Usborne Publishing is one of the largest children's publishers in the UK. Publishing and distributin
Founded in 1973 by Peter Usborne, Usborne Publishing pioneered a completely new generation of entertaining, colourful and friendly non-fiction books for children. There are now over 3,000 Usborne books in print, including non-fiction, fiction, novelty and baby books. Peter was awarded a London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015, and a CBE for Services to Literature in 2021. Usborne also
has an extensive international publishing programme, with books published in French, Spanish, Italian, Catalan, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Mandarin and German under the Usborne brand; rights to Usborne books have been sold in over 100 languages, and our English language books are distributed worldwide. You can sign up for Usborne news, updates and offers here: https://usborne.com/about-us/newsletters. Please note:
Join Joe, Polly and Sam as they stumble across an abandoned manor house and explore a trail of mysterious messages. This Usborne classic has been updated and enhanced for a whole new generation of puzzle adventurers!
👻 Includes brain-teasers, logic puzzles and curious codes
🪞 Packed full of interactive elements
🎨 Features comic strip illustrations to appeal to a range of readers
💬 Would you rather dress up as a witch or a wolf? Tell us in the comments!
11/10/2025
💛 Happy Bookshop Day! 💛
Tell us your favourite bookshop in the comments! We’ll go follow them and spread the love in our stories — because they deserve all the shoutouts. 💬 📚
Visit your local bookshop today and discover your next favourite read.
Books Are My Bag
10/10/2025
When do you usually read with your child—morning, bedtime, or both? 🌅🛌
Everyone has a routine that works best for them, maybe you're an early bird or maybe you're a night owl!
Do you find that your child concentrates better on reading at a certain time of day? Let us know in the comments 💬
10/10/2025
09/10/2025
We are so excited Cruise Ship Kid has been shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag in the Newcomer of the Year category 🚢🎊
Vote for your book of the year as part of the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards and you could win £100/€120 worth of National Book Tokens! Vote now atnationalbooktokens.com/vote
09/10/2025
Teachers: bring mindfulness into your classroom on World Mental Health Day. 🧘
Use Usborne Quicklinks for calming practices, guided breathing, and activities to help students manage thoughts and feelings.
Get ready for heart-pounding chases beneath the full moon, mysterious figures lurking in the woods and fun picture puzzles to solve in this spooky adventure where every choice you make leads to new twists and turns.
🐺 YOU decide where the story leads
🎲 Features a dice-based system where what you roll decides your fate
📖 Perfect for reluctant readers and playing with family and friends
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Usborne is an independent family business founded by Peter Usborne in 1973. It is the largest independent children's publisher in the UK.
When Peter got a call from his wife saying he was going to be a father, he immediately decided to move into children’s publishing so that he could create colourful, exciting, captivating books for a new generation of kids – including his own.
More than four decades later, Usborne books are known and loved by families all around the world.
Peter is now in his eighties but is still working – and loving it. The baby he received that phone call about – Nicola Usborne – is now our Deputy MD, working alongside her dad and a longstanding senior team.
Usborne books are almost all created by a super-talented team of 35+ editor/writers and over 50 designers who work in-house for Usborne. This makes us different from most other publishers (who usually commission outside authors to write books for them) and allows us to have complete creative control.
There are now over 3,000 Usborne books in print, including non-fiction, fiction, novelty and baby books; Peter was awarded an MBE for services to the publishing industry in 2011 and a London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015.
Usborne also has an extensive international publishing programme, with books published in French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Korean and Chinese under the Usborne brand; rights to Usborne books have been sold in over 100 languages, and our English language books are distributed worldwide.
You can sign up for Usborne news, updates and offers here: http://bit.ly/UsborneNews
Please note:
USBORNE BOOKS AT HOME AND SCHOOLS
Usborne Books at Home and Schools is our direct sales arm. They have their own page on Facebook at www.facebook.com/UsborneBAH, if you would like to contact them.
COMPLAINTS
We try our best to ensure that Usborne books are designed, written and manufactured to the highest possible standards. However if you have a complaint, please email [email protected]. This means that your comments will go straight to a dedicated member of staff, who will be able to look into your complaint in detail and enter into a dialogue with you to find out all we need to know to rectify the matter.
