Books published by Usborne Publishing Ltd

Provides helpful advice on choosing the best words for creating characters, setting scenes and shaping stories, as well as special vocabulary for different story themes. Young authors can create their own stories and build up a word bank of favourite words and phrases, so that they need never use 'nice' again...The perfect companion to Usborne's best-selling Write Your Own Story Book.

A big, colourful book full of fun times-tables activitiesPacked with activities to help children learn their times tables. There's a sheet for each table up to x12 with drawing, spotting, dot-to-dot and matching puzzles, plus a quest game to practise all the tables.

Nee naw, nee naw! The fire engine is here to save the day. Peep into the cab, roll out the hoses and slide out the ladder to find out how it works. Truck-obsessed toddlers will love all the details to spot, flaps to lift and holes to peep through. An exciting introduction to some of the people who help us.

You'd better not tickle the unicorn... because it just might neigh if you do! This delightful interactive book combines touchy-feely patches with sounds: as well as the unicorn, babies and toddlers will enjoy tickling the dragon, phoenix and yeti to find out what noises they make. At the end of the book, all of the animals make their noises at the same time, along with a bouncy tune guaranteed to get everyone dancing.

Just add water to bring the butterflies and their settings magically to life. Packed with beautiful scenes showing butterflies of the world flitting among flowers. Simply brush water over the black and white designs to watch the butterflies burst into a rainbow of colours.

Beep, Beep! The recycling truck has arrived! Peep under flaps and through holes to find out how it works, as it zooms around town collecting recycling and taking it to the sorting factory. This hands-on introduction to the topic of recycling is perfect for little fingers and curious minds.

This large pad has 30 tear-off sheets of fun dot-to-dot puzzles, ideal for keeping children entertained during holidays and rainy days.

An accessible child-centred story about self-acceptance and the importance of opening up to those closest to you.

From flying saucers and supersonic spaceships, to alien encounters and famous fakes, this classic title traces UFOs throughout history. First published in 1977, this is the second book from Usborne's World of the Unknown series to be back by popular demand. With a foreword by impressionist Jon Culshaw.

Aveline Jones loves reading ghost stories, so a dreary half-term becomes much more exciting when she discovers a spooky old book. Not only are the stories spine-tingling, but it once belonged to Primrose Penberthy, who vanished mysteriously, never to be seen again. Intrigued, Aveline decides to investigate Primrose's disappearance.

This festive activity book for little children is full of Christmas scenes to decorate. Dress the dolls for a Christmas market, ice skating, building a snowman and lots more. With over 200 reusable stickers of festive outfits and Christmas decorations, and a fold-out back cover so you can put spare stickers there while you dress the dolls.

An enchanting fairy-tale adventure about the power of love and courage, from the bestselling author of The House with Chicken Legs and The Girl who Speaks Bear.

All aboard for the rip-roaring final book in the bestselling Train to Impossible Places Adventures, with magic at every stop.From the award-winning P.G. Bell, with dazzling illustrations from Flavia Sorrentino, join Suzy on this magical adventure, where the journey will never, ever take you where you expect it to.When the Impossible Postal Express magically arrives to collect Suzy, she sets off on her most difficult delivery yet. A mysterious talking book is stealing words and causing chaos across the whole of the Impossible Places!The book must be returned to a city that's been lost for thousands of years. But without a map to get there, Suzy and Wilmot's journey plunges them into grave danger, deep beneath the ocean. And with time running out, it might not just be the knowledge in the Impossible Places that is lost for ever - Suzy and Wilmot could be too..."e;Delivers epic magic and adventure by the train-load."e; Sibal Pounder

Babies and toddlers will love touching the textured patches as they meet lots of adorable wombats. The bright pictures and textures to stroke are designed to help develop sensory and language awareness.

Build 11 of the strangest, deadliest, most awesome aliens in the galaxy with the inspiring stickers in this book. The scenes to complete include a giant alien with trailing tentacles that crackle with lightning and a mysterious warrior from another dimension. With statistics for each alien's size, intelligence and attack force.

A delightful addition to the Little Dolly Dressing series, featuring a range of fun-filled carnival scenes. Use the stickers to dress the fairies and decorate the pages.

Discover how to doodle a sloth, turn pencil shavings into pictures and draw in ways you never imagined. Then try printing, spattering paints and painting with dots. There are ideas for portraits, patterns, optical illusions and more, so you'll soon have enough artworks for your own exhibition - and this book will show you how to stage one too.

Sticker Dolly Dressing Mermaids by Fiona Watt is a delightful book published in 2020 by Usborne Publishing Ltd. This captivating book is a charming addition to the genre of children's literature. It invites readers into a magical world under the sea where they can dress up mermaids with over 200 enchanting stickers. The author, Fiona Watt, has done a remarkable job of creating an interactive and engaging experience for young readers. The book's vibrant illustrations and creative activities make it a perfect gift for children who love mermaids and stickers. Published by Usborne Publishing Ltd, known for their high-quality children's books, Sticker Dolly Dressing Mermaids is sure to be a treasured addition to any child's bookshelf.

This Sticker Dolly Dressing book features over 300 stickers to dress brides and grooms as they prepare for their big days, including dress shopping, choosing a cake, getting ready and the first dance.

Meet five adorable sloths in this exciting addition to the much-loved That's not my... series. Babies and toddlers will love touching the textured patches as they meet sloths with rough noses, furry legs and soft tummies. The bright pictures and textures to stroke are designed to help develop sensory and language awareness.

This entertaining book is bursting with ideas for fingerprinting dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. Create scenes with Velociraptors scurrying around a forest, a sky filled with swooping Pteranodons, add plates to Stegosaurs' backs and much more. With an inkpad of seven bright colours and a spiral binding so that the book lies flat.

Journey back to prehistoric times and meet lots of amazing dinosaurs, from the toothy T-Rex to the powerful Diplodocus, with this bright and colourful sticker book. Learn how the Maiasaura protected her eggs, which gigantic prehistoric animals lived underwater and more whilst decorating the scenes using the 200+ stickers provided.

Things are quiet in the town that used to be Perfect until Violet and Boy uncover more trouble brewing. Five scientists are missing and Town is about to be taken over by a huge zombie army. Can Violet and Boy save their friends? It's a matter of life or death! A highly charged finale to the series that began with A Place Called Perfect.

Little children will love to wind-up the tractor and watch as it whizzes around the tracks. There are three much-loved Apple Tree Farm stories to bring to life - Scarecrow's Secret, Runaway Tractor and Tractor in Trouble - and each story includes sturdy tracks embedded in the pages and press-out Farmyard Tales characters to complete the scenes.

Discover all kinds of graphs and charts and how to use them in this entertaining activity book. The activities encourage children to collect and analyse data, from tallying the number of animals spotted on safari to displaying types of weather on a bar chart. Quizzes after each section let children test what they've learned.

It's Christmas Eve at Apple Tree Farm! Peep under the flaps to find out what Poppy and Sam are doing to get ready for Christmas Day. Poppy can't find Ginger, her kitten, but maybe you can see where she's hiding! An interactive book for children to enjoy during the festive season, with delightful illustrations from Stephen Cartwright.

Explore the farm, visit the farm shop and meet a whole host of friendly animals in this delightful book. With over 250 stickers of cows, sheep, tractors and vegetables to bring the colourful scenes to life.