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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby WaldenZabriskie1|title=In FocusA Village Where Many Ways Meet: CitiesA Story of Belonging and Community, Rooted in Indigenous Wisdom|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=45

|summary=The [[In Focus: 101 Close Ups, Cross-Sections and Cutaways by Libby Walden|first book in this series]] promised 101 close-ups, cross sections and/or cutways, but here we're restricted to just ten. Why? Because the subject matters are so much bigger – one is home to 37 million people, of all things. Yes, we're talking cities, Across many African and while this book tries to follow the previous – different artist every page, an exclusive inside look within the volumeIndigenous systems, and a self-deceiving page count – we are definitely differences in new territory. We're seeking the trivialhow children learn, the geographical and the culturalsense , all so that or process the inquisitive young student can find out the variety world were not treated as disorders to be had in the world's metropolisescorrected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575912</amazonuk>}}{{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 They were understood as natural variations of human intelligence and awareness, each holding value within 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 scratchcommunity.|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 This lovely story is a synthesis of Birds|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I never really caught the bird-watching habitthat tradition, even with the opportunity of growing which was carried down through generations by oral retellings. It shows that a community or society is not made up on the edge from interchangeable building blocks of human beings but by a village in the middle range of nowhere. It was in the familypeople with different skills and different personalities, too, but I resigned myself all contributing to never seeing much a whole that was spectacular, combines them all and once you've seen one blackbird you've seen to the benefit of 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 HansenB0GFQ81YQK|title= Cool CodingHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: filled with fantastic facts for kids From the Oral Stories of all agesMalagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating= 34.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= An introduction 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 coding aimed at ages 10 tal to each other. First, the earth created bodies. And then, the sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and upwardsthey belonged to both earth and sky. This book 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 sky. And that is why the earth and the sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is filled with enthusiasmwhy people must pay attention to, informationand care for, fun and… unfortunately it just falls flat of its goalsboth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653230</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B0GHPMNF6P|title=Dan Farrell How the Sky and Donna Bamfordthe Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|titleauthor=The Movie Making BookStephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5

|summary=In my youth we had 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 make do with a camcorder that would fit a mini-tape that you recorded ontoeach other. First, the earth created bodies. This mini-tape would And then slip , the sky breathed life into a casing that could them. These were the first 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 watched on your VHS (imagine something like a DVD player, but with awful fidelity). In all, making a film was a big When they grew old faffand died, but trying their bodies returned to the earth and their life returned to do anything fancy was almost impossiblethe sky. There And that is no longer this excuse for kids today with their camera enabled smart devices, but just because they why the earth and the sky are both revered. Only together can do something does not mean they will be any goodcreate human beings. A guide And that is why people must pay attention to, and care for movie making would certainly help! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0711238871</amazonuk>, both.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim HopgoodStephanie Zabriskie|title=Doodle DogsHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: Best in ShowFrom the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating=4.5

|summary=''Doodle DogsHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a children’s nonfiction book drawn from the oral traditions of Maasai elders in Ngorongoro, Tanzania.'' introduces  The Maasai are a wide variety cattle-herding people and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to be so. Cattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn't tell the whole story of artistic styles through the idea of a dog show! Tim Hopgood shows us different kinds of dogs, all of which can be created very easilyintimate and symbiotic connection its people, and you soon find that doodling a dog can be a lot more detailedespecially its women, have with their cows and interestingfor the natural world. The oral tradition retelling the many conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, than you perhaps previously appreciated!does.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509820817</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia Boldt and Eleanor Meredith1839948493|title=Think A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Make Like an ArtistLuisa Uribe|rating=4.5

|summary=Having been banned from In the Tate Modern by my partner for making too many snarky remarksinterests of full disclosure, I am not sure must tell you that I ever want to think or make like an artist'm a sucker for dogs. My unartistic brain is unable to comprehend In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most artof them. I see a rain dirty valley, but wish I felt the artists sells you Brigadoonsame about human beings. A lot of what makes art great is knowing what it is meant So, any book about dogs, I'm going to represent; even sit down and devour. Then I have been swayed on occasion once I have been informed'm going to go back and read it properly. ThereforeAnd so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to teach art appreciation to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a young audience will hold them in good stead and could also be great funlot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500650985</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1529507987|title=Children's Illustrated ThesaurusThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)

|summary=One of the most valuable literary skills which children can learn is how to use reference books. As a child every question which I began with love ''The Repair Shop''how do you spell...? It'' would s my go-to programme when I want to be answered with ''EXACTLY as it says in the dictionary''cheered up. This was fineAfter a hard day, but the familythere's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didnnothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they't encourage explorationre worth. You see, not least because the font was small value is in what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and difficult to readthe memories they hold. Fortunately those times have now changed No expense appears to be spared and reference book for children are now the experts spend as much more invitingtime and effort as is required to achieve the desired result. Not every book comes with a set of instructions but it's worth studying Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they'How tore doing...'' section, not least because similar systems are used in other reference books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241286972</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorling Kindersley024162343X|title=First Science EncyclopediaStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|summary=I wasn't introduced to 'science' until I was eleven and went on to senior school: I wasn't alone in this, but it really was too late. Thankfully, times have changed and children the bad company other people got into at primary school are getting to grips with plants and animals, atoms and molecules and even outer space from a very young age. What's needed is a good, basic reference book which will introduce all I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the subjects and give existence of a good grounding'god'. It needs to be something which would sit proudly in Where was the classroom library and comfortably on a child's bookshelf. proof? The ''First Science Encyclopedia'' would do both well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024118875X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=The British Museum|title=OrigamiIn history lessons, Poems and Pictures|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=Sometimes you find a delight of a bookit was probably worse still. On an afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet Not too long after the end of WWII, I discovered didn't so much want to learn about the British army'Origamis successes (and occasional failures, Poems and Picturesbut we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' and I was transported as want to Japan. As dispute what right the title suggests we're looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: army had to be there in the ancient art of paper folding, haiku poetry and paintingfirst place. Looking back, I still believe I'll confess that it was the origami which caught my attention, right - but I was surprised by regret that I lacked the extent maturity to which approach 'the rest of the book caught my imaginationproblem' politely. We begin with something very simple: a boat and in case youI wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera're worried, all the entries have a degree of difficulty (from s 'simple' through to Stolen History'tricky') and this one is at the lowest level.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857639382</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan GibbonsJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=The Beautiful GameFritz and Kurt

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Football is all about its colours. And even if I write 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 season when one team in blue knocks another team in blue from empty market place, helping the throne of English footballneighbours, being dutiful when itcomes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours's common knowledge that red is each Friday night – the more successful colour to wearSabbath 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 that flame red? Blood red? The red going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to keep the Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up Nazis out, invite them in a tragedy – and that it had been one of their own making? with open arms. And while we're on about colour'Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, where were as did all the people round-ups of colour in football 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 olden days? There US, while Fritz and his father are so many darker sides , unknown initially to football's history it's enough each other, packed off on the same train to make a young lad question Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the whole game…adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126917</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Sewell1913750353|title=The Big Bird SpotBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=45

|summary=Recently I stood on a viewing platform at ''Britannica's Word of the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs as Day'' has a very helpful volunteer guided my sight line sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to one of the puffins whoStretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus''d arrived on the cliffs in the last few days. Finally, I found one, after visually sorting through which probably tells you all the other birds on the precipitous cliff facethat you need to know about this brilliant book. It was great fun and very rewarding. The third double-page spread in wild-life author and artist Matt Sewellstarts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz''s first book for children, tells you how to pronounce it (''The Big Bird Spotraz-muh-TAZ''), shows some cliffs very like those at Bempton, but this time gives you a definition and then includes the word in a sentence so that you're going to know how it should be looking for twenty three Little Auks, in amongst the guillemots, puffins, herring gulls used. You also get an engaging and razorbillsfrequently amusing illustration too. Oh, and youI don't think I're looking for ve ever encountered a pair of binoculars too: our bird watcher is very careless, because you're going to have to find them in every picture.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653265</amazonuk>word which uses the letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Bowsher0711266204|title=Lift-the-Flap The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Colour: OceanVivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45

|summary=When you think about it, it's quite startling that oceans cover most I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our planet and theygarden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I're home to nearly half of all ve established which speciesfeed from the ground, apart from humans. We don't know which pop to the feeders for a lot about the oceans either - less than 5% quick snatch of the area has been explored, some food and who settles in for a good munch but it is an area of outstanding beautyI wish I was more knowledgeable. With Alice BowsherIt would have been wonderful if, as a child, I's d had access to a book such as ''Lift-the-Flap and Colour: OceanThe Secret Life of Birds'' children as young as two have the opportunity to do a little exploration and to colour their own pictures. The flaps are a stroke of genius: when we look at the sea we see little more than the movement of the water, but how different it would be if you could see a little of So – what is going on underneath.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809294</amazonuk>it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Jane Gillespie and Yukai Du0192779230|title=100 Steps Very Short Introductions for ScienceCurious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=3.5

|summary=Science is 'Germs' seems to have become a far reaching subject that covers almost everything that exists in catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the Universe from potential to make you ill. In the smallest specks first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the largest space bound objectsworld of germs. Point We get an informed look at anything how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and there will be some sort of scientist who how the thinking has studied itdeveloped over time. Trying to fit all The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of this into 100 hundred steps for children is ambitious the trickiest concepts and should you'll soon be lordedfamiliar with bacteria, fungi, but if you are going to try protists and viruses – and do this; at least make it readablehow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808050</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amanda Wood, Mike Jolley and Frances Castle1800464495|title=Spot the Mistake100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Lands Support All Areas of Long AgoYour Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith

|summary=You'll like as not have seen a children's book before 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 harangued it for containing errorssubtraction at nine months old. This book has at least two hundred'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, and double thatof literacy skills.'s not ' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a problemsolid foundation when they start school. YesBut do we think the same way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in personifying the idea part because so many of us are afraid of learning through your mistakes, maths. But why are we get ten large dioramas ? Most of historical activity, all containing twenty things us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that shouldnstatement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I't ve got loads to be theredoing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Your taskMost people, should you choose from children to accept it, adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to try and find them allmake it worse. And there's also the learning is also herefact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as we get text a virtue and sleep made to tell us what the goofs were designed to show usseem like laziness. Make no mistakeBeing up early, this is a clever working late has been praised and absorbing read…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809634</amazonuk>the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Clark Smith and Matt Tavares1849767343|title=Lighter than Air: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman PilotCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=We're in Paris, The title and – not format of this book might lead you to be too rude think that it's either about things – we seem surrounded by idiotsresponsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. For one, It isn't: it seems they think the perfect place to experiment with manned hot air balloon flights is in the middle 's a hymn 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 praise to copemaths. Meanwhile, a young girl It's about why maths 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 wonderful and how you meet it alone and become the first female pilotin everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763677329</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1849767009|title=It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Jonathan Litton Rosie Haine|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and Thomas Hegbrookthe ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, they're wonderful.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=The Earth Book: How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=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 World couple of Exploration days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and WonderI was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changed.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1526362759|title=Dosh: How 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

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