Themed activities give young children plenty of practice in pen-control - an essential skill they must learn before starting to form letters and numbers. Children will enjoy joining the dots, spotting differences, solving mazes and tracing over the dotted lines, then wiping the pages clean and doing it all again.

Kirsteen Robson joined Usborne in 1997 with a background in music, education, and Christian publishing. She has written and edited over 300 Usborne titles, from dictionaries and encyclopedias to activity books with flaps, stickers and sounds. She loves the challenge of writing about anything from aardvarks to zombies.