Children's publisher Peter Usborne who was behind the 'Usborne Book of' series of books has died at the age of 85, his publishing company has announced. Mr Usborne, described as a 'genius' who had a ...

Usborne has appointed Sam Taplin as its new publishing director with immediate effect, while Jenny Tyler steps into a publishing and strategic advisory role having recently marked 50 years of service ...

From Machine Code For Beginners to Computer Spacegames, the books that taught a generation of children to program have returned for free A generation of children in the 1980s learned about programming ...

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 ...

Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, Usborne Publishing has endured as a publisher of uniquely accessible and exciting children’s books. As it embarks on a new trade partnership deal with ...

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This iconic work, along with a lot of Asterix and a chunk of books about medieval arms and armour, occupied most of the lunches that I spent in the library during primary school. From where I was ...

Peter Usborne, who worked in publishing in the UK, decided to establish a children’s book publishing company when his first daughter, Nicola Usborne (54 years old), was born. He wanted to create books ...

Lockdown is boring. No, let’s emphasize that, lockdown is really boring. Walking for exercise is much less fun than it was last year because it’s a wet and muddy February, and with nowhere open, a ...

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 ...

When we meet in his airy office near London's Hatton Garden jewellery quarter, Peter Usborne has a boyish grin on his face. He has just had drinks with one of his heroes, Dustin Hoffman, at the ...

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, ...