Usborne has relaunched its website,http://www.usborne.com" target="_blank"> www.usborne.com, with a new design and functionality and improved usability, the publisher ...

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 ...

Fritha Lindqvist is to join Usborne in the newly created role of head of publicity, while Sophie McNeill has been appointed as global digital director of the children’s publisher. In her new role, ...

Children of the 1980s who had an interest in technology were lucky indeed. As well as the first generations of home computers at their disposal they had the expectation to program them, something ...

It’s hard to find a business model as truly collaborative as that of Usborne Publishing. Since it was launched by Peter Usborne in 1973, the children’s publisher has been creating exceptional, ...

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). In Clubland Heroes he was the ...

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 also the first ...

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.

Christmas-themed That's Not My touchy-feely books for babies and young children have been recalled because they 'may contain mould'. Usborne Children's Books has issued the product recall for That's ...

Richard Alexander Usborne, writer and editor: born 16 May 1910; married 1938 Monica MacArthur (died 1986; one son, one daughter); died London 21 March 2006. With his first book, Clubland Heroes (1953) ...