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The fascinating history of ships and the explorers who sailed in them told for children growing in reading confidence and ability. Beautifully illustrated by Alan Marks, winner of the Carnegie Medal. Part of the Usborne Reading Programme developed with reading experts at the University of Roehampton.

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This book is a playful way for young children to develop their pen control and problem-solving skills. Help the friendly monsters find their way through all the themed mazes at the Monster Maze Park, including crazy golf, water slides and spooky train. Durable, wipe-clean pages mean children can revisit their favourite activities again and again.

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Part of the Usborne Key Skills series that supports the English lessons children learn at school, this entertaining book is filled with prefix and suffix related activities, including giving words opposite meanings, adding word endings and using apostrophes.

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Young children can start to grasp the basics of spelling from an early age. This durable, wipe-clean book allows children to trace over the dotted letters and fill in the spaces again and again, helping them gain confidence in spelling simple words.

Illustrations:Full colour throughout

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The classic tale of Phileas Fogg and his quest to travel around the world in just eighty days, specially retold as part of Young Reading Series 2 for readers growing in confidence.

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Explore! makes history relevant to everything kids learn at school: geography, art, science, technology, literacy and numeracy!

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Read all about the Victorians who lived in a time of great progress and change.

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Explore! makes history relevant to everything kids learn at school: geography, art, science, technology, literacy and numeracy!

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Explore the world with this fascinating, high interest series.

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This book draws on evidence left behind by the Anglo-Saxons. It examines how they lived, studied, worked, worshipped and played. There are also short stories about real people who lived during this period of history, such as Alfred the Great, Kenelm, a young prince and Eanswida, a girl who refused to marry.

When King Arthur set up his court, hundreds of knights wanted to join him. But they had to fight fierce giants and deadly dragons first. For only the bravest, strongest and most loyal of knights could sit at the king's Round table. Read on for three of their exciting adventures.

Titles in the popular Young Reading series are re-issued with hardback covers with audio CDs inserted into a wallet inside the back cover, making the book and CD easy to store together.

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An indispensable source of information and ideas to support the study of biography and key figures across the curriculum. Each title looks at 50 people who have made their mark on history. Colourful, accessible entries describe famous lives and legacies and provide reliable, internet-linked lists of resources to explore.

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This colourful activity book is a great way for children to learn how to write lots of simple three- letter words. Each page has a different theme with accompanying words, including a fancy-dress party, a building site, at the beach and lots more. The pages are wipe-clean for endless practice and ideal for developing pen control.

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Part of the Usborne Key Skills series that supports the English lessons children learn at school, this book is filled with grammar and punctuation activities that help children create noun phrases, use pronouns and adverbials and write paragraphs. Wipe-clean pages offer endless practice, and answers and secret notes for grown-ups are at the back.

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This fun book is a perfect way for young children to start learning about phonics. A team of friendly monsters introduce the sounds letters make, and starting sounds and ending sounds. There are simple activities to match letters to words and pictures, including word trains and a monster circus, and letters to trace over with the wipe-clean pen.

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Part of the Usborne Key Skills series that supports the English lessons children learn at school, this entertaining book is filled with prefix and suffix related activities, including making words negative, adding word endings and a spelling quiz. Wipe-clean pages offer endless practice, and answers and secret notes for grown-ups are at the back.