100 Facts Saving the Earth is a fantastic book for children aged 7+, presenting a detailed look at ways we can help to preserve our planet - from energy-saving tips to green shopping advice. Exactly 100 facts accompanied by detailed photographs and beautiful artwork will challenge children, acting as an incentive as they make their way through the book. Projects to make and do, hilarious facts …
Black Beauty spends his youth in a loving home, surrounded by friends and cared for by his owners. But when circumstances change, he learns that not all humans are so kind. Passed from hand to hand, Black Beauty witnesses love and cruelty, wealth and poverty, friendship and hardship . . . Will the handsome horse ever find a happy and lasting home? Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture o…
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This is a new paperback edition of "Usborne's Illustrated First Dictionary" with over 2,500 carefully chosen words and definitions. It is packed with lively and humorous illustrations and photographs that help demonstrate the meanings of words. It includes an alphabet sequence on each page to help children find their way around the dictionary, example sentences showing how words are used and wo…
Explore science in a fun new way, with a different activity or experiment for every day of the year. Hands-on science to fascinate children, with often surprising results. Will inspire the scientists of the future. Further resources are available online via the Usborne Quicklinks website. Children can learn which shapes are strongest by building their own structures, discover how emulsification…
Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband. With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible heroine, Pride an…
Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, completing it in August 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817; Persuasion was published in December that year (but dated 1818). Persuasion is linked to Northanger Abbey not only by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume and published together, but also because both stories are…