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Simply dip the magic water brush into water, brush it over the black and white patterns and you’ll be amazed at the colors that magically appear.

Series: Magic Painting Books

Simply dip the magic water brush into water, brush it over the black and white patterns, and you’ll be amazed at the colors that magically appear.

Age 5 years and up

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A wind-up model of a red, double-decker London bus and four tracks take you on a tour of the famous city.

Find out about London's most famous landmarks and attractions as your bus stops on its way. The four tracks can also be taken out of the book and joined together to make one huge track for the bus to travel around.

Series: Wind-Up Books

Read the stories, then wind up the vehicle and watch it whiz around the different tracks.

Age 3 years and up

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Press the sign on each page to hear these wonderful garden sounds and noises. The beautiful illustrations complement this beautiful first picture book for young children.

Series: Press-a-Sound Books

Press the sign on each page to hear wonderful sounds and noises. The beautiful illustrations complement these beautiful first picture books for young children with fully embedded sounds.

Age 3 years and up

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This delightful series of board books is aimed at very young children. The bright pictures with their patches of different textures, are designed to develop sensory awareness and language awareness. Babies and toddlers will love turning the pages and touching the feely patches.

Series: That's Not My… Board Books

Babies and toddlers will love touching the textured patches on every page. The bright pictures and textures to stroke are designed to help develop sensory and language awareness.

Age 9 months and up

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This delightful series of board books is aimed at very young children. The bright pictures, with their patches of different textures, are designed to develop sensory and language awareness. Babies and toddlers will love turning the pages and touching the feely patches.

Series: That's Not My… Board Books

Babies and toddlers will love touching the textured patches on every page. The bright pictures and textures to stroke are designed to help develop sensory and language awareness.

Age 9 months and up

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This delightful series of board books is aimed at very young children. The bright pictures, with their patches of different textures, are designed to develop sensory and language awareness. Babies and toddlers will love turning the pages and touching the feely patches.

Series: That's Not My… Board Books

Babies and toddlers will love touching the textured patches on every page. The bright pictures and textures to stroke are designed to help develop sensory and language awareness.

Age 9 months and up

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A delightful, interactive book on a subject that young children love. Encourages word and picture recognition and matching, and aids vocabulary building for children starting to learn to read.

Series: First Sticker Books

There are dozens of different stickers to help complete the colorful scenes in these exciting sticker books.

Age 4+

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Interactive sticker book full of busy, detailed illustrations. Items to spot within the main picture are shown in the border as silhouettes and each has a corresponding sticker which children can find, match and add in the correct place. With over a thousand things for children to find, count and talk about.

Series: 1001 Things to Spot Sticker Books

Helps children develop skills in reading, counting, matching, and identification.

Age 4+

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This fun book is perfect way for young children to learn about letters.

Zaner-Bloser (manuscript) was used for the Wipe-Clean series.

Series: Wipe-Clean Books

The wipe-clean pages provide lots of opportunities to practice as children can return to each topic again and again. A fun and engaging way for young children to learn and develop essential skills, and each title comes with a wipe-clean pen.

Age 4 years and up

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This delightful series of board books is aimed at very young children. The bright pictures, with their patches of different textures, are designed to develop sensory and language awareness. Babies and toddlers will love turning the pages and touching the feely patches.

Series: That's Not My… Board Books

Babies and toddlers will love touching the textured patches on every page. The bright pictures and textures to stroke are designed to help develop sensory and language awareness.

Age 9 months and up

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This delightful series of board books is aimed at very young children. The bright pictures, with their patches of different textures, are designed to develop sensory and language awareness. Babies and toddlers will love turning the pages and touching the feely patches.

Series: That's Not My… Board Books

Babies and toddlers will love touching the textured patches on every page. The bright pictures and textures to stroke are designed to help develop sensory and language awareness.

Age 9 months and up

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Welcome to the wonderful world of fairy tales, full of wicked wolves, clever princesses and magic beanstalks that touch the sky.

Would you like to be whisked away to a royal ball? Or find out who lives in a castle in the clouds? Then let’s begin.

Once upon a time... Includes: Cinderella, Goldilocks, Jack & the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, The Princess and the Pea.

Series: Read-Aloud Story Books

These delightful books make great stories and gifts for young and old readers alike!

Age 3 years and up

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Usborne Key Skills introduces important educational concepts and reinforces learning, with lots of opportunities to practice the essential skills needed to progress at each stage.

Each title includes playful quizzes, simple, approachable notes, as well as a handy gate-fold practice page and hidden notes for grown-ups.

Using the wipe-clean pen provided, children will be able to practice again and again until they are able to master the skills covered in this intermediate pack.

Math skills included: Number patterns; Making groups and identifying equal groups; Multiples of 2, 3 & 5; Dividing by 2, 5 & 1.

English skills included: Using capital letters & punctuating different types of sentences; Using commas, apostrophes and contractions; Joining sentences; Noun phrases; Verbs and tenses; Silent spellings; missing letters and exception words; Choosing spelling endings; Adding -y and -ly; Homophones

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Usborne Key Skills introduces important educational concepts and reinforces learning, with lots of opportunities to practice the essential skills needed to progress at each stage. Each title includes playful quizzes, simple, approachable notes, as well as a handy gate-fold practice page and hidden notes for grown-ups.

Using the wipe-clean pen provided, children will be able to practice again and again until they are able to master the skills covered in this advanced pack.

Math skills included: Fractions, Tenths, Adding and subtracting fractions, Fraction walls, Ordering fractions, Equivalent fractions, Telling the time.

English skills included: Indefinite articles, Word families, clauses & conjunctions, Adverbs & prepositions, Quotation marks, Present perfect tense, Writing paragraphs, Spelling prefixes & suffixes, Consonant blends and word endings, More homophones

 Intermediate # 12959 and Introduction # 12862.

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Build 11 of the biggest, fiercest, most powerful dragons from the land of Ravenhold in this exciting activity book.

Fantasy lovers will have hours of fun adding stickers of claws, teeth and armor to dragons including Stalagar the ice dragon and Magaloki the three-headed dragon, and comparing each dragon’s powers.

Age 5+

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Open the flaps of this book and dive into the watery world beneath the waves.

Explore coasts, coral reefs, and mangrove forests, and find out what lives in the deepest, darkest part of the ocean.

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Age 5 years +

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This book will take young readers on a spectacular journey around the world, from the highest mountain peaks to the very bottom of the ocean. Full of fascinating facts, this book uses jaw-dropping landscapes and richly illustrated maps to explain the wonderful secrets behind Planet Earth. Full of rich vocabulary, quicklinks also will add virtual tours, reconstructions, games and other homework help.

Series: Big Picture Books

Big, sturdy books full of pictures that introduce fun topics in a large, unique format, perfect for little learners.

Age 6 years and up

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Listen to special arrangements of Vivaldi's Four Seasons concerti for violin while exploring the changing seasons in this stunning book. Each beautifully illustrated scene shows a different season with fingertrails to explore and a button to press to listen to the music. A delightful way for children to discover Vivaldi's much loved music.

Age 3+

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This kit contains everything you need to embroider, frame and hang a beautiful mermaid piece.

The 16-page book gives you simple, step-by-step instructions showing you exactly what to do at every stage along the way.

Kit includes a square of 100% cotton fabric with design, an embroidery frame, three shades of embroidery thread, needle, needle threader, and a step-by-step guidebook.

Age 7 years +

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Enter the world of engineering and discover how engineers SOLVE problems and THINK, in this fascinating activity book — with moon bases to DESIGN, bridges to BUILD, and much more. Each activity is based on a clear scientific or engineering principle, so you can explore key ideas in a hands-on, interactive way.

Series: Activity Journals

Behold the antidote to boredom at last! Whether it’s a rainy afternoon or a long summer’s day, whether you’re at home or with friends, you’ll never get bored with these books. Includes an elastic bookmark so you won’t lose your place!

Age 8 years +

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THINK like a scientist in this scribble-in activity book, full of things to EXPLORE, DISCOVER and INVENT. Make a mini movie, measure your reaction speed, design your own robot and more in this fun hands-on science book — each activity is based on a clear scientific or engineering principle to explore key ideas in a hands-on, interactive way.

Series: Activity Journals

Behold the antidote to boredom at last! Whether it’s a rainy afternoon or a long summer’s day, whether you’re at home or with friends, you’ll never get bored with these books. Includes an elastic bookmark so you won’t lose your place!

Age 8 years +

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From teenage girls waiting to dance at their very first ball, to mothers hunting for rich husbands for their daughters, Jane Austen's love stories are famous throughout the world.

This collection of adaptations of all six novels — and one shorter tale — with beautiful illustrations and summaries of the characters, is the perfect introduction to Jane Austen.

Novels included are: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion and Lady Susan.

Age 9 years +

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Discover magical princesses, mighty dragons, mischievous monkeys and more in this captivating collection of Chinese stories, specially retold for readers today.

The book features stunning traditional-style brush and ink illustrations by Chinese artist Li Weiding, and includes links to websites to find out more about Chinese folk tales and art.

Stories included: Fox & Tiger, Pearl that Shone in Dark, Frog in the Well, Butterfly's Dream, Great-Aunt Tiger, Painter of Dragons, How Phoenix Got Feathers, No Silver Buried Here, Mouse's Marriage, Old Man Moved Mountain, Golden Slipers, Monkey King,  and New Year Monster.

Age 8+

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Find out about the key advances in science through 100 amazing pictures.

Discover how scientists invented life-saving medicines, probed the secrets of the smallest particles and sent people to the Moon – and how ground-breaking scientific theories changed our world again and again.

Series: Picture History

Discover how life-saving medicines were made, great empires rose, people were sent to the Moon, famous battles were won, and how artists, inventors, scientists, and explorers changed our world through 100 amazing pictures.

These books contain links to specially selected websites with even more information.

Age 10 years+

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