Meet an amazing anteater, a cool cat in a car, an enormous elephant much more in this charming introduction to the alphabet. Gorgeous illustrations, irresistible finger trails and alphabetical text combine to make this a perfect book to help very young children learn lower-case letter shapes and the sounds associated with them.

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.

This dynamic and joyous exploration of difference helps young children learn to respond in a kind and equal way to everyone, regardless of shape, size, age, physical and mental ability, gender, ethnicity, beliefs, language, culture, background, and so on. With topics ranging from clothes, music and food to homes, festivals and families, there is plenty for children to talk about as they find out about what makes people different and what makes them unique.

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.

A delightful treasury in which the worlds of Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, Little Bo-Peep, The Owl and the Pussy-cat and many more well-loved characters are brought to life by Richard Johnson's enchanting illustrations. Includes traditional rhymes, songs, lullabies, well-known sayings and tongue-twisters, a full index of first lines and audio accessed by QR codes.

Discover the amazing animals and plants that live in gardens, forests, jungles, oceans and wild places in this colourful sticker book. There are over 180 stickers of animals, plants and bugs to add to the scenes, from caribou in the Arctic to clownfish in a coral reef. Ideal for learning about the natural world and for developing manual dexterity.

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.

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.

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.

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...

An illustrated picture word book featuring over 150 stickers that offers a fun way to encourage vocabulary building for children who are learning about the human body. It includes themes such as parts of your body, your head, your clothes, things you can do, your senses and things your body needs.

Take a whistle-stop tour through the alphabet from amazing aardvarks, big brown bears and crazy cats to dancing ducks, naughty narwhals and sleeping sloths. With gorgeous illustrations by Sophia Touliatou, simple facts and capital and little letters on every page, this is a lovely book to share with a young child.

This book prepares girls for what to expect from puberty and offers advice on what they can do to cope with the emotional, psychological and physical changes and stay happy and confident as they go through their early teens. It covers all the topics that girls want to find out about, including moods and feelings, periods and how to survive them, what happens to boys, diet, eating disorders, exercise, body image, sex and relationships, contraception, sexual health, self-confidence, drink and drugs, exam stress, cyberbullying, and staying safe - both out and about and online. It guides young teenagers through this exciting and sometimes daunting stage as they start taking full responsibility for many aspects of their own lives for the first time.

This fun book is a perfect way for young children to improve their language and writing skills. Trace over 120 everyday words, each accompanied by an image, including clothes, food and daily activities. With durable, wipe-clean pages for endless practice and links to websites with advice and more reading and writing activities.

This is a beautifully illustrated collection of over 100 traditional nursery rhymes. Padded cover, stylish design and enchanting illustrations combine to make this a perfect and enduring gift for any baby or young child. It also includes well-known tongue-twisters, sayings and lullabies.

How are you feeling today? This lively and engaging exploration of emotions helps young children learn to answer this important question. Topics covered include learning to describe feelings, how your feelings can change, and being kind to yourself. There are helpful notes for grown-ups at the back too and links to websites for more advice.

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 multi-racial families, and lots, lots more, showing little children that families come in all shapes and sizes.

Families come in all shapes and sizes and from all sorts of backgrounds. They speak various languages, eat different sorts of food, live in different kinds of homes and celebrate special occasions in a variety of ways. This book lets children explore questions such as `What is a family?', `What different sorts of families are there?' and more.

An enchanting book with hundreds of stickers to add to magical scenes full of rainbows, fairies. pixies and unicorns. 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. There are over 200 stickers to add to the delightful scenes including rainbow accessories, clothes, butterflies and flowers, fairy houses, fairy cakes, a fairytale castle and an enchanted wood.

An accessible, informative first reference book that helps young children learn about trees, plants and funghi - what each of these things is, how to tell them apart, what each needs to survive and thrive, and their life cycles, including information about how they reproduce.

Winner - Schools Library Association Information Book Award A 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.

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.

A colourful lift-the-flap board book to help children learn about numbers in a fun way. Each page has lots to spot and talk about, even for pre-readers, as children are asked to count, spot and match different numbers. The answers can be found by lifting the 80+ flaps.

Little children and their grown-ups can stick their fingers through the holes to become the arms of little octopus as she meets her undersea friends, decorates her den and hides from a hungry shark. Simple rhyming text and delightful illustrations combine perfectly in an engaging interactive board book.