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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Zabriskie1|title=Charlotte Guillain A Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of Belonging and Yuval ZommerCommunity, Rooted in Indigenous Wisdom|titleauthor=The Street Beneath My FeetStephanie Zabriskie

|summary=It's one thing for a non-fiction book for the young to show them something they themselves can explore – the pattern of the stars, perhaps'Across many African and Indigenous systems, or the life differences in their back yard. But when it gets to things that are equally important to know about but are impossible to see in real lifehow children learn, whysense , then or process the game is changed. The artistic imagination has world were not treated as disorders to be key, in portraying the invisible, and presenting what can only come from the pages of a bookcorrected. And this example does it at its best, They were understood as it delves into the layers natural variations of the soil below said back yard, down human intelligence and downawareness, through all each holding value within the different kinds community.'' This lovely story is a synthesis of rockthat tradition, until we reach the unattainable centre of the planetwhich was carried down through generations by oral retellings. And there's only one way to go It shows that a community or society is not made up from there – back out the other sideinterchangeable building blocks of human beings but by a range of people with different skills and different personalities, with yet more for us all contributing to be shown. It's a fantastic journey, then – whole that combines them all and a quite fantastic volumeto the benefit of them all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937312</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yuval ZommerB0GFQ81YQK|title=The Big Book How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Beasts (Big Books)Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie

|summary=One of the many issues Before people have with came and joined the TV nature programmeanimals, such as [[Planet Earth II by Stephen Moss|Planet Earth II]], is there was only the sky and the obvious one of all earth. Everything was quiet until the blood earth and guts it features – yesthe sky began to tal to each other. First, in amongst all the cutesyearth created bodies. And then, comical animal the sky breathed life are creatures eating other creatures (normally into them. These were the cutesy, comical ones, what's worse). You'll be pleased first humans and they belonged to know, however, that this book is very light on death both earth and destructionsky. Yes, here are lions sharing some chunks of meat (while the females that caught And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and killed it sit learned and wait their turn)remembered, here are salmon seemingly willingly flying towards brown bearsespecially how they came to be. When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the earth and here their life returned to the sky. And that is a red fox stashing a dead mouse while in a time of plenty, but there why the earth and the sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is so little why people must pay attention to make this even a PG book – it will be perfect , and care for the home shelf or that in a primary school, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>050065106X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aino-Maija MetsolaB0GHPMNF6P|title=My First Animals How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Get used 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 two simple words if you have a childeach other. First, the earth created bodies. And then, ''What's That?'' You will hear it over the sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and over they belonged to both earth and over againsky. If you are lucky And so people lived between sky and soil and they are pointing at something that you actually know – chairplanted and learned and remembered, hatespecially how they came to be. When they grew old and died, my sense of regrettheir bodies returned to the earth and their life returned to the sky. And that is why the earth and the sky are both revered. Sometimes Only together can they will point at something create human beings. And that is not too familiarwhy people must pay attention to, and care for, both. Here }}{{Frontpage|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|title=How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the parental practise Oral Stories of making something up comes into play – itMaasai Elders|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a bird type thing. Books that show images children’s nonfiction book drawn from the oral traditions of itemsMaasai elders in Ngorongoro, colours or animals may seem Tanzania.'' The Maasai are a little dull cattle-herding people and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to an adultbe so. Cattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn't tell the whole story of the intimate and symbiotic connection its people, and especially its women, but to a toddler learning about have with their cows and for the natural world they are a who's who of what's that. The oral tradition retelling the many conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, does.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847809677</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Beaty and David Roberts1839948493|title=Rosie Revere's Big Project Book for Bold EngineersA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=45

|summary=For In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a long time nowsucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, people have worried about females taking up STEM subjects – the sciences, engineering I've never met one I didn't trust and suchlikeI've loved most of them. But I know of at least two sources of role models in that regardwish I felt the same about human beings. OneSo, most obviouslyany book about dogs, is I'm going to sit down and devour. Then I'Star Wars'' – let's face m going to go back and read it properly. And so it, the latest main film had a girl who scavenged parts but could fly the was with ''Millennium FalconA World of Dogs'' , with ease, and the likes of [[Star Wars: Ahsoka by E K Johnston|Ahsoka]] is adept at mending some sort of flying farming machinesninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. If you don't wish to go too fantastical, or are seeking role models for Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the younger audience, there is the output accidental owner of [[:Category:Andrea Beaty and David Roberts|Andrea Beaty]]an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419719106</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1529507987|title=What's Where on Earth? Atlas: The World as You've Never Seen It BeforeRepair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)

|genre=ReferenceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I dread love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to think how old the atlas we used programme when I was want to be cheered up. After a child washard day, but at least we had onethere's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You see, the value is in what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and I didn't need to go to school or a library to check up on whatever bit of trivia I was seekingthe memories they hold. I'm so old a lot of things about it now would No expense appears to be most redundant, but if you choose to risk your arm spared and buy an atlas for the family shelves that all generations will benefit from, experts spend as much time and effort as opposed is required to relying on electronic achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and updateable sources of information, then this they're all brilliant at explaining what it is the one to havethey're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228379</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Graham and Stephen Biesty024162343X|title=Stephen Biesty's TrainsStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|genre=ArtChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Trains look imposingI was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, but true fans (little boysit was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, usually from I didn't so much want to learn about three years old the British army's successes (and upwardsoccasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to know dispute what lies beneath right the skin which you can see. They want army had to know how it worksbe there in the first place. Getting to grips with one in real life is quite a big askLooking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the next best thing is maturity to approach 'the problem'Stephen Biestypolitely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera'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 donStolen History''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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Women Fritz and Kurt|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed 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. 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 light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the 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, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|isbn=024156574X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1913750353|title=Britannica's Word of the WorldDay|author=Rachel IgnotofskyPatrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy

|summary=''Women in ScienceBritannica's Word of the Day'' has a sub-title: '' takes fifty prominent women in STEM fields 366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and celebrates their achievementsTickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. There are women from the ancient world and women working today. Each of them is given a double page spread including a stylised portrait and infoboxes with factoids It starts on one side and a page of text January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you how to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a brief biography definition and outline of her achievementsthen includes the word in a sentence so that you know how it should be used. These intrepid women are inspirational for their work You also get an engaging and their discoveries but also for frequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses 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 America.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360519</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK0711266204|title=Forest The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Woodland CreaturesVivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=This book knows that if youI have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I're going ve established which species feed from the ground, which pop to learn about forest life and the animals, plants feeders for a quick snatch of some food and trees who settles in it, then you're only going to be itching to go and explore the woods for yourselfa good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It's for would have been wonderful if, as a very young audiencechild, so always expects an adult hand I'd had access to guide you – but provides a warm companion itself through several quick and easy tasks, and a few lessonsbook such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''. The balance between carrot and stick, or duty and reward, is great So – but what exactly is the edutainment going to provide, and what will it demand of us?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273110</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK0192779230|title=Sharks and Other Sea CreaturesVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45

|summary=Never before 'Germs' seems to have I found much cause become a catch-all word to point out cover anything unpleasant which has the sort of lower-casepotential to make you ill. In the first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, almost-OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a-subtitle wording on clear and accessible introduction to the front world of a bookgerms. I say that because very little of this is We get an informed look at how people originally thought about sharks – so if you have a youngster intending to come here diseases and learn all their bloodthirsty imagination can hold, then what they may well be disappointedthought caused them and how the thinking has developed over time. If you take it on board that the The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'other sea creaturesspeak like a scientist' make up the bulk which explains some of the booktrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, then all well protists and viruses – and goodhow we should protect ourselves. And even better, if you expect yourself to ''make'' the bulk of said creatures…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241274389</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Theo Guignard1800464495|title=Labyrinth100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith

|summary=Of all ''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the books published for peoplewomb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.''s paper-based hobbies when  Did you know this? I was didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a youngsterstrong predictor of later achievement, it's remarkable double that all of them have been revisited and revampedliteracy skills. '' I say this because they certainly weren't exactly brilliant fun back then. No, we didn't have quite the modern style of colouringknow this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy -in booksreading stories, teaching pen grips, but singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they were availablestart school. But do we think the same way about maths, if you'd gone beyond counting? I don'join the dots'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 read only recently doubt anyone would argue with that origami is allegedly coming back – statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and I remember how every church book sale for years had ''Origamisome teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, ''Origami 2'' or ''Origami 3'' paperbacks somewhere for ten pencefrom children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. But And there's also the ultimate in paper-based fun back then was the use-once format fact that for far too long, lack of the maze booksleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. This is the modern equivalent – but boyBeing up early, hasn't working late has been praised and the idea grown up since then…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809987</amazonuk>ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano1849767343|title=Life Count on Earth: Farm: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5

|summary=IThe title and format of this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it'm sure I was full of questions when I was s a nipper – which means I was too full of questionsbasic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. Parents just donIt isn't need to be deflecting questions all the time, do they? Living on the edge of : it's a village in the middle hymn of nowhere as I did, I knew quite a lot about farms and farming – that different animals gave different results, that different vehicles meant different things and that the crops behind our house changedpraise to maths. But for the inner city child, there It's about why maths is a chance they have never met a cow or seen a silo. This colourful book, bright so wonderful and how you meet it in both senses of the word, will allow the very young reader the opportunity of their own fantasy trip to the working countrysideeveryday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808999</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano1849767009|title=Life on Earth: Human Body: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction For Sharing|summary=I wonder how much time IThis could have been one of those books which 've saved in not being a parent – and therefore not having had preaches to answer such pesky questions as why is the sky blue, where did I come from, where does my wee come from, what choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is earwax, OK and why do I have a spleen? Still, apart from the first two, those questions ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and -bothered person in the answers supermarket who is coughing fit to them and bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more are in this than a book, which is about not wearing clothes. It's a lovely primer for biology, celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and a great source of quick facts for the very youngevery possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, all presented with an addictive lift-the-flap approachthey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809006</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare Hibbert1776572858|title=Moments in History that Changed the WorldHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=One of the problems with presenting humankindIt's history as a timeline is more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that not she'd get me a lot happened at perfectly identified timesbook about it. Of course we can pinpoint when the US Declaration A couple of Independence days later I was signedhanded a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, or when Poland was invaded in September 1939, but when (and even whyclinical language which had never been used in our house before) the Maya cities died out? We donand I was told that it wouldn't knowbe discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. How do you pin a date to the Renaissance, or the invention of the modern city? This book may aim to be a portrayal of key moments in timeI ''knew'' more, but even it admits you have to be vague in itemising the specific days and dateswas little ''wiser''. Get over thatThankfully, and the pages are packed with informationtimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356703</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1526362759|title=Baby Dinosaurs (Follow the Trail)Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45

|summary= If you ever have the misfortune What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to stumble across some as yet undiscovered dinosaur I offer this piece acquire more of advice; don't take your finger it (nope - robbing banks is out) and track their spine, donwhat you can do with it when you't put ve managed to get hold of it in their mouth and . Your reasons for wanting money don't go following them matter: we all need it to their parentsome extent. InsteadYou might want to go into business, runbe a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy. Run faster than you have ever run before in There's also the opposite direction. The unfortunate thing is that anyone with a toddler knows, they love possibility of using to grab and poke anything – including terrible lizards if they got do good in the chanceworld. Better play safe than sorry and just get them a book that allows them to get their dinosaur touching thrills vicariously. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273129</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Packham and Jason Cockcroft178112938X|title=Amazing Animal BabiesSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Many children love animalsIt's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but they love baby animals even morethe story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. Would you rather watch a dog or watch a puppy? A cat or a kitten? A meerkat or a smaller meerkat? ''Survival in Space: The answer Apollo 13 Mission'' is a no brainer to most children who enjoy the wide-eyed stumbling brilliant retelling of youth that is not dissimilar to their ownwhat happened. However, someone needs to give them the facts about baby animals and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277467</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin Jenkins Kathleen Boucher and Stephen BiestySara Chadwick|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo Nine Ways to the Mars Rover 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 Beyondfor 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

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I take it as read that you know some of the history of space explorationBrash and elegant, even if the young person you buy books for doesn't know it all. So I won't go into the extremes reached by the ''Voyager'' space craftsophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the processes we needed to be expert 1889 World's Fair in before we could launch anything. You probably have some inkling of how we learnt that we're not Paris encompassed the centre of everything – best, the gradual discovery of how curved worst and the planet was, beautiful from many countries and how other things orbited other things in turn proving we are not that around which everything revolvescultures. What you might not be so genned up on is the history of books conveying The French Republic laid out model villages from all this to a young audience. When I was a nipper they were stately textstheir colonies, with a few accurate diagrams – if you were lucky. For a long time nowput on art shows, however, they've been anything but statelydance performances, food festivals and often aren't worried about accuracy as such in their visual designconcerts to stun the senses. They certainly long ago shod the boringAnd towering above it all, plain white page. Until now…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406360082</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie|title= Pairs Underwater|rating= 4|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Following on from [[Pairs in the Garden by Smriti Prasadam-Halls most popular and Lorna Scobie]], comes the aquatic themed ''Pairs Underwater''. It's a lift-the-flap book with the added twist of a game of ''Memory'' thrown in, as you try most hated monument to match French accomplishment and daring – the pairs across each double page spreadEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808824</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Frau Isa1848576536|title=Little People, Big DreamsHumanatomy: Marie CurieHow the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=45

|summary=Some little girls want to be princesses''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, 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 and go inside your insides!'' That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do well and won honestly, I don't see how you could resist. This informative book provides a gold medal for her studies. In Poland, in wonderful primer about the middle of human body to curious children- from the nineteenth century, only men were allowed skeletal system to go to Universitythe muscular system via circulation, so Marie moved to Paris where she had to study in an unfamiliar language, but was soon the best maths respiration and science student. It was here that she met and married Pierre Curiedigestion, 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 right up to receive the honourDNA that makes who we are. Pierre was killed in a road accident, but Marie went on to win a second Nobel Prize, this time for Chemistry. Her work is still benefiting people today.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Elisa MunsoLangford_Emily|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Agatha ChristieEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=As a child Agatha Christie and her mother would read a book together every afternoonEmily found words ''useful'', but there were early signs of counting was what the future novelist would become: she always had loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there's no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a better idea about how the story should endstep further and began counting in twos. She would read in bed at night knew all about odd and detective novels were always her favouriteseven numbers. In Then she began counting in threes: half of the First World War Agathalist were even numbers, who but the other half was odd and it was then this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in her early twentiesthrees which she called ''threeven''. (Actually, nursed wounded soldiers in hospitals: her experiences with poisons and toxic potions would be put to good use when her this confused me a little bit at first detective novels were published just after as they're a subset of the end odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset 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 theatreseven numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809596</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna ScobieBuckingham_Dawn|title= Pairs in The Little Book of the GardenDawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating= 45|genre= Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'Pairs in ' at ''The Little Book of the gardenDawn Chorus'' is but the pull of the sounds of a fun book/game hybrid for little fingers into creepy crawliesdozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. It's a lift- I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the-flap book with a difference, because not only do you get birds and listening to see what's underneath, you then must see if you can find a matching pairtheir song. But beware! You cannot Then - just use process of elimination because there are 7 flaps on each page, but only 3 pairs to find. One poor creature is I could - I went back and did it all alone with no partneragain and it was just as good the second time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808832</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marc MartinPankhurst_Women|title=LotsFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=35

|summary=The children's encyclopaedia A lot of history is not the same genre 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 read about or regard as those used by adultsrole models. Whilst the older generation had to make do with giant tomes filled with information Of course, this isn't true and perhapsthere are plenty of women who, throughout history, if you are luckyhave achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, a small black and white picture every now and again; the kids get full colour books with more images than factsor created something never seen before. ''Lots'' by Marc Martin takes So here, in this even further by reducing wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the facts even further and bombarding your eyeballs with illustrationsstories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704659</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Krystyna Mihulka and Krystyna Poray GodduIgnotofsky_Sport|title=KrysiaWomen in Sport: A Polish Girl's Stolen Childhood During World War IIFifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5

|summary=Most of us would think of Polish children suffering ''Women in World War Two because of the Nazi death camps – they and their families suffering through countless round-ups, ghettoization, and transport Sport'' is coming 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 just before the eyes up Winter Olympics in a most vivid fashion to those who were not Jewish. They did not get resettled South Korea in the Nazi ''Lebensraum'', but were sent miles away to the EastFebruary 2018. Krysia's family were split up, partly due to her father being It celebrates a century and a Polish reservist when half of the Nazis invaded, and then courtesy development of Stalin, who had [[The Devils' Alliance: Hitlerwomen's Pact with Stalinsport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, 1939-1941 by Roger Moorhouse|signed a pact]] with Hitler dividing the country between the two statesfencing, before they turned bitter enemies. Krysia's familyriding, living in the eastern city of Lwowskating, were packed up and sent – in the stereotypical cattle train – eastmuch more. And east, and east – right the way across the continent to rural Kazakhstan, Think of a sport and a communal farm pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in the middle of anonymous desert, deep in Communist Soviet landsthis book somewhere. 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 Each entry is a double-page spread with questions as our children start to discover the world. These questions soon become increasingly complex, especially with the latest technological advances. How do computers work? What's inside a smartphone? How can earth communicate with spacecraft? Thankfully we now have brief biography and a handy, illustrated guide to help us: ''Infographics: Technology''striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704489</amazonuk>

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|summary=SpaceLift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. For all the hugeThis one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, empty expanse through various different ages of itdinosaurs, it's we meet a full and very fiddly thing to experience. The National Space Centre, in the hotbed variety of cosmology and space science that is Leicestercreatures, is chock full some of things to touch, grip, pull and move around – and so is this book. Itwhom are very familiar but some I's a right gallimaufry d never heard of things that pop up out of the pagebefore! Each scene peels open, with things to turn and pulllayer by layer, and even an astronaut on showing you what the end of a curtain wire. Within minutes of opening this book I had undressed an astronaut various dinosaurs are getting up to find what was under his spacesuit, dropped the dome on an observatory to open up the telescopewith background noises, roars and swung squawks to accompany them! The book creates a Soyuz supply module around so dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it could dock at the International Space Station. Educational fun like that can only be a good thing for the budding young scientist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01AGIOSQ2</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jody Revenson|title=Incredibuilds: Buckbeak: Deluxe Model and Book Set (Harry Potter)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The general perception is that to become a leading British actorvery visual, you need the fillip of Eton or somesuch education. But you don't have to be an actor to make a great film. ''Gravity'' for instance has extended scenes where the only thing natural is placing the performers' faces – everything else, even their bodies, was made dinosaurs in Britain by people using computers. The eight ''Harry Potter'' films, also made in the UK, needed a lot of computing power as well, but also a lot of craftsmen with their hands on tools habitats and a keen eyegiving us sounds too that spike your imagination. 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>