{"title":"Usborne","description":"\u003cp\u003eUsborne children's books: board books, picture books, and learning and activity books including sticker books, doodle books, mazes, and look-inside and peek-inside titles.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"doodling-things-that-go-usborne-minis","title":"Doodling Things That Go","description":"\u003cp\u003eCars, trucks, diggers, trains and everything else with wheels, broken down into steps a child can actually follow. Each vehicle gets simple instructions, then space right there on the page to copy it and color it in, so there is no gap between learning and doing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe size is the clever part. Usborne Minis are pocket paperbacks built for journeys, waiting rooms, rainy afternoons and goodie bags, which is exactly where a child runs out of things to do. It slips into a coat pocket or a glovebox and comes out when it is needed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by Simon Tudhope with illustrations by Krysia Ellis. Suggested for ages six and up, and small enough that most people buy three.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso on the shelf here: two more Usborne Minis, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/travel-pencil-and-paper-games-usborne-minis\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eTravel Pencil \u0026amp; Paper Games\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/doodling-dinosaurs-usborne-minis\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eDoodling Dinosaurs\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48093652680934,"sku":"9781835404478","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781835404478_cover_image.jpg?v=1785573323"},{"product_id":"stick-people-to-draw-usborne-minis","title":"Stick People to Draw","description":"\u003cp\u003eThree dollars for a book that will keep a six year old drawing for a month. Step by step instructions turn a stick figure into a skateboarder, a tennis player, a weightlifter, and then into whatever they invent next once they realize the trick is just angles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is pocket sized on purpose. Usborne Minis are built for a coat pocket, a glove box, a waiting room, a goodie bag. This is the thing you buy without thinking about it and then find, weeks later, has produced a hundred drawings taped to a fridge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso on the shelf here: two more Usborne Minis, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/travel-pencil-and-paper-games-usborne-minis\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eTravel Pencil \u0026amp; Paper Games\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/doodling-dinosaurs-usborne-minis\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eDoodling Dinosaurs\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48093653893350,"sku":"9781835404454","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/1_e18e6438-0f9e-47af-ac1d-f06bd292b94e.jpg?v=1785573370"},{"product_id":"first-sticker-book-nature-usborne","title":"First Sticker Book: Nature","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver one hundred and eighty stickers and five habitats to fill: gardens, forests, jungles, oceans and the wild places in between. Caribou go in the Arctic. Clownfish go in the coral reef. A three year old will figure out the rules in about four minutes and then work quietly for an hour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeeling, placing and repositioning stickers is genuine fine motor practice dressed up as fun, and every page gives a grown up something to talk about while it happens. It is the one thing in the bag on a long drive that actually buys you silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive more First Sticker Books are on the shelf here: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/first-sticker-book-trucks\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eTrucks\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/first-sticker-book-pets\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003ePets\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/first-sticker-book-bugs\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eBugs\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/first-sticker-book-t-rex\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eT. 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This Usborne favorite answers the questions curious kids fire off in the bath, with over 50 flaps to lift, including flaps hiding under other flaps, and one memorable peek inside a lavatory cubicle that reliably gets the biggest laugh of the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouie Stowell's text keeps the facts real but bite sized, and Kate Leake's cheerful illustrations fill every spread of this sturdy board book with things to find: brains and blood, breathing and eating, senses and skin. It is the kind of book that gets opened flat on the floor and studied.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart of the much loved Look Inside series, it makes an easy gift for the five and up crowd: doctors in training, question askers and anyone who just discovered they have a skeleton.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48102000001254,"sku":"9781805317258","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/look-inside-your-body-51.jpg?v=1785753711"},{"product_id":"100-birds-to-fold-and-fly","title":"100 Birds to Fold and Fly","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne hundred sheets, one hundred birds, and a living room airspace that is about to get busy. This Usborne favorite packs 100 tear out sheets, each printed with its own bird design, that fold into four flying styles: fast darters, soaring gliders, show off swoopers and graceful drifters, with clear step by step folding instructions and tips for launching them properly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeacocks, hummingbirds, swans and friends come out of the book in bold, beautiful patterns, so the finished flock looks as good grounded on a shelf as it does mid flight. Along the way small hands get a genuine fine motor workout, disguised as the fun of throwing things indoors with permission.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrilliant for rainy days, party tables and stockings: tear out a stack of sheets and a birthday party folds its own entertainment. Best for ages 6 to 9, with early sheets easy enough for younger folders flying with help.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48102000099558,"sku":"9781805318392","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/100-birds-to-fold-and-fly-54.jpg?v=1785753720"},{"product_id":"100-paper-spaceships-to-fold-and-fly","title":"100 Paper Spaceships to Fold and Fly","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne book, an entire fleet. Inside are a hundred tear-out sheets, each printed edge to edge as its own spaceship, from mighty star cruisers to speedy scout ships. Tear a page out, fold along the printed lines, and a flat sheet becomes a dart that genuinely flies across the room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerome Martin's designs do the decorating for you, which is the quiet genius of it: even a first-time folder ends up holding something that looks like it rolled off a hangar deck. Detailed instructions cover four different fold patterns, and the flying tips and challenges turn a crashed ship into a trimming problem to solve rather than a reason to quit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMade for ages six and up, and honestly difficult for the adults at the table to stay out of. Pack it for a rainy weekend, a long drive, or a birthday party where one gift needs to occupy a whole tableful of cousins, one spaceship at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48102002589926,"sku":"9781805318385","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/r1-hero-4x5.jpg?v=1785754067"},{"product_id":"peek-inside-a-birds-nest","title":"Peek Inside a Bird's Nest","description":"\u003cp\u003eLift the first flap and the eggs hatch. From there the book opens out into a proper piece of natural history: how a bird feeds and shelters its young, why a hummingbird nest is barely bigger than a thumb, why a flamingo builds hers out of mud, and how penguins manage the whole business without a nest at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver fourteen flaps and a set of die cut holes let a child peek forward to the next page, and Stephanie Fizer Coleman paints it all warmly enough to sit and stare at. The flaps are the durable kind that survives the fortieth reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart of the Peek Inside series, which has spent years being the answer to a three year old asking a big question you were not ready for.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48187116585190,"sku":"9781836052661","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781836052661.jpg?v=1786593621"},{"product_id":"fingertrail-mazes-board-book","title":"Fingertrail Mazes","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe trails are cut into the board, so a toddler does not need a pencil, a grip or any of the skills a maze book normally demands. A fingertip drops into the groove and the puzzle simply works. That is the whole trick, and it is why children who cannot yet hold a crayon will sit with this one for a surprisingly long stretch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen mazes, each a different scene: help Rabbit reach her lettuce leaves, get Squirrel home, follow the path through. Elisa Ferro fills the margins with the sort of detail that makes a second and third read worth it, and Felicity Brooks keeps the instructions to almost nothing, so the book is playable long before it is readable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracing a route with a finger is early practice for the pencil control that school will ask for later, and for the spatial thinking that says a line has to go somewhere. It just does not feel like practice to the person doing it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48187341897958,"sku":"F693425","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781805317593_cover_image.jpg?v=1786597859"},{"product_id":"fingertrail-abc-board-book","title":"Fingertrail ABC","description":"\u003cp\u003eChildren learn letter shapes with their hands well before they learn them with a pencil, and this book is built entirely around that fact. Each letter is grooved into the thick board, so a fingertip runs the shape the same way a pen eventually will. The muscle memory arrives first and the writing follows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn amazing anteater. A cool cat in a car. An enormous elephant. Every page pairs a letter with an image and a phrase that makes its sound impossible to miss, so a child is picking up phonics and letter formation in the same pass without either being announced as a lesson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is lower case throughout, which is the deliberate and correct choice: lower case is what a child will actually meet on the page and be asked to write at school, and starting with capitals means unlearning something later. Sixteen board pages, built for the treatment a two year old considers normal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48187341930726,"sku":"4834428","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781805070641_cover_image.jpg?v=1786597861"},{"product_id":"wind-up-train-book-and-toy-set","title":"Wind-Up Train Book and Toy Set","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the rare book a child physically operates. A wind-up steam train comes with it, and the track is built into the pages: wind the train, set it down and watch it run through cities, past mountains, over rivers and into tunnels while the story stays open on the floor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the better half of the idea. The track pieces lift out and slot together, so the ten scenes stop being separate spreads and become one giant loop running across the carpet. That is the moment a book normally read in four minutes turns into an afternoon, and it is why this one gets pulled off the shelf again long after the novelty of most gift books has worn off.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFiona Watt writes the Usborne titles children reach for without being asked, and the whole thing is built at board-book weight and thickness, so it survives being carried around, reassembled wrong, and driven into a table leg at speed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48187341963494,"sku":"9781805318859","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781805318859_cover_image.jpg?v=1786597862"},{"product_id":"lift-the-flap-questions-and-answers-about-weather","title":"Lift-the-Flap Questions and Answers About Weather","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat are rainbows made of? How hot is the sun? When do hurricanes happen? These are the questions children ask in the car, and this is the book that answers them properly instead of with a shrug.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver 60 flaps, each hiding a real answer rather than a one word payoff. The lifting is the point: a child who has physically opened the flap remembers what was under it, which is why this format has carried the Usborne Questions and Answers series for so long. Katie Daynes writes to be understood rather than to be simple, so the explanations hold up when a curious five year old pushes on them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a quiz to test what stuck and a make-your-own water cycle experiment that turns the reading into something done at the kitchen table. Usborne Quicklinks point to selected websites for the child who finishes and wants more, which is exactly the child this book creates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/usborne-beginners-weather\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eBeginners: Weather\u003c\/a\u003e answers the same questions straight through, without flaps, for a child starting to read information books alone.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48187341996262,"sku":"853630P","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781835405178_cover_image.jpg?v=1786597864"},{"product_id":"look-inside-volcanoes-and-earthquakes","title":"Look Inside Volcanoes and Earthquakes","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat does it actually feel like to be in an earthquake, or to stand close to a volcano when it erupts? This book answers by cutting the planet open. Over 50 flaps lift away rock and street to show the magma chamber under the mountain and the fault line running beneath the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt goes past the spectacle, which is where most volcano books stop. Why these forces happen, how they built the landscape we live on, and how people go on living in the places where they strike. That last part is what turns a page of drama into a page of understanding, and it is the reason the Usborne Look Inside series has stayed the standard for curious readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmily Bone and Laura Cowan write for a six year old without writing down to one. Fourteen thick pages, flaps sturdy enough to survive the repeat lifting these particular spreads provoke, and enough real geology under them to be worth going back to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth subjects get a book to themselves in the Usborne Beginners series, for a child who has started reading alone: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/usborne-beginners-volcanoes\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eBeginners: Volcanoes\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/usborne-beginners-earthquakes-and-tsunamis\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eBeginners: Earthquakes and Tsunamis\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48187342061798,"sku":"9781836052708","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781836052708_cover_image.jpg?v=1786597865"},{"product_id":"whos-on-the-farm-today-board-book","title":"Who's on the Farm Today?","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery page in this book is cut to a different shape, and the layering is the whole design. A sliver of the next page shows past the edge of the one in front, so a toddler gets a hint of what is coming and starts guessing before the turn. Anticipation is the engine, and it is what keeps a child turning rather than flipping.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChickens, pigs, cows and the rest of the farm are waiting behind those edges. Alice Beecham keeps the text short enough to chant, so the book runs on the back and forth between the two of you rather than on reading, and there is enough on every page to keep talking about after the animal has been revealed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe uniquely shaped board pages are also a fine motor exercise wearing a disguise: irregular edges are easier for small hands to catch and separate than a flat stack, so a child turns these pages themselves earlier than they can turn ordinary ones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor a child who has moved on from board books, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/usborne-beginners-horses-and-ponies\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eBeginners: Horses and Ponies\u003c\/a\u003e stays with the same animals over 32 pages of photographs and short sentences.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48187342094566,"sku":"9781836053163","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781836053163_cover_image.jpg?v=1786597867"},{"product_id":"peek-inside-animal-homes","title":"Peek Inside Animal Homes","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe holes are what make this series work. 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It comes out at the restaurant, in the waiting room, on the train, and it holds attention through exactly the stretches where nothing else does.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe text is short and made to be read aloud while the sticking happens, which quietly builds vocabulary in the middle of an activity nobody has told the child is educational. For a dog obsessed three year old, this is the seven dollar item that gets asked for by name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso on the shelf here: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-dinosaurs\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eLittle First Stickers Dinosaurs\u003c\/a\u003e, with over 200 dinosaur stickers and jungle, river and sea scenes to fill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the Little First Stickers series is here too: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-diggers-and-cranes\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eDiggers and Cranes\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-baby-animals\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eBaby Animals\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-butterflies\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eButterflies\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-zoo\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eZoo\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-in-the-forest\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eIn the Forest\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-cats-and-kittens\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eCats and Kittens\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-easter-bunnies\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eEaster Bunnies\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-love-and-kindness\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eLove and Kindness\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48187342422246,"sku":"747371B","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781805075455_cover_image.jpg?v=1786597874"},{"product_id":"little-first-stickers-cats-and-kittens","title":"Little First Stickers Cats and Kittens","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver 100 cats and kittens, and this book bothers to make them different from one another. Fluffy Persians, sleek Siamese, and a proper spread of breeds in between, all shown playing, snoozing, feeding and generally behaving like the furry stars of every page.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe scenes give them somewhere to go: a farm, a vets, and a cat cafe that children find funny and delightful before anyone explains what a cat cafe is. Placing a sticker becomes a small decision about who goes where, which is what separates a sticker book that gets finished from one that gets abandoned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaroline Young keeps the text short and read-aloud friendly, so vocabulary arrives in the middle of an activity nobody has framed as learning. Thirty two pages, sized to live in a bag, and the reliable answer for the cat obsessed three year old who has already named every cat on the street.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso on the shelf here: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-dinosaurs\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eLittle First Stickers Dinosaurs\u003c\/a\u003e, with over 200 dinosaur stickers and jungle, river and sea scenes to fill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the Little First Stickers series is here too: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-diggers-and-cranes\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eDiggers and Cranes\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-baby-animals\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eBaby Animals\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-butterflies\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eButterflies\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-zoo\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eZoo\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-in-the-forest\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eIn the Forest\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-dogs-and-puppies\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eDogs and Puppies\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-easter-bunnies\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eEaster Bunnies\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-love-and-kindness\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eLove and Kindness\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48187342455014,"sku":"133009D","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781805075462_cover_image.jpg?v=1786597876"},{"product_id":"wipe-clean-travel-activities","title":"Wipe-Clean Travel Activities","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery activity in this book is designed to be ruined and then rescued. A child works the page with a dry wipe pen, the page shrugs it off with one wipe, and the whole book is new again, which is exactly the quality you want in something packed for a journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe scenes travel too: visit the beach, pitch a tent on a camping trip, laze by the pool and zoom down the ski slopes, with puzzles tucked into every spread. Underneath the fun the pages are quietly doing their job, building the counting, observation and pen control skills that early school will ask for, one maze and matching game at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty four durable wipe clean pages by Kirsteen Robson, illustrated by Manola Caprini. At this size it slides into a seat back pocket, and at this price it can live in the car.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso on the shelf here: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/wipe-clean-airport-activities\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eWipe-Clean Airport Activities\u003c\/a\u003e, twenty four wipe-clean pages of dot to dots, mazes, matching and spot the difference set across one busy airport, with the pen on the cover.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48190127472870,"sku":"J790594","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781805070566_cover_image_1698453837.jpg?v=1786648290"},{"product_id":"wipe-clean-jungle-activities","title":"Wipe-Clean Jungle Activities","description":"\u003cp\u003eA jungle is a good place to hide things, which makes it a perfect place for puzzles. Spot the differences between snakes, join the dots to raise a sloth out of the page, count the parrots perched in the trees and keep going, spread after spread of leafy scenes with something to find in each one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe trick of the book is the coating. Every page is durable and wipe clean, so a dry wipe pen line disappears with one pass of a cloth and the favorite puzzles can be done again tomorrow, and again after that. One book, effectively endless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBehind the play sit the fundamentals: counting, observation and the pen control that writing is built on. Twenty four pages by Kirsteen Robson, illustrated by Manuela Berti, for jungle explorers aged three and up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso on the shelf here: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/wipe-clean-airport-activities\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eWipe-Clean Airport Activities\u003c\/a\u003e, twenty four wipe-clean pages of dot to dots, mazes, matching and spot the difference set across one busy airport, with the pen on the cover.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48190127505638,"sku":"7294738","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781805071341_cover_image_1694738479.jpg?v=1786648291"},{"product_id":"fingerprint-activities-animals","title":"Fingerprint Activities Animals","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe inkpad is built in. That is the detail that makes this book work: a bright rainbow pad of seven colors sits right in the book, so the distance between wanting to make a hedgehog and making one is a single fingertip.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSixty four pages burst with ideas for fingerprinting animals, from hedgehogs to crocodiles and koalas. Each page gives step by step instructions, pictures to complete and plenty of open space for a child's own inventions, so the book teaches technique without ever feeling like a lesson. The spiral binding means it lies genuinely flat while both hands are busy, which anyone who has fought a snapping-shut craft book will recognize as the difference between a good idea and a good product.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy Fiona Watt, illustrated by Erica Harrison, for artists aged six and up. Part of the Usborne Fingerprint Activities series. Fair warning: fingertips end up rainbow colored, which is rather the point.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48190127702246,"sku":"510517Y","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781805317548-cover-portrait.jpg?v=1786652044"},{"product_id":"fingertrail-123-board-book","title":"Fingertrail 123","description":"\u003cp\u003eChildren learn number shapes with their hands long before they can write them, and this book is built entirely around that fact. Each numeral is grooved into the thick board, so a fingertip runs the shape the same way a pencil eventually will. The muscle memory arrives first and the writing follows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeet 1 gentle giraffe, 2 tigers on a tandem and 3 trundling tractors, and keep counting from there. The alliterative text makes every number a small tongue twister a toddler wants to repeat, Elisa Ferro's illustrations give them plenty to find on each spread, and the counting practice happens on its own, without ever being announced as a lesson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSixteen board pages by Felicity Brooks, for children aged two and up. Part of the same Usborne Fingertrails series as Fingertrail ABC and Fingertrail Mazes, both also at Stellar Luxe, for building the full set.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48190127735014,"sku":"3774701","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781805070542_cover_image.jpg?v=1786648301"},{"product_id":"see-inside-castles","title":"See Inside Castles","description":"\u003cp\u003eA castle keeps its secrets behind walls, which is exactly what flaps were invented for. This See Inside book opens a thirteenth century medieval castle the way no tour ever could: lift a flap and the banquet is underway, lift another and the tournament thunders past, lift again and a dramatic siege is scaling the walls you were just feasting behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe trick of the series is that the humor never comes at the price of the history. The scenes are genuinely accurate to medieval life, so a child giggling at the details of the great hall is also, quietly, learning how one actually worked. David Hancock's bright, detailed illustrations reward slow looking, and Katie Daynes keeps the text friendly and exact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSixteen sturdy board pages with embedded flaps, for curious readers aged six and up. Pairs naturally with Castle by David Macaulay, also at Stellar Luxe, when the question how was it built comes next.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48190127767782,"sku":"9781836051398","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781836051398_cover_image_1779308678.jpg?v=1786648303"},{"product_id":"see-inside-the-ancient-world","title":"See Inside the Ancient World","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe whole ancient world in sixteen pages, and every scene opens. Lift the flaps to look inside an Egyptian temple, watch the Assyrian army arrive at full attack, walk a Greek city state, visit a Celtic tribe and patrol a Roman frontier town, with fabulously detailed illustrations holding a dozen discoveries under every flap.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the See Inside formula at its best: the flap makes a child ask what is under here, and the answer is real history, delivered at exactly the moment of maximum curiosity. Barry Ablett's artwork gives each civilization its own texture and light, and Rob Lloyd Jones writes information that respects a young reader's intelligence. Internet links extend the digging for children who want more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSixteen sturdy board pages with embedded flaps, for readers aged six and up. The natural next shelf mate to See Inside Castles, also at Stellar Luxe, when the timeline moves from pharaohs to knights.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48190127833318,"sku":"9781836051381","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781836051381_cover_image_1740208738.jpg?v=1786648304"},{"product_id":"see-inside-weather-and-climate","title":"See Inside Weather and Climate","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhere does weather actually come from? This See Inside flap book answers by letting a child open the sky. Lift over 80 flaps to peer inside a thundercloud, follow the path of a hurricane across the page and visit the coldest place on Earth, touring land, sea and skies to find out what is really going on up there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flap is the whole trick of the series: it turns a fact into a discovery. A child who lifts a cloud to find the lightning inside has asked the question before the book answers it, which is why the answer sticks. Alongside the storms sit pages on the seasons, world climates, the water cycle, winds and climate change, the exact ground a school geography curriculum will walk later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSixteen sturdy board pages by Katie Daynes, illustrated by Russell Tate, for curious readers aged six and up. Shelve it beside See Inside Castles and See Inside the Ancient World, both also at Stellar Luxe, and the collection starts answering how the whole world works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/usborne-beginners-weather\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eBeginners: Weather\u003c\/a\u003e covers tornadoes, lightning and the water cycle at an easier reading level, in the Usborne Beginners series.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48195800236262,"sku":"9781805319542","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781805319542_cover_image.jpg?v=1786650875"},{"product_id":"see-inside-ancient-rome","title":"See Inside Ancient Rome","description":"\u003cp\u003eRome kept its best rooms behind walls, which is exactly what flaps were made for. Turn the pages of this See Inside book and the ancient city opens: visit the Roman Forum, stroll the streets, attend a party in a villa, spend a day at the Roman baths and watch gladiators in action at the Colosseum, with flaps animating the action and revealing the details every scene is hiding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe series formula is that the fun never costs the facts. These scenes are carefully researched and meticulously illustrated, so the child giggling at what is under a bath house flap is quietly learning how one actually worked. David Hancock and Barry Ablett give the city its color and crowds, and Katie Daynes keeps the text friendly and exact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSixteen sturdy board pages for readers aged six and up. The natural shelf mate to See Inside the Ancient World and See Inside Castles, both also at Stellar Luxe, when the timeline runs from legions to knights.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48195800269030,"sku":"9781836053088","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781836053088_cover_image_1741417911.jpg?v=1786650877"},{"product_id":"little-first-stickers-easter-bunnies","title":"Little First Stickers Easter Bunnies","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe little bunnies in this book are busy. There are egg hunts to run in the springtime fields, treats to bake for a picnic, and a whole Easter to prepare, and every bit of it needs stickers. Over 190 of them wait in the middle of the book, ready to fill the beautifully illustrated scenes with eggs, chicks and bunnies in party spirits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is deliberately small, sized to drop into a purse or bag, which is the entire design brief of the Little First Stickers series. It comes out in the restaurant, the car and the waiting room, and it holds a three year old through exactly the stretches where nothing else does. Simple text and prompts run throughout, so vocabulary gets built in the middle of an activity nobody has framed as learning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeeling and placing each sticker is fine motor practice that feeds directly into early writing skills, which is a serious return on a seven dollar Easter basket filler. By Jessica Greenwell, illustrated by Edward Miller.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso on the shelf here: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-dinosaurs\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eLittle First Stickers Dinosaurs\u003c\/a\u003e, with over 200 dinosaur stickers and jungle, river and sea scenes to fill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the Little First Stickers series is here too: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-diggers-and-cranes\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eDiggers and Cranes\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-baby-animals\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eBaby Animals\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-butterflies\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eButterflies\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-zoo\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eZoo\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-in-the-forest\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eIn the Forest\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-cats-and-kittens\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eCats and Kittens\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-dogs-and-puppies\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eDogs and Puppies\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-love-and-kindness\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eLove and Kindness\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48195800301798,"sku":"T694506","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781805317906_cover_image.jpg?v=1786650878"},{"product_id":"little-first-stickers-love-and-kindness","title":"Little First Stickers Love and Kindness","description":"\u003cp\u003eLittle Acorn Village is the kind of place where a new family moving in is everyone's good news. The Squirrel family arrives, the neighbors turn out, and a small child gets to run the welcome: over 180 stickers bring the gentle scenes of family and friendship to life, and there are welcome cards to decorate for the new friends next door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat the book is actually teaching sits quietly under the play. Every spread is an act of kindness a three year old can recognize, helping, sharing, making someone feel at home, modeled by cute animal families rather than announced as a lesson. It makes a lovely valentine alternative, and an even better anytime gift for a child who is about to become a neighbor, a sibling or a new kid somewhere themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePocket sized to travel in a bag, with sticker placement doing double duty as fine motor practice. By Holly Bathie, illustrated by Kathryn Selbert.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso on the shelf here: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-dinosaurs\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eLittle First Stickers Dinosaurs\u003c\/a\u003e, with over 200 dinosaur stickers and jungle, river and sea scenes to fill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the Little First Stickers series is here too: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-diggers-and-cranes\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eDiggers and Cranes\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-baby-animals\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eBaby Animals\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-butterflies\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eButterflies\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-zoo\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eZoo\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-in-the-forest\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eIn the Forest\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-cats-and-kittens\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eCats and Kittens\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-dogs-and-puppies\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eDogs and Puppies\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-easter-bunnies\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eEaster Bunnies\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48195800334566,"sku":"428865S","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781805078364_cover_image_1708423887.jpg?v=1786650880"},{"product_id":"little-first-stickers-zoo","title":"Little First Stickers Zoo","description":"\u003cp\u003eTurn the pages and the zoo is waiting: elephants, lions, tigers, flamingos, giraffes and more, with every enclosure empty until a small zookeeper fills it. Over 240 stickers bring the scenes to life, and the choice of what goes where belongs entirely to the child, which is precisely why the book gets finished instead of abandoned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe scenes go everywhere a real zoo trip goes. Fill the aquarium, populate the monkey enclosure, stock the lion's den and crowd the bird house, with lots of animal words to learn along the way, so vocabulary arrives in the middle of the fun rather than as a lesson. Eight full pages of stickers keep the supply well ahead of demand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSized to live in a bag, ready for the restaurant, the waiting room and the long drive. By Holly Bathie, illustrated by Gareth Lucas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso on the shelf here: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-dinosaurs\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eLittle First Stickers Dinosaurs\u003c\/a\u003e, with over 200 dinosaur stickers and jungle, river and sea scenes to fill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the Little First Stickers series is here too: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-diggers-and-cranes\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eDiggers and Cranes\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-baby-animals\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eBaby Animals\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-butterflies\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eButterflies\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-in-the-forest\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eIn the Forest\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-cats-and-kittens\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eCats and Kittens\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-dogs-and-puppies\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eDogs and Puppies\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-easter-bunnies\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eEaster Bunnies\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-love-and-kindness\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eLove and Kindness\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48195800432870,"sku":"3570446","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781805318187_cover_image.jpg?v=1786650885"},{"product_id":"little-first-stickers-in-the-forest","title":"Little First Stickers In the Forest","description":"\u003cp\u003eA forest is mostly hiding places, and this book knows exactly who is hiding. Deer, foxes, squirrels, badgers and more woodland creatures wait among the over 250 stickers, and every beautifully illustrated woodland scene has room for all of them, from sunlit clearings to the undergrowth where the snails and butterflies live.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilling each page is a small act of world building. The child decides where the fox bounds and where the rabbits graze, tells the story out loud while doing it, and practices the peel and place motion that quietly builds the fine motor control early writing depends on. At this size the book lives in a bag and comes out wherever waiting happens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy Caroline Young, illustrated by Gareth Lucas, whose patterned animals give the Little First Stickers series its signature look.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso on the shelf here: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-dinosaurs\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eLittle First Stickers Dinosaurs\u003c\/a\u003e, with over 200 dinosaur stickers and jungle, river and sea scenes to fill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the Little First Stickers series is here too: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-diggers-and-cranes\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eDiggers and Cranes\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-baby-animals\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eBaby Animals\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-butterflies\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eButterflies\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-zoo\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eZoo\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-cats-and-kittens\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eCats and Kittens\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-dogs-and-puppies\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eDogs and Puppies\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-easter-bunnies\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eEaster Bunnies\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-first-stickers-love-and-kindness\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eLove and Kindness\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48195800629478,"sku":"804394T","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781805078494_cover_image.jpg?v=1786650886"},{"product_id":"are-you-there-little-puppy","title":"Are You There Little Puppy?","description":"\u003cp\u003eLittle puppy is hiding, and the holes in the pages are how you find him. This Little Peek-Through board book runs on the game every baby already loves: peek through the die cut hole, guess who is there, turn the page and find out, spotting tortoises, cats and dragonflies along the way before the puppy finally appears.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pages are textured as well as cut, so small fingers get something to trace and touch on every spread, and the anticipation of the peek keeps a very young child leaning in. It is the same engineering that makes the That's not my books work, and Usborne pitches this charming series at exactly that audience, babies and toddlers from six months up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwelve thick board pages by Sam Taplin, illustrated in warm folk art style by Essi Kimpimaki. The right size for a lap, the right weight for a diaper bag, and a lovely new baby or first birthday gift.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48195800662246,"sku":"9781835405635","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781835405635_cover_image_1741763517.jpg?v=1786650888"},{"product_id":"first-sticker-books-robots","title":"First Sticker Books Robots","description":"\u003cp\u003eWelcome to Robot City, a bustling mechanical metropolis where everyone runs on batteries and errands. Robots soar through the sky on booster jets, a rocket rises out of recycled scrap, and the city hums along waiting for a three year old to finish it: over 100 stickers, lots of them shiny, fill the scenes with citizens, sparks and machines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe best page hands over the controls entirely, with a robot to build and customize from parts, which turns sticker placement into invention. Every spread gives plenty to talk about, so the book reads aloud as well as it sticks, and the peel and place motion is quietly building the fine motor control that early writing draws on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA big bright paperback by Alice Beecham, illustrated by Valeria Danilova, made for keeping kids entertained on the move, on vacations and on road trips. Part of the Usborne First Sticker Books series; the pocket sized Little First Stickers line, also at Stellar Luxe, makes the perfect glovebox companion to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive more First Sticker Books are on the shelf here: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/first-sticker-book-trucks\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eTrucks\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/first-sticker-book-pets\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003ePets\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/first-sticker-book-bugs\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eBugs\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/first-sticker-book-t-rex\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eT. Rex\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/first-sticker-book-nature-usborne\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eNature\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48195800695014,"sku":"9781836053002","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781836053002_cover_image.jpg?v=1786650890"},{"product_id":"look-inside-our-world","title":"Look Inside Our World","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe whole planet, opened up flap by flap. This Look Inside book takes a trip around our world, and over 80 flaps do the revealing: lift them to discover the layers that make up planet Earth, the tiniest insects in the rainforest and the creatures who live at the very bottom of the sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flap is what makes the series work. A child who lifts the ocean to find what swims underneath has asked the question before the book answers it, and that is why the answer sticks. The journey crosses mountains, farms, cities and ice, the exact ground a school geography unit will cover later, met here first as pure discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFourteen sturdy board pages by Emily Bone, illustrated by Marianna Oklejak, for curious explorers aged four and up. It shelves naturally beside Look Inside Space, Look Inside Wild Weather and Look Inside Things That Go, all also at Stellar Luxe, and the set becomes a first atlas of how everything works.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48198044287206,"sku":"9781805317661","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781805317661-hero45.jpg?v=1786688119"},{"product_id":"look-inside-space","title":"Look Inside Space","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy do stars shine? How was the moon made? This Look Inside book answers by letting a child open the universe: over 70 flaps reveal the secrets behind vibrant scenes of rockets, space stations and planets, with simple explanations under every one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cover carries the badge that settles whether the science is sound: this book won the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, the UK science academy's own award for the best science book for young readers, and the badge is printed right on the front. Each double page opens another stretch of the journey, from the launch pad to the far planets and back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFourteen sturdy board pages by Rob Lloyd Jones, illustrated by Benedetta Giaufret and Enrica Rusina, for readers aged five and up. When the questions keep coming, Look Inside Our World, Look Inside Wild Weather and Look Inside Things That Go are also at Stellar Luxe, and the little Peek Inside Space board book makes the perfect younger sibling edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48198044418278,"sku":"9781805317470","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781805317470-hero45.jpg?v=1786688122"},{"product_id":"look-inside-wild-weather","title":"Look Inside Wild Weather","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe weather in this book does not behave. A tornado tears past the lighthouse on the cover, and inside it only gets wilder: over 50 flaps reveal terrifying tornadoes, deadly droughts, a storm raging out at sea and how wildfires happen, each one opening onto the mechanics underneath the mayhem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat is the quiet trick of the Look Inside series: the drama gets a child to lift the flap, and the explanation underneath is real science. The book also covers how climate change is affecting weather and what we can do to help our planet, which makes it as current as the morning forecast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFourteen sturdy board pages by Emily Bone, illustrated by Bao Luu, for readers aged five and up. Pair it with Look Inside Our World, Look Inside Space and Look Inside Things That Go, all also at Stellar Luxe, and the shelf starts explaining the whole physical world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the flaps stop being the draw, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/usborne-beginners-weather\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eBeginners: Weather\u003c\/a\u003e takes the same subject in 32 pages of large type for a child reading alone.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48198044516582,"sku":"9781805071839","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781805071839-hero45.jpg?v=1786688125"},{"product_id":"look-inside-things-that-go","title":"Look Inside Things That Go","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery vehicle a small enthusiast can name, opened up to show what makes it go. Lift the flaps to explore bulldozers rumbling around building sites, fire engines rushing to emergencies and jumbo jets soaring into the skies, with fascinating facts about every one, from speed machines to giant trucks, emergency vehicles, tractors and planes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cover alone is a traffic jam worth studying: a double decker bus, a fire engine, an articulated truck, a cruise ship, a high speed train and a helicopter all sharing one coastal road. Inside, the flaps do what the Look Inside series does best, turning how does that work into found out for myself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFourteen sturdy board pages by Rob Lloyd Jones, illustrated by Stefano Tognetti, for readers aged five and up. It runs naturally alongside Look Inside Our World, Look Inside Space and Look Inside Wild Weather, all also at Stellar Luxe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48198044582118,"sku":"9781805071433","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781805071433-hero45.jpg?v=1786688127"},{"product_id":"lift-the-flap-questions-and-answers-about-your-body","title":"Lift-the-Flap Questions and Answers About Your Body","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat makes me burp? Why is blood red? How do I smell? Children fire these questions at whoever is nearest, and this Lift-the-Flap Questions and Answers book catches every one: over 60 flaps, as counted on the cover, each hiding the answer under the question so the child does the discovering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatie Daynes structures the whole book the way children actually ask, in whens, wheres, whys, whats and hows, and Marie-Eve Tremblay's entertaining, informative illustrations keep the anatomy friendly, right down to the figure on the cover cheerfully showing off his lungs and intestines. Washing hands, what teeth do, where food goes, it is all here, answered simply and truthfully.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFourteen big board pages for curious kids aged four and up. Its natural shelf mates at Stellar Luxe are Lift-the-Flap Questions and Answers About Weather and, for younger siblings just starting to ask, First Questions and Answers: Why do we need bees?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48198044680422,"sku":"9781805075301","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/cover-9781805075301.jpg?v=1786688129"},{"product_id":"first-questions-and-answers-why-do-we-need-bees","title":"First Questions and Answers: Why do we need bees?","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy do we need bees? How do they make honey? And who's who in a beehive? A four year old can ask harder questions about bees than most adults can answer, and this First Questions and Answers book handles every one: colorful illustrations, simple text and chunky flaps to lift, with lots of amazing facts about bees waiting underneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst Questions and Answers is the younger branch of Usborne's Questions and Answers line, built for the age when why is a reflex. The flaps are cut chunky for small fingers, the answers are honest, and Christine Pym's bumblebees, poppies and pale blue beehive make the garden on the cover somewhere a child wants to stay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwelve sturdy board pages by Katie Daynes for curious minds aged four and up. When the questions grow with the child, Lift-the-Flap Questions and Answers About Your Body and About Weather are both also at Stellar Luxe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48198044745958,"sku":"4175979","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781805070344-hero45.jpg?v=1786688132"},{"product_id":"lift-the-flap-word-book","title":"Lift-the-Flap Word Book","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery flap in this book plays the same wonderful trick in two directions: lift a picture flap and the word is underneath, lift a word flap and there is the picture. Each delightful scene is filled with them, and a two year old matching bus to bus and cloud to cloud is building word recognition without anyone calling it practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFelicity Brooks builds the scenes out of a toddler's actual world, buses, benches, houses, trees, birds, kites, cars, hills and clouds, nine of them previewed as flaps right on the cover. It is an ideal way for beginner readers to practice word recognition, and it provides plenty to talk about together, which is where vocabulary really grows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSixteen big board pages illustrated by Corrine Bittler, for word collectors aged two and up. For the same hands, the Fingertrail ABC board book is also at Stellar Luxe and makes the natural next step toward letters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48198044811494,"sku":"9781805318675","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781805318675-hero45.jpg?v=1786688134"},{"product_id":"peek-inside-space","title":"Peek Inside Space","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf you peek into the night sky and see the moon and twinkling stars, you are peeking right out into space. That is the invitation this little board book makes, and then it delivers: lift the flaps and peek through the holes cut right into the pages to discover the planets of our solar system and see astronauts at work on the International Space Station.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Peek Inside series is engineered for the youngest stargazers. The die cut holes give small fingers somewhere to go, the flaps reward every lift with something new, and Simona Dimitri's glowing artwork makes deep space feel warm rather than empty. The shuttle on the cover, climbing away from Earth with three astronauts at the window, sets the tone exactly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFourteen sturdy board pages by Anna Milbourne for explorers aged three and up. Its live shelf mates at Stellar Luxe, Peek Inside Animal Homes, Peek Inside Springtime and Peek Inside a Bird's Nest, keep the peeking going closer to home, and Look Inside Space is waiting when the questions get bigger.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48198044909798,"sku":"E276891","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781805317609-hero45.jpg?v=1786688136"},{"product_id":"peek-inside-how-a-fire-truck-works","title":"Peek Inside How a Fire Truck Works","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe alarm goes off and the whole station moves at once, and this little board book lets a three year old ride along. Lift the flaps and look through the holes cut into the pages to explore the cab, roll out the hoses and slide out the ladder, and find out what every part of a fire truck is actually for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe engineering is the point, and so is the crew. Firefighters slide the pole, pull tan trousers and yellow helmets off the rack, check the lockers against a clipboard, and take the truck out through traffic that pulls over to let it through. It is an honest first look at some of the people who help us, told entirely through things a small reader can open with their own hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFourteen sturdy board pages by Lara Bryan, illustrated by Caroline Attia, for truck obsessed explorers aged three and up. 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It runs alongside Peek Inside How a Fire Truck Works, and Peek Inside Animal Homes, Peek Inside Springtime, Peek Inside a Bird's Nest and Peek Inside Space are all already at Stellar Luxe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48198230966502,"sku":"660509P","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781805071549-0-4x5.jpg?v=1786694887"},{"product_id":"thats-not-my-squirrel","title":"That's Not My Squirrel","description":"\u003cp\u003eFive squirrels, and not one of them is the right one. Its nose is too soft, its chest is too fuzzy, its ears are too furry, its paws are too rough, and a baby gets to test every claim, because each squirrel carries a real textured patch bonded into the board page.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat is the whole engine of the series. Bright, bold shapes a baby can actually resolve, one word of difference per page, and repeating text that turns story time into call and response long before a child can say the words back. The little white mouse hides somewhere on every spread, so there is still something to find once the stroking is done.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen thick board pages from Usborne's touchy feely list, illustrated by Rachel Wells and set among autumn leaves and spinning sycamore seeds, for hands from three months up. A first sensory book built to survive being chewed, and the kind a baby asks for again the moment it ends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a winter one on the same Usborne shelf: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/thats-not-my-reindeer\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eThat's Not My Reindeer\u003c\/a\u003e, with a furry body on the cover and a fuzzy neck, sparkly sleigh bells and velvety ears inside.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48198231261414,"sku":"G256571","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781805078821-0-4x5.jpg?v=1786694893"},{"product_id":"thats-not-my-lamb","title":"That's Not My Lamb","description":"\u003cp\u003eA baby's hand goes to the lamb's nose before anyone has read a word, which is the whole design: it is a real patch of texture set into the board, not a picture of one. Turn the page and the next lamb is wrong too. Its hooves are too bumpy. Its spots are too fluffy. Five lambs in, the right one finally turns up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFiona Watt built the series around one word of difference per page, so the sentence a grown up reads is nearly the same every time and a baby learns to supply the ending long before they can read it. Rachel Wells keeps the shapes big, black outlined and high in contrast, which is what a very young eye can actually resolve. The little white mouse is hiding somewhere on every spread, and finding it is the game that keeps going after the stroking stops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen board pages, thick enough to survive being chewed, and Usborne puts it at three months and up and calls it a first Easter gift. On our shelf that puts it right beside \u003ca href=\"\/products\/peek-inside-springtime\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003ePeek Inside Springtime\u003c\/a\u003e, which is where the same basket usually ends up.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48198437404902,"sku":"J197764","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781805078333-0-4x5.jpg?v=1786701701"},{"product_id":"thats-not-my-goat","title":"That's Not My Goat","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe goat on the cover has ears a baby will reach for on sight, because they are pink felted patches set into the board rather than ink on a page. Inside, four more goats are each wrong in a different way. One nose is too rough, one set of spots is too fuzzy, one pair of hooves is too bumpy, and the last goat is the one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat makes the series work on a lap is how little the words change. Fiona Watt keeps every page to the same sentence with a single new adjective, so a baby who cannot talk yet still learns where the sentence lands and starts joining in. Rachel Wells draws in flat color and hard outline, high in contrast, which is what very young eyes resolve first. A small white mouse turns up on every spread with a butterfly or a ladybird for company.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen thick board pages, square, graded by the publisher from three months. If you are stocking a farmyard shelf rather than a nursery one, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/whos-on-the-farm-today-board-book\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eWho's on the Farm Today?\u003c\/a\u003e is the Usborne title that sits next to it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48198437667046,"sku":"6850893","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781805318095-0-4x5.jpg?v=1786701705"},{"product_id":"thats-not-my-train","title":"That's Not My Train","description":"\u003cp\u003eSix trains and one baby, and the point of the book is that the wheels are wrong. They are shiny blue patches molded into the board, and a hand goes to them first every time. Behind the red engine on the cover there is a rusty funnel that feels like sandpaper, a corrugated goods wagon, and a bullet train with windows too slippery to be the right one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt works because so little changes. Fiona Watt writes each page as the same sentence with one new word at the end, which is exactly the structure that lets a pre verbal baby start finishing a line out loud. Rachel Wells keeps the engines side on and enormous, in flat primary color on a clean field, so the shape reads from across a room. The white mouse rides in a cab, on a roof, or beside the rails on every single spread.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen board pages, graded from three months, and the first vehicle book most train obsessed toddlers actually get. When the chewing stage passes, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/wind-up-train-book-and-toy-set\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003ethe Usborne Wind-Up Train Book and Toy Set\u003c\/a\u003e is the one they graduate to.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48198437699814,"sku":"123036K","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781805319214-0-4x5.jpg?v=1786701709"},{"product_id":"thats-not-my-shark","title":"That's Not My Shark","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe shark on the cover has a belly a baby can press, because it is a soft raised patch built into the board. Inside, the sharks keep failing the test in ways you can feel with a fingertip: one tail is too rough, one fin is too bumpy, and then a set of foil teeth catches the light and that is the one. The little white mouse spends the book in a rubber ring and a rowing boat, which is funnier than it has any right to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe structure is what carries a baby through it. One sentence per spread, one new word at the end, repeated until a child who cannot yet speak knows exactly where to join in. Rachel Wells works in flat blue water and hard outline so the animal reads instantly at arm's length, and the fish shoals give an older toddler something to count.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen board pages, square and thick, graded from three months by the publisher. It is the ocean entry in a series a family usually keeps buying, and if the appeal here is fingers on texture rather than sharks, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/fingertrail-mazes-board-book\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eFingertrail Mazes\u003c\/a\u003e works the same instinct with grooves instead of patches.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48198437732582,"sku":"T075911","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781805074786-0-4x5.jpg?v=1786701713"},{"product_id":"thats-not-my-plane","title":"That's Not My Plane","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery plane in this one is wrong in a way a fingertip can settle. The wings on the cover are ridged and cool, the propeller engines are lumpy, the airliner tail is glossy, and the wheels are squashy enough that a baby will keep going back to them. Five aircraft, five verdicts, one correct plane at the end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFiona Watt runs the same sentence on every spread and changes a single word, so the reading turns into a call and response before a child has any words of their own. Rachel Wells draws each aircraft head on or side on against a clean sky, big and flat and hard edged, which is the kind of image a very young eye can lock onto. The white mouse arrives by parachute on one page and rides the tailfin on another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen board pages, square, and Usborne grades it from three months. It is the aviation shelf of a series that families collect one vehicle at a time, and for a toddler who wants wheels on the ground instead, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/little-blue-truck-feeling-happy-touch-and-feel\" class=\"font-medium text-foreground underline underline-offset-4\"\u003eLittle Blue Truck: Feeling Happy\u003c\/a\u003e is the touch and feel we carry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48198437765350,"sku":"198993K","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781805319221-0-4x5.jpg?v=1786701717"},{"product_id":"one-little-tree-life-cycles","title":"One Little Tree","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn acorn falls, and fourteen board pages later it is an oak big enough to shelter more than two thousand kinds of living thing. That is the whole idea, and a two year old can follow it on the first read.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat makes it work is the cutting. Every page carries a shaped hole, so the sapling on this page is already showing through the one before it. Small hands find the hole before they find the words, and the guessing is the reading lesson. Lesley Sims keeps the text to a line or two a page; Emma Allen fills the rest with squirrels, beetles and weather.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoard throughout, so it survives the reader it is written for.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Usborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48198528631014,"sku":"Y782626","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781835405499-0-4x5.jpg?v=1786708704"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.stellarluxe.com\/collections\/usborne.oembed","provider":"Stellar Luxe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}