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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=CoderDojoB0GFQ81YQK|title=Build Your Own WebsiteHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: Create with CodeFrom the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5

|summary=The Nanonauts want a website for their bandBefore people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and who better the sky began to build it for tal to each other. First, the earth created bodies. And then, the sky breathed life into them than . These were the CoderDojo network of free computing clubs for young first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people? In this handbooklived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, created in conjunction with the CoderDojo Foundation, children of seven plus will learn especially how they came to build a website using HTMLbe. When they grew old and died, CSS their bodies returned to the earth and Javascripttheir life returned to the sky. Don't worry too much if some of those words don't mean anything to you - all will be made clear as you read through And that is why the earth and the booksky are both revered. There's also information about how Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to start a CoderDojo Nano club with friends - which has great benefits in terms of harnessing creativity, learning how to code - and the benefits of teamworkcare for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405278730</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby WaldenB0GHPMNF6P|title=In FocusHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: 101 Close Ups, Cross-Sections and CutawaysFrom the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5

|summary=Only recently I've had reason Before people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to applaud a children's non-fiction book for concentrating on showing its audience what they have no hope tal to see – in that caseeach other. First, the underground and underwater worldsearth created bodies. And then, from the shallowest plant roots sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and they belonged to the deepest oceanic explorations both earth and everything in sky. And so people lived betweensky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, especially how they came to be. Other unseen worlds are all around us, however – When they're what goes on on the inside of things – inside a pocket watch (remember them?)grew old and died, inside a yurt, a space shuttle, a volcano, a toilet… This pleasant square block of book not only gives us their bodies returned to the outside image earth and a caption, but their life returned to the full story of sky. And that is why the innards, meaning earth and the young reader sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is certainly going where they've never been before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184857505X</amazonuk>why people must pay attention to, and care for, both.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=CoderDojoStephanie Zabriskie|title=Build Your Own WebsiteHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: Create with CodeFrom the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders

|summary=The Nanonauts want ''How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a website for their band, and who better to build it for them than children’s nonfiction book drawn from the CoderDojo network oral traditions of free computing clubs for young people? In this handbook, created Maasai elders in conjunction with the CoderDojo FoundationNgorongoro, children of seven plus will learn how to build a website using HTML, CSS and JavascriptTanzania. Don't worry too much if some of those words don't mean anything  The Maasai are a cattle-herding people and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to you - all will be made clear as you read through the bookso. ThereCattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn's also information about how to start a CoderDojo Nano club with friends - which has great benefits in terms t tell the whole story of harnessing creativitythe intimate and symbiotic connection its people, and especially its women, learning how to code - have with their cows and for the natural world. The oral tradition retelling the benefits of teamworkmany conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, does.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405278730</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Bright1839948493|title=See Inside Dinosaurs A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=3.5

|summary=What would you do if In the doorbell rang and when interests of full disclosure, I must tell you opened the door you saw that I'm a giant Trojan-Horse waiting sucker for you? dogs. In nearly eight decades, I for 've never met one would not drag the thing in; it would be too big I didn't trust and could be full I've loved most of angry Greeksthem. The I wish I felt the same could be said of about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and devour. Then I'm going to go back and read it properly. And so it was with ''See inside DinosaursA World of Dogs'' by Michael Bright, with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. You may think that you are buying one thing, but instead you are getting Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an impressive triceratops skeleton, or a TAmerican Dingo -Rex model, or maybe even she's learned quite a booklot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934739</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Parker1529507987|title=100 Facts Butterflies & MothsThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=Damn those beesI love ''The Repair Shop''. TheyIt're not the only flying creatures vanishing from our world at alarming rates, and the others, like butterflies and moths, are actually runnerss my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up to Mr Bumble and his mysteriously dying ilk in pollinating plants. Plus After a hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're more visually attractiveworth. But even though this book has two nudges and a thanks given You see, the value is in what these possessions are worth to the Butterfly Conservation body, that's certainly not people who own them and the more notable feature of these pagesmemories they hold. What stands out is No expense appears to be spared and the superlative content.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786170116</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= National Geographic Kids|title= Angry Birds Playground: Atlas (Angry Birds Playgrounds)|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=''Angry Birds Playground'' experts spend as much time and effort as is a new educational book series based on a geographical theme. Rovio-the team responsible for the popular game- have teamed up with National Geographic Kids required to create a stunning set of books that perfectly blend the cheeky humour from achieve the game with informative text and breathtaking real-world photographydesired result. The series will appeal to young fans of Regular viewers know the game experts and anyone who has an interest in the wonders of the natural worldthey're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1426324596</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Archer and Caroline Craig024162343X|title=The Kew Gardens Children's Cookbook: Plant, Cook, EatStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|summary=I grew up was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the immediate post war periodexistence of a 'god'. Growing your own vegetables had been a necessity in Where was the war and proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still a habit for those who had a bit . Not too long after the end of gardenWWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn'The Kew Gardens Childrent dwell on those) in what came to be called 's Cookbookthe colonies'' was a real pleasure for me, as well as a touch of nostalgia. The principle is very simple: show children how want to grow their own vegetables and then how dispute what right the army had to transform them into delicious foodbe there in the first place. It sounds simpleLooking back, doesnI still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem't it? politely. Well, it might come as a surprise, but it is!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750298197</amazonuk>I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= John Haslam Jeremy Dronfield and Steve ParkerDavid Ziggy Greene|title= A Journey Through NatureFritz and Kurt|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary= Beautifully presented, this is a book that takes a worldwide look at We start with the natural worldpair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, in both urban and rural locations. We start off their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the city, looking at pigeonsempty market place, helping the American racoonneighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the Australian possum synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the South American Marmosetlamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. I learnt 3 things from those first two pages But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, including what Kits areand instead of having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, how long babies live invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the possum mothers younger Kurt at home with his mother and the pregnancy traits sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the monkeys. We were US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to a good startBuchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784934496</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aleksandra Mizielinski, Daniel Mizielinski and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)1913750353|title=Under EarthBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Under WaterRenee Kelly and Sue Macy

|summary=One ''Britannica's Word of the major remits of childrenDay''s nonhas a sub-fiction books is title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to get them to look around them Stretch Your Cranium and gain a better understanding of what theyTickle Your Humerus''re seeing. After a volume such as this, the obvious response is which probably tells you all that you need to see that as an incredibly narrow focus. For know about this brilliant book will take the reader and show them exactly what they can. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz't see – from microscopic things living in soil even seasoned Scrabble players haven't heard of, right down tells you how to the fish swimming their way towards the Mariana Trench, the deepest section of sea on earth. Make no bones about pronounce it(''raz-muh-TAZ''), this book is entirely focused on what is beneath our feet gives you a definition and sea levels, and – no pie then includes the word in the sky response this – a sentence so that you know how it is should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I've ever encountered a winner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783703644</amazonuk>word which uses the letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Haslam and Steve Parker0711266204|title= A Journey Through the Weather|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= We're British. We LOVE to talk about the weather. But beyond the usual platitudes The Secret Life of ''Bit cold out isn't it'' or ''What a beautiful day'', how much do you actually know about what's happening up in the sky? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178493450X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBirds|author=Emma Adams Moira Butterfield and James Weston Lewis|title=The Great Fire of London: 350th Anniversary of the Great Fire of 1666Vivian Mineker (illustrator)

|summary=While the average primary school child may not quite be able to fathom I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the importance and actual length vast numbers of 350 years, it is no reason not to put birds which visit our garden on a book out looking back that distance of time to major historical eventsdaily basis. But it has to be a good book to justify the mental time travel that entailsAn hour can pass without my noticing. And you have to hit on a remarkable subjectI've established which species feed from the ground, something that will open the young eyes which pop to the danger, tragedy feeders for a quick snatch of some food and drama of our historywho settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. Something like the Great Fire of LondonIt would have been wonderful if, as seen in this large hardbacka child, which when it comes down I'd had access to it, and for many reasons, is a very good book indeedsuch as ''The Secret Life of Birds''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750298200</amazonuk> So – what is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Young Rewired State0192779230|title=Get Coding!Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: Learn HTML, CSS & JavaScript & build a website, app & gameThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas

|summary=Learning 'Germs' seems to codehave become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. In the first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, even heading into my seventh decade, changed my life OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and for today's children it's important because it opens so many doorsaccessible introduction to the world of germs. It might We get an informed look complicated, but all it required is concentration at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and - eventually - imaginationhow the thinking has developed over time. I had The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a reasonable mastery scientist' which explains some of the skills of basic HTML in three days trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with the benefit of a personal tutorbacteria, fungi, but where to go if you don't have that privilege or if you need some extra support? ''Get Coding!'' seems like the perfect answerprotists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406366846</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Mills1800464495|title=Top Of The League 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith|rating=34.5

|summary=Football is known as ''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the beautiful game womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and when comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? I was younger didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills.'' I kind of believed didn't know this. either! I would spend my free time playing Heads and Volleys with my mates and then go home to try and complete my Panini sticker albumthink most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. There was even But do we think the halcyon days when Blackburn Rovers won the title. As same way about maths, beyond counting? I have grown olderdon't think we do, my cynicism has grown tooin part because so many of us are afraid of maths. Leicester may be champions, but the day I feel But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a group similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of multimillionaires beating Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=2020 has been a group strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of slightly richer multimillionaires is a win our routines have been completely dismantled and for the everyman, some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be a sad onedoing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Perhaps Most people, from children to adults will have the love odd bad night but worrying about your lack of football still burns bright in the youth of today? sleep is only likely to make it worse. And there''Top Of s also the League'' certainly hopes so fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as it is full of facts a virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, working late has been praised and figures all about the ball they call footability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934577</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin Miles1849767343|title=Ultimate Mapping Guide for KidsCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5

|summary=IThe title and format of this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. It isn've always been fascinated by mapst: diverse features can be converted into symbols, drawn on it's a piece hymn of paper and then passed to someone else praise to interpretmaths. Making or reading maps are skills which stay with It's about why maths is so wonderful and how you throughout meet it in everyday life .}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1849767009|title=It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and learning the ones who ''know'' that it'how s shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit tobust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It' is relatively simple s a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and great funmarkings. Author Justin Miles had They're fine. In fact, they're wonderful.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=How Do You Make a car accident in 1999 Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and brain injuries meant that he had to learn to walk Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=5|genre=Home and talk from scratchFamily|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. Whilst he My mother was doing this he decided to become deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a full time explorer and to support charities which inspire children to learnbook about it. He raises funds by taking on daring challenges, A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which have included climbing mountains, exploring delivered nothing more than the Arcticbasics, crossing deserts in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and cutting his way through the jungleI was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. If a man knows about mapsI ''knew'' more, then itbut was little ''wiser''s Justin Miles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178493464X</amazonuk> Thankfully, times have changed.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Imogen Greenberg and Isabel Greenberg1526362759|title=The Ancient EgyptiansDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=3.5

|summary=There was more to the Ancient Egyptians than keeping the entrails of their dead in What a jarrelief! A book about money, but that is a pretty cool fact anyway. As a civilisation they knocked around for centuries until Cleopatra had a nasty incident children, with an Asp. Cramming all the information on one clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of the most complex it (nope - robbing banks is out) and intriguing peoples what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all time is a big ask; making need it assessable to children is even biggersome extent. Imogen Greenberg You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and Isabel Greenberg have attempted this in there might be something you really, ''The Ancient Egyptiansreally''want to buy. There's also the possibility of using to do good in the world. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808255</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Imogen Greenberg and Isabel Greenberg178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Roman EmpireApollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=You may not think it It's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from my writing, but I actually have a degree the Kennedy Space Centre in history. Some of this was on the Roman EmpireFlorida, but even I struggle to remember what happened when during the time period. The Republic and Empire spanned hundreds story of that journey remains one of years, so Alexander rocking up with his elephants did not happen anywhere near the rise greatest survival stories of Julius Caesarall time. Modern youths would not think to shove the invention of the microchip ''Survival in with the Napoleonic Wars, so why would you do this with Rome? Kids need Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a simple book that tells them about the Roman Empire, but also puts it all in a context and timeline they can understandbrilliant retelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808565</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna KovecsesKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=One Hundred Words: A first handwriting Nine Ways to Empower Tweens|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help bookfor tweens, setting out to show them vital #lifeskills. Don't groan! I know there is a market glut of such books for we grown-ups and for young adults too, but there is a needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for tweens too. |isbn= 0228818826}}  {{Frontpage|isbn=1609809173|title=Eiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=45

|summary=Little Mouse is learning to write. ActuallyBrash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, you donthe 1889 World't just learn to writes Fair in Paris encompassed the best, you have to learn to hold the worst and use a pencil the beautiful from many countries and to control it so that the point goes where you want it tocultures. Pencils - and particularly crayons - have a mind of The French Republic laid out model villages from all their owncolonies, you know! Soput on art shows, we start of with the tripod grip and some tips about what to do if you find that difficult. Then we're straight into the actiondance performances, starting with drawing a straight line from side to side food festivals and concerts to see what's required we have a footballer kicking a ball in stun the direction we're going to gosenses. There are fifteen examples where you trace the lineAnd towering above it all, just so you get the hang of it most popular and then you get the most hated monument to have a go on your ownFrench accomplishment and daring – the Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808018</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kay Maguire and Danielle Kroll1848576536|title=Nature's DayHumanatomy: Out How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and AboutJem Maybank|rating=45

|summary=I love books which encourage children to interact with nature - as opposed to a computer screen. I like to see them getting outdoors''Get under your own skin, preferably getting a bit dirtypick your brains, being independent and getting excited about nature. A good teacher will inspire children, but go inside your insides!''Nature That's Day: Out what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do and About'honestly, I don' t see how you could resist. This informative book provides support a wonderful primer about the human body to curious children- from the skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, respiration and encouragement in equal measures and might just be what a child needsdigestion, right up to the DNA that makes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780800X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danielle Kroll and Nghiem TaLangford_Emily|title=Pattern Play: Cut, Fold and Make Your Own 3D Animal ModelsEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=HereEmily found words 's a neat idea for you'useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Provide pages with animal prints on one side - only by animal printsObviously, I mean the sort of colours you can count anything and pattern which there's no limit to how far you see on animalscan go, not paw prints! but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. Some are subtle She knew all about odd and others are rather more in-your-faceeven numbers. On Then she began counting in threes: half of the reverse of these printed pages provide a cutting line so that you can cut and fold list were even numbers, but the paper other half was odd and it becomes a 3D model was this list of an animalodd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. Provide some stickers which replicate faces(Actually, tails or beaks - or whatever else you feel needs highlighting - and number these so that this confused me a little bit at first as they get into 're a subset of the right place. All you need to add odd numbers but sound as though they ought to the mix is be a pair subset of scissors, parental supervision if necessary for the cuttingeven numbers, a little imagination and you have hours of funbut it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807321</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin HandfordBuckingham_Dawn|title=Where's Wally: The Colouring Little Bookof the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Are you looking for something relaxing, easy What a treat! I really did mean to complete and which will allow your mind just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to wander freely as you gently colour in resist on a pleasing design? cold and rather wet February morning. Do you want I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and listening to indulge your imagination their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and use the colours which tempt you at the moment, content that it will not affect was just as good the finished creation? second time around. Would you like large spaces which you can shade in large swoops as it pleases you? Are So, what do you aiming for a soothing finished product which is easy on the eyeget? Sorry: you've got the wrong book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406367303</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah PattersonPankhurst_Women|title=My Book of Stories: Write Your Own AdventuresFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst

|summary=If you happen to have two childrenA lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, born five years apartit feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, you can count on having let alone ones young girls might like to live through practically four full years of school holidays – and that doesn't include Bank Holidays read about or teacher trainingregard as role models. Weather permittingOf course, thatthis isn's well over 1t true and there are plenty of women who, throughout history,400 days where the impetus is on to take them somewherehave achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or spend moneycreated something never seen before. So what better and cheaper place to take them than their own imagination? And if you can't quite unlock the door that leads therehere, we can certainly suggest in this wonderful picture bookfrom Kate Pankhurst, are the stories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356355</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna ClaybourneIgnotofsky_Sport|title=50 Things You Should Know AboutWomen in Sport: Wild WeatherFifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=45

|summary=Oh, this takes me back''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. Out It celebrates a century and a half of all the things we learn development of women's sport by looking at school and profess to never want to need fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as an adultswimming, fencing, riding, the water cycle is one that I had forgotten aboutskating, until nowand much more. It forms the basis Think of a lot of our weather, after all – the way landmasses sport and seas warm the air above them differently, thus causing motion a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in the shape of winds and altering atmospheric pressure, that we call weatherthis book somewhere. And from the gentlest high pressure, that someone somewhere will always deem too hot, to the most furious electrical storm, weather Each entry is certainly something a lot of people like to talk aboutdouble-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait. Is this book the ideal place to learn the basics of such a thing?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178493304X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maria Ana Peixe Dias, Ines Teixeira do Rosario, Bernardo P Carvalho and Lucy Greaves (translator)Rooney_Dino|title=Outside: A Guide to Discovering NatureDinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter

|summary=Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I'm on a mission: I want children - adults too - to spend was a lot more time outsidechild. I want them to have the benefits This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of fresh airdinosaurs, increasing their levels we meet a variety of vitamin D and the knowledge creatures, some of what nature can offer them. whom are very familiar but some I'd like the televisionnever heard of before! Each scene peels open, computers, mobile phones, video games and even books to be laid aside and attention given to what is available for free, but which - if we don't care for it - might not always be there. Fortunately the authors of ''Outside: A Guide to discovering Nature'' have the same ideas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807690</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|title=The Nature Explorer's Scrapbook|rating=5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=''An activity booklayer by layer, but not as showing you know it'' is what it says on the back cover - and I have to agree. Here at Bookbag we tend various dinosaurs are getting up to avoid 'activity books' as they usually have soft covers, lots of stickers and they're the sort of thing you pick up at the supermarket checkout in the hope that it will buy you an hour or two's peace in the school holidays. ''The Nature Explorer's Handbook'' is a different beast altogether. It's part album in which you're going to collect and store your own findswith background noises, part explanation of the best practices of how you should go about this roars and part nature guide. It's a substantial hardback book with an elastic band squawks to keep it shut - as it's really going to get quite bulky when your collection grows. Production values for the accompany them! The book are high - this really is something which will be treasured for years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190848926X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Peggy Caravantes|title=Marooned in the Arctic|rating=5|genre=Biography|summary=Misogynists are manmade. And if anyone was in creates a position to hate men and the lot they put on their shouldersdinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it was Ava Blackjack. Her surname spoke of an abusive man she had a son by, but it was her time with four other men that made for one of the last century's more remarkable stories. An Inuit native, but one brought up in a city and with English lessons, she was invited on an excursion alongside many other 'Eskimo' and four intrepid Westerners, to the uninhabited Wrangel Islandvery visual, perched off placing the northern Siberian coast. They were there just to stick a flag dinosaurs in it their habitats and call it British, even if they were pretty much fully American and Canadian, and the chap whose ideas these all were bore an Icelandic name; she was along to provide native expertise, especially waterproof fur clothing. And giving us sounds too that was it – none of her kin joined her, leaving her in one tent and four men in another, in one of the world's most remote and inhospitable placesspike your imagination. And that was just the start of her worries…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1613730985</amazonuk>