A collection of ten of Shakespeare's best-known tales, retold in a lively, easy-to-read style with enchanting illustrations. Shakespeare's world of magic and mystery, romance and revenge, witches, fairies and ghosts is brought to live for a new generation of young readers.

Real life stories and fascinating facts about the origins of some of the most important scientific discoveries in history.

This is a comprehensive introduction to physical geography including information on the climate, volcanoes, erosion, the weather, ecosystems and humans. It is fabulously illustrated with photographs, maps, diagrams and illustrations that will capture the imagination of young readers. It comes with internet links to recommended websites with maps, quizzes, games and homework information.

This is a fact-packed, beautifully illustrated, all-round introduction to the human body and how it works. Full of extraordinary photographs with engaging and friendly text, plus experiments and activities to try, this book explores everything from allergies and brain waves to x-rays and zits. Carefully selected websites, accessed via Usborne Quicklinks, allow readers to look at amazing scans of the inside the human body, take a 3-D tour of the brain, make an edible model of a DNA molecule and much more.

Ten of Shakespeare's best-known tales retold in a lively, easy-to-read style with enchanting illustrations by Elena Temporin. Brings to life Shakespeare's world of magic and mystery, romance and revenge, witches, fairies and ghosts for a new generation of young readers. Includes outlines of all 28 of Shakespeare's other plays, along with key characters and quotations.

Seven titles in the popular Young Reading series are re-issued with hardback covers with audio CDs inserted into a wallet inside the back cover, making the book and CD easy to store together. The Young Reading series is developed with reading expert Alison Kelly from Roehampton University to help young readers grow in confidence and ability.

If you're going to make it as a knight, you need to know as much about etiquette and wage collecting as you do about how to survive a grisly tournament. This book of tips and helpful advice shows you how. White Wolves Non-fiction is a guided reading scheme which takes a high-interest approach to core geography, history and science topics. It has been created to appeal to children and reflect the range of texts in the real world, from guidebooks to cookbooks. Covering a wide range of topics at different reading levels, these books are ideal for classroom and topic libraries, and for teaching non-fiction literacy skills in a curriculum context.

The story of one of the modern world's most valuable inventions told for children growing in reading confidence. An exploration of the fascinating story of electricity from earliest experiments to the gadgets and gizmos of the modern world. Usborne Young Reading has been developed with reading experts from Roehampton University.