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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie1839948493|title= Pairs Underwater|rating= 4|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Following on from [[Pairs in the Garden by Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie]], comes the aquatic themed ''Pairs Underwater''. It's a lift-the-flap book with the added twist A World of a game of ''Memory'' thrown in, as you try to match the pairs across each double page spread.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808824</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDogs|author=Isabel Sanchez Vegara Carlie Sorosiak and Frau Isa|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Marie CurieLuisa Uribe|rating=45

|summary=Some little girls want to be princessesIn the interests of full disclosure, but the girl who would become Marie Curie wanted to be a scientist. She was from a poor family in Warsaw but she was determined to do well and won I must tell you that I'm a gold medal sucker for her studiesdogs. In Polandnearly eight decades, in the middle I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the nineteenth centurysame about human beings. So, only men were allowed to go to Universityany book about dogs, so Marie moved I'm going to Paris where she had to study in an unfamiliar language, but was soon the best maths sit down and science studentdevour. It was here that she met and married Pierre Curie, another scientist and they jointly discovered radium Then I'm going to go back and polonium: they would eventually win the Nobel Prize for Physics for this workread it properly. Marie And so it was the first woman with ''A World of Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to receive the honourmy four-legged friends. Pierre was killed in Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a road accident, but Marie went on to win a second Nobel Prize, this time for Chemistry. Her work is still benefiting people todaylot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Elisa Munso|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Agatha Christie|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=As a child Agatha Christie and her mother would read a book together every afternoon, but there were early signs of what the future novelist would become: she always had a better idea about how the story should end. She would read in bed at night and detective novels were always her favourites. In the First World War Agatha, who was then in her early twenties, nursed wounded soldiers in hospitals: her experiences with poisons and toxic potions would be put to good use when her first detective novels were published just after the end of the war. Most people have heard of her first and most famous detective - Hercule Poirot - or of Miss Marple. Mrs Christie's novels were widely read and her plays were very popular in theatres.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809596</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie|title= Pairs in the Garden|rating= 4|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summaryisbn=''Pairs in the garden'' is a fun book/game hybrid for little fingers into creepy crawlies. It's a lift-the-flap book with a difference, because not only do you get to see what's underneath, you then must see if you can find a matching pair. But beware! You cannot just use process of elimination because there are 7 flaps on each page, but only 3 pairs to find. One poor creature is all alone with no partner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808832</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Marc Martin1529507987|title=Lots|rating=3|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The children's encyclopaedia is not the same genre as those used by adults. Whilst the older generation had to make do with giant tomes filled with information and perhaps, if you are lucky, a small black and white picture every now and again; the kids get full colour books with more images than facts. ''Lots'' by Marc Martin takes this even further by reducing the facts even further and bombarding your eyeballs with illustrations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704659</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRepair Shop Craft Book|author=Krystyna Mihulka Walker Books and Krystyna Poray Goddu|title=Krysia: A Polish Girl's Stolen Childhood During World War IISonia Albert (Illustrator)

|summary=Most of us would think of Polish children suffering in World War Two because of the Nazi death camps – they and their families suffering through countless round-ups, ghettoization, and transport to the end of the line, where they might by hint or dint survive to tell the horrid tale. But most of us would think of such Polish children as Jewish victims of the Holocaust. This book opens the eyes up in a most vivid fashion to those who were not Jewish. They did not get resettled in the Nazi I love ''LebensraumThe Repair Shop'', but were sent miles away to the East. KrysiaIt's family were split my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up, partly due to her father being . After a Polish reservist when the Nazis invadedhard day, and then courtesy of Stalin, who had [[The Devils' Alliance: Hitlerthere's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941 by Roger Moorhouse|signed a pact]] with Hitler dividing the country between the two states, before nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they turned bitter enemies're worth. Krysia's familyYou see, living the value is in what these possessions are worth to the eastern city of Lwow, were packed up people who own them and sent – in the stereotypical cattle train – eastmemories they hold. And east, No expense appears to be spared and east – right the way across the continent to rural Kazakhstan, experts spend as much time and a communal farm in the middle of anonymous desert, deep in Communist Soviet lands. Proof, if proof were needed, that that horrendous war still carries narratives that will be new to us…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1613734417</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Simon Rogers|title= Infographics: Technology|rating= 5|genre= Reference|summary=As parents, we can often be bombarded with questions effort as our children start is required to discover achieve the worlddesired result. These questions soon become increasingly complex, especially with Regular viewers know the latest technological advances. How do computers work? What's inside a smartphone? How can earth communicate with spacecraft? Thankfully we now have a handy, illustrated guide to help us: ''Infographics: Technologyexperts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704489</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ben Handicott and Kenard Pak|title= The Hello Atlas|rating= 4|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Sannu! Kina lafiya?'' That's But how Azumi greets us in this book. He's from Africa, and he speaks Hausa. Do youdid they start? Don't worry if not, because you're about to learn.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808492</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK024162343X|title=Knowledge Encyclopedia: Animal!Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=4.5

|summary=The encyclopedia may be an informative type I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of book, but ita 'god's not always the most interesting. A series of dry facts plastered all over Where was the page with nary an image in sightproof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. This dry type Not too long after the end of learning is never going WWII, I didn't so much want to work with some of our modern youthlearn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, more used to spending time looking for imaginary animals but we didn't dwell on their phones, than researching real ones those) in a book. If you what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to capture their attention, you must dispute what right the army had to be there in the first draw their eyesplace. DK have attempted this in one of Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the most colourful and vibrant encyclopedias you are likely maturity to seeapproach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228417</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne-Sophie Baumann, Olivier Latyk Jeremy Dronfield and Robb Booker (translator)David Ziggy Greene|title=The Ultimate Book of SpaceFritz and Kurt

|summary=Space. For all ''Britannica's Word of the huge, empty expanse of it, itDay''s has a full and very fiddly thing sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to experience. The National Space Centre, in the hotbed of cosmology Stretch Your Cranium and space science Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that is Leicester, is chock full of things you need to touch, grip, pull and move around – and so is know about this brilliant book. Itstarts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz''s a right gallimaufry of things that pop up out of the page, with things tells you how to turn and pullpronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a definition and even an astronaut on then includes the end of word in a curtain wiresentence so that you know how it should be used. Within minutes of opening this book I had undressed You also get an astronaut to find what was under his spacesuit, dropped the dome on an observatory to open up the telescope, engaging and swung a Soyuz supply module around so it could dock at the International Space Stationfrequently amusing illustration too. Educational fun like that can only be I don't think I've ever encountered a good thing for word which uses the budding young scientist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01AGIOSQ2</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody Revenson0711266204|title=Incredibuilds: Buckbeak: Deluxe Model The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Book Set Vivian Mineker (Harry Potterillustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=The general perception is that to become I have recently discovered a leading British actor, you need great pleasure: I sit and watch the fillip vast numbers of Eton or somesuch educationbirds which visit our garden on a daily basis. But you don't have to be an actor to make a great filmAn hour can pass without my noticing. I''Gravity'' for instance has extended scenes where ve established which species feed from the only thing natural is ground, which pop to the performers' faces – everything else, even their bodies, feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was made in Britain by people using computersmore knowledgeable. The eight ''Harry Potter'' filmsIt would have been wonderful if, also made in the UKas a child, needed I'd had access to a lot of computing power book such as well, but also a lot ''The Secret Life of craftsmen with their hands on tools and a keen eyeBirds''. What better way to start training the young reader into that side of things, than with tasking them with making a, er, hippogriffSo – what is it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707232</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody Revenson0192779230|title=IncredibuildsVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: Aragog: Deluxe Model and Book Set (Harry Potter)The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45

|summary=Aragog 'Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the giant spider, don't potential to make you know, took six man years just ill. In the first book in what looks to buildbe a very promising new series, OUP and weighed Isabel Thomas have provided a tonclear and accessible introduction to the world of germs. After countless trial models We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and pieces of visual design work, he could finally be constructed, what they thought caused them and he stretched across eighteen feet of how the studio floorthinking has developed over time. Or, conversely, he is about seven inches long The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the trickiest concepts and seven wideyou'll soon be familiar with bacteria, and you put him together in a day or twofungi, for the cost of this book-protists and-gift set viruses – and some craft paintshow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707240</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody Revenson1800464495|title=Incredibuilds100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: House-Elves: Deluxe Book and Model Set (Harry Potter)Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith

|summary=How do you create a house-elf like Dobby? Well''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, you have a tennis ball on a stringbeing aware of quantities at seven hours old, and point actors so they look assessing probability at itsix months old, and say their lines comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a prettystrong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes -much empty spacegives children a solid foundation when they start school. You then film Toby Jones doing But do we think the elfsame way about maths, beyond counting? I don's linest think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and use it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that sound file statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and his facial expressions for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as basis for your CGI creation – the first major character to come from the digital realm in the irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I'Harry Potter'' filmsve got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. You can throw in a few puppetsMost people, and now and again a gifted small person, particularly at from children to adults will have the end odd bad night but worrying about your lack of film #7… sleep is only likely to make it worse. OrAnd there's also the fact that for far too long, lack of course, you can get this gift setsleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, working late has been praised and press the wooden parts out, muckle them together – and lo and behold, a six inch tall Dobby for ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your windowsillCV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707070</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Long and Kerry Hyndman1849767343|title=Survivors: Extraordinary Tales from the Wild and BeyondCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5

|summary=There can be few people who are not captivated by stories The title and format of survival this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those people who by chance, through knowledge but mostly because of their strength of will, survive against all just starting out on the oddsnumbers journey. It isn't: it'Survivors'' is s a collection hymn of such stories of people, some of whom knew that what they were doing was dangerous, but many are those who found themselves in situations which seemed impossible, but who didn't give up. The result is a wonderful mixture of the scariness of the peril and the glorious uplift of survivalpraise to maths. It's insightful, inspirational about why maths is so wonderful and all absolutely truehow you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571316018</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Hawkins and Alice Letherland1849767009|title=Atlas of Miniature Adventures: A pocket-sized collection of small-scale wondersIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=IThis could have been one of those books which 've hardly ever had a trouser pocket big enough preaches to cram a whole the choir'pocket-sized: the only people who' book in, ll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and while the book under concern here wonones who ''know''t comply either, that it's not far offshameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But ... Rosie Haines makes itinto something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It's an atlas – you know, one a celebration of those books that are usually clunky bodies: bodies large and huge, fitting awkwardly on the bottom shelf small and taken out whenever some project or quirk of trivial life inspires a browseevery possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. But this is a special kind of atlas – itThey's a compendium of detailsre fine. In fact, and very small details at that, of all the tiny things on our large planetthey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780909X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin Brown1776572858|title= Lesser Spotted AnimalsHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating= 5|genre= Confident ReadersHome and Family|summary=There may be as many as 5It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics,500 different species of mammal on in clinical language which had never been used in our planet, but how many of those do we actually get to see house before) and read I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about? 'Animal Books' are packed with cute pictures of tigers, elephants, monkeys and zebras. I ''knew'' more, but what about their lesser-known neglected cousins? Donwas little ''wiser''t they deserve a minute in the spotlight? Numbat, Solenodon, Zorilla. Thankfully, Onager and Linsang: Now is your time to shine!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200530</amazonuk>times have changed.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rachel Williams and Carnovsky1526362759|title=IlluminatureDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45

|summary=Like Halley's CometWhat a relief! A book about money, for children, I am allowed out once every 70 yearswith clear explanations of what it is, or sowhy it matters, for the night. On one such trip how to the trendier side acquire more of London I was supping an ale in another Hipster Bar, but this one had a difference. The walls were covered in overlapping paintings it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of animals in different coloursit. So what? The trick was revealing said animalsYour reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. The lights in the pub changed colour every few minutes revealing You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a different set of creatures that reacted saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to that colourbuy. It was cool after a few shandies, but now you can enjoy this process sober in a new book all about There's also the possibility of using coloured lenses to find hidden animalsdo good in the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808867</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler178112938X|title=Gruffalo Crumble Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Other RecipesStefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=It is hard to imagine, but the original Gruffalo book came out almost twenty 's fifty years ago. This is a franchise that just keeps rolling on. Certainly, you can buy since the book or Apollo 13 mission was launched from the sequelKennedy Space Centre in Florida, but if you visit a shop you will find Gruffalo toys, cards, even egg cups. Each year brings with it a new idea the story of that journey remains one of how to push the Gruf and palsgreatest survival stories of all time. 2016 ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is the year a brilliant retelling of the recipe book, but will it live up to the quality of the original?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509804749</amazonuk>what happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate BakerKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=Nine Ways to Empower Tweens|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book for tweens, Zanna Davidson 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 Page Tsoufor 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=Highest Mountain, Deepest OceanEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=3.5

|summary=The greatest thing a good library can do is lie Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the 1889 World's Fair in waitParis encompassed the best, holding the weight of worst and the entire world on its shelvesbeautiful from many countries and cultures. Let alone The French Republic laid out model villages from all the imaginative fiction it can take guardianship oftheir colonies, it can also store a huge gamut of factsput on art shows, opinions and true talesdance performances, transporting a reader when they choose to take a book down food festivals and read it wherever they want concerts to gostun the senses. This book is one of those that can take you placesAnd towering above it all, too – 3.6 metres down into the earth, where a Nile crocodile might have dug itself to lay out a drought, its heart beating twice a minute; or to most popular and the hottest or driest, or most rained-on place. It can take you back hated monument to prehistory French accomplishment and size you up against daring – the biggest raptors and other dinosaurs, or to the centre of the very earth itselfEiffel Tower. There the pressure is akin to having the entire Empire State Building sat on your forehead – now that's weight indeed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704845</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Baker and Eleanor Taylor1848576536|title=Secrets of Humanatomy: How the SeaBody Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=3.5

|summary=When the young are urged to explore the world around them''Get under your own skin, we adults never state itpick your brains, but thereand go inside your insides!'' That's a huge section of the world they are quite unlikely what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to go investigating in. And for obvious reasons – it can be slightly dangerous even to enter itdo and honestly, and while itI don's huge it's not on every doorstept see how you could resist. I'm talking This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the ocean, of course – which is where books such as this come in human body to explain and illustrate curious children- from the topic. With so much of it skeletal system to be researched the muscular system via circulation, respiration and encountereddigestion, you never know – this book might well inspire a pioneering discovery some time in right up to the futureDNA that makes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704349</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Zoe IngramLangford_Emily|title=Press Out and Colour: BirdsEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|genre=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Ten beautiful birds which start life as detailed line illustrations by Zoe Ingram are then coloured in by anyone of any age who is capable of having reasonable control of a felt-tip pen or a crayonEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. YouObviously, you can count anything and there've got s no limit to remember to do both the back how far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and the front began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and whilst it would be nice if they matched it's in no way essentialeven numbers. If you're skillful, so much Then she began counting in threes: half of the betterlist were even numbers, but the designs are decorated with foil which catches the light other half was odd and gives that sheen it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you see on the edges of birdscounted in threes which she called ''threeven'' feathers. When you(Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they've finished colouring you gently press re a subset of the pieces out from odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of the page. I experimented with pressing them out first and then colouringeven numbers, but the pieces were easier to colour actually in the pageit all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637673</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katie Scott and Kathy WillisBuckingham_Dawn|title=Botanicum (Welcome To The Museum)Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=3.5|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'Welcome to the Museum' at '' it says on The Little Book of the front cover and IDawn Chorus'll admit that for the moment I was confused as I've never associated museums with living plants, but as soon as I stepped inside the covers, I knew where I was. One pull of the authors, Professor Kathy Willis is the Director sounds of Science at Kew Gardens: she's undoubtedly based her thoughts a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on Kew, but for me a cold and rather wet February morning. I was back in spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the glasshouses at the [http://wwwbirds and listening to their song.rbge.org.uk/ Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh] Then - just because I could - the glorious 'Botanics'. I'm not certain why we're supposed to be in a museum, unless went back and did it's that all again and it allows us to refer to author Kathy Willis and illustrator Katie Scott was just as curatorsgood the second time around. Still it's a contrivance which doesn't affect the content.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783703946</amazonuk>So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah PattersonPankhurst_Women|title=My Book of Stories: Write Your Own Fairy TalesFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=4.5

|summary=Pity the child these days who never reads fairy talesA lot of history is about men. The irony in that, however, is that they may well be too busy watching ''Frozen'' on repeat to read fairy talesKings and generals and inventors and politicians. But read them they shouldSometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in some form or another, and of one era or another. They don't history at all have to go back to the oldest collections, especially as they will let alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as not be more gory than what, say, Disney or Ladybird Books put out in our youthrole models. They can read a fairy tale from any ageOf course, then – this isn't true and when they're done, they can easily turn to this book, which provides more than enough impetus for you to write your own. Fairy tales do, as it happens, have the ability to last for centuries – but there's nothing quite like giving them a little tweak to get them up-to-date…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356428</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Harriet Russell|title= This Book Thinks You're a Scientist|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= ''This Book Thinks You're a Scientist'' takes children through a whole world are plenty of scientific areas: forces and motionswomen who, lightthroughout history, matterhave achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, sound, electricity and magnetismor created something never seen before. It encourages children to lookSo here, ask questions and a have a go. This science-based activity in this wonderful picture bookfrom Kate Pankhurst, published in association with are the Science Museum, will stimulate and inspire young mindsstories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500650810</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah PattersonIgnotofsky_Sport|title=My Book of StoriesWomen in Sport: Write Your Own MythsFifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=45

|summary=I don't know about you, but as a young child I was always looking ahead, not backwards. Musically, I could bear a few of my older brother's records, but wanted to know what was released next week, never what was Women in the charts of my parentSport's era. I think the same would have been said about my reading, and my interests – although that's only is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a certain extent. I don't think I'd have thanked you for pointing to my dinosaur books, right next to my space century and science fiction shelves, and I think I'd have preferred you to see a half of the latest novel, rather than those books development of myths I also enjoyed. Myths? Theywomen'res sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, likecovering sports as diverse as swimming, old. But they don't need much embellishment to be seen as great fun. The next stepfencing, howeverriding, to see them as something you yourself could writeskating, well – that's and much more. Think of a sport and a bit greater. But pioneering woman succeeding at it's one taken by is probably in this book, neverthelesssomewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356436</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Camilla HallinanRooney_Dino|title=The Ultimate Peter Rabbit: A Visual Guide to the World of Beatrix PotterDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter

|summary=Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I had was a deprived childhood: I never knew Peter Rabbitchild. He'd have been at about his half century This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by the time I could have been reading himlayer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a variety of creatures, some of whom are very familiar but books at home didnsome I't go beyond Enid Blyton. Peter was drawing his old age pension d never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the time that I discovered him when my daughter fell in love various dinosaurs are getting up to, with him background noises, roars and - in her turn - read squawks to accompany them to her own children thirty years later. He! The book creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's well past his century now very visual, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and still delighting children of all ages: he's accessible and relatable and I can't recollect ever meeting a child who didn't have a soft spot for himgiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241289653</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKMason_poo|title=My Encyclopedia of Very Important ThingsThe Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles|rating=45

|summary= Depending on the curiosity level of your childI know, I know, sometimes you may start really don't want to hate the word why. Why encourage your children's poo jokes, but this book is brilliant! I sat and read it by myself when the sky blue? Why do some elephants have bigger ears than others? Why, why, why, whykids had gone to school and found it fascinating! Who knew there was so much I can suggest didn't know about poo? The book manages to most parents that they make something up that sounds vaguely intelligentbe both funny (and silly) as well as being very interesting and educational. The problem is that kids are canny Using a mixture of facts and figures, photographs and funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a little things. So, rather than trying to download at the entirety vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about different types of the internet into your headpoo, get your child their own first encyclopaediawhy poos smell, something like ''My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things''and why wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241224934</amazonuk>