"Aaah, peace and quiet at last," sighs Mrs Rabbit, tucking her children into bed. But it doesn't last for long! Her baby is still a bubbly, hoppity, run-around-the-house bunny. Will Mrs Rabbit ever coax him to sleep? Flocked edition of best-selling Ready For Bed!: "A perfect bedtime read, brimming with love and soothing illustrations." Junior magazine
"The Musician's Guide covers every topic commonly taught in the music theory curriculum, from fundamentals to post-tonal theory with pathbreaking pedagogy. With the textbook, workbook, anthology, and two aural skills volumes, plus a wealth of online resources, it is the most comprehensive resource available for music theory. All Norton theory texts are supported by online Know It? Show It! peda…
A celebration of the many ways children interact with books.
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…