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Usborne Explainers
Series · 13
books · 1980-2000

Books in series

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#1

Living Long Ago

1990

Picture information books to help answer young children's questions about the world around them
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#2

Clothes and Fashion

1990

\— Picture information books to help answer young children's questions about the world around them
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#3

Finding Out about Homes and Houses Long Ago

1989

This colorful book is packed with fascinating insights into people's homes in the past. Large, cutaway pictures let the reader look into each house. Lively characters show how people lived inside. Find out where cave people lived in summer, how Egyptians took showers, why Indians lived in tents and much more. The Usborne Explainers answer many of the questions children ask about everyday things. Clear, simple text and bright, detailed illustrations combine to make the books both informative and fun. The History Explainers series is called Living Long Ago. It looks at the practical details of everyday life in the past. The books in the series include Clothes and Fashion, Homes and Houses, Food and Eating and Travel and Transport.
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#4

Finding Out about Food and Eating Long Ago

1989

Picture information books to help answer young children's questions about the world around them
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#5

Where Things Come From

1989

Book by Cook, J.
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#6

Finding Out about How Things are Built

1989

\— Picture information books to help answer young children's questions about the world around them
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#7

Finding Out about Things That Float

1987

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#8

Finding Out About Things That Fly

1987

Things that Fly is one of the three titles in this colorful new series for younger readers exploring the fascinating world of transport. THINGS ON WEELS and THINGS THAT FLOAT are the other two titles. A wide range of different types of cars, boats, and planes are illustrated in full detail, together with straightforward explanations of how cars word and the simple scientific principles of how boats float and how planes stay up in the air. Topics covered include how planes fly, airliners, wing shapes, aircraft engines, types of jets, jet engines, helicopters, hot-air ballons, wind power, first flyers, famous flights, space flight, and air sports.
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#10

Finding Out about Mountains

1980

\— Picture information books to help answer young children's questions about the world around them
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#11

Finding Out About Our Earth

1982

Picture information books to help answer young children's questions about the world around them
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#12

Finding Out About Rockets and Spaceflight

1982

Picture information books to help answer young children's questions about the world around them
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#14

How Things Are Made

1989

Picture information books to help answer young children's questions about the world around them
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#15

Travel and Transport

2000

Book by Edom, H.

Authors

Usborne
Usborne
Author · 22 books
Usborne Publishing, often called Usborne Books, is a British publisher of children's books founded in 1973 by Peter Usborne.
Felicity Brooks
Felicity Brooks
Author · 47 books

Felicity Brooks is an Editorial Director and writer at Usborne Publishing. She studied English and Drama at Exeter University and worked as an actor, teacher and lexicographer (someone who compiles dictionaries) before starting work in children’s publishing in the late 1980s. She has written and edited hundreds of children’s books, including stories and novelty books for pre-schoolers and books about history, geography, languages, science, maths, nature and the arts. Her books have won the TES Senior Information Book Award, the Aventis Science Books Prize, the SLA Information Book Award, the Sheffield Baby Books Award and Practical Pre-school Gold and Silver Awards.

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