzle Farm on the day of the grand farm fair, and they need help to complete their all tasks, from searching for lost animals to dashing through fields of scarecrows. |
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A challenging puzzle adventure for young children with a picture puzzle to solve on every double page. Designed to help develop essential skills such as visual discrimination, sorting and matching, it tests readers' comprehension, maths and logic skills. It also features stickers that add a further interactive element. |
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Packed full of colouring, things to spot, drawing, puzzles and lots of stickers, this activity book for little children features plenty of brave knights, an insight into castle life and historically accurate Medieval details. |
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Louisa May-Alcott's classic novel, complete and unabridged. This inspirational story follows the fortunes of the March sisters as they struggle through the American Civil War and learn the importance of love, family and following their dreams. Fully illustrated, this hardback gift edition is traditionally bound and has a ribbon page marker. |
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An art sticker book telling the Christmas Story through paintings of the Nativity, from Renaissance to modern times. Children can match stickers of the paintings to their labelled frames, and read facts about the paintings and artists. Includes a sticker advent calendar for the countdown to Christmas. |
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