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Welcome to It Begins With Books, your online opportunity to review award-winning Usborne Books. These colorful and engaging books were created to stimulate a child's interest in reading and learning, all while having fun. They are primarily non-fiction and cover most every subject, from board books to high school reference books. They include hobbies, language guides and stimulating story puzzles... I'll let you see for yourself.

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It Begins With Books, Staci

Favorite Books

• WE LOVE the Jobs People Do series. The books are eye-catching, interesting and best of all multicultural! They have been thoroughly researched so readers learn about a typical day for a chef, doctor, vet, firefighter. etc.
• There's A Mouse About the House is brilliant! It's so much fun to move the mouse through the pages of the house. They were thinking too when they gave you a template to make a replacement mouse (on the odd chance the original mouse wanders off).
• And the Picture Book series is always a choice around our house. Lavish illustrations and great titles --On the Moon, The Butterfly, In the Pond, The Windy Day, Under the Ground.... (as my 3 year old now says when he picks up a shovel to dig a hole "there's a whole world beneath our feet!")
• The Illustrated Math and Science Dictionaries are wonderful references for all of us and our atlases and other nonfiction tiles cannot be beat.
• Trucks and Diggers and the Wind-up Tractor Book are new favorites; they combine books and activity which is always a plus.

Customer Favorites

• 100 Things for Little Children To Do on a Trip is a big hit!
• Samuel, age 3, chants "strawberry, kiwi, strawberry, kiwi" when he gets to the dessert page in Sam the Chef, one of his favorite stories.
• "Things that Move, First Words (look and say), Palabras in Ingles, the little round books about bath, food, toys, animals, etc. In short.... any of the dictionary books," says Tracy.
• Ryan, age 2, still loves That's Not My Dinosaur, which has been his favorite since birth.
• Ann loves her atlas; with it she can track her childrens' adventures around the globe.
• Encyclopedia of World Religions sells at every show - it's a gorgeous reference with internet links.
• How to Knit is another popular adult title that I cannot keep in stock.