The ultimate kit looks reasonable. Probably a bit overpriced, but it has some relatively expensive components (servo motors and LCD, for example. Yeah, you can get cheaper versions shipped direct from china in 3 weeks, but...)
While there is no book, there is the wiki page here: http://makezine.com/shed/ultimate-microcontroller-pack/
and the parts are common enough that you can probably use any number of other other online tutorials (adafruit, sparkfun, etc.)