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From the tops of the trees to the forest floor, this book is full of some of the weird and wonderful things that live in rainforests. But the world’s rainforests are in danger – find out why and what will happen if people don’t change the things they do.
Age 4+
Extent: 32 pages
Dimensions: 210 x 156mm
When do most animals have babies? Who’s awake on summer nights? How do animals survive the winter? In this book, you’ll find the answers and lots more fascinating facts about the different seasons. With simple text and beautiful illustrations, plus Usborne Quicklinks to websites with carefully selected video clips and activities.
Age 4+
Extent: 32 pages
Dimensions: 204 x 150mm
An amazing flap book packed with inventions, machines, gadgets and devices, and facts and information about how they work. Over 90 flaps reveal the insides of car engines, toilets, escalators, submarines and microwaves and many, many other machines. Includes internet links to websites with animations, games and experiments.
Age 6+
Extent: 16 pages
Dimensions: 282 x 222mm
Over 60 flaps to lift to discover the wonderful, mysterious and often funny stories behind some of the world’s most ground-breaking inventions. Featuring eye-catching illustrations, quirky facts, and surprises such as flaps within flaps. With internet links to websites to find out more and design your own inventions.
Age 6+
Extent: 16 pages
Dimensions: 282 x 222mm
AWARDS
Shortlisted
Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize 2012
Calling all space cadets! Usborne assigns you a mission to see inside these extraordinary space stations and spacecrafts, from the beginning of the space race to the latest missions to Mars and beyond. With over 70 flaps to lift, plus links to websites with video clips and more information. Published in association with the UK Space Agency.
Age 6+
Extent: 16 pages
Dimensions: 282 x 222mm
Children can fly rockets, dodge aliens and explore strange planets as they make their way through 45 out-of-this-world maze puzzles. Each maze is more challenging than the last, from finding a safety alarm in the International Space Station to dodging craters on the moon. The correct paths through all the mazes are shown at the back of the book.
Age 5+
Extent: 64 pages
Dimensions: 305 x 248mm
Have you ever wondered what real live dinosaurs were like? Once, long, long ago, at the edge of a huge forest, a baby stegosaurus hatched out of an egg. Follow his adventures as he grows up and begins to explore the big wide world.
(Picture Books)
Age 18+ months
Extent: 24 pages
Dimensions: 250 x 250mm
A charming and comical story told with simple text and delightful illustrations sure to entertain young children. Sid likes scaring his friends with his mighty roar, but when Sid loses his voice, will his friends wish he hadn’t? With rhyming text that children will love to join in with time and time again.
(Picture Books)
Age 18+ months
Extent: 24 pages
Dimensions: 250 x 250mm
Who keeps helping the old shoemaker and making such wonderful shoes while he sleeps? And how can the shoemaker repay their kindness?
(Picture books)
Age 18+ months
Extent: 24 pages
Dimensions: 250 x 250mm
This delightful picture book is based on the beloved classic tale and retold for younger children. Run, run as fast as you can, you can’t catch him, he’s the Gingerbread Man! But although he may be able to out-run everyone, can the Gingerbread Man outwit the cunning fox?
(Picture Books)
Age 18+ months
Extent: 24 pages
Dimensions: 250 x 250mm
The enchanting classic by Frances Hodgson Burnett retold for children growing in reading confidence and ability. Mary Lennox feels forlorn and lonely in her uncle’s gloomy house on the moors. But behind an old ivy-covered wall is a garden, waiting to be discovered.
Age 6+
Extent: 64 pages
Dimensions: 203 x 136mm
