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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Usborne has acquired the Gothic fantasy Girls of Dark Divine and one further romantasy title from E V Woods. Sold to Delacorte (PRH) in the US for a six-figure deal, Alice Moloney, who was previously ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.