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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas FlinthamZabriskie1|title=Around the World Colouring BookA Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of Belonging and Community, Rooted in Indigenous Wisdom|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=45

|summary=Colouring books are a useful way for ''Across many African and Indigenous systems, differences in how children to relaxlearn, develop manual dexterity and explore coloursense , but in or process the dash to appeal to the child so many miss the opportunity world were not treated as disorders to be gently educational ''corrected. They were understood as natural variations of human intelligence andawareness, each holding value within the community.'' to still appeal to the young This lovely story is a synthesis of that tradition, which was carried down through generations by oral retellings. The two are It shows that a community or society is not mutually exclusive! Look for instance at this colouring book: it's got page upon page made up from interchangeable building blocks of human beings but by a range of pictures people with different skills and different personalities, all contributing to colour (with just a little narrative whole that combines them all and to set the scene) with the added attraction benefit of four pages of stickersthem all. You'll see grey shapes - and that's the signal to get stickering!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000005</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B0GFQ81YQK|title=David Roberts How the Sky and Alan MacDonaldthe Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|titleauthor=My Burptastic Body Book (Dirty Bertie)Stephanie Zabriskie

|summary=OhBefore people came and joined the animals, to be young there was only the sky and innocent, the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to be full of questionstal to each other. Questions like 'is eating my bogies good for me'First, or 'why is poo brown'the earth created bodies. And then, or 'what makes sweat smell'the sky breathed life into them. You don't have 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 a kid like Dirty Bertie . When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to want the earth and their life returned to know the answers – respectively, no; it's down to dead bacteria; sky. And that is why the earth and it doesn't – it's other bacteria againthe sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. If you think you have a lad (orAnd that is why people must pay attention to, let's face it, a lass) interested in learning such stuffand care for, this book could well be the place to turnboth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847156754</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben RaskinB0GHPMNF6P|title=GrowHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: A Family Guide to Growing Fruit and VegFrom the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5

|summary=I worried when I looked at this book: ''Grow''Before people came and joined the animals, it saidthere was only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to each other. First, ''A family guide the earth created bodies. And then, the sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and they belonged to growing fruit both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and veg''remembered, especially how they came to be. Why did it worry me? WellWhen they grew old and died, it's a mere 48 pages their bodies returned to the earth and their life returned to the cover says sky. And that it includes ''Games, stickers is why the earth and MORE!'' I have weighty tomes which don't completely cover what I need the sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to know about growing fruit , and veg, so wasn't this going to fall a little short? Wellcare for, it doesn't - not at allboth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404511</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gavin Rutherford and Tanya BatrakStephanie Zabriskie|title=Rainforest Masks: Ten 3D Rainforest Masks How Maasai Women Spoke to Press Out and Make|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=I have been having the most tremendous fun making rainforest masksCows: you know the effect that you get when a really talented face artist does a young child's face and you ''see'' the tiger? Well, this is an even better result and it's in 3D. All the creatures are, as you would expect, from From the rainforest regions Oral Stories of the world, but there's decidedly more here than the usual suspects. You get a green iguana, toucan, jaguar, emperor tamarin, blue morpho butterfly, red-eyed tree frog, Brazilian tapir, giant otter, blue-and-yellow macaw and the emerald tree boa. Never heard of some of them? Well, don't worry: the book is gently educational, with a paragraph telling you just enough about the creature.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404430</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Robyn Swift and Sara Lynn Cramb|title=National Trust: Complete Night Explorer's KitMaasai Elders|rating=45

|summary=There ''How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a misfortune to children’s nonfiction book drawn from the modern worldoral traditions of Maasai elders in Ngorongoro, in that we have killed off a common hobby from when I was a ladTanzania. Nowadays light pollution is so awful it's certainly not uncommon for ' The Maasai are a cattle-herding people and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to hardly see any be so. Cattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn't tell the whole story of the stars intimate and to get to learn the constellationssymbiotic connection its people, and while I only went out to go 'meteor hunting'especially its women, it's patently obvious that the chance to lie down and stargaze is a dying one. Elsewhere the nocturnal youth can struggle to have much opportunity to explore the night-time nature as this book suggests – it begins with setting up a tent in your back garden, their cows and too many don't even get that chance, for want of possession of onethe natural world. Yes, if this book is only read once in The oral tradition retelling the daytime and never referred to againmany conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, due to lack of opportunity, it really will be a crying shamedoes.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857638777</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Goldie Hawk and Rachael Saunders1839948493|title=National Trust: Go Wild in the WoodsA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=45

|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I am 'm a man who likes his creature comfortssucker for dogs. Always have beenIn nearly eight decades, always will – and creature comforts donI've never met one I didn't involve snuggling down in a sleeping bag, however comfortable, to watch creatures, as far as trust and I'm concernedve loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. LuckilySo, however, many people are of another bent entirely – they find no problem in getting out and any book aboutdogs, taking whatever weather and wildlife can throw at them, I'm going to sit down and spending time out of doors for the hell of itdevour. This book is the first stage Then I'm going to that, go back and needs to be read in full before you step out your front doorit properly. And even if so itwas with 's your 'A World of Dogs'only', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she' stage, it will still be pleasantly educational…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085763917X</amazonuk>s learned quite a lot about dogs since then.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Chapman and Us Now1529507987|title=The Story of the CarRepair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Dinosaurs… farm machinery… science fiction… trains… carsI love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I can't think of many other subjects that inspired the young me want to have be cheered up. After a full non-fiction book about them on my juvenile shelveshard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. Most of course I lost interest You see, the value is in with maturitywhat these possessions are worth to the people who own them and the memories they hold. But No expense appears to be spared and the young child these days won't be experts spend as much different, for good or bad, time and so they will like effort as not want a book about broom-brooms for is required to achieve the shelfdesired result. And this Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is pretty much the go-to volume for such an interestthey're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360268</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Walden024162343X|title=In Focus: CitiesStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=45

|summary=The [[In Focus: 101 Close Ups, Cross-Sections and Cutaways by Libby Walden|first book I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in this series]] promised 101 close-ups, cross sections and/or cutways, but here wereligious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god're restricted to just ten. WhyWhere was the proof? Because the subject matters are so much bigger – one is home to 37 million peopleIn history lessons, of all thingsit was probably worse still. YesNot too long after the end of WWII, weI didn're talking cities, and while this book tries t so much want to follow learn about the previous – different artist every pageBritish army's successes (and occasional failures, an exclusive inside look within the volume, and a self-deceiving page count – but we are definitely didn't dwell on those) in new territory. Wewhat came to be called 're seeking the trivial, colonies' as want to dispute what right the geographical and army had to be there in the culturalfirst place. Looking back, all so I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the inquisitive young student can find out the variety maturity to be had in approach 'the worldproblem's metropolisespolitely.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575912</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mojang AB|title= Minecraft Guide to Creative: An Official Minecraft Book From Mojang|rating= 3.5|genre= Children I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera'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 scratchStolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285982</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mojang ABJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|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 BirdsFritz and Kurt

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=I never really caught 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 bird-watching habitneighbours, even with being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the opportunity of growing up 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 edge Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a village 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 middle round-ups of nowhereJews. It was These in their turn leave the familyyounger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, toowhile Fritz and his father are, but I resigned myself unknown initially to never seeing much that was spectaculareach other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and once you've seen one blackbird you've seen them all, was my thinkingthe stone quarry there. If I'd had this book as a youngster, who knows – I may have come out of it differently, having been shown And us wondering how the diversity of titular event for the bird world in snippets adult variant of text, and some quite unusual illustrations…all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1526360004</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robert Hansen1913750353|title= Cool Coding: filled with fantastic facts for kids Britannica's Word of all agesthe Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating= 35|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= An introduction ''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to coding aimed at ages 10 Stretch Your Cranium and upwardsTickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. This book is filled It starts on January 1st with enthusiasm''Razzmatazz'', informationtells you how to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), fun and… unfortunately gives you a definition and then includes the word in a sentence so that you know how it just falls flat of its goalsshould be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653230</amazonuk> I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Farrell and Donna Bamford0711266204|title=The Movie Making BookSecret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45

|summary=In my youth we had to make do with I have recently discovered a camcorder that would fit great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a mini-tape that you recorded ontodaily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. This mini-tape would then slip into I've established which species feed from the ground, which pop to the feeders for a casing that could be watched on your VHS (imagine something like quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a DVD player, good munch but with awful fidelity)I wish I was more knowledgeable. In allIt would have been wonderful if, making as a film was a big old faffchild, but trying I'd had access to do anything fancy was almost impossiblea book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''. There So – what is no longer this excuse for kids today with their camera enabled smart devices, but just because they can do something does not mean they will be any good. A guide for movie making would certainly help! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0711238871</amazonuk>it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Hopgood0192779230|title=Doodle DogsVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: Best in ShowThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=4.5

|summary='Germs'Doodle Dogs'' introduces seems to have become a wide variety of artistic styles through catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. In the idea of first book in what looks to be a dog show! Tim Hopgood shows us different kinds of dogsvery promising new series, all OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the world of which germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the thinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be created very easily, confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the trickiest concepts and you 'll soon find that doodling a dog can be a lot more detailedfamiliar with bacteria, fungi, protists and interesting, than you perhaps previously appreciated!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509820817</amazonuk>viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia Boldt and Eleanor Meredith1800464495|title=Think and Make Like an Artist100 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=Having been banned from ''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the Tate Modern by my partner for making too many snarky remarkswomb, 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 am not sure didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills.'' I didn't know this either! I ever want to think or make like an artist. My unartistic brain is unable to comprehend most artparents are aware that 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 same way about maths, beyond counting? I see don'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 rain dirty valley, but the artists sells you Brigadoonsimilar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial. }} A lot {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of what makes art great is knowing what it is meant to represent; even Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been swayed on occasion once completely dismantled and for some 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, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. And there's also the fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been informedlauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. ThereforeBeing up early, working late has been praised and the ability to teach art appreciation survive on little sleep has almost become something to a young audience will hold them in good stead and could also be great funput on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500650985</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1849767343|title=Children's Illustrated ThesaurusCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary=One The title and format of this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the most valuable literary skills which children can learn is how numbers journey. It isn't: it's a hymn of praise to use reference booksmaths. As a child every question which I began with 'It's about why maths is so wonderful and how do you spellmeet it in everyday life...?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1849767009|title=It Isn'' would t Rude to be answered with Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir'EXACTLY as : the only people who'll buy it says in are the people who know that nudity is OK and the dictionaryones who ''know''. This was fine, but the familythat it's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn't encourage exploration, not least because shameful will avoid it like they avoid the font was small hot-and difficult -bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to readbust. Fortunately those times have now changed and reference book for children are now But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more invitingthan a book about not wearing clothes. Not every book comes with It's a set celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of instructions but it's worth studying the ''How toevery possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, they'' section, not least because similar systems are used in other reference booksre wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241286972</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Dorling KindersleyAnna 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 couple of 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 I 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=First Science EncyclopediaDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande

|summary=I wasn't introduced What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you'science' until I was eleven and went on ve managed to senior school: I wasnget hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don't alone in this, but matter: we all need it really was too lateto some extent. ThankfullyYou might want to go into business, times have changed and children at primary school are getting to grips with plants and animalsbe a clever shopper, atoms and molecules and a saver (you might even outer space from a very young age. Whatbecome an ''investor''s needed is a good, basic reference book which will introduce all the subjects ) and give a good grounding. It needs to there might be something which would sit proudly in the classroom library and comfortably on a childyou really, 's bookshelf. The 'really'First Science Encyclopedia'want to buy. There' would s also the possibility of using to do both wellgood in the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024118875X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The British MuseumApollo 13 Mission|titleauthor=Origami, Poems David Long and PicturesStefano Tambellini (illustrator)

|genre=CraftsDyslexia Friendly|summary=Sometimes you find a delight of a book. On an afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered It''Origami, Poems and Pictures'' and I was transported to Japan. As s fifty years since the title suggests we're looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: the ancient art of paper folding, haiku poetry and painting. I'll confess that it Apollo 13 mission was launched from the origami which caught my attentionKennedy Space Centre in Florida, but I was surprised by the extent to which story of that journey remains one of the rest greatest survival stories of the book caught my imaginationall time. We begin with something very simple: a boat and in case you're worried, all the entries have a degree of difficulty (from 'simpleSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission' through to 'tricky') and this one is at the lowest levela brilliant retelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857639382</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan GibbonsKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=The Beautiful GameNine Ways to Empower Tweens|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Football ''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is all about its coloursa self-help book for tweens, setting out to show them vital #lifeskills. And even if Don't groan! I write know there is a market glut of such books for we grown-ups and for 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|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the season when one team in blue knocks another team 1889 World's Fair in blue from Paris encompassed the throne of English footballbest, it's common knowledge that red is the more successful colour to wearworst and the beautiful from many countries and cultures. But is that flame red? Blood red? The red of French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, food festivals and concerts to stun the Sun cover banner when senses. And towering above it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in a tragedy – and that it had been one of their own making? And while we're on about colourall, where were the people of colour in football in most popular and the olden days? There are so many darker sides most hated monument to football's history it's enough to make a young lad question French accomplishment and daring – the whole game…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126917</amazonuk>Eiffel Tower.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Sewell1848576536|title=The Big Bird SpotHumanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=45

|summary=Recently I stood on a viewing platform at the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs as a very helpful volunteer guided my sight line to one of the puffins who'd arrived on the cliffs in the last few days. Finally'Get under your own skin, I found onepick your brains, 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 Sewellgo inside your insides!'' That's first book for children, what ''The Big Bird SpotHumanatomy''invites you to do and honestly, shows some cliffs very like those at Bempton, but this time I don't see how you're going could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the human body to curious children- from the skeletal system to be looking for twenty three Little Auks, in amongst the guillemotsmuscular system via circulation, puffins, herring gulls respiration and razorbills. Ohdigestion, and you're looking for a pair of binoculars too: our bird watcher is very careless, because you're going right up to have to find them in every picturethe DNA that makes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653265</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice BowsherLangford_Emily|title=Lift-the-Flap and Colour: OceanEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=When Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you think about it, itcan count anything and there's quite startling that oceans cover most of our planet and they're home no limit to nearly half of all specieshow far you can go, apart from humansbut then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. We don't know a lot She knew all about the oceans either - less than 5% odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the area has been exploredlist were even numbers, but the other half was odd and it is an area was this list of outstanding beauty. With Alice Bowsherodd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called 's 'threeven'Lift-the-Flap and Colour: Ocean'' children as young as two have the opportunity to do . (Actually, this confused me a little exploration and to colour their own pictures. The flaps are bit at first as they're a stroke subset of genius: when we look at the sea we see little more than the movement odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of the watereven numbers, but how different it would be if you could see a little of what is going on underneathall worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809294</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Jane Gillespie and Yukai DuBuckingham_Dawn|title=100 Steps for ScienceThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Science is What a far reaching subject that covers almost everything that exists in treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the Universe from pull of the smallest specks sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the largest space bound objectsbirds and listening to their song. Point at anything Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and there will be some sort of scientist who has studied itwas just as good the second time around. Trying to fit all of this into 100 hundred steps for children is ambitious and should be lordedSo, but if what do you are going to try and do this; at least make it readable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808050</amazonuk>get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amanda Wood, Mike Jolley and Frances CastlePankhurst_Women|title=Spot the Mistake: Lands of Long AgoFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=4.5

|summary=You'll like as not have seen a children's book before A lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and harangued it for containing errors. This book has at least two hundred, inventors and that's not a problempoliticians. YesSometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in personifying the idea of learning through your mistakeshistory at all, we get ten large dioramas of historical activitylet alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. Of course, all containing twenty things that shouldnthis isn't be true and there. Your taskare plenty of women who, throughout history, should you choose to accept ithave achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, is to try and find them allor created something never seen before. And the learning is also So here, as we get text to tell us what in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the goofs were designed to show usstories of some of them. Make no mistake, this is a clever and absorbing read…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809634</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Clark Smith and Matt TavaresIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Lighter than AirWomen in Sport: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman Pilot|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=We're in Paris, and – not Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played 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>}}{{newreviewWin|author=Jonathan Litton and Thomas Hegbrook|title=The Earth Book: A World of Exploration and WonderRachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5

|summary=The Earth. I kind of quite like it, you know – it seems to serve my purpose. I don't think I've taken too much out of it, all told, and if itWomen in Sport's divided up into 200 countries I'm getting close is coming to having visited a quarter of them. But way back when I us just didn't get on with studying itbefore the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. I didn't like geography – what with having to draw maps, oxbow lakes It celebrates a century and whatnot I think it was one a half of those subjects I was put off through the pictorial element – and dropped it development of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as soon diverse as I couldswimming, fencing, riding, skating, and much more. But then, I didn't have the likes Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book to inspire me…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575246</amazonuk>somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Barr, Steve Williams and Amy HusbandRooney_Dino|title=The Story of SpaceDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|rating=4.5

|summary=I Lift the flap books have no actual idea how progressed somewhat since I first got an interest in spacewas a child. Perhaps it's there because I'm so old to almost coincide This one comes with the last Apollo astronauts being on the moon (and that's pretty oldsounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a variety of creatures, itsome of whom are very familiar but some I's been so long) and it kind d never heard of rubbed off on me. Perhaps in fact all young children before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the various dinosaurs are interested in space anywaygetting up to, with background noises, roars and don't need any impetus or reason squawks to look up in wonder. But if they doaccompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, this is the newest way of nudging the newer child towards a keenness for all things celestial. And rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's a pretty good way indeedvery visual, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807488</amazonuk>