(2020) Part of the Usborne Key Skills series that supports the English lessons children learn at school, this entertaining book is filled with prefix and suffix related activities, including giving words opposite meanings, adding word endings and using apostrophes. Wipe-clean pages offer endless practice, and answers and secret notes for grown-ups are at the back.
(2020) Part of the Usborne Key Skills series that supports the English lessons children learn at school, this book is filled with activities that use basic comprehension skills to understand written English including stories, poems, instructions and more. Wipe-clean pages offer endless practice, and answers and secret notes for grown-ups are at the back.
(2020) Why is there so much plastic in the world? How does it help us? What’s the problem and how can we solve it? These are just some of the 60+ questions answered in this timely and topical book. The facts are presented in a friendly and quirky way, helping kids to understand this global predicament and inspiring them to be part of the solution.
(2018) A handy pad packed with 140 pages of activities to help children practise subtracting with numbers from 0 to 20. Part of the Usborne Key Skills series that supports the maths children learn at school. Activities include number lines, missing numbers, quizzes and more, and get progressively harder. Answers are at the back of the book.
(2019) Part of the Usborne Key Skills series that supports the Maths lessons children learn at school, this handy pad is filled with 140 tear-off activity sheets that help children practise their fractions from halves to tenths. The activities get progressively harder throughout the pad, and all the answers are at the back.
(2017) This beautifully illustrated picture word book contains exactly 199 animals that can be found in zoos and wildlife parks. Children will love looking at and talking about the huge variety of animals, from the familiar to the exotic. Categories include: ‘In the reptile house’, ‘At the penguin pool’, ‘Birds of Prey’ and ‘Children’s zoo’. Illustrations:Full colour throughou
(2018) This colourful word book is filled with pictures of things you can expect to find on a farm, from pigs and sheep to scarecrows, tractors and apple trees. The book is organised into themed pages, including animals on the farm, the orchard, growing vegetables, the stables and the farm shop. Great for developing vocabulary and language skills.
(2017) From squirrels and hedgehogs to sea horses and star fish, there are over 200 familiar words for children to discover and talk about in this delightful word book. Each word is accompanied by a friendly illustration, and the words are grouped into themes such as woodland animals, birds, flowers and plants and on the shore.
(2020) A friendly and inspiring introduction to music history, telling the stories of the world’s greatest musicians from Bach to Beyonce. The Story of Music begins with the early drums and flutes of our ancestors, which date back to the last icea age, through to the modern day. Mick Manning and Brita Granstroem take your on a tour of their personally selected music library which showcases the work of some of the world’s most famous artists and few a less well-known ones. The musicians featured include Vivaldi, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Chuck Berry; Aretha Franklin, Bob Marley, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Blondie, Grandmaster Flash, Nicki Minaj, Beyonce as well as Bjork and Kraftwerk. The friendly text and illustrations help children to appreciate the music, highlighting interesting biographical details and picking out key details to spot. The book’s large format means the music artwork is reproduced on a wonderfully impactful scale. This really is a book to give and treasure. The creative team of Mick Manning and Brita Granstroem are well-known for their ground breaking children’s information books. Their many awards range the TES Information Book Award for What’s Under the Bed? and the English Association Non-fiction award for Charlie’s War Illustrated.
(2015) Little children need to learn a huge amount of vocabularly before they start to read, and one of the best ways in which to do that is to share books with them. This book is a perfect vocabularly-builder, with over 100 farm-themed words, each with a picture. Simply point to a picture and say the word and your child will soon be picking up new words.
