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Beginners
China

Usborne Beginners are colourful information books for children beginning to read on their own.
Vivid, full colour illustrations and photographs on every page, accompanied by short, informative text.
Developed with reading experts at the University of Roehampton.
Carefully selected internet links to exciting websites to find out more.
Great reading practice for children who prefer fact to fiction.

“No Key Stage 1 classroom should be without the whole set.”
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Key Stage: FS/KS1 E/H/G; Age 4+ (info)

Lexile Measure: 760L (info)

BIC: B2N79 (info)

Hardback:
ISBN: 9780746089989

Author/Editor: Leonie Pratt

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Press & Blog Reviews

Tremendous visual appeal of a quality that is unmatched by other early reading series. No Key Stage 1 classroom should be without the whole set.
The Bookseller

The Usborne Beginners and Young Readers series are increasingly being recognized and celebrated as having both the production values, content, and visual and commercial appeal demanded by the home market, and also the clear structure supporting children's reading development that is desired by schools. In my opinion, the Usborne Beginners and Young Readers series are by far the most appealing and comprehensive reading development supports available, now offering a vast range of subjects.
The Bookseller

An excellent series. Carefully designed to appeal to early readers, the books have accessible vocabulary and easy reading text, clear pictures, a contents page, index and glossary - all excellent for helping children to learn to use books for research. Short chunks of text and plenty of pictures make these books really fun to read.
Parents in Touch

This is one book from Usborne's 'Beginners' series, which is intended to support young readers who are beginning to read on their own. A clear bold font is used, sentence structure is uncomplicated and full colour illustration throughout. Topics covered include Chinese art, Chinese history, The Great Wall, the Terracotta Army, Buddhism, Chinese writing and food. The book is organised in chapters with structural guiders and, glossary, contents and index. A framework for the Usborne reading programme can be downloaded from the Usborne website

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Excellent
My 6 year old found this interesting, informative and readable. His elder sister (9) read through and learned the facts ready to impress teacher on Monday morning and even the two year old liked listening and looking at the pictures. We used it as a start for researching topic work and it has gone into school this week to share with the whole class.
Alice Squires, 30th June 2008

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