Spring New Releases from Usborne Books & More

March 15, 2021

Usborne has a few new releases for us as we head into Spring. Let’s take a look at what they are. First there are 3 new little jigsaw puzzles featuring animals, farm animals under the sea themes. Each puzzle set comes with a picture book and is good for kids 3+.

First Jigsaws: Animals

Price $12.99

Discover the wonderful world of animals with this delightful set of eight jigsaws and a book. Each sturdy jigsaw comes in two easy-to-match pieces with charming illustrations by Stella Baggott. This is the perfect way to introduce young minds to simple problem solving, reading time, and all kinds of amazing animals.

First Jigsaws: Farm Animals

Price $12.99

Take a visit to the farm with this charming set of eight jigsaws and a book. Each sturdy jigsaw comes in two easy-to-match pieces with delightful illustrations by Stella Baggott. This is the perfect way to introduce young minds to simple problem solving, reading time, and all kinds of farm animals.

First Jigsaws: Under the Sea

Price $12.99

Discover the wonderful world under the sea with this delightful set of eight jigsaws and a book. Each sturdy jigsaw comes in two easy-to-match pieces with charming illustrations by Stella Baggott. This is the perfect way to introduce young minds to simple problem solving, reading time, and all kinds of amazing sea creatures, from crabs to seahorses and dolphins.

Tree of Life - Book & Jigsaw Puzzle

Price $14.99

A beautiful Tree of Life jigsaw 300-piece puzzle accompanied by a 16-page book that explores the whole tree of life from microscopic bacteria to whole rainforest ecosystems, packed with information about how life works, what makes a living thing, and all sorts of the Earth’s amazing plants and animals. This puzzle is great for kids 8+.

Build Your Own Supercars Sticker Book

Price $8.99

This spectacular sticker book is set in the year 2041, where the fastest, toughest, most extreme cars on the planet compete in an epic race through gleaming cities and scorching deserts. Add the right stickers to fit your cars with rocket boosters, grappling hooks, and hover wheels. Then read the descriptions, compare the stats, and use them to decide who wins. This book is great for kids 6+.

Lift-the-Flap Questions and Answers About Music (IR)

Price $14.99


Bang, crash, ding! This book answers all kinds of questions about music. Lift the flaps to discover what, why, when, who… and tune in to what makes music special. Kids 4+ will be tuning into this book.


Easy Origami (QR)

Price $9.99This looks like such a fun book! This charming book contains everything you need to fold and display 11 different types of easy origami animals, including butterflies, birds, frogs, bugs, lizards, whales, penguins, and more. Simply pull out a sheet and follow the simple, step-by-step instructions to fold each animal – QR codes also link to videos on the Usborne website showing you extra folding tips. There are over 50 colorful sheets to fold, each printed with clear folding lines to help you, and illustrated with delightful animal features to bring your finished creatures to life. Extra sheets at the back of the book provide pictures of flowers, leaves, coral, and other things you can cut out and fold to make scenes for your animals, either as a permanent display or to help you share impressive photos of your creations. Kids 7+ will enjoy making all sorts of creations.

This looks like such a fun book! This charming book contains everything you need to fold and display 11 different types of easy origami animals, including butterflies, birds, frogs, bugs, lizards, whales, penguins, and more. Simply pull out a sheet and follow the simple, step-by-step instructions to fold each animal – QR codes also link to videos on the Usborne website showing you extra folding tips. There are over 50 colorful sheets to fold, each printed with clear folding lines to help you, and illustrated with delightful animal features to bring your finished creatures to life. Extra sheets at the back of the book provide pictures of flowers, leaves, coral, and other things you can cut out and fold to make scenes for your animals, either as a permanent display or to help you share impressive photos of your creations. Kids 7+ will enjoy making all sorts of creations.


Lift-the-Flap First Questions and Answers: How Can I Be Kind?

Price $14.99



I love how Usborne has lots of great books to help kids learn how to be nice to others. This thoughtful book explores how to be kind and why kindness is so important. It has a range of questions to help children and their grown-ups to think, and talk, about being kind to others and ourselves, as well as nature and our planet. Beautiful illustrations by Christine Pym help young children to understand big concepts by setting them in a world of friendly bugs. There is plenty to talk about and be inspired by! Great for ages 3+.

Chameleon Comedian (QR)

Price $6.99


This book looks like it will be another great addition to the phonics reader collection which has fun rhyming text to help kids learn how to read. Chameleon has big dreams of becoming a comedian, but her first gig doesn’t go well. Perhaps she can use her natural talents to create a magical new act?! Kids 4+ will enjoy this book.


Little Stickers Bugs

Price $7.99

From tropical rainforests to the driest deserts, discover beautiful butterflies, scuttling spiders, and a whole variety of other creepy-crawlies that live all over the world. Use over 180 stickers to bring each scene bursting into life with beetles, bugs, millipedes, moths, and more. This book is for kids 3+.


Dancing with Doughnuts (Book 3)

Price $5.99

This is the 3rd book in the Freddie series. Freddie’s friend Amira is looking forward to taking to the stage and showing the town her ballroom dancing skills in the annual Belville summer show, but her partner twists his ankle tripping over Bernard’s cat! Can Freddie overcome his fear of performing? The simple illustrations will help keep older kids engaged when reading this chapter book series. Perfect for kids 5+.


Sticky Cake Race, The (Book 4)

Price $5.99

This is another great addition to the Freddie series. It has some great illustrations for a chapter book. Belville loves its community events and the Belville Rally is no exception! The contestants have been tinkering, polishing, and priming their vehicles ready to race around the town’s streets and over the canal bridges, but there’s someone who’s willing to win at any cost. Can Freddie save the race? Kids 5+ will be the winners reading this book.



Barbara Throws a Wobbler

Price $12.99

What exactly is a wobbler? Wobbler is a British slang word for tantrum. I love how this book uses the color red to show that Barbara is mad. 

First she has a sock problem, and then there’s a strange pea... Suddenly, Barbara’s Wobbler is out of control! This is a hilarious story of one big bad mood – and how to make it go away. Here’s a funny, sensitive, and helpful way to understand and deal with tantrums for both parents and children. This book is great for kids 3-7.


Next Usborne has released two new fold out books. Each book has 5 fold out pages that will be sure to delight kids ages 2+.

Monster Hide-and-Seek

Price $7.99

Find the silly monsters hiding here and learn to count as you go!


Robot Hide-and-Seek

Price $7.99

Discover the world of colors with the clever robots hiding inside!