This book is bustling with busy Christmas-themed pictures with lots of hidden things to spot and colour in, such as skating penguins, dancing elves, presents, snowflakes, decorations and of course, Santa. This is an ideal book for keeping children busy in the exciting run-up to Christmas. The picture puzzles also include mazes, matching pairs, odd-ones-out and lots and lots of colouring opportunities.

Seven titles in the popular First 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.

This title features twenty beautifully designed pop-up Christmas cards for children to colour and send to friends and family. It features two each of ten festive designs, with stylish rounded corners and Christmassy patterned envelopes. The pop-ups come ready assembled and each fun picture to colour has a coloured background making the cards easy for young children to complete.

This is an addition to already successful series of puzzle activity cards. The puzzles help improve word skills, such as vocabulary skills, spelling skills, and recognizing synonyms, antonyms and syllables. It offers an enjoyable way to reinforce vital learning skills. The cards are wipe clean and come with a special pen, making the pack entirely self contained, easily portable and ideal for journeys and holidays.

This is a fantastic addition to the popular Beginners series, providing an informative introduction to the fascinating world of trains for young readers. Terrific reading practice for children who prefer fact to fiction, this is an exciting introduction to trains, covering everything from the first steam and diesel trains, to modern day high-speed passenger trains. It also looks at rail networks, underground trains, how trains travel uphill, and famous long-distance train routes, like the Orient Express. It is developed with a reading expert from Roehampton University to help young readers grow in confidence.

This is a lively introduction to the fascinating world of elephants, complete with amazing photographs, step-by-step illustrations, and weird and wonderful facts. With easy-to-read text specially written with the help of a reading expert, aimed at children who are beginning to read on their own. Part of the exciting Beginners series, now containing more than 45 titles on topics ranging from 'Cowboys' and 'Rubbish and Recycling', to 'The Solar System'.

This is a great big book crammed with huge illustrations and facts about some of the biggest animals on the planet. Each gorgeously illustrated double page is arranged in exciting themes, including the largest creepy crawlies, most dangerous animals and biggest marine creatures. With each animal drawn to scale, the readers will be given an idea of just how huge they really are. The final page reveals some record-breaking animals, including the bird with the biggest beak, the world's largest hunter and which species lays the largest eggs. The book contains pull-out concertina pages and double-door 'gatefolds' which open out to reveal the truly stunning size of some of the world's creatures including the magnificent blue whale.

This is a fantastic big book crammed with the world's biggest ships that ever sailed the seven seas. Young boat enthusiasts will love learning about all the warships, supertankers, Arctic ice breakers, aircraft carriers, hovercrafts and ocean liners featured in this great big book, with lots of stats and facts. Each themed double page is gorgeously illustrated. This title includes four gatefold spreads which open out to reveal the truly stunning size of some of the world's ships.

Children cannot fail to love this fantastic book filled with 1000 fairy-themed stickers. There are colourful pictures to fill with which ever stickers the reader chooses — to create delightful scenes of their own. The scenes include a spring meadow filled with flowers and butterflies, a strawberry patch with bugs and bees, a fantasy fairy castle, and a pond with water lilies and fluttering dragonflies. The extra stickers can be used on postcards, letters and envelopes, too.

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.

Girls will love discovering fashions past and present from across the globe in this collection of two popular titles from the Sticker Dolly Dressing series. You can dress the characters in traditional clothing from countries around the world and throughout history, such as beautiful silk saris for an Indian wedding, elegant Spanish flamenco dresses, togas in Ancient Rome and fashionable outfits from 1950s America and London in the 1960s. The simple text accompanying each scene is full of interesting facts about the featured period and culture. You can choose from over 750 stickers to help each doll look the part.

Beautifully illustrated throughout, this is a collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen retold for younger readers. It includes The Emperor's New Clothes, The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, The Snow Queen, The Princess and the Pea and other classic stories, as well as a short biography of Hans Christian Andersen.

Discover the magical world of fairyland as you search an enchanted forest for fairies sleeping in cobwebs, pixies dancing, elves sailing on boats made of leaves and goblins hoarding their treasure. Beautifully detailed illustrations show scenes from fairyland — from a goblin market to a frost fair and fairies dancing by moonlight. This title introduces new words and lots of things to look for and talk about with your child.

This is a new title in the fantastic First Reading series, part of the Usborne Young Reading Programme. It is aimed at children who are beginning to read. Let your imagination fly — soar into space and take a trip to the moon. This title features photographs with real images of the moon and fun puzzles after the story to consolidate learning. 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.

This is a brand new series on the world's most exciting vehicles, sure to appeal to boys of all ages and reading abilities. It is full of information on racing cars from how they were invented, the rules, circuits and cars of Formula One and a break down of the different models of indy, stock, rally and sports cars. Visually exciting and highly informative, each racing car subject is presented in a fun and accessible way with photographs, illustrated diagrams and comic strips. The internet links offer a fascinating selection of recommended websites — with sound, animation, video clips and much more, which provide additional information for projects and homework.

This is a fantastic new edition of this bright and lively encyclopedia, introducing young readers to the wonders of the past. Filled with historical information from the first people, farmers, cities and civilisations all the way to the World Wars and the modern day, this book answers such questions as 'What were the pyramids for?'; 'Who lived in the Forbidden City?'; and, 'When was the World Wide Web invented?'. Simple text, amazing photographs, detailed illustrations and a selection of exciting recommended websites make the subject easy to understand.

This is a charmingly illustrated bedtime board book for babies and toddlers, that is perfect for sharing or for children to enjoy by themselves. Talking about the familiar scenes encourages vocabulary building and speech development. It includes scenes such as teatime, tidying away toys, bathtime and storytime, with labels to promote word recognition.

This is a charming and colourful picture wordbook of going on holiday, ideal for teaching babies and young children sixty holiday-related words. Enjoying the scenes and reading the simple labels encourages vocabulary building, talking and word recognition. Scenes include getting ready to go, at the campsite, on the beach, at the cafe and picnic time. This is a book perfect for sharing or for a child to sit with by themselves.

This spine-tingling sticker book encourages children to explore a haunted house, using the colourful stickers provided to add spooky details to each room. Scary scenes include a troll's kitchen, a spooky sitting room, a ghostly guest room, a creepy conservatory, a beastly banquet and the mayhem of a monster's Halloween Ball. This title is presented with over 300 ghoulish stickers to choose from.

This engaging book introduces children to the diversity of people all over the world. Organised on a continent-by-continent basis, each section takes a look at the different ways of life, cultures, cooking and faiths. Simple, informative text is illustrated with stunning photographs and detailed maps and there are internet links to recommended websites to find out more.