Don't set sail without it!
Farmyard Tales book with 30 stand-up pieces, wind-up tractor, and 3 tracks.
Find Some Splashing Summer Reads
Hot Summer Reading
Run your own 10 week Adventure at Sea Summer Camp without leaving home. Set sail on pirate adventures. Explore the beach, or immerse yourself in the ocean.
Free Reading Incentive Program
Launch a summer reading incentive program to benefit your non-profit. Read more and find out what we offer.
Have a Great Trip
Travelling for the summer? Grab a bag and stuff in some goodies, including a book or two. Check out our new and already popular activity cards: 100 things for little children, and brain games. Or what about puzzles, mazes and search books, or sticker books to keep fingers busy.
Grow A Budding Reader in April
National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month. Share nursery rhymes, poems and songs with your child and grow their phonemic awareness. Heard of phonics? Poems, songs and rhymes not only build essential phonic pre-reading skills, but they are FUN! Celebrate mud, rain, ice-cream, cats, mice, teddy bears and more with a great book of poems for preschoolers. Start growing phonics skills early, there's no need to wait until preschool! A sturdy nursery rhyme book complete with CD will put your tiny one on the path to reading. The Usborne Nursery Rhyme Treasury contains 67 beautifully illustrated traditional nursery rhymes and makes a wonderful gift. Need more poetry ideas? Choose from a selection of favorite American children's poets.
Get out in the garden - grow and discover
Plant a green thumb seed! Take your child out into the garden. Get great gardening ideas. Learn about how flowers grow, plant a variety of seeds inside and out, or escape into the secret garden.
Explore the Farm
Baby animals and tractors can be hard to resist! What are the animals doing on the farm? Lift the flaps to explore. Put together a red tractor or meet and learn to love Poppy, Sam, Rusty, Woolly and Ears on Apple Tree Farm. Dot to dots are a great way to practice pencil work and to learn number sequences. Go dot to dotty on the farm!
Got a bug enthusiast?
Collect some creepy crawlies. Nurture your naturalist. Visit your local park, then do a big bug search, or hunt for 1001 bugs on the way home.
Springtime Savings
Usborne Spring Sets encourage exploration of the natural world, celebrate Mother's Day, and grow a love of bugs and growing things.
March into Spring
Women's History Month
March is Women's History Month. Read the stories of Anne Frank, Florence Nightingale, Marie Antoinette, and Cleopatra. Celebrate Women's History with some great books.
Read Across America Day
Pick out an Usborne book that can become your child's favorite. How about: Farmyard Tales with a duck to find on every page; books with charming clay model illustrations by Jo Litchfield; or interactive books by Richard Fowler, which are great for keeping kids focused on the story.
St. Patrick's Day
Just who were the Celts and how did they appear scary in battle?
Have a Happy Spring Break
Travelling for the holiday? Grab a bag and stuff in some goodies, including a book or two. Something new will keep your kids busy and make for happier travelers. Check out puzzles, mazes and search books, or sticker books to keep fingers busy.
An Easter Gift That Lasts
Board books are an Easter surprise for an infant or toddler that lasts beyond the thrill of Easter egg hunting. Mini books are perfect for adding to an Easter basket.
Springtime Savings
Usborne Spring Sets encourage exploration of the natural world, explain the true meaning of Easter, celebrate Mother's Day, and grow a love of the garden.
Celebrate February
African American History Month
February is African American History Month. See some of the books for children selected by Black Caucus members for celebrating African American History Month. Learn about Martin Luther King Jr.
Children's Authors and Illustrators Week
Does your child have a favorite Usborne book? Usborne illustrators Stephen Cartwright and Jo Litchfield are favorites with kids. Interactive books by Richard Fowler are great for keeping kids focused on the story.
Chinese New Year
February 7th is Chinese New Year. Celebrate with traditional Chinese stories written especially for young pre-readers and early readers. The Dragon and the Phonenix, The Dragon Painter, The Emperor and the Nightingale, The Monkey King, First Thousand Words in Chinese.
Read to Your Child Day
February 14th is not only valentines day, but it's also Read to Your Child Day. It's a wonderful day to snuggle up and read a great Usborne book with your little one/s. Check out the top 50 selling Usborne books.
Have a Great Time at Home in January
The weather is miserable outside, everyone's house-crazy, and the last thing you're likely to do is outdoor exercise. It's the perfect time to get help with active indoor ideas and to spend more time in the kitchen. Form some new food habits. Cook up something delicious together, dance around the house, then snuggle down under a blanket with your little one/s and a good book. Get started on jiggling and bouncing with your baby ; hop, skip and jump with your toddler ; get active at the pool ; discover healthy recipes ; find books to snuggle with.
