Peter Usborne & Usborne Books

"Since 1975, when we published our first books, Usborne
Publishing has grown into one of the world's leading
publishers of non-fiction for children with translations in
over forty languages, as well as having won the Times
Educational Supplement Information Book Award.
The remarkable success of Usborne books derives from
the simple idea that it is possible, without any sacrifice of
quality, to produce non-fiction books as interesting and
entertaining as television, magazines and comics – media
that most children instinctively prefer. We compete with
those "friendly" media in a number of ways, many of them
unique to Usborne Publishing.
First, and most important, we spend an enormous
amount of time and money producing every one of our
books. These huge investments are essential for
researching, visualizing and illustrating often very difficult
subjects, such as computers, biology or typography, in a
really simple, stylish and appealing way without losing
detail or accuracy. We can only afford to do books in this
laborious way because we persuade dozens of publishers
overseas to share cost with us in return for the right to
publish our books in their own languages."