Anna MILBOURNE

This beautifully illustrated book contains all seven of Jane Austen's novels, beautifully retold as stories for children. The retellings are true to Austen's elegant phrasing and language, while reducing and simplifying the stories for a young modern reader, and include quotations from the original text throughout. The perfect book for children studying Jane Austen, or those who simply enjoy reading wonderful stories. Each story has an introductory plate showing all the main characters and introducing the plot, as well as single and double plate illustrations depicting scenes from the story. Includes a section all about Jane Austen, her times and her other writings. An heirloom of the future, this beautiful book is richly produced to a standard this timeless classic deserves, with a padded Hardback cover, a ribbon marker and traditional binding.

Complete Jane Austen

peep inside and follow the adventures of a little girl and her Nutcracker doll one magical Christmas night. The cut-out pages enhance the magic and Christmassy feel, with delicate snowflakes, and fairy magic, and enable the reader to peep inside a palace made from sweets. Delicate cutaways and holes to peep through create a magical filigree effect. Disney's live action movie The Nutcracker and the Four Realms is released in November 2018, starring Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren and Morgan Freeman. Other Nutcracker books available from Usborne: 9780746064184 The Nutcracker (Young Reading Series), 9781409536789 The Nutcracker (Picture Book). Young children will love looking at the detail in this book - both in the illustrations and in the peep-throughs and flaps - and sharing and talking about it with a grown-up.

Peep Inside a Fairy Tale the Nutcracker

Sarah Courtauld

Henry Brook

This beautifully illustrated book contains all of Charles Dickens' novels, and the novella A Christmas Carol, all skillfully retold for children. The retellings simplify the novels for a young modern reader, with quotations from the original text throughout. Wonderful illustrations by Maria Surducan show the characters and the smoggy London scenes. * The perfect book for children studying Charles Dickens, or those who simply enjoy reading wonderful stories. Each story has an introductory plate showing all the main characters and introducing the plot, as well as single and double plate illustrations depicting scenes from the story. Includes a section all about Charles Dickens, his times and other writings. An heirloom of the future, this beautiful book is richly produced to a standard this timeless classic deserves, with a padded Hardback cover, a ribbon marker and traditional binding.

Complete Dickens

Bring the magical story of the Snow Queen to life with this stunning peep inside book. Can Gerda save her best friend from the icy clutches of the Snow Queen? Scenes include flowery gardens, spooky forests the Snow Queen's icy palace, with delicate cutaways and holes to peep through creating a magical filigree effect. The classic fairy tale, brought right up to date for a modern audience with beautiful illustrations and fine laser-cut holes and cutaways which add depth and drama. Young children will love looking at the detail in this book - both in the illustrations and in the peep-throughs and flaps - and sharing and talking about it with a grown-up. Other titles in the Peep Inside a Fairy Tale series: Cinderella 9781409599111, Little Red Riding Hood 9781409599128, Beauty and the Beast 9781474920544.

Peep Inside a Fairy Tale Snow Queen

Discover or rediscover the fantastic stories from Shakespeare plays with this complete book! In this beautifully-illustrated book you will find the thirty-seven plays that Shakespeare wrote, retold for children from 8 to 88! You will be pleased with re-reading the all-time favorites (Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night's Dream or Hamlet) but also with discovering the less well-known stories.

Complete Shakespeare

This is a book about a child who is afraid of the dark. The book follows the little boy as he tells the reader all about the approaching darkness one evening, revealing his fear as he goes to bed, showing shapes in his bedroom that look like monsters (which change into ordinary things when he switches the light on). When the boy goes on a camping trip, he comes to realize that the dark has its place, and perhaps isn't so terrible after all. After all, it's only when it's truly dark, that you can see the stars. With a playful, clever and beautiful use of laser-cut holes, the book shows shadows getting bigger and taking over the boy's world, the dark bedroom shapes looking like monsters, and then transforming, in the turn of a page, to be just ordinary things in the boy's bedroom, and a breath-taking scene of hundreds of stars in the night sky.

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