Usama Publishing , often called Usborne Books, is a children's literature publisher based in the UK.
Founded by Peter Usborne in 1973, Usborne Publishing uses a team of writers, editors and designers inside the company and translates into over 100 languages. His sister company Usborne Books at Home, a direct selling association selling to families, schools and communities, was established in 1981 and won the Direct Sales Association for Innovation Award in 2004.
Coinciding with the Year of National Reading in 2008, Usborne created the Usborne Reading Program with a marketing campaign to encourage novice readers. This program is a collection of over 150 titles that are assessed in seven levels covering a wide range of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction.
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Range of books
Making books for all ages, fiction and non-fiction, some Usborne series include:
- Touchy Feely
- English History
- Inventions
- View & amp; Say
- First Picture Book
- Phonics Readers
- Farm Tales
- True Stories
- Classics Retold
- View Inside
- Extraordinary Fiction
- Things to Do and Do
- Puzzle Adventure
- Starter
- First Thousand Word
- Guide Guides
- Usborne Reading Program
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Usama Book at Home and Usama for School Book
Usborne Books at Home is a franchise operation established in 1981. In essence is the Independent Usborne Organizer who sells the entire range of Usborne books directly to friends, family, and libraries at a discount. Usborne Books for Schools is a branch of this operation and focuses on sending books to national schools, with sales representatives running book shows, sponsored readings, themed events, story events, and summers. These events operate in the Multi-Level Marketing business model.
Awards
- Children Publisher 2014
- Independent Publishers 2014
- Publishers of 2012
- Touchy-Feely That's Not Penguin I was nominated for Children's Book of 2008 at Book Awards English
- Award of British Literature Addition
- Touchy-Feely That's Not My... series - chooses Best Buy category in Toddler category from Award of Primary Baby Readers 2006
- First Action Image Action - Practical Gold Pre-School Awards 2006
- Snuggletime Sleepy Baby - The Pre-Practical Silver School Prize 2006
Touchy Feely Books
The award-winning Touchy-Feely board book, made by Fiona Watt, includes the Touchy-Feely Hide-and-Seek series, Noisy Touchy-Feely series, Sparkly Touchy-Feely series and the Not That series..... Aimed at small children, they are designed to develop sensory and linguistic awareness with bright images and different texture fillings. More than 7.5 million of these books have been sold worldwide.
Quicklinks
Quicklink was first introduced in 2000 as a way to incorporate the Internet into modern reading habits. Peter Usborne was quoted in The Bookseller trade magazine as saying: "At first I thought the internet would kill non-fiction, because the teacher would tell the kids to use the internet to help with homework, but if you put 'palace' [on the machine search], you get 900,000 possible websites, the Internet is an inadequate resource for children. "
In every book connected to the internet there is a small entry informing the reader that more information about a particular topic can be found using the Usborne Quicklinks website. By selecting the title and page number of books on the site, a list of suggested websites is provided with additional material on the subject such as video clips, activities, and games.
Livestock Tales
Farmyard Tales is one of the Usborne series, following the "adventures of Poppy and Sam, their dog, Rusty, Curly the pig and Woolly the sheep, as they live their lives at Apple Tree Farm." The series includes Boards and Flap Books, Activity Book Tales in the Yard, Story Tales at Farmyard, Game and Jigsaw, as well as Word Books and Flashcards. These books are designed for children who are just learning to read. The illustration is done by artist Stephen Cartwright.
Author
Usborne fiction authors include:
- Diana Kimpton
- Sue Mongredien
- Tony Bradman
- Cindy Jefferies
- Kelly McKain
- Pauline Francis
- Graham Marks
- Wynne-Jones Team
- Adele Geras
- Linda Newbery
- Ann Turnbull
- Geraldine McCaughrean
- Andrew Matthews
- Susan Price
- Meg Harper
- Carol Hedges
- John Pilkington
- Kimberly Greene
- K.M. Peyton
- Thom Madley
- Ann Evans
- Susan Gates
- Gus Grenfell
- Edith Patou
- Bernard Ashley
- L.M. Elliott
- Rodman Philbrick
- Mary Ann Rodman
- Charles Butler
- Teri Gower
- Malcolm Rose
- Ann Bryant
- Nancy Butcher
- Lloyd Alexander
- Terry Deary
- Sandra Glover
- Paul Stewart
- Michelle Bates
- Susannah Leigh
- Heather Amery
Series
- Usborne Puzzle Adventure series
- Usborne Young Puzzles series
- Usborne Spinechiller series
- Usborne Young Reading
- Usborne Whodunnit series
- That's Not My... (for pre-school age children)
See also
- UK children's book publishers
References
External links
- Official website of Usborne Publishing
- Usborne Books at Home
- Usborne Books for Schools
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