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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKZabriskie1|title=What's A Village Where on Earth? AtlasMany Ways Meet: The World as You've Never Seen It Before|rating=4.5|genre=Reference|summary=I dread to think how old the atlas we used when I was a child was, but at least we had one, and I didn't need to go to school or a library to check up on whatever bit of trivia I was seeking. I'm so old a lot A Story of things about it now would be most redundant, but if you choose to risk your arm Belonging and buy an atlas for the family shelves that all generations will benefit from, as opposed to relying on electronic and updateable sources of informationCommunity, then this is the one to have.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228379</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ian Graham and Stephen Biesty|title=Stephen Biesty's Trains|rating=5|genre=Art|summary=Trains look imposing, but true fans (little boys, usually from about three years old and upwards) want to know what lies beneath the skin which you can see. They want to know how it works. Getting to grips with one Rooted in real life is quite a big ask, but the next best thing is ''Stephen Biesty's Trains'' which features trains from all over the world and spanning the early steam train (complete with cow catcher) right through to the trains of the future which can reach a speed of 430 kph and don't even run on rails. Once the train reaches a speed of 150 kph the wheels are raised and the train is held up by magnetic forces alone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704241</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the WorldIndigenous Wisdom|author=Rachel IgnotofskyStephanie Zabriskie

|summary=''Women Across many African and Indigenous systems, differences in Science'' takes fifty prominent women in STEM fields and celebrates their achievements. There are women from how children learn, sense , or process the ancient world were not treated as disorders to be corrected. They were understood as natural variations of human intelligence and women working todayawareness, each holding value within the community. Each of them '' This lovely story is given a double page spread including synthesis of that tradition, which was carried down through generations by oral retellings. It shows that a stylised portrait and infoboxes with factoids on one side and community or society is not made up from interchangeable building blocks of human beings but by a page range of text people with different skills and different personalities, all contributing to a brief biography whole that combines them all and outline to the benefit of her achievements. These intrepid women are inspirational for their work and their discoveries but also for the barriers they overcame - barred from classes or employment because they were women or even barred from employment because they were black in racially segregated Americathem all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360519</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKB0GFQ81YQK|title=Forest Life and Woodland Creatures|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=This book knows that if you're going to learn about forest life and How the animals, plants and trees in it, then you're only going to be itching to go Sky and explore the woods for yourself. It's for a very young audience, so always expects an adult hand to guide you – but provides a warm companion itself through several quick and easy tasks, and a few lessons. The balance between carrot and stick, or duty and reward, is great – but what exactly is Earth Made People: From the edutainment going to provide, and what will it demand Oral Stories of us?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273110</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMalagasy Elders|author=DK|title=Sharks and Other Sea CreaturesStephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5

|summary=Never before have I found much cause 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 tal to point out each other. First, the sort of lower-caseearth created bodies. And then, almost-a-subtitle wording on the front of a booksky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. I say that because very little of this is about sharks – And so if you have a youngster intending to come here people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and learn all their bloodthirsty imagination can holdremembered, then especially how they may well came to be disappointed. If you take it on board that When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the 'other sea creatures' make up earth and their life returned to the bulk of sky. And that is why the book, then all well earth and goodthe sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And even betterthat is why people must pay attention to, and care for, if you expect yourself to ''make'' the bulk of said creatures…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241274389</amazonuk>both.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Theo GuignardB0GHPMNF6P|title=LabyrinthHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie

|summary=Of all Before people came and joined the books published for people's paper-based hobbies when I animals, there was a youngster, it's remarkable that all of them have been revisited only the sky and revampedthe earth. I say this because they certainly weren't exactly brilliant fun back thenEverything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to each other. NoFirst, we didn't have quite the modern style of colouring-in booksearth created bodies. And then, but they the sky breathed life into them. These were available, if you'd gone beyond 'join the dots'first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. I read only recently that origami is allegedly coming back – And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and I remember remembered, especially how every church book sale for years had ''Origami''they came to be. When they grew old and died, ''Origami 2'' or ''Origami 3'' paperbacks somewhere for ten pencetheir bodies returned to the earth and their life returned to the sky. But And that is why the ultimate in paper-based fun back then was earth and the use-once format of the maze booksky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. This And that is the modern equivalent – but boywhy people must pay attention to, and care for, hasn't the idea grown up since then…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809987</amazonuk>both.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Heather Alexander and Andres LozanoStephanie Zabriskie|title=Life on EarthHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: Farm: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating=45

|summary=I'm sure I was full of questions when I was 'How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a nipper – which means I was too full children’s nonfiction book drawn from the oral traditions of questionsMaasai elders in Ngorongoro, Tanzania. Parents just don't need ' The Maasai are a cattle-herding people and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to be deflecting questions all so. Cattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn't tell the time, do they? Living on the edge whole story of a village in the middle of nowhere as I didintimate and symbiotic connection its people, I knew quite a lot about farms and farming – that different animals gave different resultsespecially its women, that different vehicles meant different things have with their cows and that for the crops behind our house changednatural world. But for The oral tradition retelling the inner city child, there is a chance they many conversations Maasai women have never met a cow or seen a silo. This colourful book, bright in both senses of the wordhad with their cows, will allow the very young reader the opportunity of their own fantasy trip to the working countrysidedoes.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847808999</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano1839948493|title=Life on Earth: Human Body: With 100 Questions A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and 70 Lift-flaps!Luisa Uribe

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I wonder how much time must tell you that I've saved in not being m a parent – and therefore not having had to answer such pesky questions as why is the sky bluesucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, where did I come from, where does my wee come from, what is earwax, 've never met one I didn't trust and why do I have a spleen? 've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. StillSo, apart from the first twoany book about dogs, those questions I'm going to sit down and the answers devour. Then I'm going to them go back and more are in this book, which is a lovely primer for biology, and a great source read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of quick facts for the very youngDogs'', all presented with an addictive liftninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself theaccidental owner of an American Dingo -flap approachshe's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809006</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare Hibbert1529507987|title=Moments in History that Changed the WorldThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=One of the problems with presenting humankindI love ''The Repair Shop''. It's history as a timeline is that not a lot happened at perfectly identified timesmy go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. Of course we can pinpoint when the US Declaration of Independence was signedAfter a hard day, or when Poland was invaded in September 1939, but when (and even why) the Maya cities died out? We donthere's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they't knowre worth. How do you pin a date You see, the value is in what these possessions are worth to the Renaissance, or people who own them and the invention of the modern city? memories they hold. This book may aim No expense appears to be a portrayal of key moments in spared and the experts spend as much time, but even it admits you have and effort as is required to be vague in itemising achieve the specific days and datesdesired result. Get over that, Regular viewers know the experts and the pages are packed with informationthey're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356703</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK024162343X|title=Baby Dinosaurs (Follow the Trail)Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=45

|summary= If you ever have I was the misfortune to stumble across some as yet undiscovered dinosaur bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I offer this piece disputed the existence of a 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of advice; donWWII, I didn't take your finger so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and track their spineoccasional failures, donbut we didn't put it dwell on those) in their mouth and donwhat came to be called 'the colonies't go following them as want to dispute what right the army had to their parent. Instead, run. Run faster than you have ever run before be there in the opposite directionfirst place. The unfortunate thing is Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that anyone with a toddler knows, they love I lacked the maturity to grab and poke anything – including terrible lizards if they got approach 'the chanceproblem' politely. Better play safe than sorry and just get them a book that allows them to get their dinosaur touching thrills vicariously I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273129</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris Packham Jeremy Dronfield and Jason CockcroftDavid Ziggy Greene|title=Amazing Animal BabiesFritz and Kurt|rating=3.54|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=Many children love animalsWe start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, but they love baby animals even moreand their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Would you rather watch Kurt has to make sure the lamps 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 dog or watch a puppy? light switch. A cat or a kitten? A meerkat or a smaller meerkat? The answer But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a no brainer national vote to most children who enjoy keep the wideNazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-eyed stumbling ups of youth that is not dissimilar to their ownJews. HoweverThese in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, someone needs unknown initially to give them each other, packed off on the facts about baby animals same train to Buchenwald and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405277467</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Jenkins and Stephen Biesty1913750353|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo to Britannica's Word of the Mars Rover Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and BeyondSue Macy

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I take it as read that you know some ''Britannica's Word of the history of space exploration, even if the young person Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you buy books for doesn't need to know it allabout this brilliant book. So I won't go into the extremes reached by the It starts on January 1st with ''VoyagerRazzmatazz'' space craft, and the processes we needed tells you how to be expert in before we could launch anything. You probably have some inkling of how we learnt that wepronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''re not the centre of everything – the gradual discovery of how curved the planet was), gives you a definition and how other things orbited other things then includes the word in turn proving we are not a sentence so that around which everything revolves. What you might not know how it should be so genned up on is the history of books conveying all this to a young audienceused. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. When I was a nipper they were stately texts, with a few accurate diagrams – if you were lucky. For a long time now, however, theydon't think I've been anything but stately, and often aren't worried about accuracy as such in their visual design. They certainly long ago shod ever encountered a word which uses the boring, plain white page. Until now…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406360082</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie0711266204|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 The Secret Life of a game of ''Memory'' thrown in, as you try to match the pairs across each double page spread.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808824</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBirds|author=Isabel Sanchez Vegara Moira Butterfield and Frau Isa|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Marie CurieVivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45

|summary=Some little girls want to be princesses, but I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the girl who would become Marie Curie wanted to be vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a scientistdaily basis. She was from a poor family in Warsaw but she was determined to do well and won a gold medal for her studiesAn hour can pass without my noticing. In PolandI've established which species feed from the ground, in which pop to the middle feeders for a quick snatch of the nineteenth century, only men were allowed to go to University, so Marie moved to Paris where she had to study some food and who settles in an unfamiliar language, for a good munch but I wish I was soon the best maths and science studentmore knowledgeable. It was here that she met and married Pierre Curiewould have been wonderful if, another scientist and they jointly discovered radium and polonium: they would eventually win the Nobel Prize for Physics for this work. Marie was the first woman to receive the honour. Pierre was killed in as a road accidentchild, but Marie went on I'd had access to win a second Nobel Prize, this time for Chemistrybook such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''. Her work So – what is still benefiting people today.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809618</amazonuk>it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Elisa Munso0192779230|title=Little People, Big DreamsVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: Agatha ChristieThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45

|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 'Germs' seems to have become: she always had a better idea about how catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the story should end. She would read in bed at night and detective novels were always her favouritespotential to make you ill. In the First World War Agatha, who was then first book in her early twentieswhat looks to be a very promising new series, nursed wounded soldiers in hospitals: her experiences with poisons OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and toxic potions would be put accessible introduction to good use when her first detective novels were published just after the end world of germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the warthinking has developed over time. Most people have heard The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of her first the trickiest concepts and most famous detective - Hercule Poirot - or of Miss Marple. Mrs Christieyou's novels were widely read ll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and her plays were very popular in theatresviruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809596</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie1800464495|title= Pairs 100 Ways in the Garden|rating= 4|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''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 100 Days to see what's underneath, you then must see if you can find Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a matching pair. But beware! You cannot just use process Love 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>}}{{newreviewMaths|author=Marc Martin|title=LotsEmma Smith|rating=34.5

|summary=The children's encyclopaedia 'Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is not a strong 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 - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the same way about maths, beyond counting? I don't 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 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 statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as those used by adultsirrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Whilst Most people, from children to adults will have the older generation had odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make do with giant tomes filled with information and perhaps, if you are luckyit worse. And there's also the fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a small black virtue and white picture every now and again; the kids get full colour books with more images than factssleep made to seem like laziness. ''Lots'' by Marc Martin takes this even further by reducing Being up early, working late has been praised and the facts even further and bombarding ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your eyeballs with illustrationsCV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704659</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Krystyna Mihulka and Krystyna Poray Goddu1849767343|title=Krysia: A Polish Girl's Stolen Childhood During World War IICount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary=Most of us would think of Polish children suffering in World War Two because of the Nazi death camps – they The title and their families suffering through countless round-ups, ghettoization, and transport to the end format of the line, where they this book might by hint or dint survive lead you to tell the horrid tale. But most of us would think of such Polish children as Jewish victims of the Holocaust. This that it's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book opens the eyes up in a most vivid fashion to for those who were not Jewish. They did not get resettled in just starting out on the Nazi ''Lebensraum'', but were sent miles away to the Eastnumbers journey. Krysia's family were split up, partly due to her father being a Polish reservist when the Nazis invaded, and then courtesy of Stalin, who had [[The DevilsIt isn' Alliancet: Hitlerit's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941 by Roger Moorhouse|signed a pact]] with Hitler dividing the country between the two states, before they turned bitter enemieshymn of praise to maths. KrysiaIt's family, living in the eastern city of Lwow, were packed up and sent – in the stereotypical cattle train – east. And east, and east – right the way across the continent to rural Kazakhstan, about why maths is so wonderful and a communal farm in the middle of anonymous desert, deep how you meet it in Communist Soviet landseveryday life. Proof, if proof were needed, that that horrendous war still carries narratives that will be new to us…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1613734417</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Simon Rogers1849767009|title= Infographics: TechnologyIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating= 5|genre= ReferenceFor Sharing|summary=As parents, we can often be bombarded with questions as our children start This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to discover the worldchoir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. These questions soon become increasingly complex, especially with the latest technological advances But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. How do computers work? What It's inside a smartphone? How can earth communicate celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with spacecraft? Thankfully we now have a handydisabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, illustrated guide to help us: ''Infographics: Technology'they're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704489</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ben Handicott and Kenard Pak1776572858|title= The Hello AtlasHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating= 45|genre= Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=''Sannu! Kina lafiya?'' ThatIt's more than sixty years since I asked how Azumi greets us in this babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a bookabout it. He's from Africa A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and he speaks HausaI was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. Do you? Don I ''knew''t worry if notmore, because youbut was little ''wiser''re about to learn.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808492</amazonuk> Thankfully, times have changed.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1526362759|title=Knowledge EncyclopediaDosh: Animal!How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=4.5

|summary=The encyclopedia may be an informative type What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of bookwhat it is, why it matters, but how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with itwhen you's not always the most interestingve managed to get hold of it. A series of dry facts plastered Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all over the page with nary an image in sightneed it to some extent. This dry type of learning is never going You might want to work with some of our modern youthgo into business, more used to spending time looking for imaginary animals on their phonesbe a clever shopper, than researching real ones in a book. If saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to capture their attention, you must first draw their eyesbuy. DK have attempted this There's also the possibility of using to do good in one of the most colourful and vibrant encyclopedias you are likely to seeworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228417</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=Anne-Sophie Baumann, Olivier Latyk David Long and Robb Booker Stefano Tambellini (translatorillustrator)|titlerating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=It's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. ''Survival in Space: The Ultimate Book Apollo 13 Mission'' is a brilliant retelling of Spacewhat happened.}}{{Frontpage|author=Kathleen 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, 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=5

|summary=Space. For all the hugeBrash and elegant, sophisticated, empty expanse of itcontroversial and vibrant, itthe 1889 World's a full and very fiddly thing to experience. The National Space Centre, Fair in Paris encompassed the hotbed of cosmology and space science that is Leicesterbest, is chock full of things to touch, grip, pull the worst and move around – the beautiful from many countries and so is this bookcultures. It's a right gallimaufry of things that pop up The French Republic laid out of the pagemodel villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, with things to turn and pulldance performances, food festivals and even an astronaut on concerts to stun the end of a curtain wiresenses. Within minutes of opening this book I had undressed an astronaut to find what was under his spacesuitAnd towering above it all, dropped the dome on an observatory most popular and the most hated monument to open up the telescope, French accomplishment and swung a Soyuz supply module around so it could dock at the International Space Station. Educational fun like that can only be a good thing for daring – the budding young scientistEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01AGIOSQ2</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody Revenson1848576536|title=IncredibuildsHumanatomy: Buckbeak: Deluxe Model How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Book Set (Harry Potter)Jem Maybank|rating=4.5

|summary=The general perception is that to become a leading British actor, you need the fillip of Eton or somesuch education. But you don't have to be an actor to make a great film. 'Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!'Gravity' That' for instance has extended scenes where the only thing natural is the performerss what ' faces – everything else, even their bodies, was made in Britain by people using computers. The eight 'Humanatomy'Harry Potter'invites you to do and honestly, I don' films, also made in t see how you could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the human body to curious children- from the skeletal system to the UKmuscular system via circulation, needed a lot of computing power as wellrespiration and digestion, but also a lot of craftsmen with their hands on tools and a keen eye. What better way right up to start training the young reader into DNA that side of things, than with tasking them with making a, er, hippogriff?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707232</amazonuk>makes who we are.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody RevensonLangford_Emily|title=Incredibuilds: Aragog: Deluxe Model and Book Set (Harry Potter)Emily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=Aragog the giant spiderEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, donyou can count anything and there't s no limit to how far you know, took six man years just to buildcan go, but then Emily moved a step further and weighed a tonbegan counting in twos. After countless trial models She knew all about odd and pieces even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of visual design work, he could finally be constructedthe list were even numbers, but the other half was odd and he stretched across eighteen feet it was this list of the studio floorodd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. Or(Actually, converselythis confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of the even numbers, he is but it all worked out well when I really thought about seven inches long it.)}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and seven wide, Andrea Pinnington|rating=5|genre=Animals and you put him together in Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to 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 resist on a day cold and rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or two, for so reading all about the cost of this bookbirds and listening to their song. Then - just because I could -I went back and-gift set did it all again and some craft paintsit was just as good the second time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707240</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody RevensonPankhurst_Women|title=Incredibuilds: House-Elves: Deluxe Book and Model Set (Harry Potter)Fantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=4.5

|summary=How do you create a house-elf like Dobby? Well, you have a tennis ball on a string, A lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and point actors so they look at it, inventors and say their lines to a pretty-much empty spacepoliticians. You then film Toby Jones doing the elf's linesSometimes, and use that sound file and his facial expressions it feels almost as basis for your CGI creation – the first major character though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to come from the digital realm in the ''Harry Potter'' filmsread about or regard as role models. You can throw in a few puppetsOf course, this isn't true and now and again a gifted small personthere are plenty of women who, throughout history, particularly at the end of film #7… Orhave achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, of courseor created something never seen before. So here, you can get in this gift setwonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, and press are the wooden parts out, muckle stories of some of them together – and lo and behold, a six inch tall Dobby for your windowsill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707070</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Long and Kerry HyndmanIgnotofsky_Sport|title=SurvivorsWomen in Sport: Extraordinary Tales from the Wild and BeyondFifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=45

|summary=There can be few people who are not captivated by stories of survival - those people who by chance, through knowledge but mostly because of their strength of will, survive against all the odds. ''SurvivorsWomen in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a collection half of the development of such stories women's sport by looking at fifty of peopleits highest achievers, some of whom knew that what they were doing was dangerouscovering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, but many are those who found themselves in situations which seemed impossibleskating, but who didn't give upand much more. The result is Think of a wonderful mixture of the scariness of the peril sport and the glorious uplift of survivala pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book somewhere. It's insightful, inspirational Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and all absolutely truea striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571316018</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Hawkins and Alice LetherlandRooney_Dino|title=Atlas of Miniature Adventures: A pocket-sized collection of small-scale wondersDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|rating=3.54

|summary=Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I've hardly ever had was a trouser pocket big enough to cram child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a whole variety of creatures, some of whom are very familiar but some I'pocket-sized' book ind never heard of before! Each scene peels open, and while the book under concern here won't comply eitherlayer by layer, it's not far off. But it's an atlas – showing you knowwhat the various dinosaurs are getting up to, one of those books that are usually clunky and hugewith background noises, fitting awkwardly on the bottom shelf roars and taken out whenever some project or quirk of trivial life inspires squawks to accompany them! The book creates a browse. But this is a special kind of atlas – dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's a compendium of detailsvery visual, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and very small details at giving us sounds too that, of all the tiny things on our large planetspike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780909X</amazonuk>