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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|author= Mojang AB|title= Minecraft Guide to Creative: An Official Minecraft Book From Mojang|rating= 3.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Minecraft isn't just about surviving Creeper attacks or crafting enough torches to stop the Skeletons from spawning near your respawn point. Alongside the survival mode there is also the Creative side. This book explores what you can do when you aren't having to make everything from scratch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285982</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mojang AB|title= Minecraft Guide to Exploration: An official Minecraft book from Mojang|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Ever wondered how on Earth to get started with this 'ere Minecraft malarkey? Look no further as this is the guide for you! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285974</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Geraldo Valerio|title=My Book of Birds|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I never really caught the bird-watching habit, even with the opportunity of growing up on the edge of a village in the middle of nowhere. It was in the family, too, but I resigned myself to never seeing much that was spectacular, and once you've seen one blackbird you've seen them all, was my thinking. If I'd had this book as a youngster, who knows – I may have come out of it differently, having been shown the diversity of the bird world in snippets of text, and some quite unusual illustrations…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360004</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robert Hansen1839948493|title= Cool Coding: filled with fantastic facts for kids of all ages|rating= 3|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= An introduction to coding aimed at ages 10 and upwards. This book is filled with enthusiasm, information, fun and… unfortunately it just falls flat A World of its goals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653230</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDogs|author=Dan Farrell Carlie Sorosiak and Donna Bamford|title=The Movie Making BookLuisa Uribe|rating=45

|summary=In my youth we had to make do with a camcorder the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that would fit I'm a mini-tape that you recorded ontosucker for dogs. This mini-tape would then slip into a casing that could be watched on your VHS (imagine something like a DVD playerIn nearly eight decades, but with awful fidelity)I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. In allSo, making a film was a big old faffany book about dogs, but trying I'm going to sit down and devour. Then I'm going to do anything fancy was almost impossiblego back and read it properly. There is no longer this excuse for kids today And so it was with their camera enabled smart devices''A World of Dogs'', but just because they can do something does not mean they will be any goodwith ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. A guide for movie making would certainly help! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0711238871</amazonuk>Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Hopgood1529507987|title=Doodle Dogs: Best in ShowThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)

|summary=I love ''Doodle DogsThe Repair Shop'' introduces . It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a wide variety of artistic styles through hard day, there'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 the idea of a dog show! memories they hold. Tim Hopgood shows us different kinds of dogs, all of which can No expense appears to be created very easily, spared and the experts spend as much time and you soon find that doodling a dog can be a lot more detailed, effort as is required to achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and interesting, than you perhaps previously appreciated!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509820817</amazonuk>they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing. But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia Boldt and Eleanor Meredith024162343X|title=Think and Make Like an ArtistStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=4.5

|summary=Having been banned from I was the Tate Modern by my partner for making too many snarky remarks, bad company other people got into at school. I am not sure that was disruptive in religious education classes because I ever want to think or make like an artistdisputed the existence of a 'god'. My unartistic brain is unable to comprehend most artWhere was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, I see a rain dirty valleydidn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the artists sells you Brigadoonfirst place. A lot of what makes art great is knowing what it is meant to represent; even Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I have been swayed on occasion once regret that I have been informedlacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. Therefore, to teach art appreciation to a young audience will hold them in good stead and could also be great funI wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500650985</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=DKJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Children's Illustrated ThesaurusFritz and Kurt|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=One We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the most valuable literary skills which children can learn is how neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to use reference booksthe synagogue choir and at a vocational school. As a child every question which I began with Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours''how do you spell...?'' would be answered with ''EXACTLY each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as it says in the dictionary''a light switch. This was fine, but But this is the time just before the familyAustrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn't encourage explorationwill, not least because the font was small and difficult instead of having a national vote to readkeep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. Fortunately those times have now changed and reference book for children are now ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much more invitingas in Germany, as did all the round-ups of Jews. Not every book comes These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with a set his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of instructions but it's worth studying an evacuation to Britain or the ''How to...'' sectionUS, not least because similar systems while Fritz and his father are used in , unknown initially to each other reference books, 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241286972</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorling Kindersley1913750353|title=First Science EncyclopediaBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy

|summary=I wasn't introduced 'Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'science' until I was eleven and went on which probably tells you all that you need to senior school: I wasn't alone in know about this, but it really was too latebrilliant book. Thankfully It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', times have changed and children at primary school are getting tells you how to grips with plants and animalspronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), atoms gives you a definition and molecules and even outer space from a very young age. What's needed is a good, basic reference book which will introduce all then includes the subjects and give word in a good groundingsentence so that you know how it should be used. It needs to be something which would sit proudly in the classroom library You also get an engaging and comfortably on a child's bookshelffrequently amusing illustration too. The I don't think I'First Science Encyclopedia'' would do both well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024118875X</amazonuk>ve ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0711266204|title=The British MuseumSecret Life of Birds|titleauthor=Origami, Poems Moira Butterfield and PicturesVivian Mineker (illustrator)

|summary=Recently I stood on have recently discovered a viewing platform at great pleasure: I sit and watch the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs as vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a very helpful volunteer guided daily basis. An hour can pass without my sight line noticing. I've established which species feed from the ground, which pop to one the feeders for a quick snatch of the puffins some food and who'd arrived on the cliffs settles in the last few daysfor a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. FinallyIt would have been wonderful if, as a child, I found one, after visually sorting through all the other birds on the precipitous cliff face. It was great fun and very rewarding. The third double-page spread in wild-life author and artist Matt Sewell's first d had access to a book for children, such as ''The Big Bird SpotSecret Life of Birds'', shows some cliffs very like those at Bempton, but this time you're going to be looking for twenty three Little Auks, in amongst the guillemots, puffins, herring gulls and razorbills. Oh, and you're looking for a pair of binoculars too: our bird watcher So – what is very careless, because you're going to have to find them in every picture.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653265</amazonuk>it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Bowsher0192779230|title=Lift-the-Flap and ColourVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: OceanThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45

|summary=When you think about it, it's quite startling that oceans cover most of our planet and theyGerms're home seems to nearly half of all species, apart from humans. We don't know have become a lot about the oceans either catch- less than 5% of all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the area has been explored, but it is an area of outstanding beautypotential to make you ill. With Alice Bowsher's ''Lift-In the-Flap first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and Colour: Ocean'' children as young as two Isabel Thomas have the opportunity to do provided a little exploration clear and accessible introduction to colour their own picturesthe world of germs. The flaps are a stroke of genius: when we We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the sea we see little more than the movement thinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the watertrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, but fungi, protists and viruses – and how different it would be if you could see a little of what is going on underneathwe should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809294</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Jane Gillespie and Yukai Du1800464495|title=100 Steps for ScienceWays 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|rating=34.5

|summary=Science ''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 a far reaching subject strong predictor of later achievement, double that covers almost everything of literacy skills.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that exists 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 Universe from the smallest specks to the largest space bound objectssame way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. Point at anything But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and there it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be some sort just as beneficial.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of scientist who Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=2020 has studied itbeen a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Trying to fit all Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this into 100 hundred steps for children is ambitious will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and should be lordedothers will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but if you are going worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to try and do this; at least make it readableworse. And there's also the fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, working late has been praised and the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808050</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amanda Wood, Mike Jolley and Frances Castle1849767343|title=Spot the Mistake: Lands of Long AgoCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary=YouThe title and format of this book might lead you to think that it'll like as not have seen a childrens either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book before and harangued it for containing errorsthose just starting out on the numbers journey. This book has at least two hundred, and thatIt isn't: it's not a problemhymn of praise to maths. Yes, It's about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in personifying the idea of learning through your mistakes, we get ten large dioramas of historical activity, all containing twenty things that shouldneveryday life.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1849767009|title=It Isn't Rude to be there. Your task, should you choose Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to accept the choir': the only people who'll buy it, are the people who know that nudity is to try OK and the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and find them all. And -bothered person in the learning supermarket who is also here, as we get text coughing fit to tell us what the goofs were designed to show usbust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. Make no mistake, this is It's a clever celebration of bodies: bodies large and absorbing read…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809634</amazonuk>small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, they're wonderful.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Clark Smith and Matt Tavares1776572858|title=Lighter than Air: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman PilotHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Home and Family|summary=WeIt're in Paris, s more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and – not to be too rude told me that she'd get me a book about things – we seem surrounded by idiotsit. For oneA couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, it seems they think the perfect place to experiment with manned hot air balloon flights is in the middle of the biggest city clinical language which had never been used in the world. our house before) For another, they think only men could suffer the slightly colder and slightly thinner air experienced on such an adventure – women would never I was told that it wouldn't be able to copediscussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. MeanwhileI ''knew'' more, 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 balloonistsbut was little ''wiser''. They will Thankfully, times have joint journeys skyward, before his early demise – leaving the young woman, Sophie Blanchard, to go it alone and become the first female pilotchanged.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763677329</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Litton and Thomas Hegbrook1526362759|title=The Earth BookDosh: A World of Exploration and WonderHow to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=4.5

|summary=The Earth. What a relief! I kind A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of quite like what itis, why it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you know – can do with it seems when you've managed to serve my purposeget hold of it. I Your reasons for wanting money don't think I've taken too much out of matter: we all need itto some extent. You might want to go into business, all toldbe a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and if itthere might be something you really, ''really's divided up into 200 countries I'm getting close want to having visited a quarter of thembuy. But way back when I just didnThere't get on with studying its also the possibility of using to do good in the world. I didn}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=It't like geography – what with having to draw mapss fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, oxbow lakes and whatnot I think it was but the story of that journey remains one of those subjects I was put off through the pictorial element – and dropped it as soon as I couldgreatest survival stories of all time. But then, I didn't have the likes 'Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a brilliant retelling of this book to inspire me…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575246</amazonuk>what happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Catherine Barr, Steve Williams Kathleen Boucher and Amy HusbandSara Chadwick|title=The Story of SpaceNine Ways to Empower Tweens

|summary=I have no actual idea how I first got an interest in space. Perhaps itBrash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the 1889 World's there because I'm so old to almost coincide with Fair in Paris encompassed the last Apollo astronauts being on best, the moon (worst and that's pretty old, it's been so long) the beautiful from many countries and it kind of rubbed off on mecultures. Perhaps in fact The French Republic laid out model villages from all young children are interested in space anywaytheir colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, food festivals and don't need any impetus or reason concerts to look up in wonderstun the senses. But if they doAnd towering above it all, this is the newest way of nudging most popular and the most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – the newer child towards a keenness for all things celestial. And it's a pretty good way indeedEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807488</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton1848576536|title= Lots – The Diversity of Life on EarthHumanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=5

|summary= How many different kinds of living things are there on Earth? Lots…that''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!'' That's how many. Children will learn lots what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do and lots from this wonderful book. I learned lots from it too. There are 100honestly,000 different kinds of mushrooms. Who knew? Well I certainly didndon'tsee how you could resist. This is one of those special books with crossinformative book provides a wonderful primer about the human body to curious children-over appeal. Tiny children will adore from the skeletal system to the illustrationsmuscular system via circulation, slightly older ones will learn fascinating facts respiration and readers of any age will be moved by digestion, right up to the message DNA that makes who we need to take better care of our beautiful environmentare. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406360481</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kiki LjungLangford_Emily|title=Build a ... ButterflyEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=4.5

|summary=I love butterflies: theyEmily found words ''useful''re one of the delights of my garden , but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and itthere's always no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a pleasure when there are children there step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and they see a butterfly close upeven numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, possibly for but the other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first time, as it rests on they're a flower. Kiki Ljung has given us subset of the opportunity odd numbers but sound as though they ought to learn about butterflies and also to build be a 3D model subset of our own. The book is primarily aimed at the five to eight year old age groupeven numbers, but it all worked out well when I have to confess that I had a great deal of fun building my own painted ladyreally thought about it. I learned quite a bit too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809154</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elena Favilli and Francesca CavalloBuckingham_Dawn|title=Good Night Stories for Rebel GirlsThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Animals and Wildlife|summary=ItWhat a treat! I really did mean to just 's been said very often that 'history is told by the winnersglance''. Well, too often history, the news and even destinies are written by men, and the proof is between these covers. I didnat 't know anything about this before reading it, even if it has become the most richly-backed crowd-funded book ever. I'd never heard The Little Book of the Hollow Flashlight, powered purely by body warmth – which is rich if youDawn Chorus''re old enough to remember but the pull of the brou-ha-ha when sounds of a maverick British bloke did dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a wind-up radiocold and rather wet February morning. I'd never read spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the Niger female who has successfully made a stand against forced, arranged marriage, rejecting a cousin for a fate she wishes birds and listening to write for herselftheir song. My ignorance may, perhaps, show me up to be a chauvinist of sorts, but Then - just because I could - I think went back and did it is further evidence that 'the gaze is male' all again and that the media are phallocentric. I hope too that this book doesn't turn any of its readers into a feminist, for that would be as bad it was just as good the chauvinist charge against mesecond time around. If anything it is designed to create equalsSo, and that is as it should be, even if there is still a long way to go…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014198600X</amazonuk>what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam HancherPankhurst_Women|title=Taking Flight: How the Wright Brothers Conquered the SkiesFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=4.5

|summary=FlightA lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. It happens Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all around us, wherever we may belet alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. Of course, this isn't true and many there are the young audience members for this book plenty of women who , throughout history, have taken to the air alreadyachieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. But it was once something impossible to take for grantedSo here, and in this wonderful picture book easily takes us back to those days. It presents us with dangerfrom Kate Pankhurst, determination, and a certain pair are the stories of some of American brothers going all out to get both their names in the history books and their feet in the skies…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809286</amazonuk>them.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meurig Bowen, Rachel Bowen and Daniel FrostIgnotofsky_Sport|title=The School of MusicWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=35

|summary=I have a love/hate relationship with music. I love it ''Women in that I own several large bookshelves full of CDs, and have seen and met quite a few noted performers, from Radiohead Sport'' is coming to Philip Glass, but I hate it us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in that as regards making it I can only hit things (and that only with my hands, never with my feet at the same time)February 2018. Only in the last few years have people been at all appreciative of my singing, for want of It celebrates a better word, century and one a half of the development of those suggested closing my eyes to sound better (I think she also may have plugged her ears when I wasnwomen't s sport by looking). That from a kid who was lumbered with something big and brass to lumber about on the school bus withat fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, dammit. But heyfencing, what's the use of my own example being so off-puttingriding, when there is a world of pleasureskating, mental and physical exercise much more. Think of a sport and fun to be had from being active a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in music? This this book, dressed as the lesson programme of somewhere. Each entry is a fulldouble-on, proper musical college, is only designed to encourage page spread with a brief biography and informa striking portrait. But does it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808603</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michaela DePrince and Elaine DePrinceRooney_Dino|title= Ballerina Dreams|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Africa is a place full of music and rhythm and joy of movement. It is not, however, always a place for the structured tuition and commitment required by ballet. Sometimes there are more pressing issues than whether your pointe shoes are darned or whether you have a pianist available or will have to dance to pre-recorded music. For Michaela, growing up in Sierra Leone, her concerns were more simple: where was her next meal coming from, and who was going to look after her now she had been left orphaned by the war.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057132973X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Katie Scott Anne Rooney and Kathy Willis|title=Botanicum Activity BookSuzanne Carpenter

|summary=Children and adults who enjoyed [[Botanicum (Welcome To The Museum) Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis]] layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a variety of creatures, some of whom are going to love the very familiar but some I''Botanicum Activity Book''. Don't be misled d never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the suggestion that the various dinosaurs are getting up to, with background noises, roars and squawks to accompany them! The book is aimed at the seven-plus age group: therecreates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's plenty very visual, placing the dinosaurs in here for anyone who is still capable of holding a pen or penciltheir habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783706791</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlotte Guillain and Yuval ZommerMason_poo|title=The Street Beneath My FeetPoo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles

|summary=ItI know, I know, sometimes you really don't want to encourage your children's one thing for a non-fiction poo jokes, but this book for is brilliant! I sat and read it by myself when the young kids had gone to show them something they themselves can explore – the pattern of the stars, perhaps, or the life in their back yard. But when school and found it gets to things that are equally important to fascinating! Who knew there was so much I didn't know about but are impossible to see in real life, why, then the game is changed. poo? The artistic imagination has book manages to be key, in portraying the invisible, both funny (and silly) as well as being very interesting and presenting what can only come from the pages of educational. Using a book. And this example does it at its best, as it delves into the layers mixture of the soil below said back yardfacts and figures, down photographs and downfunny cartoons, through all you come away having sniggered a little at the vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about different kinds types of rockpoo, until we reach the unattainable centre of the planet. And there's only one way to go from there – back out the other side, with yet more for us to be shown. It's a fantastic journeywhy poos smell, then – and a quite fantastic volumewhy wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937312</amazonuk>