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A bright, lively introduction to our world with simple text, amazing photographs and detailed illustrations. Provides simple explanations to questions such as “Why is night dark?” “How do earthquakes happen?” and “What is under the sea?” Includes free downloadable pictures and internet links to carefully selected fun websites.

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Little children and their grown-ups can poke their fingers through the holes to become Busy Worm and Baby Worm and wiggle their way through this delightful story. The wiggly worms meet Slip the Snail, Buzz the Bee and avoid being eaten by the early bird before joining their friends for a very wiggly lunch in the compost heap.

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A colourful board book full of familiar vehicles for young children to look at and talk about. Includes over 50 different things that go, from a buggy to a bus and a scooter to a steam train. A fun way to build vocabulary, whether sharing together or exploring alone.

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A fantastic journey through an amazing world of over 130 colors, including the primary and secondary colors and descriptive color words, such as canary yellow, russet and mint green. Includes a color wheel to turn to see which colors go well together and a see-through acetate page to flip to see what happens when you mix colors. A delightful book to share and talk about with a young child, and to use as inspiration for writing and painting as they grow older.

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A lively cast of characters from aardvarks to zebras decide to disrupt and rewrite an alphabet book to make it more fun. Rhyming text and appealing illustrations combine perfectly to bring the story of big blue bear, elegant eel, fabulous flamingo, snazzy snail and talented toucan to life as each animal claims its rightful place in the book.

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Winner - Schools Library Association Information Book AwardA fantastic journey through an amazing world of over 130 colours, including the primary and secondary colours and descriptive colour words, such as canary yellow, russet and mint green. Includes a colour wheel to turn to see which colours go well together and a see-through acetate page to flip to see what happens when you mix colours. A delightful book to share and talk about with a young child, and to use as inspiration for writing and painting as they grow older.

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A colourful book with over 60 flaps to lift to teach little children about opposites in a fun way. Pages include colourful scenes at the park, in the ocean, in the jungle and more. Each flap has its opposite hiding behind it. Bright illustrations of large and small parrots, high and low swings at the park and hot and cold picnic foods make the opposites clear and give prereaders lots to spot and talk about. With pages for commonly used opposites such as above and below, inside and outside and big and little.

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This charming, lift-the-flap board book helps children learn about numbers with simple puzzles to solve on every page. Children can count the flamingos, zebras and monkeys at the zoo, find the cows on the farm, match rockets in space to their home planets and more - and lift the flaps to discover the answers.

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Join the the fairies and pixies as they splash in rainbow puddles, paint rainbows in the sky, play with unicorns, prepare for a rainbow party and snuggle up in rainbow beds at the end of the day. The delightful scenes include a magical meadow with unicorns, butterflies and flowers; fairy houses; fairy baking; a fairytale castle and an enchanted wood.

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A rollicking romp through the alphabet with a different letter and animal on each beautifully illustrated page. With zoo animals from angry alpacas and furious foxes to wild wombats and zebras from Zambia, this is the perfect way to help children learn alphabetical order and remember letter shapes and sounds.

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Help young children improve their language and writing skills with this fun activity book all about a farm. There are lots of easy words to practise reading and writing, including farm animals, machines, fruit and vegetables and farm noises. With durable, wipe-clean pages for endless practice and links to websites with advice and more activities.

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Bring the Christmas story to life with this delightful colouring book. Scenes to colour include Mary and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem, the birth of Jesus and the arrival of the shepherds and the Three Wise Men. The backgrounds are already coloured in, so little children can focus on the key parts of the story.

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Little children and their grown-ups can stick their fingers through the holes to become the arms of two friendly but easily scared little ghosts who go trick or treating on Halloween night. There are surprises along the way as they float through the spooky forest towards a creepy little house which is surrounded by pumpkins, broomsticks, bats and cats...

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A pack of illustrated cards with fifty simple words in Polish. Each card shows an everyday object with accompanying word on one side and just the word on its own on the other to aid revision. Illustrated with Jo Litchfield’s handmade models. The cards can be used to play games, for self-testing, or simply propped up around the house or classroom as useful reminders.

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Little Bird is flying all around the world looking for her friend, Bertie. Can you help her find him? With lots of flaps for curious hands to lift and 50 amazing animals to meet. From muddy piglets on the farm to slithering snakes in the jungle, visit incredible places and learn new words as you search. Endearing illustrations and sturdy flaps will make this a treasured book to revisit again and again.

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Felicity Brooks (Author) Felicity has worked for Usborne for over 30 years and has written and edited hundreds of titles, from books on tractors to genetics, from Shakespeare to mental health, and plenty of sparkly unicorns. Felicity is an expert in making tricky topics friendly and accessible to young children and recently has been writing books that celebrate feelings, friendship, empathy, families, and diversity. When she's not writing or researching very specific details on dinosaurs, Felicity can be found tramping through fields and forests foraging for food or just curled up with a bag of Twiglets, a couple of cats and a crossword.

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Introduce little ones to 19 well-loved nursery rhymes in this beautiful book, including Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, Baa, Baa Black Sheep and Little Miss Muffet. With delightful illustrations by Sophia Touliatou, information about the benefits of sharing rhymes with little children and tunes to listen or sing along to at Usborne Quicklinks.

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Why do we need friends? How can we make friends? And what makes a good friend? This charmingly illustrated book explores the benefits of having friends, looking at different types of friendships, and what happens when friends fall out and make up. Includes helpful notes for grown-ups on talking to children about friendships, dealing with conflicts and imaginary friends.

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Perfect for storytime, this collection of ten traditional and much-loved stories includes The Princess and the Pea, Jack and the Beanstalk, Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Little Red Riding Hood. Beautifully designed pages with Richard Johnson's enchanting illustrations bring each tale to life. Includes an introduction to the stories and notes on where they came from.

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'Oh, ONE can be fun. ONE Bun, ONE sun, ONE tree. You see? Just me.Ah, TWO. Yahoo! That's me AND you - a couple, a pair. Let's share!'So begins a lively rhyming story that follows ONE little bunny's attempts to host a fun birthday picnic as her friends fox, penguin, bear, tiger, sloth, toucan, dinosaur and giraffe arrive one by one to swell the numbers to NINE. But it is guest number TEN, a skunk with a rather unusual perfume, who causes most problems, prompting each animal to make its excuses and leave. Nevertheless, it is the skunk who turns out to be the best of the bunch and in more ways than one. Rhyming text and appealing illustrations combine perfectly to help consolidate counting up to ten and back again, also gently reinforcing the early numeracy concepts of one more and one less.

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A delightful first reference book. Children can see how a sunflower grows from a seed, how poppies flower and make seeds, how vegetables grow and how insects and animals help plants. With over 120 stickers to add to the pages, a glossary, quiz and naming and spotting games. Supports basic biology as taught on the UK Primary National Curriculum for Science and includes internet links to age-appropriate websites.Also available as a hardback library edition with no stickers and with a contents page and index.

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What do families look like? Who’s in your family? And how can families change? With delightful illustrations, this glorious celebration of family diversity talks about lone-parent families, adoptive, foster, divorced, remarried, and mixed race families, and lots, lots more, showing little children that families come in all shapes and sizes.

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Celebrate springtime with little lambs, bouncing bunnies and fluffy chicks in this charming sticker book. There are over 250 stickers to bring the scenes to life, including an Easter egg hunt, an Easter parade and fields to fill with animals.

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How are you feeling today? This fun, friendly and reassuring introduction to feelings is designed to help young children recognise, understand and name how they’re feeling and learn to talk about and manage their emotions in helpful ways.

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A fun way to familiarise young children with all the things they will need to know and be able to do when they start school. Following a typical day at school, children will enjoy using the stickers to help the characters in the book get dressed, pack bags, hang up coats, change for PE, and participate in art class, lunchtime, playtime, story time and home time. With over 100 stickers, this is sure to keep little children occupied for hours.

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Everyday Words Flashcards are a great learning resources for young children. The cards can be used to play games, for self-testing, or simply propped up around the house or classroom as useful reminders.

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A bilingual adaptation by Bethan Mai Jones of All About Diversity by Felicity Brooks. A dynamic and joyous exploration of difference helps young children learn to respond in a kind and equal way to everyone, thus developing confidence and promoting development, education and welfare.

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Delightful illustrations and clear definitions combine to make this the ideal first dictionary for young children. Words are shown in context to help children understand how they are used, and colourful alphabet strips along the edges of the pages aid navigation. There's also user-friendly information on how to use a dictionary, simple explanations of word classes, and plenty of tips on grammar and spelling.

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A pack of illustrated cards with fifty words in simplified Chinese characters, as used on mainland China. Each card shows a picture of an everyday object with the Chinese word on one side and just the word on the other to aid revision. Illustrated with Jo Litchfield’s handmade models. The cards can be used to play games, for self-testing, or simply propped up around the house or classroom as useful reminders.

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Little children and their grown-ups can poke their fingers through the holes to become the trunks of Big Elephant and Baby Elephant and tell a simple story. Baby Elephant learns to reach for leaves, suck up and squirt water, then takes a walk through the grassland before joining the rest of the family at the end of the day for a big elephant cuddle.

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A pack of illustrated cards with fifty simple words in Italian. Each card shows an everyday object with accompanying word on one side and just the word on its own on the other to aid revision. Illustrated with Jo Litchfield’s handmade models. The cards can be used to play games, for self-testing, or simply propped up around the house or classroom as useful reminders.

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With 50 flashcards to help children master simple vocabulary this is a great learning resources for young children. The cards can be used to play games, for self-testing, or simply propped up around the house or classroom as useful reminders.

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A fact-packed introduction to the wonders of the sea with easy-to-read text and superb photographs. Subjects include coral reefs, whales and dolphins, undersea exploration and environmental threats. With internet links to exciting websites, including a virtual tour of the seabed and downloadable images of weird and wonderful sea creatures.

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Everyday Words Flashcards are a great learning resources for young children. The cards can be used to play games, for self-testing, or simply propped up around the house or classroom as useful reminders.

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Little hands can lift the big flaps in this robust board book to find out what all the trucks are doing on the road, at the dock and at the building site. There's a shiny red fire engine, a big low loader and a rubbish truck as well as a little cat to spot on every spread, and a few hidden surprises along the way.

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