Usborne Books are Highly Recommended |
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"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!" |
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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! ...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. 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.
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