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Have Usborne books taught you anything valuable, or even memorable? I learnt about making babies from The Usborne Book of Making Babies when I was about 8 or 9. I also had the Usborne First Cookbook, which I still use sometimes. I found the Usborne Book of The Future in a charity shop a couple of years ago, only it's about what The Future was like in 1979, and has a lot of stuff about how in the year 2000 we'll probably all have domestic robots and live in sea cities, and have switched to renewable energy sources. I had a beginner's German one too, from which I can remember about 4 words.

So Usborne books taught me what a cross section of a penis looks like, and how to make an omelette, among other things.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 09:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Surely the two most important things in life?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 09:41 (twenty-one years ago)

They served me pretty well, I think.

I'm just about to buy the Usborne First Thousand Words in Spanish sticker book off Amazon.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Usborne Books, along with the Beano taught me everything I ever needed to know.

Faves: Science, Tricks and Magic & How To Draw Cartoons.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

it wasn't really called The Usborne Book of Making Babies was it?

I had the one about the future. And one about UFOs. And one which was probably called Our World or something like that, which was all geographical and geological stuff. It taught me what the different types of cloud were called. And what an ox-bow lake was etc.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 09:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Big it up for Osborne!.

DON'T TELL LIES LUCY!

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I was convinced it was called The Usborne Book of Making Baies, but google refuses to believe me. It must actually have been "How Babies Are Made".

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, I like "Give that back, Jack!" the best.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Babies Are Made rings a bell. I seem to remember some very graphic pictures of the man's willy pointing towards his lady's bits.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

HOW, dur.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 09:53 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.usborne.com/generic_title.asp?Primary=1386

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Flaps reveal hidden processes, fun facts and surprises

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahaha

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

They taught me that people who don't even tell you you've not got a job are arseholes.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn right.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Think about the pronunciation, Mark - "You = spawn."

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: Usborne's book of Machines That Work vs. Dorling Kindersley's book of Things That Go

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

A Book of Machines That Don't Work would be more fun. Chapter 1: Perpetual Motion.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

A Book of Machines That Don't Work would be more fun. Chapter 1: Perpetual Motion

I think I'm writing that book.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Can't you write one about how perpetual motion does work? Your student loans would vanish overnight!

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I had First Thousand Words in French, German, Italian (my last name means pudding???) and Russian, The Children's Picture World History Vols 4-8, and the Time Traveller Book of Pharoahs and Pyramids, Rome and Romans, Knights and Castles, and Viking Raiders.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Find the little duck was my favourite game in teh evah before I got kicked out into the big bad world of nursery school :-(

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Where was the little duck, eh?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

The Usborne Book of Archaeology taught me all sorts of useful things for university - as did their big History Of The World book, which was actually lots of their books on different periods of history bound together into one big hardback.

(they did the same with other topics - I had an Usborne book about the paranormal which I think was their books on ghosts, UFOs and something else - ESP, maybe - bound as one)

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

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