Rosie Dickins

Illustrated Fairy Tales

Create your very own masterpieces with this latest addition to the best-selling series, featuring 16 famous paintings. 16 famous paintings get the magic painting treatment. Simply brush water over the black-and-white outlines and watch them burst into colour. Even the paintbrush is included - all you need to create your masterpieces is water. At the back, there is a brief introduction to each painting along with a full colour reproduction, plus internet links to find out more. With paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet and more.

Magic Painting Famous Paintings

Uwe Mayer

Carrie Armstrong

An introduction to famous paintings includes many facts about the artists and their lives, and how they created their work, to help beginners understand what art is and why people think it is important.

Internet Linked

Usborne The Children's Book of Art

Retells the Chinese folktale in which a painter, famed for his paintings of wildlife, paints four dragons on the Emperor's temple wall, but refuses to fill in their eyes for fear they will come to life.

The Dragon Painter

Sarah Courtauld

This wonderful beginning reading collection contains fairytales specially written for young readers.

Mari Griffith

An Introductory history of Western art which covers everything from ancient Egyptian decorative art to modern art, and includes Internet links for further information.

In Association with the National Gallery, London

The Usborne Introduction to Art

Lesley Sims

A beautiful gift book containing some of Aesop's most famous fables, including 'The Fox and The Crow', 'The Greedy Dog', 'The Sun and The Wind' and 'The Hare and Tortoise'. Perfect for reading aloud at bedtime.

Aesop's Stories for Little Children

Erika Langmuir

Tim Marlow

This sumptuous book covers every era of visual art from ancient to modern. It includes works from every major genre, from classical to cubist; focuses on every major theme, from still-life to society; and contains works by the world's most renowned and influential artists. This encyclopaedic title contains hundreds of gloriously reproduced works of art from the world's major collections, including the National Gallery in London. The superb illustrations are combined with authoritative, informative and fascinating text, which brings the paintings to life and also explains how to get the most out of looking at art. Key works, including the Arnolfini Portrait, Venus and Mars and Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, are explored in detail. Contains a timeline, biographical details about many major artists, and an extensive glossary that explains key terms clearly and precisely. Includes approved Internet links, which can be accessed through the Usborne Quicklinks website, and lead the reader to hundreds of more works of art in addition to the masterpieces included in this wonderful and exciting book.

The Usborne Book of Art

Aimed at children aged four and over, each title in this series is a classic story or fable, retold with simple text to delight and inspire any child who is just beginning to read. The series was developed in conjunction with reading expert Allison Kelly.

The Emperor and the Nightingale

Shen doesn’t like to share anything – especially not his yummy pears. Can a hungry beggar teach him a little kindness? The Chinese folktale specially retold for beginner readers. Part of the Usborne Reading Programme developed with reading experts at the University of Roehampton, specially written for children just starting to read alone. Includes audio. "Crack reading and make confident and enthusiastic readers with this fantastic reading programme." - Julia Eccleshare

The Magic Pear Tree

Germano Ovani

A boastful monkey king is given a job by the Emperor of Heaven in an attempt to keep him from bothering people, but when he ruins the Empresses' peach banquet, Buddha teaches him a lesson.

The Monkey King

Illustrated in full colour throughout, this collection of stories will appeal to all young readers who are horse and pony lovers.

Stories of Ponies

A beautifully illustrated and bound collection of traditional stories, freshly retold for today's children. * Luxurious cloth quarter-binding, with ribbon marker and carefully designed pages, make this book a pleasure to hold, read and keep. * Written for reading aloud to young children, or for older children to read themselves.

Fairy Tales for Bedtime

Jan McCafferty

Presents a variety of techniques for representing the human face in different media.

Drawing Faces

A step-by-step guide to the techniques of drawing and painting human faces and portraits. Includes Internet links.

An instructional art book focusing on the various elements in drawing a face.

Susanna Davidson

Rosie Hore

EDC Publishing

Sam Baer

An illustrated collection of myths from all over the world, all retold specially for young readers and beautifully illustrated. The Myths included are: The Children of Lir (Celtic), The Fox Maiden (Japanese), The Origin of the Winds (Inuit/Alaskan), Anansi and the Box of Stories (Ghana/Ashanti), The Cowherd and the Princess (Chinese), The Wall of Asgard (Norse), How the Seasons Came to Be (Greek), Thunder and Lightning (Nigerian), Finn MacCool (Irish/Gaelic), The Fish of Maui (Maori), The Missing Goddess (Egyptian), Fire of the Jaguar (South American/Kayapoo), The Greedy Frog (Tiddalik - Aboriginal), The Race of the Animals (Chinese Zodiac), The Demon and the Goddess (Indian), Ishtar and the Land of the Dead (Mesopotamian/Babylonian), The Sun and the Moon (Korean), The Water Spirit's Gift (Native American).

Illustrated Fables from Around the World

An incredible lift-the-flap look at a world invisible to human eyes This book peers through the microscope to reveal TINY unimaginable wonders. Discover bizarre minibeasts and peculiar plants, meet the millions of microbes that live around and inside you, and marvel at miniature technology. The perfect introduction to a fascinating area of science.

See Inside the Microscopic World

Karen Ball

Christa Unzner

Presents the life and accomplishments of the famous Renaissance artist, scientist, engineer, and inventor.

Leonardo Da Vinci. Karen Ball and Rosie Dickins

A colourful lift-the-flap board book to help children learn their fractions and decimals.

Rosie Dickins

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