Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
A lively retelling of this classic fairytale from the Brothers Grimm, recounting the story of a beautiful princess with skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony; Charmingly illustrated by Desideria Guicciardini; Young readers will treasure this beautiful gift edition, which is published in hardback with a ribbon marker; The Young Reading Series is designed to encourage independent reading and covers a range of subject matter, including the retelling of children's classics, fairytales, and a wide variety of narrative non-fiction.
Spiders (Usborne Beginners)
Spooky (Sticker Dressing)
Young fiends will love using the stickers in this book to dress all sorts of spooky characters. It is packed with killer zombies, oozing swamp monsters, ancient mummies and even some guest appearances from famous spooky creatures such as Frankenstein's monster and even Count Dracula himself. Contains over 200 spine-chilling stickers to complete the terrifying scenes, including a haunted hall, a ghostly feast and a mummy's tomb.
Start To Cook. Abigail Wheatley
This is a comprehensive book covering all the basics of cooking, perfect for children or beginner cooks of any age. It is fully illustrated with colour photographs, and clear step-by-step diagrams show what to do at each stage of a recipe. Dishes included range from simple sandwiches, salads, soups, stews and desserts through to straightforward classics such as roast chicken, homemade bread, sponge cake, chocolate chip cookies and even profiteroles. Each recipe is marked clearly with allergy advice, and variations on recipes are also included to cater for different food preferences and tastes. Each recipe also comes with a difficulty rating, indicating clearly which are very easy and which require a bit of extra time or effort.
Start To Read Pack (Very First Reading)
This pack, which is designed to start children on the path to reading, contains the first four Very First Reading titles, workbook with parents' notes and a link to and advice on using the Teach your Monster to Read computer game. The books introduce the letter sounds in the order normally used in schools, using the synthetic phonics system, and the workbook provides follow-up and consolidation activities for each book. The Teach your Monster to Read game, which is available free on the internet, was developed by The Usborne Foundation, a charitable organisation.
Step-By-Step Drawing Book
Children's Books, 12 Years +, Toys by Age, 8 years and above, Art & Craft, Toys, Books & School, Books, English Books
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. An easy-to-follow, step-by-step drawing book that helps children master the simple drawing skills required to render a range of animals, people and objects. It comes with plenty of space for doing their own drawings.
Stories from Shakespeare
Stories of Gnomes and Goblins
Four original stories about the magical world of gnomes and goblins for children just beginning to read, charmingly illustrated by Stephen Cartwright. Stories feature tricking a lazy gnome, mischievous pixies getting people into trouble and an adventure inside Goblin Hill. Part of the Usborne Young Reading Programme.
Stories of Knights
Three exciting adventure stories for children just beginning to read. The Knights of King Arthur were the bravest, strongest and most loyal knights of all, which these stories show as they battle dragons, slay giant ogres and rescue maidens in distress. Usborne Young Reading has been developed with reading experts from Roehampton University.
Stories Of Magic Ponies
This is a new title in "Usborne Young Reading Series One". It feature three original stories set on the magical Pony Island, where rainbow-coloured, talking ponies get up to all kinds of mischief and adventure! It offers desirable and collectable editions to foster pride in book ownership as well as reading enjoyment. The "Young Reading Series One" is aimed at children just beginning to read to help build confidence and ability. It is developed in consultation with Alison Kelly, who is a senior lecturer in education and an early reading specialist from Roehampton University.
Stories of magical animals
Four original stories of magical creatures from faraway lands told for children just beginning to read. Featuring unicorns, flying horses and a creature that's half-lion, half-eagle, these stories are guaranteed to enthral children. Usborne Young Reading has been developed with reading experts from Roehampton University.