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|author=Matthew Clark Smith and Matt Tavares
|title=Lighter than Air: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman Pilot
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=We're in Paris, and – not to be too rude about things – we seem surrounded by idiots. For one, it seems they think the perfect place to experiment with manned hot air balloon flights is in the middle of the biggest city in the world. For another, they think only men could suffer the slightly colder and slightly thinner air experienced on such an adventure – women would never be able to cope. Meanwhile, a young girl is dreaming of flight, as so many are wont to do, completely unaware that she will soon marry one of the most famed balloonists. They will have joint journeys skyward, before his early demise – leaving the young woman, Sophie Blanchard, to go it alone and become the first female pilot.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763677329</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jonathan Litton and Thomas Hegbrook
|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 of a game of ''Memory'' thrown in, as you try to match the pairs across each double page spread.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808824</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Frau Isa
|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Marie Curie
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Some little girls want to be princesses, but the girl who would become Marie Curie wanted to be a scientist. She was from a poor family in Warsaw but she was determined to do well and won a gold medal for her studies. In Poland, in the middle of the nineteenth century, only men were allowed to go to University, so Marie moved to Paris where she had to study in an unfamiliar language, but was soon the best maths and science student. It was here that she met and married Pierre Curie, 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 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>
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