Usborne books?

[leighi123]

I have a $30 credit, and I want to get some good books to use for homeschooling.

Any recomondations? (ds is almost 3, but very smart and will read books for all ages with me!)

Here is the link to Usborne

[BellinghamCrunchie]

I recommend the See Inside Your Body lift the flap book. Although much might be too advanced right now, he will enjoy lifting the flaps, seeing how the body works, and the book will be useful for many years to come.

[Breathless Wonder]

What age are you looking for?

Full disclosure: I happen to be a representative, but I hand pick my inventory based on our own family's homeschool needs.

[CariOfOz]

Originally Posted by BellinghamCrunchie

I recommend the See Inside Your Body lift the flap book. Although much might be too advanced right now, he will enjoy lifting the flaps, seeing how the body works, and the book will be useful for many years to come.

Yes, that one! We love all of the Usborne 'see inside' books. We have the Castles one, and have checked out the space & human body ones. They are all awesome and very popular with the kids

[leighi123]

Would this be a good set?

This one also looked good

And what about the 1001 things to spot books? Are they any good?

And the kid kits like this one or this one

Or reading books like this one or Ready for Reading

I'm not sure what I want really, there are so many choices! I already have a few, most he has outgrown (like the touchy feely ones), and we have a TON of non-usborne animal books so probably dont need more of those. We also already have some on outer space, and dinosaurs.

I guess science/social studies/cultures etc would be good - I think our homeschool is going to be mostly literacy based (b/c he loves books!), so we dont really need story books either.

Has anyone tried their Curriculums? Like this one

[be11ydancer]

Originally Posted by BellinghamCrunchie

I recommend the See Inside Your Body lift the flap book. Although much might be too advanced right now, he will enjoy lifting the flaps, seeing how the body works, and the book will be useful for many years to come.

I second that suggestion. Love that book! All of my kids enjoy it too.

[suzukiaustin]

When my son was 3 he LOVED The Flip Flap Body Book. He's 4 now and still loves it. I'll have to check out the See Inside Your Body book...maybe that's the next step from Flip Flap??

[CariOfOz]

Originally Posted by leighi123

Has anyone tried their Curriculums? Like this one

Oh those look interesting. It says order using orderpro but doesn't give a link or any contact info? I'd be interested in checking out a couple of the lesson plans only (being in Aus I'd have to source the books through local means or bookdepository) especially if they are available in pdf format

[leighi123]

Originally Posted by CariOfOz

Oh those look interesting. It says order using orderpro but doesn't give a link or any contact info? I'd be interested in checking out a couple of the lesson plans only (being in Aus I'd have to source the books through local means or bookdepository) especially if they are available in pdf format

I think you just click 'add to cart' to order, and then fill out the form. They have the lesson plans alone like this or you can get the whole curiculum including the books like this . So you can just order the books direct from them. You get like 5 books and 1 kid kit (which is a book+some sort of suppliment), PLUS the curiculum for $50, so to me that seems like a great deal. The books alone would cost more bought seperatly.

[leighi123]

Originally Posted by suzukiaustin

When my son was 3 he LOVED The Flip Flap Body Book. He's 4 now and still loves it. I'll have to check out the See Inside Your Body book...maybe that's the next step from Flip Flap??

I think so - the lift the flap says 4 and up, and the see inside says 7 and up. I think a younger kid could still get something out of it though, I showed ds the pic it has of one of the pages, and he seemed interested!

[CariOfOz]

Originally Posted by leighi123

I think you just click 'add to cart' to order, and then fill out the form. They have the lesson plans alone like this or you can get the whole curiculum including the books like this . So you can just order the books direct from them. You get like 5 books and 1 kid kit (which is a book+some sort of suppliment), PLUS the curiculum for $50, so to me that seems like a great deal. The books alone would cost more bought seperatly.

Thank you! I couldn't find the place to order just the lesson plans. The books would ordinarily be cheaper that way, but being in Australia, if the company even ships overseas... the postage would absolutely KILL There is one usborne at home rep that I can find down here so I'll contact them.. or try bookdepository which has free worldwide post

HUGE pout. I tried to create a wishlist and it wouldn't even give an option for an address outside the US or APO that I could see So as cool as it sounds, guess not for me.