Usborne and Kane Miller Books
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Some titles now available in Spanish, see below, contact me for other titles you may be interested in.
Usborne Miss Molly's School of Manners
A charmingly illustrated picture book about a little raccoon called Algernon and his extraordinary day at Miss Molly’s school. Algernon’s manners are bad at first... but lessons in the Sharing Studio and Listening Carefully Lab, lunchtime in the Dining Hall, the Library’s lovely language books and Good Sports Day soon have a transformative effect.
Ages 3+
Usborne First Illustrated Grammar and Punctuation
An easy-to-use introduction to grammar and punctuation for young children, featuring sections on nouns, adjectives, punctuation, writing skills and more. With simple explanations, colourful illustrations and lots of examples throughout, plus quizzes, writing tips and links to specially selected websites with puzzles and videos.
Grades 1 +
Usborne Illustrated Grammar and Punctuation
Author Jane Bingham
A new illustrated dictionary full of clear, straightforward explanations to understand the underlying rules of grammar and punctuation. Includes explanations of the rules of grammar and punctuation, descriptions of parts of speech, and lots of examples to reinforce understanding. A must-read for children and adults alike!
Geo-Tour II textbook Grades 3-5
Usborne Tricky Words to Spell
This book will help young readers learn to spell 300 tricky words.
Spanish Titles
Usborne Beginners El Cuerpo/ Your Body SPANISH TITLE
ages 6+
exciting books for children who are learning to read on their own
includes glossary & quicklinks
SPANISH TITLE
Usborne La Escuela de Buenas Maneras de Dona Carmela SPANISH TITLE (School of manners)
Un libro con fabulosas ilustraciones que nos cuenta el día extraordinario de un pequeño mapache llamado Alberto en la escuela de doña Carmela. Al principio, Alberto tiene malos modales, pero las lecciones en el aula de compartir y el laboratorio de escucha atenta, el almuerzo en el comedor con sus compañeros, los libros de la biblioteca del buen habla y el día de la deportividad tendrán un efecto transformador en nuestro amiguito.
A charmingly illustrated picture book about a little raccoon called Algernon and his extraordinary day at Miss Molly’s school. Algernon’s manners are bad at first... but lessons in the Sharing Studio and Listening Carefully Lab, lunchtime in the Dining Hall, the Library’s lovely language books and Good Sports Day soon have a transformative effect.
Ages 3+
Usborne Aventuras al aire libre (Outdoor Book- Spanish)
¡Es hora de olvidarse un rato del ordenador y la tableta! Este libro animará a los niños a salir de casa y a disfrutar del mundo sin ayuda de la tecnología. Incluye consejos y sugerencias geniales para aprender y divertirse en multitud de sitios sin techo ni paredes. Age 6+
Usborne No Te Aburras Nunca Más (Never Get Bored -Spanish)
Este libro es un antídoto infalible contra el aburrimiento: jeroglíficos, juegos de mesa, adivinanzas, instrucciones montar un teatro de marionetas y mucho, mucho más. Con instrucciones paso a paso e ilustraciones que estimularán la creatividad de los niños. Ages 6+
Usborne Readers
Usborne Illustrated Stories from Aesop
Illustrated Stories from Aesop to Read-Aloud or for a child reading on their own
35 moral-teaching stories from Aesop
morals taught: pride, trickery, greed, quarrels, friendship, cunning, retorts, comeuppance
Usborne Young Beginners Bundle or Single Titles
Ages 3 and up
An exciting beginning reading series for young children, with lots of pictures and very simple, easy text. $4.99 Each or $44.91 for 9 books.This bundle includes 9 titles:
Seashore NEW
Seasons
Night & Day Animals
Flowers
Baby Animals
Woodland Creatures
Dinosaurs
Bugs
Farm Animals
Click on view details to buy the set or titles individually.
Usborne Young Beginners Under the Ground
NEW TITLE
Take a journey down into the ground and discover all the fascinating creatures that live in burrows, dens, tunnels and nests. Along with foxes, rabbits and ants, find out about burrowing birds, tunneling tarantulas, and strange blind rats that live underground.
Usborne Beginners The Solar System
exciting books for children who are learning to read on their own
includes glossary & quicklinks
Usborne Beginners Monkeys
exciting books for children who are learning to read on their own
includes glossary & quicklinks
Usborne Beginners Tadpoles and Frogs
exciting books for children who are learning to read on their own
includes glossary & quicklinks
Usborne Beginners Your Body
exciting books for children who are learning to read on their own
includes glossary & quicklinks
Usborne Beginners Bees and Wasps
exciting books for children who are learning to read on their own
includes glossary & quicklinks
Usborne Beginners Caterpillars and Butterflies
exciting books for children who are learning to read on their own
includes glossary & quicklinks
Usborne Beginners Under the Sea
Usborne Beginners are colorful information books for children beginning to read on their own. Vivid, full color illustrations and photographs on every page, accompanied by short, informative text. Developed with reading experts at the University of Roehampton. Carefully selected Internet links to exciting websites to find out more. Great reading practice for children who prefer fact to fiction.
Accelerated Reader level2.9
Usborne Beginners Poisonous Animals
exciting books for children who are learning to read on their own
includes glossary & quicklinks
Pet Vet Book 1 Cranky Paws
Trump is a Jack Russell terrier, and she’s also an ALO, an Animal Liaison Officer, whose job it is to help take care of and calm all the animals who come to Pet Vet clinic to see her owner, Dr. Jeanie. Luckily, Trump speaks most animal languages, and together, she and Dr. Jeanie are an unbeatable team.
In Cranky Paws, a hurt kitten needs some care -- and a new home! Ages 7-11
Pet Vet Book 2 The Mare's Tale
Trump is a Jack Russell terrier, and she’s also an ALO, an Animal Liaison Officer, whose job it is to help take care of and calm all the animals who come to Pet Vet clinic to see her owner, Dr. Jeanie. Luckily, Trump speaks most animal languages, and together, she and Dr. Jeanie are an unbeatable team.
In The Mare's Tale, it's up to Trump to help calm a mare having a foal during a big storm. Add in a silly human and a sick Dalmatian, and there's almost too much to do!Ages 7-11
Pet Vet Book 3 MotorBike Bob
Trump is a Jack Russell terrier, and she’s also an ALO, an Animal Liaison Officer, whose job it is to help take care of and calm all the animals who come to Pet Vet clinic to see her owner, Dr. Jeanie. Luckily, Trump speaks most animal languages, and together, she and Dr. Jeanie are an unbeatable team.
Motorbike Bob is a biker dog! He rids around on the back of a motorbike, and he's never needed a vet ... until now! Ages 7-11
Billie B Mystery Code Breakers
Billie B. Brown and her friends, Jack, Mika and Alex, have decided to start a Secret Mystery Club and scour the neighborhood looking for mysteries to solve and clues to uncover.
In Code Breakers, Billie and Jack find an anonymous note on Billie’s front porch. It's time the friends put their code-breaking skills to the test.
Usborne Beginners Plus: Survival
Ages 8+
Extreme Adventures Crocodile Attack
Ages 8-12
In Crocodile Attack, a robber has kidnapped Sam Fox and his little cousin Nissa during a tropical cyclone. When the getaway car crashes into the raging Crocodile River, Sam and Nissa must face one ordeal after another to survive against incredible odds. Sam fights to keep his head above water and Nissa out of the jaws of certain death.
As the waters rise and the crocodiles close in, Sam must push himself to the limits of his endurance.
Extreme Adventures Grizzly Trap
Ages 8-12
In Grizzly Trap, Sam Fox is on a trip to North America with his Cub Scout pack when their bus crashes down a canyon. Some of the group are seriously injured, so Sam and two cubs set off to find help. But Sam is thousands of miles from home, in the middle of the American wilderness.
A wilderness full of howling wolves, and a massive, unpredictable grizzly bear that’s following them . . .
The pace of all of the Extreme Adventure novels keeps readers gripped from the first page to the last. Sam is bounced so quickly from one adventure to another, readers will hardly have time to breathe.
The Usborne Complete Jane Austen
This beautifully illustrated collection contains all of Jane Austen’s novels retold for young readers, including Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park, with notes on the characters and quotations from the original text. With links to websites to find out more about Jane Austen’s life and times.
Ages 8+
Bear Grylls Books
Bear Grylls Survival Skills Handbook Volume 1
The Survival Skills Handbook is the must-have survival guide for all young explorers. This practical field guide is full of information about the essential skills needed for outdoor activities, with step-by-step instructions, tips and level-headed advice from Bear, plus cool facts and incredible illustrations. Don’t leave home without it!
Volume 1: Camping, Maps & Navigation, Knots, Dangers & Emergencies
Bear Grylls Extreme Planet
Extreme Planet is a whirlwind tour of the globe, seeking out the highest, deepest, wildest, thinnest, coolest, hottest, scariest, smelliest things on the planet. It’s a fantastic journey around the world.
Bear Grylls Animal Detective Activity Book
Learn how to tell the difference between a tiger and wolf footprint, discover if a fox is using its den, and much more through this book’s fun facts, quizzes, word searches, and mazes. More than sixty stickers are included!
Bear Grylls Reptiles & Amphibians Coloring Book
This coloring book is packed with amazing images to color, along with facts, stats, “Bear Says” boxes with great tips, and brilliant photographs to copy and learn from. Age 6+
Bear Grylls Dangerous Animals Activity Book
Find facts and statistics and fun activities to learn what makes these animals – from the tiny but terrifying to the not-so-gentle giants – so scary.
Bear Grylls In the Jungle Coloring Book
Coloring activities prepare you for a jungle adventure with fun facts and special tips from Bear himself about the animals you may meet along the way!
Bear Grylls Wild Survival Activity Book
Get ready for a wilderness adventure with these fun facts, quizzes, mazes, and more! Learn what you need to survive: how to pack, read a map, and what dangers to watch out for!
Bear Grylls Adventures The Blizzard Challenge
Each book in the Bear Grylls Adventures series follows a different child at an outdoor activity camp. Once they are given the compass, they meet Bear in an amazing place and learn new skills and facts they can take back with them to their real life. There is so much information, and so much fun in these inspirational adventures.
Thanks to thecompass, Olly finds himself on a glacier. Bear Grylls, his guide, is waiting. The only way home is to trek across frozen lakes and through deep snow drifts — and there’s a blizzard coming… Can Olly meet the challenge? Ages 7-10
Usborne Activity Books
The Usborne Museum Activity Book
Welcome to our virtual museum! This fabulous activity book is packed with activities and puzzles based on things you might see in a museum, from Egyptian statues to dinosaurs, African masks and fashions. There are picture and word puzzles, maps and mazes, codes and spot the difference and lots of stickers. The answers are at the back of the book.
Usborne Fractions and Decimals Activity Book
Architect Academy
Architect Academy gives kids the know-how to plan and draw all sorts of structures, from bridges and schools, to parks and pyramids. Activities range from designing a residential street and your perfect play park to learning some of the math skills used by architects, how to read floor plans, and the basics of interior design. The Architect Toolbag section contains all sorts of goodies, such as Architect Task stickers to use when a challenge is completed, a pull-out poster, and press-out game cards to share with friends.
Architect Academy encourages imaginative play and problem solving, and the fresh, contemporary artwork helps to make basic design and space planning concepts accessible. Age 7+
Entrepreneur Academy
Learn how to test your ideas, stand out from the competition, become a great manager, and give back to the world, all by cracking the cover of Entrepreneur Academy! Divided into creative skills, business skills, and management skills, this book offers valuable information on a range of knowledge and abilities ideal for becoming an entrepreneur.
Activities, cool quizzes, and fun tests designed to develop skills.
Stickers, model, poster, and game included. Ages 7+
Coder Academy
Are You Ready for the Challenge?
Discover the essential skills required on the way to becoming a computer coding expert in this innovative activity book.
Coder Academy encourages imaginative play and problem solving, and the fresh, contemporary artwork helps to make basic coding concepts accessible.
Chef Academy
Enroll at Chef Academy to learn a number of skills needed to become a world-class chef; discover how to make food look and taste delicious, what it takes to be a successful leader, and much more. You'll also find a poster, a game, stickers, and even instructions for creating a chef's hat of your own!
Activities, cool quizzes, and fun tests designed to develop skills.
Stickers, model, poster, and game included. Age 7+
Doctor Academy
Welcome to Doctor Academy, a fun, informative introduction to the skills necessary to become a doctor!
Become an expert in all kinds of abilities required by a primary care physician and surgeon through a variety of fun, informative activities. Learn how to give checkups and how to identify symptoms, develop people skills, and even wrap a sprained wrist!
Includes a game, stickers, a poster, and more to add to the fun!
Engineer Academy
In Engineer Academy, kids learn essential skills for their engineering journey.
Packed full of great illustrations, fun facts, and absorbing activities, it guides readers through each strand of engineering science – Mechanics, Aerospace, Robotics, Energy, and Materials. Practical projects, each carefully designed to introduce the kinds of skills required by real-life engineers, help kids pick up the basics in a fun, hands-on way.
Design a robot, learn how to construct a simple car, create levers and pulleys, build paper planes, plus many other educational and inspirational activities – the sky’s the limit!
Ages 7+
Pilot Academy
Pilot Academy focuses on a different kind of pilot in each of its three sections: helicopter pilots, jet pilots and airline pilots.
Presented through a variety of interactive activities, including designing an airport, calculating the amount of fuel needed for a flight, testing your reflexes, learning to take off and land aircraft, and plenty more. Along the way, you'll hone the skills every pilot needs before taking to the skies.
Includes a game, stickers, a poster, and more to add to the fun!
Vet Academy
Packed full of fun, educational activities, Vet Academy lets children explore life as a veterinarian, from the rigorous training involved in learning about different kinds of animals to the importance of food, exercise and conservation.
The book is broken up into sections -- Pet Vet, Zoo Vet, and Farm Vet -- and each section includes arts and crafts, puzzles and quizzes, plus tasks and missions. Everything from learning about dog body language to a day in the life of a zoo elephant (and her vet), to farm vet hygiene – it’s all in here. Plus, there’s also a pull-out poster, game, cards and sticker sheets to add to the interactive fun.
Ages 7+
Usborne Art Ideas Drawing Cartoons
This inspiring book is brimming with ideas for drawing cartoons. Easy step-by-step instructions show you how to create all kinds of cartoons, from funny animals and superheroes, to flick-book animations. Age 9+
Usborne Art Ideas Drawing Faces
This innovative book is brimming with easy ideas for drawing faces. Simple, step-by-step instructions show you how to create portraits, caricatures and cartoons, using pencils, pens, pastels and paints. Age 9+
Usborne Big Pads Make Your Own Comics
This awesome activity pad is jam-packed with everything children need to design their very own comic strips. Create comics about swashbuckling pirates, a space adventure, a rogue robot rampage and many more. With lots of hints and tips on drawing characters, showing emotions, setting the scene and adding speech bubbles and sound effects.
Usborne Never Get Bored Book
This treasure trove of boredom-busting ideas will keep children entertained for hours on end, whatever the weather. Stage a shadow puppet show, make musical instruments, fly a kite and lots more, then stimulate your brain with riddles, word games and memory puzzles. With specially selected links to websites with even more fun things to do.
Ages 6+
Writing Books & Journals
Usborne Nature Journal
Perfect for nature lovers of all ages, this inspirational journal has lovely illustrations, intriguing facts and beautifully designed pages with plenty of space for your own notes and drawings. With links to specially selected websites for tips on sketching outdoors and identifying plants, animals and insects. Perfect resource for Homeschooling!
Ages 7-14
Usborne Travel Journal
Wherever you are and wherever you dream of going, this inspirational journal will be your trusty travel companion. The beautifully designed pages include lots of space to plan a dream trip, stick in mementos, write about things you’ve seen and sketch landmarks and wildlife. With 14 pages of beautiful maps, and website links for more inspiration.
Ages 7-14
Usborne My First Story Writing Book
NEW Usborne product!
ages 6 years and up
Packed with inspiring jumping-off ideas, and writing tips for different comics
Includes space for you to write your own stories (like a beautifully illustrated journal). For more books in this series for older children go to My Usborne page
Usborne Write Your Own Story Book
NEW Usborne product!
ages 8 years and up
Packed with inspiring jumping-off ideas, and writing tips for different types of stories including: Whodunnit?, comic strip, superpowers, story from picture, journal, time travel, fairy tale & more....
Includes space for you to write your own stories using the jumping off ideas. Includes a story writing toolkit with lots of tips for writing skills.
What a fun & different way to encourage writing! See Usborne page for more!
Usborne Creative Writing Book
Ages 10+
Hardback book with interior spiral binding for easy use.
Packed with inspiring jumping-off ideas, and writing tips for different stories
Usborne Write and Design Your Own Magazines
Making magazines is fun and easy – and this marvelous guide offers advice every step of the way. Learn how to write 5-star reviews and intriguing articles, make giggle-inducing comics and zines, showcase your artistic skills and much more. Includes links to specially selected websites for inspiration, hints and tips.
Ages 8+ to High school
The Usborne Unworry Book
This inspiring write-in book is an unworry toolkit, full of things to calm you down and places to put your worries - and we all worry! Activities include creating a worry box, making a mood grid and mindfulness activities such as coloring, doodling and mazes.
Ages 9+
Usborne Write Your Own Adventure Stories
ages 10 years and up
Packed with inspiring jumping-off ideas, and writing tips for different stories
Includes space for you to write your own stories (like a beautifully illustrated journal)
A Year in My Life
365 Scribble and Sketch Activities
Ages 9-14 personal Journal
An entirely unique keepsake from a year of your life, A Year in My Life prompts you to record unusual details in unusual ways. Design a surfboard, record your day as a recipe, write in a made-up language, draw an alien’s dinner—plus hundreds more activities to get you thinking and scribbling. This beautifully illustrated journal invites children to fill in 365 quirky drawing and writing activities—one for every day of the year. Things like: “Draw a tiny picture of the shoes you wore today.” Or, “If today was a color, what color would it be?” The activities are quick and imaginatively offbeat—so keeping up with the fun will never feel like work!
The Usborne Creative Writer's Handbook
Usborne Story Writer's Ideas Journal
This write-in activity book combines story prompts, writing tips and inspiring quotes from well-known authors, with tips on developing a plot, inventing characters, writing dialogue and setting the scene. There are blank pages to write your own stories and jot down ideas, plus an elastic closure to keep it all together.
Ages 8+ (I would say more Ages 10-18)
Usborne Social Studies supplements
Usborne Talkabout Book: Then and Now
explains fundamental principles of time
Usborne Who Were the First North Americans?
Usborne starting point history
new, ages 6+
goes well with Grades K-3
Usborne The Big Picture Book of Planet Earth
Where in the world would you most like to go? You could join a stampede of wildebeest in the Serengeti, dive to the deepest parts of the ocean, climb soaring mountain peaks in the Himalayas or take a gondola ride along the canals of Venice. This spectacular picture book has it all - taking readers on a fascinating tour of our amazing planet.
Ages 5+
The Usborne Maps Activity Pad
Navigate your way through the Galapagos Islands, track down buried treasure, search for a long-lost temple and much more in this entertaining map-themed activity pad. Each brightly illustrated map is crammed full of things to spot and puzzles to solve. The tear-off sheets are great for sharing, and all the answers are given at the back of the pad.
Ages +
Usborne The Story of Inventions
ages 8+
A fascinating look at inventions throughout time.
supplement- great for grade 3 or higher, now scheduled as a supplement on Grade 3
Usborne The Children's Book of Art
64 pp
Oppenheim Toy Platinum Award 2007
Expand your horizons with Art History!
Usborne A Short History of the World
Friends, Romans, citizens of the world - do you want to take a fast-paced trip through time? All of human history is here, from hunter-gatherers in the Ice Age to technological innovators in modern times. With bitesize narrative accounts, lively illustrations, timelines, maps and links to specially selected websites to bring history alive. Ages 9+ HB
Usborne Book of World History
New HB
ages 8+
Empires, Civilizations, Age of Revolutions, Crusades, Warriors, Exploration, and more.
Scheduled on the Grade 3 Manual
Great supplement for starting World History in elementary grades
Usborne Understanding Business
Understand the ins and outs of business with this approachable, quirky book. The diagrams and cartoons will explain in terms people can understand how the global market works, what businesses and companies do, what they need, and what purpose they serve. From a small market stall to the biggest worldwide companies, no business will hold any secret for readers of this book.
Ages 8+ {This would make a great supplement for High School}
Usborne Understanding Politics & Government
An informative guide to political systems, elections, voting and government and issues including feminism, human rights, freedom of speech and fake news, all explained with clear text and bright, infographic style illustrations. Includes tips on how to argue and debate, a glossary, and links to specially selected websites with more information.
Usborne Geography Encyclopedia w/Atlas
Scheduled in 8th Grade Earth Science
Scheduled in 4th for Cultures /Geography
revised editon
Also, great supplement to have on hand to cover Geography lessons
Sample pages
See Inside Flap Books
Usborne Look Inside Science
with over 110 Flaps to lift
A fun and informative flap book introducing young children to the wonders of science. Science topics from nature to forces and the human body are brought to life with colourful illustrations, flaps to lift, simple facts and fun experiments to try at home. Full of surprises to keep enquiring minds entertained, including flaps beneath flaps, sliding tabs and even a mini booklet crammed with information on the planets. Includes simple practical experiments for children to try themselves. Age 5+
Usborne Flap Book See Inside Bridges, Towers & Tunnels
Delve behind the scenes to look inside bridges, tunnels and towers around the world. Lift the flaps to reveal the mechanics and engineering of constructions including the Channel Tunnel connecting England and France, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the tallest building in the world, and many more. Age 7+
Usborne Science Supplements
Usborne My First Reference Book About Nature
Ages 3+
The Usborne Outdoor Book
The Usborne Woodland Book
NEW TITLE
A beautifully illustrated guide to the wildlife, plants, history and magic of woodlands. Children can discover their inner explorer, learning how to identify trees, track animals, build woodland shelters, draw maps and discover legends set in woods.
The Usborne Write-In Little Children's Nature Activity Book NEW!
This colorful activity book is packed with nature-themed puzzles, things to spot, coloring, drawing and doodling activities. Match baby animals to their mothers, color in flowers and insects, spot-the-difference between countryside scenes and much more. With four pages of stickers and all the answers at the back of the book.
Ages 4+
The Usborne Write-In Nature Activity Book NEW!
Grab a pen and tackle nature-themed puzzles, mazes, spot the difference, colouring in and lots more in this write-in activity book. Learn about animals and plants too, from bugs in the garden to turtles and dolphins in a coral reef. With answers at the back of the book and links to websites with video clips, fun facts and even more activities.
Ages 6+
Usborne It all starts with a Seed..........How food Grows
Ages 5+
Usborne Science Encyclopedia
Usborne Science with Plants
science activities for all ages
Usborne Science with Air
science activities for all ages
Usborne Science in the Kitchen
Science activities for all ages
Usborne First Encyclopedia of Seas and Oceans
Scheduled with K full manual pkg
Usborne First Encyclopedia of the Human Body
New
Scheduled in First Grade manual
First Encyclopedia of Science
Scheduled in 3rd Grade manual
Usborne Complete Book of Human Body
Internet-linked
supplement
Great addition for the study of the Human Body at any level!
scheduled on Grade 5
Usborne STEM Engineering Scribble Book
Discover how engineers solve problems in this innovative activity book, filled with inventions to brainstorm, puzzles to solve and objects to design. Create an earthquake detector, design a moon base and lots more, all using only the book and your pencil case. Includes downloadable templates and links to websites with more engineering experiments.
Age 7+
Usborne STEM Science Scribble Book
Think like a scientist in this innovative activity book, full of science activities to explore, record, discover and invent. Investigate forces, turbines, mirror writing, skeletons, animal migration and lots more, all using only the book and your pencil case. Includes links to websites with even more science activities and downloadable templates.
Age 7+