Children’s publisher Peter Usborne has died at the age of 85, his publishing company has announced. Mr Usborne, described as a “genius” who had a “child-like energy and curiosity”, was ...

Usborne creates books which spark curiosity, for children of all ages from non-fiction titles which make knowledge irresistible, to an award-winning fiction list. 350 new titles are published each ...

Peter Usborne, the founder of children's books publisher Usborne, has died at the age of 85. He died "suddenly but peacefully" surrounded by his family on Friday morning, the company confirmed ...

Usborne is reprinting a home learning series for beginner readers prior to its launch later this month after selling in more than 60,000 copies of the Very First Reading series to the UK and ...

PW spoke to the editors and authors at Usborne about the process of bringing each new children’s book into the world, what makes the books unique, and the inherent joys of the work they do ...

The name The Usborne First Encyclopaedia of Animals says it all — it's a guide for young ones learning the ropes of reading and developing a bond with books.

Richard Usborne, who died yesterday aged 95, was the author of two highly diverting studies of neglected bestsellers, Clubland Heroes (1953) and Wodehouse at Work (1961).

Nobody does Christmas quite like Usborne, the biggest and most successful independent children’s book publisher in the UK. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Lancashire Evening Post ...

Usborne has snapped up Broken Hearts and Zombie Parts, an "absolute scream" of a gay YA romance by William Hussey.

They associate themselves with the scariest creatures more than any other living animal, and this book — The Usborne Big Book of Big Dinosaurs — is one of the reasons why dinosaurs have a fan ...

We've decided to see just how accurate Usborne's 1979 epic The Book of the Future actually turned out to be. The result: not very.

Thomas Masters Usborne: Family archivist, wicketkeeper for Europeans Usborne played only 5 matches, scoring 109 runs at 13.62 and effecting 7 dismissals.