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Old MacDonald Had a Farm
The famous childrenās rhyme for beginner readers to tackle with very light support. Join Old MacDonald on a day at the farm as he looks after his animals. Part of the Usborne Reading Programme developed with reading experts at the University of Roehampton. Includes several pages of reading-related puzzles.
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Reading with Phonics – The Gingerbread Man
Reading with Phonics is a set of new reading books designed to develop the confidence of young children between the ages of five and seven.
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Stories for 1 Year Olds
Stories for 1 Year Old’s takes familiar events in very young children’s lives, and crafts them into fun, rhythmic stories with very few words.
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Stories for 2 Year Olds
Stories for 2 Year Old’s is bound to appeal to young toddlers with its upbeat, melodic text about a variety of child-friendly subjects.
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Stories for 3 Year Olds
Stories for 3 Year Old’s will win over any tricky toddlers with gentle stories told in an exciting way.
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The Dragon and the Phoenix
Theseus is determined to slay the monster that lives at the heart of the Labyrinth. But even if he succeeds, will he make it back home to Athens in one piece? Part of the Usborne Young Reading Programme, based on the Greek myth, aimed at children just beginning to read to help build confidence and ability. This title is developed in consultation with Alison Kelly, who is a senior lecturer in education and an early reading specialist from Roehampton University.
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The Fox and the Crow
Fox is always hungry. One day he sees Crow, with some tasty cheese in her beak. Can Fox persuade her to let go? This lively retelling of the classic Aesop’s fable has easy-to-read text and fun puzzles to try after the story.
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The Greedy Dog
Dog is always on the lookout for food. Soon he finds a juicy bone to eat… but will one bone be enough? A lively retelling of the classic Aesop fable, specially written for children just starting to read alone. Part of the Usborne Reading Programme developed with reading experts at the University of Roehampton.
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The Old Women who Lived in a Shoe
Itās no fun living in a shoe when you have as many children as this old woman. She needs to find a bigger home ā and fast.
A story based on the classic nursery rhyme for beginner readers ready to tackle slightly more complicated storylines and sentence structures.
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The Very Grumpy Day
The Very Grumpy Day is a warm, funny picture book about friendship and the value of being kind and thoughtful towards others. There’s a big bad mood spreading through the wood! It starts with Bear, who upsets Mole, who snaps at Hedgehog, who’s prickly with Fox. Soon Bear’s bad mood has made everyone grumpy! All except for Mouse, whose little act of kindness might be just the thing to make everyone happy again.
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The Very Noisy Night
Little Mouse feels scared when he lies in bed. What is that huffing and puffing? “Can I come into your bed?” he asks Big Mouse, but Big Mouse does not want to share his bed and is determined that Little Mouse should sleep alone. Thus unravels the miniature world under the floorboards.
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The Very Smelly Princess
The Very Smelly Princess is refusing to take a bath and is starting to smell! But is there more to this story than meets the nostrils?
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The Warlock
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The Newman twins have finally been divided. The end is near.
In San Francisco, Josh has chosen a side – and he will not stand with his sister, Sophie, or the Alchemyst, Nicholas Flamel. He has chosen to fight along side John Dee and the mysterious Virginia Dare. Sophie will do anything she can to find her brother, but her training must continue. With Perenelle and Nicholas as weak as they are, Niten must help her to master Earth Magic. Without this, she will fail and the human race will be doomed forever…
Can she save the world alone?
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The Wheels on the Bus
Get ready to dance and sing with this classic action rhyme book. With bright animal characters to bring the noisy bus journey to life, this is a perfect book for lots of playtime fun.
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The Wish Fish
Every day, Bob catches fish. One day, he catches the biggest surprise of his life. This lively retelling of an old folktale has the easy-to-read text and fun puzzles to try after the story.
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There Was a Crooked Man
The classic rhyme retold for beginner readers ready to tackle slightly more complicated storylines and sentence structures. The crooked man has a crooked house and a crooked cat. Now he wants a crooked fish for his supper. But where has it gone?
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We Are Together
On our own, we’re special, and we can chase our dream.
But when we join up, hand in hand,
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We’re Going on a Bear Hunt: My First 123
Follow the path and get counting with this first numbers adventure based on the best-loved world of the Bear Hunt film.
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What’s More Scary Than a Shark?
What’s more scary than a shark? Two Sharks. Shark is seriously scary. Lobster is the only creature in the sea who isn’t afraid of him. Then along comes Sadie. As big as Shark and as scary as shark, she’s gorgeous. She makes Shark go seriously silly and soppy, and he’ll do anything to win her sharky heart. But will he change his scary ways?
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Wings : The Third Book of the Nomes
It wasn’t a thing, it was a bit of shaped sky . . .
Somewhere in a place that is so far up there is no down, a ship is waiting to take the nomes home – back to wherever they came from. And one nome, Masklin, knows that they’ve got to try and contact this ship. It means going to Florida (wherever that is), then getting to the launch of a communications satellite (whatever that is). A ridiculous plan. Impossible. But Masklin doesn’t know this, so he tries to do it anyway. And the first step is to try and hitch a ride on a new kind of truck, a truck with wings – Concorde.