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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aino-Maija MetsolaZabriskie1|title=My First Animals A Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of Belonging and Community, Rooted in Indigenous Wisdom|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=45|genre=For SharingChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Get used to two simple words if you have a child, ''What's That?'' You will hear it over Across many African and over and over again. If you are lucky they are pointing at something that you actually know – chairIndigenous systems, hatdifferences in how children learn, my sense of regret. Sometimes they will point at something that is , or process the world were not too familiartreated as disorders to be corrected. Here They were understood as natural variations of human intelligence and awareness, each holding value within the parental practise of making something up comes into play – itcommunity.''s  This lovely story is a bird type thingsynthesis of that tradition, which was carried down through generations by oral retellings. Books It shows that show images a community or society is not made up from interchangeable building blocks of items, colours or animals may seem human beings but by a little dull to an adultrange of people with different skills and different personalities, but all contributing to a toddler learning about whole that combines them all and to the world they are a who's who benefit of what's thatthem all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809677</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B0GFQ81YQK|title=Andrea Beaty How the Sky and David Robertsthe Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|titleauthor=Rosie Revere's Big Project Book for Bold EngineersStephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5

|summary=For a long time now, Before people have worried about females taking up STEM subjects – came and joined the sciencesanimals, engineering there was only the sky and suchlikethe earth. But I know of at least two sources of role models in that regardEverything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to each other. OneFirst, most obviously, is ''Star Wars'' – let's face itthe earth created bodies. And then, the latest main film had a girl who scavenged parts but could fly sky breathed life into them. These were the ''Millennium Falcon'' with easefirst humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, especially how they came to be. When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the earth and their life returned to the likes of [[Star Wars: Ahsoka by E K Johnston|Ahsoka]] sky. And that is adept at mending some sort of flying farming machineswhy the earth and the sky are both revered. If you don't wish Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to go too fantastical, or are seeking role models and care for the younger audience, there is the output of [[:Category:Andrea Beaty and David Roberts|Andrea Beaty]]both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419719106</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKB0GHPMNF6P|title=What's Where on How the Sky and the Earth? AtlasMade People: The World as You've Never Seen It BeforeFrom the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie

|genre=ReferenceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I dread to think how old Before people came and joined the atlas we used when I animals, there was a child only the sky and the earth. Everything wasquiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to each other. First, but at least we had onethe earth created bodies. And then, the sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and I didn't need they belonged to go both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, especially how they came to school or a library to check up on whatever bit of trivia I was seekingbe. I'm so When they grew old a lot of things about it now would be most redundantand died, but if you choose their bodies returned to risk your arm the earth and their life returned to the sky. And that is why the earth and buy an atlas for the family shelves sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that all generations will benefit fromis why people must pay attention to, as opposed to relying on electronic and updateable sources of informationcare for, then this is the one to haveboth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228379</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian Graham and Stephen BiestyStephanie Zabriskie|title=Stephen Biesty's TrainsHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders

|genre=ArtChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Trains look imposing, but true fans (little boys, usually ''How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a children’s nonfiction book drawn 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 oral traditions of Maasai elders in real life is quite a big askNgorongoro, but the next best thing is Tanzania.''Stephen Biesty's Trains'' which features trains from all over the world  The Maasai are a cattle-herding people and spanning the early steam train (complete with cow catcher) right through this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to the trains of the future which can reach a speed of 430 kph be so. Cattle are status and donwealth in Maasai culture but this doesn't even run on rails. Once tell the train reaches a speed whole story of 150 kph the wheels are raised intimate and symbiotic connection its people, and especially its women, have with their cows and for the natural world. The oral tradition retelling the train is held up by magnetic forces alonemany conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, does.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783704241</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1839948493|title=Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the A Worldof Dogs|author=Rachel IgnotofskyCarlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe

|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I'Women in Scienceve never met one I didn't trust and I' takes fifty prominent women in STEM fields and celebrates their achievementsve loved most of them. There are women from I wish I felt the ancient world same about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and women working todaydevour. Each of them is given a double page spread including a stylised portrait Then I'm going to go back and infoboxes read it properly. And so it was with factoids on one side and a page ''A World of text Dogs'', with a brief biography and outline of her achievementsninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. These intrepid women are inspirational for their work and their discoveries but also for Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the barriers they overcame accidental owner of an American Dingo - barred from classes or employment because they were women or even barred from employment because they were black in racially segregated Americashe's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360519</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1529507987|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 the animals, plants and trees in it, then you're only going to be itching to go 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 the edutainment going to provide, and what will it demand of us?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273110</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRepair Shop Craft Book|author=DK|title=Sharks Walker Books and Other Sea CreaturesSonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=Never before have I found much cause to point out the sort of lower-case, almost-a-subtitle wording on the front of a booklove ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I say that because very little of this is about sharks – so if you have a youngster intending want to come here and learn all their bloodthirsty imagination can hold, then they may well be disappointedcheered up. If you take it on board that the After a hard day, there'other sea creaturess nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they' make up re worth. You see, the bulk of value is in what these possessions are worth to the book, then all well people who own them and goodthe memories they hold. And even better, if you expect yourself No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they'make'' the bulk of said creatures…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241274389</amazonuk>re doing. But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Theo Guignard024162343X|title=LabyrinthStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=4.5

|summary=Of all I was the books published for bad company other people's paper-based hobbies when got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a youngster'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it's remarkable that all of them have been revisited and revampedwas probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, I say this because they certainly werendidn't exactly brilliant fun back then. Noso much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't have quite dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the modern style of colouring-colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in booksthe first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but they were available, if youI regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'd gone beyond 'join the dotsproblem'politely. I read only recently that origami is allegedly coming back – and wish I remember how every church book sale for years 'd had Sathnam Sanghera's 'Origami'', ''Origami 2'' or 'Stolen History'Origami 3'' paperbacks somewhere for ten pence. But the ultimate in paper-based fun back then was the use-once format of the maze book. This is the modern equivalent – but boy, hasn't the idea grown up since then…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809987</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Heather Alexander Jeremy Dronfield and Andres LozanoDavid Ziggy Greene|title=Life on Earth: Farm: With 100 Questions Fritz and 70 Lift-flaps!Kurt

|summary=I'm sure I was full 'Britannica's Word of questions when I was the Day'' has a nipper – sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which means I was too full of questionsprobably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. Parents just don It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz''t need , tells you how to be deflecting questions all the timepronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), do they? Living on gives you a definition and then includes the edge of a village word in the middle of nowhere as I did, I knew quite a lot about farms and farming – sentence so that different animals gave different results, that different vehicles meant different things you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and that the crops behind our house changedfrequently amusing illustration too. But for the inner city child, there is I don't think I've ever encountered a chance they have never met a cow or seen a silo. This colourful book, bright in both senses of the word, will allow the very young reader which uses the opportunity of their own fantasy trip to the working countryside.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808999</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano0711266204|title=The Secret Life on Earth: Human Body: With 100 Questions of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and 70 Lift-flaps!Vivian Mineker (illustrator)

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I wonder how much time have recently discovered a great pleasure: I've saved in not being a parent – sit and therefore not having had to answer such pesky questions as why is watch the sky blue, where did I come from, where does vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my wee come from, what is earwax, and why do noticing. I have a spleen? Still, apart 've established which species feed from the first twoground, those questions and which pop to the answers to them feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more are in this bookknowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if, which is as a lovely primer for biologychild, and I'd had access to a great source book such as ''The Secret Life of quick facts for the very young, all presented with an addictive lift-the-flap approachBirds''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809006</amazonuk> So – what is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare Hibbert0192779230|title=Moments in History that Changed the Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible Worldof Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45

|summary=One of the problems with presenting humankind's history as Germs' seems to have become a timeline is that not a lot happened at perfectly identified timescatch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. Of course we can pinpoint when In the US Declaration of Independence was signed, or when Poland was invaded first book in September 1939what looks to be a very promising new series, but when (OUP and even why) the Maya cities died out? We don't know. How do you pin Isabel Thomas have provided a date clear and accessible introduction to the Renaissance, or the invention world of germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the modern city? thinking has developed over time. This book may aim to The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a portrayal scientist' which explains some of key moments in time, but even it admits the trickiest concepts and you have to 'll soon be vague in itemising the specific days familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and dates. Get over that, viruses – and the pages are packed with informationhow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356703</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1800464495|title=100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Dinosaurs (Follow the Trail)Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith|rating=4.5

|summary= If ''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 ever have the misfortune know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to stumble across some as yet undiscovered dinosaur school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills.'' I offer this piece of advice; dondidn't take know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your finger and track their spinechildren 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 put 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 in their mouth 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 donfor some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I't go following them ve got loads to their parentbe doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. InsteadMost people, run. Run faster than you from children to adults will have ever run before in the opposite directionodd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. The unfortunate thing is And there's also the fact that anyone with for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a toddler knowsvirtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, they love to grab working late has been praised and poke anything – including terrible lizards if they got the chance. Better play safe than sorry and just get them a book that allows them ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to get their dinosaur touching thrills vicariouslyput on your CV. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273129</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Packham and Jason Cockcroft1849767343|title=Amazing Animal BabiesCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=34.5|genre=Emerging ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Many children love animals, but they love baby animals even more. Would The title and format of this book might lead you rather watch a dog to think that it's either about responsibility - or watch it's a puppy? A cat or a kitten? basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. A meerkat or It isn't: it's a smaller meerkat? The answer is a no brainer to most children who enjoy the wide-eyed stumbling hymn of youth that is not dissimilar praise to their ownmaths. However, someone needs to give them the facts It's about baby animals why maths is so wonderful and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277467</amazonuk>how you meet it in everyday life.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Jenkins and Stephen Biesty1849767009|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo It Isn't Rude to the Mars Rover and Beyondbe Nude|author=Rosie Haine

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction For Sharing|summary=I take it as read that you know some This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the history of space exploration, even if choir': the young person you only people who'll buy books for doesn't know it all. So I won't go into are the extremes reached by people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''Voyagerknow'' space craft, and the processes we needed to be expert in before we could launch anything. You probably have some inkling of how we learnt that weit're not s shameful will avoid it like they avoid the centre of everything – the gradual discovery of how curved the planet was, hot-and how other things orbited other things -bothered person in turn proving we are not that around which everything revolvesthe supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. What you might not be But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so genned up on is the history of books conveying all this to much more than a young audiencebook about not wearing clothes. When I was It's a nipper they were stately texts, celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with a few accurate diagrams – if you were luckydisabilities and markings. For a long time now, however, theyThey've been anything but stately, and often aren't worried about accuracy as such in their visual designre fine. They certainly long ago shod the boringIn fact, plain white pagethey're wonderful. Until now…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406360082</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie1776572858|title= Pairs UnderwaterHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating= 45|genre= Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary= Following on from [[Pairs It'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, in the Garden by Smriti Prasadam-Halls clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and Lorna Scobie]], comes the aquatic themed I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn'Pairs Underwatert something which nice people talked about''. It I ''knew''s a lift-the-flap book with the added twist of a game of more, but was little ''Memorywiser'' thrown in. Thankfully, as you try to match the pairs across each double page spreadtimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808824</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Frau Isa1526362759|title=Little PeopleDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Big Dreams: Marie CurieGive It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45

|summary=Some little girls want to be princesses, but the girl who would become Marie Curie wanted to be What a scientist. relief! She was from a poor family in Warsaw but she was determined to do well and won a gold medal A book about money, for her studies. In Polandchildren, in the middle with clear explanations of the nineteenth centurywhat it is, only men were allowed to go to Universitywhy it matters, so Marie moved how to Paris where she had acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to study in an unfamiliar language, but was soon the best maths and science studentget hold of it. It was here that she met and married Pierre Curie, another scientist and they jointly discovered radium and poloniumYour reasons for wanting money don't matter: they would eventually win the Nobel Prize for Physics for this workwe all need it to some extent. Marie was the first woman You might want to receive the honour. Pierre was killed in go into business, be a road accidentclever shopper, but Marie went on to win a second Nobel Prizesaver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, this time for Chemistry''really'' want to buy. Her work is still benefiting people todayThere's also the possibility of using to do good in the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Elisa Munso178112938X|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 Survival 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 hospitalsSpace: 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>}}{{newreviewThe Apollo 13 Mission|author= Smriti Prasadam-Halls David Long and Lorna Scobie|title= Pairs in the GardenStefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating= 45|genre= Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=''Pairs in the garden'' is a fun book/game hybrid for little fingers into creepy crawlies. It's a lift-fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from 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 pageKennedy Space Centre in Florida, but only 3 pairs to find. One poor creature is all alone with no partner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808832</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Marc Martin|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 story of that journey remains one of 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 factsgreatest survival stories of all time. ''LotsSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' by Marc Martin takes this even further by reducing the facts even further and bombarding your eyeballs with illustrationsis a brilliant retelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704659</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Krystyna Mihulka Kathleen Boucher and Krystyna Poray GodduSara Chadwick|title=Krysia: A Polish Girl's Stolen Childhood During World War IINine Ways to Empower Tweens

|summary=Most of us would think of Polish children suffering in World War Two because of the Nazi death camps – they Brash and their families suffering through countless round-upselegant, ghettoizationsophisticated, controversial and transport to the end of the linevibrant, 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 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the Nazi ''Lebensraum''best, but were sent miles away to the East. Krysia's family were split up, partly due to her father being a Polish reservist when worst and the Nazis invaded, beautiful from many countries and then courtesy of Stalin, who had [[cultures. The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941 by Roger Moorhouse|signed a pact]] with Hitler dividing the country between the two statesFrench Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, before they turned bitter enemies. Krysia's familyput on art shows, living in the eastern city of Lwowdance performances, were packed up food festivals and sent – in concerts to stun the stereotypical cattle train – eastsenses. And easttowering above it all, the most popular and east – right the way across the continent most hated monument to rural Kazakhstan, French accomplishment 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 as our children start to discover the world. These questions soon become increasingly complex, especially with daring – 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: Technology''Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704489</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ben Handicott and Kenard Pak1848576536|title= The Hello AtlasHumanatomy: How the Body Works|ratingauthor= 4|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Sannu! Kina lafiya?'' That's how Azumi greets us in this book. He's from Africa, Nicola Edwards and he speaks Hausa. Do you? Don't worry if not, because you're about to learn.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808492</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=DK|title=Knowledge Encyclopedia: Animal!Jem Maybank|rating=4.5

|summary=The encyclopedia may be an informative type of book''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, but itand go inside your insides!'' That's not always what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do and honestly, I don't see how you could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the most interesting. A series of dry facts plastered all over human body to curious children- from the page with nary an image in sight. This dry type of learning is never going skeletal system to work with some of our modern youththe muscular system via circulation, more used to spending time looking for imaginary animals on their phonesrespiration and digestion, than researching real ones in a book. If you want right up to capture their attention, you must first draw their eyes. DK have attempted this in one of the most colourful and vibrant encyclopedias you DNA that makes who we are likely to see.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228417</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne-Sophie Baumann, Olivier Latyk and Robb Booker (translator)Langford_Emily|title=The Ultimate Book of SpaceEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=SpaceEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. For all the hugeObviously, empty expanse of it, ityou can count anything and there's no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a full step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and very fiddly thing to experienceeven numbers. The National Space Centre, Then she began counting in threes: half of the hotbed of cosmology and space science that is Leicesterlist were even numbers, is chock full of things to touch, grip, pull but the other half was odd and move around – and so is it was this booklist of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. It(Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they's re a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a right gallimaufry subset of things that pop up the even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.)}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=The Little Book of the page, with things Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to turn and just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull, and even an astronaut on of the end sounds of a curtain wiredozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. Within minutes of opening this book I had undressed spent an astronaut to find what was under his spacesuit, dropped indulgent hour or so reading all about the dome on an observatory birds and listening to open up the telescope, their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and swung a Soyuz supply module around so it could dock at was just as good the International Space Stationsecond time around. Educational fun like that can only be a good thing for the budding young scientist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01AGIOSQ2</amazonuk>So, what do you get?

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

|summary=The general perception A lot of history is that about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to become a leading British actor, you need the fillip of Eton read about or somesuch educationregard as role models. But you donOf course, this isn't true and there are plenty of women who, throughout history, have to be an actor to make a great filmachieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. ''Gravity'' for instance has extended scenes where the only thing natural is the performers' faces – everything else, even their bodiesSo here, was made in Britain by people using computers. The eight ''Harry Potter'' filmsthis wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, also made in are the UK, needed a lot stories of computing power as well, but also a lot some of craftsmen with their hands on tools and a keen eyethem. What better way to start training the young reader into that side of things, than with tasking them with making a, er, hippogriff?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707232</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody RevensonIgnotofsky_Sport|title=IncredibuildsWomen in Sport: Aragog: Deluxe Model and Book Set (Harry Potter)Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=45

|summary=Aragog the giant spider, don't you know, took six man years 'Women in Sport'' is coming to us just to build, before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and weighed a ton. After countless trial models and pieces half of the development of women's sport by looking at fifty of visual design workits highest achievers, he could finally be constructedcovering sports as diverse as swimming, and he stretched across eighteen feet of the studio floor. Orfencing, riding, converselyskating, he is about seven inches long and seven wide, much more. Think of a sport and you put him together a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in a day or two, for the cost of this booksomewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and-gift set and some craft paintsa striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707240</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody RevensonRooney_Dino|title=Incredibuilds: House-Elves: Deluxe Book Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Model Set (Harry Potter)Suzanne Carpenter|rating=4.5

|summary=How do you create a house-elf like Dobby? Well, you Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a tennis ball on a stringchild. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, and point actors so they look at itthrough various different ages of dinosaurs, and say their lines to we meet a pretty-much empty space. You then film Toby Jones doing the elfvariety of creatures, some of whom are very familiar but some I's linesd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, and use that sound file and his facial expressions as basis for your CGI creation – showing you what the first major character various dinosaurs are getting up to come from the digital realm in the ''Harry Potter'' films. You can throw in a few puppets, with background noises, roars and now and again squawks to accompany them! The book creates a gifted small persondinosaur experience, particularly at the end of film #7… Or, of courserather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, you can get this gift set, and press placing the wooden parts out, muckle them together – dinosaurs in their habitats and lo and behold, a six inch tall Dobby for giving us sounds too that spike your windowsillimagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707070</amazonuk>