Friday 24 June 2011

NEW - Usborne for English Learners

The Usborne seven stage reading programme is one of my favourite ranges. Once your child can read, this range opens up a whole world of fiction and non-fiction titles. 

Last month the publishers launched Usborne English. This is a selection of the titles from the reading programme offering extra support to learners & teachers of English. 

The titles are available at four different levels; Elementary, Lower Intermediate, Intermediate and Upper Intermediate. Each book includes an audio CD to help students develop listening & speaking skills. The CD includes full readings of the text by native speakers in both British English and American English.

The series is also supported by a dedicated website where worksheets & teacher's notes can be downloaded. 

 As an Usborne Organiser based in the EU, this range is SO EXCITING for me and my customers. So many students are blessed with excellent English language teachers but not all of them are native speakers, this range allows those teachers to give their students a little boost.

If you would like to order a title from this range, or any other Usborne title, please do contact me direct

I'd especially love to hear from you if you are an English Language Teacher,  I can offer your school FREE* books in exchange for a little space, time & advertising. Just invite me to sell Usborne Books to the teachers, parents and students at your school and in return I will donate a percentage of my sales to the school in Usborne Books.

*NB FREE books are offered subject to easily achieved minimum sales.

Summer Party

(I just found that I had never published this post..sorry - only written 6 months ago - oops!)

I love hosting my Summer Party at home. It means I can really take my time and display my whole stock. This year I decided to include subject labels to help my customers navigate over 400 books.
The Dining Table - at most homeparties, this is it

The sideboard, extra shelves and windowsill
Pre-school books - including story books & pre-reading skills
Pre-writing skills - includes colouring books
Wind-up Books, Farmyard Tales and First Experiences
Baby books - from birth with cot books
The whole bookshelf - my favourite way to display books
Very First Reading, Phonics Readers and the seven stage reading programme
Learning languages, including English
Fabulous Fiction, Encyclopedias, puzzle & hobby books
Non-fiction
more non-fiction
Activity cards and doodle books
Cookery Books & Parent Guides
Activity Books - make & do, stickers & dolly dressing
Seasonal Titles - Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Valentines etc
I'm planning to do the same again in January - a January sale to clear stock and launch the New Catalogue for 2012...