What is Usborne Quicklinks?
What is Usborne Quicklinks?
At Usborne Quicklinks you’ll find links to websites with videos, quizzes, games and activities, all carefully chosen to support the information in Usborne books.
Which Usborne books have QR codes?
The latest edition of the Usborne Science Encyclopedia has 180 QR codes printed on the pages of the book. The QR codes provide instant access via a mobile phone or tablet to websites with video clips of experiments, animals in their habitats and animated lessons. WATCH THE USBORNE VIDEO.
Why the sea is salty Usborne?
The classic Korean tale retold for children just beginning to read. When a thief steals the King’s most precious treasure, a magic millstone that makes whatever the king wants, he gets more than he bargained for. Part of the Usborne Reading Programme developed with reading experts at the University of Roehampton.
What does il mean in Usborne Books?
Product reviews for Children’s Encyclopedia (IL) (Reduced Format)
Why the sea is salty a tale from Korea?
Then salt vendors who heard about the magic millstone came to the younger brother to buy it at a high price. They took the millstone on their ship and it began producing salt, but the vendors did not know how to stop it and they drowned in the sea, with the millstone, which is why sea water, to this day, remains salty.
Why sea is salty story?
In a story from the Philippines a man has ordered large blocks of salt to be carried across the sea to build a great white mansion. The Ocean is angry at being disturbed and sends a great wave to knock the bricks into the sea – where they dissolved and so the sea is salty.
Why do tigers have stripes story?
This humorous folktale from Vietnam, retold by Rob Cleveland, tells the story of Tiger, who was once the proudest animal of the jungle. He was even prouder than the peacock. While trying to escape, Tiger burns his coat on the rope, leaving permanent stripes on his beautiful golden coat.
What’s the difference between library binding and hardcover?
Hardcover: Within the book industry, known as “Trade Cloth”. Paperback: Book is bound in a flexible paper cover, and is often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book. Library Binding: Book is hardcover, with a reinforced binding made for more extensive use, such as in a library.
Why is library binding so expensive?
The quality is higher than normal binding, and is more intensive in the manufacturing. They also are a niche product – they sell a fraction of the numbers of regular bindings – and like any niche product, they cost substantially more than something that can be mass produced.
Why is the sea salty children’s story?
