"Given the choice between an Usborne book and another book, a child will always select the Usborne!"
Debbie Lerner - the 1996 Nat'l
Social Studies Teacher of the Year

 

"It is perfectly possible to create an entire K-12 curriculum with nothing more than Usborne Books, an encyclopedia, and your friendly local public library. What’s more, you won’t have to force your children to read these books!"
Mary Pride
 

Books kids
LOVE to read!

This "Pick of the Crop" award goes once again to the Usborne textbook line... Every page has fascinating tidbits of information. The format reminds you of a combination of Ripley’s Believe It or Not and magazine illustrations. Best of all, you can find an Usborne book for just about every subject area. Though they are not in the strictest sense textbooks, they cover all the same information as regular textbooks, plus some. Our own family, quite frankly, uses them in place of a regular science program. Just leave some lying around the house, and the kids will teach it all to themselves. I kid you not!
MARY PRIDE - The Teaching Home (Aug./Sept. 1989)
 

...I’m sure many of you are familiar with the Usborne line of books: Their use of imaginative illustrations combined with accurate and concise wording help to convey subjects as varied as drawing, astronomy, photography, foreign languages, geography, music, world history, and physics....Kids enjoy learning in an atmosphere free of undue pressure, where they are allowed to work at their own pace. They delight in interesting pictures and find that illustrations make a publication more inviting...the books that invite them, the ones they read over and over, tend to be their Usborne books. Combine that fact with the content and quality of Usborne’s line, and they become our family’s hand-down favorite.
MARION SYVERSEN - ReMAINEing at Home Newsletter, Auburn, Maine
 

Covering just about all school subject areas, and quite a few you will never see in school, Usborne books are to textbooks what Steven Spielberg productions are to movies. We’re talking entertainment value here. Every page heavily illustrated. Text that explain the illustrations. Fascinating bits of trivia splattered throughout. Even the text is visual - the human body for example, is explained using everything from a machine metaphor to a police metaphor (white blood cell cops chasing down germ villains). Free of the preachiness that so mars American text books, Usborne books share a liveliness and joie de vire that marks them for greatness. You can use them with or without other curriculum. If you’re looking to add some zing to your kids’ education, it’s a great place to start.
MARY PRIDE - Chronicle Whole Earth Catalog (7/19/89)