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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= Zabriskie1|title=A Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of Belonging and Community, Rooted in Indigenous Wisdom|author=Susan Wood Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Across many African and Indigenous systems, differences in how children learn, sense , or process the world were not treated as disorders to be corrected. They were understood as natural variations of human intelligence and Ross MacDonaldawareness, each holding value within the community.'' This lovely story is a synthesis of that tradition, which was carried down through generations by oral retellings. It shows that a community or society is not made up from interchangeable building blocks of human beings but by a range of people with different skills and different personalities, all contributing to a whole that combines them all and to the benefit of them all.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0GFQ81YQK|title=American GothicHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: The Life From the Oral Stories of Grant WoodMalagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie
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|summary=Who won a national prize for a crayon drawing of three oak leaves before he Before people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. Everything was properly in his teens? Who sought acclaim as an artist quiet until the earth and came the sky began to Europe tal to study from each other. First, the greatsearth created bodies. And then, only the sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and they belonged to reject all both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they had planted and learned and remembered, especially how they came to offer? Who instinctively knew a picture of his dentist (yes, his dentist) would be more appealing . When they grew old and say more died, their bodies returned to people than ''floating water lilies the earth and frilly ballet dancers''? The answer in all cases was Grant Wood, practically their life returned to the sky. And that is why the most well-known painter in America at one time, earth and still the bestsky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to, alongside Edward Hopperand care for, at presenting his world minus any Modernist trappingsboth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419725335</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stuart Hill and Sandra LawrenceB0GHPMNF6P|title=The Atlas How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of MonstersMalagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5
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|summary=There are monsters Before people came and mysterious charactersjoined the animals, such as trollsthere was only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to each other. First, leprechaunsthe earth created bodies. And then, goblins and minotaursthe sky breathed life into them. They're These were the stuff of far too many stories first humans and they belonged to remain mysterious, both earth and every schoolchild should know all about themsky. There are monsters And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and mysterious characters, such as Gog learned and Magogremembered, Scylla especially how they came to be. When they grew old and Charybdisdied, their bodies returned to the earth and the bunyip. They are what you find if you take an interest in this kind of thing their life returned to the next level; even if you cannot place them all on a map you should have come across themsky. But there are monsters and mysterious characters, such as the dobhar-chu, And that is why the llambigyn y dwr, earth and the girtablilisky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. To gain any knowledge of them you really need a book And that knows its stuffis why people must pay attention to, and care for, both. A book like this one…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783706961</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lily Murray and Chris WormellStephanie Zabriskie|title=Dinosaurium (Welcome How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Museum)Oral Stories of Maasai Elders
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The misuse of language is a modern disease. Too many times something is described as awesome or stupendous, but were you truly awed by it? Or stupefied? People just seem to pluck words out of the ether and pretend that they are the correct ones. Are the recipes in Susanna Tee and Santy Gutierrez's 'This Cookbook is Gross' truly gross? For once the language How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is not overplayed. These recipes may taste nice, but in appearance they are absolutely vile.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938289</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jojo Siwa|title= Jojo's Guide to the Sweet Life|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= JoJo with the Bow Bow has written a Book Book! And without meaning to sound like my expectations were low, it was surprisingly good. I say this because we know JoJo as the girl children’s nonfiction book drawn from ''Dance Moms'' with the outspoken mother (well, one oral traditions of the outspoken mothers) who is known for her dancing and the big bows she wears, more than for her brains. And yet this book shows us another side, a side Maasai elders in which she is an articulateNgorongoro, insightful and intelligent young womanTanzania. ''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419728172</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Rob Beattie The Maasai are a cattle-herding people and Sam Peet|title= Stupendous Science|rating= 5|genre= Popular Science|summary=Education should this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to be funso. We learn best when we Cattle are engaged with practical, enjoyable tasks. That's the secret behind the experiments status and wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn''Stupendous Science.'' They have t tell the fun element, whole story of the 'wow factorintimate and symbiotic connection its people,' and most importantlyespecially its women, can be easily replicated have with items that are readily available in their cows and for the home. Each experiment teaches an important scientific concept; essentially teaching through play.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938467</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Gianni Sarcone and Marie Jo Waeber|title= Optical Illusions|rating= 5|genre= Popular Science|summary=I used to work as a library assistant and I remember arriving to work one morning to find all of my fellow librarians crowded around a book, chattering excitedly and...squinting rather oddlynatural world. The book was called ''Magic Eye'' and promised a magical 3D viewing experience if you looked at oral tradition retelling the psychadelic pictures in a certain way. For a brief period in the early 90s, the pictures many conversations Maasai women have had a sudden spike in popularity, until everyone presumably got eye strain and went back to with their everyday lives. Well good news Magic Eye fans! The pictures are back (albeit only two images)cows, in the engrossing and immersive new book ''Optical Illusionsdoes.''|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784938475</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joey Chou1839948493|title=Make A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Play: NativityLuisa Uribe
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I always feel must tell you that I'm a slight disappointment sucker for children at Christmas when theydogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn're presented with a tree to decorate with a box of ornaments t trust and a nativity scene (sometimes quite precious, so itI's Not To Be Played With) which is set up Somewhere Safeve loved most of them. Where's I wish I felt the imaginationsame about human beings. So, the creativityany book about dogs, the sense of pride in that? I'm going to sit down and devour. How much better Then I'm going to have a child create their own nativity scene, which they can then play with? go back and read it properly. That's exactly what they get And so it was with Joey Chou's 'A World of Dogs'Make and Play Nativity', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000064</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Parker1529507987|title=50 Things You Should Know About the VikingsThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=You might think, what with books about dinosaurs being just as varied (and almost as old) as dinosaurs themselves, that there was little to say about them that hadnI love ''The Repair Shop''t been said, and few new ways of giving us information about them. Well, It's my go-to programme when I would put it want to you that this is be cheered up. After a novel varianthard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. Over many jumbo spreadsYou see, we get a different dinosaur the value is in a different situation each time, whether it what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and the memories they hold. No expense appears to be being born, being slain or learning to fly, spared and the book gives us all experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the usual facts, not in chronological order, nor in some other more spurious fashion, but grouped by where these dinosaurs liveddesired result. The continent-wide chapters have several entrants in each, Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what with the book hitting all corners of our current globe, it brings the world of dinosaur remains right to our door, and makes this old subject feel remarkably new…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030349</amazonuk>is they're doing. But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Long and Harry Bloom024162343X|title=Pirates Magnified: With a 3x Magnifying GlassStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's becoming easier and easier to spot books for I was the young about pirates – that surely is about bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the only career from existence of a 'god'. Where was the seventeenth century that gets so many volumes produced about proof? In history lessons, itwas probably worse still. It must be a combination Not too long after the end of the derring-doWWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the illegality, and of course the fancy dress and silly speak that appeals – nowhere else would you see a youngster studying one countryBritish army's attacks on another, successes (and reading about how treasuresoccasional failures, slaves and other resources changed hands. This volume, however, tries its best but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to stand out, and has adopted be called 'the equally prevalent concept of getting colonies' as want to dispute what right the reader army had to pore over large dioramas to seek the small detail hidden be there in the imagesfirst place. For onceLooking back, though, thereI still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's a thoroughly educative reasoning behind it''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030276</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Caroline AllistonJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title= Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding EngineersFritz and Kurt|rating= 4|genre= Popular ScienceConfident Readers|summary=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 neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours''Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for Budding Engineers'' takes using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a strictly hands-on approach light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to science cave to show how scientific ideas can be applied Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to realkeep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-world situationsups of Jews. The book contains 25 projects These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with varying degrees his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of complexity an evacuation to demonstrate topics such as air travelBritain or the US, programmable machineswhile Fritz and his father are, lightunknown initially to each other, motion packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and electricitythe stone quarry there. The book is designed with And us wondering how the younger scientist in mind, so there is a focus on titular event for the fun aspect, with many adult variant of the projects involving toys.all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784938483</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Knowles and Chris Madden1913750353|title=We Travel So FarBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The lead singer ''Britannica's Word of Foreigner said the Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'I've travelled so far which probably tells you all that you need to change know about this lonely lifebrilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'' Well, hetells you how to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ's gone nowhere in comparison to many of these creatures, who probably wouldn't call their life lonely, either. Masses of animals gather, herd, school), gives you a definition and fly then includes the word in unison, a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and all make their migration to change their livesfrequently amusing illustration too. Some hide from the danger of winter storms, many seek I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the food they need letter Z four times before hibernation or their first meals after breeding, some just trot up a volcano to lay eggs in the one place they know will keep them warm. It might seem to be an unusual approach – having a sparsely-texted book solely about one aspect of animal nature, but on this evidence it's an approach that certainly works.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277339</amazonuk>!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK0711266204|title=13½ Incredible Things You Need to Know About EverythingThe Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Having the Internet in the home for I have recently discovered a child to learn from is all well great pleasure: I sit and good, but it won't replace an encyclopaedia. For one thing, there definitely is an instance of having too much watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a good thing – it is no use for the young mind to be exposed to every bit of knowledge we may have amasseddaily basis. No, you need someone authoritative enough to come along and collate the important bits, letting you learn just enough, and the key things you do need to know, all from one placeAn hour can pass without my noticing. This book doesnI't really term itself as an encyclopaediave established which species feed from the ground, that has which pop to be said, but its large format puts it on the shelf next to them, feeders for a quick snatch of some food and its colourful and educative mien proves it's who settles in for a very close relative, at least of the modern kindgood munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. What it has decided to do is to structure the world into certain subjectsIt would have been wonderful if, as a child, and I'd had access to give us 13½ facts regarding every topica book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''. And So – what a diverse range of topics is it has amassed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241238935</amazonuk>?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192779230|title=Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=DKIsabel Thomas|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary='Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. In the 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 world of 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 confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800464495|title=My Encyclopedia 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Very Important AnimalsMaths|author=Emma Smith
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The animal kingdom ''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 diverse onestrong predictor of later achievement, full double that of creatures literacy skills.'' 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 solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the same way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we do all sorts , in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of thingsus 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 number Awesome Power of animals out there is so vast that even vets need to do Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=2020 has been a quick google when something strange appears in their practiceyear: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. For budding vetSome teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? -I've got loads to-be animals are a constant source of fascination doing) and they others will absorb as much knowledge as you can give themworry unnecessarily. It Most people, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is not practical only likely to visit make it worse. And there's also the zoo every dayfact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, but getting an educational working late has been praised and entertaining animal encylopedia isthe ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241276357</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1849767343|title=DK Children's EncyclopediaCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=More than sixty years ago my grandparents bought me an encylopedia: The title and format of this book might lead you to think that it was a major purchase for them as they didn't really s either about responsibility - or it''do'' books, but it was s a treasure trove basic 1-2-3 book for me and I still have it todaythose just starting out on the numbers journey. It didnisn't just teach me facts - : it taught me how to find out information for myself and how 's a hymn of praise to use an indexmaths. It opened my eyes to subjects I'd never considered and widened my knowledge on those I already loved. In format, in size and content it was very similar to ''DK Children's Encyclopedia'' about why maths is so wonderful and I can imagine a younger me hunched over how you meet it and begging just to be allowed to finish this bit before I went to bedin everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241283868</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano1849767009|title=Life on Earth: Dinosaurs: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction For Sharing|summary=I was a big fan This could have been one of dinosaurs when I was a nipper. Since then those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the science regarding them has evolved leaps people who know that nudity is OK and bounds. Wethe ones who ''know'' that it've got in touch with them perhaps being feathered, and have assumed colours and noises s shameful will avoid it like they made – we can even extrapolate from their remains what their eyesight, hearing 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 may have been likethan a book about not wearing clothes. But science will never stop, It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and the next generation will need to be on board of every possible hue. Bodies with the job of discovering them, analysing them, disabilities and presenting them to a world that never seems to get enough of the nasty, superlative beasties of Hollywood renownmarkings. As youThey're the kind of person to ask questionsfine. In fact, you may well ask they'how do you get that next generation ready for their place in the field and in the laboratory?' I would put this as the answer – even if it is made itself of a hundred questionsre wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808972</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano1776572858|title=Life on Earth: Jungle: With 100 Questions How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and 70 Lift-flaps!Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Home and Family|summary=WeIt're constantly being s more than sixty years since I asked to save somethinghow babies were made. Save the hedgerows, save the elephant, save our seasMy mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a book about it. There's absolutely A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing wrong with any of those goals – some of them are larger more than the othersbasics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and more demanding, but they are all worthy. But seeing I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it's (a) the largest land feature we need to save, and (b) it's the most worthwhile to save, why not just go for the jugular – and try and save the Amazonian rainforest? wasn't something which nice people talked about''. Forget jugularI ''knew'' more, youbut was little ''wiser'll be saving the jaguar; you'll be protecting the source of a lot of our food. Thankfully, spices and medicines – and when did a hedgerow near you times have almost fifty different species of ant on a singular tree? The first step to saving anything is to understand it, to let us appreciate it, and this primer is how we get in touch with what's important about jungles so we can deem them worthwhilechanged.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809014</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Beaty and David Roberts1526362759|title=Iggy Peck's Big Project Book for Amazing ArchitectsDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Out of all the things I wanted to be as What a childrelief! A book about money, an architect was not one for children, with clear explanations of them. Which what it is a shame, perhaps – I might have had a few Prince Charles-friendly ideas under my beltwhy it matters, and even if I hadn't exactly progressed at that I might have been how to acquire more at ease at those stupid teamof it (nope -bonding robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you'build-a-this-or-thatve managed to get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don' exercises you are sometimes forced t matter: we all need it to undergo as an adultsome extent. I never knew I would ever hold any importance in my ability You might want to draw buildingsgo into business, conceptualise towns be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and create model structures of my own creations – partly because I knew I had no abilitythere might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy. But for There's also the likes possibility of Iggy Peck, the whole idea is never using to do good in doubt – he spends his entire time thinking of buildings and how to improve on the ones he knows. And so, for the duration of your engagement with these pages, will youworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419718924</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=It's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a brilliant retelling of what happened.}}{{Frontpage|author=Isabel Otter Kathleen Boucher and Maxime LebrunSara Chadwick|title=My First Wild Activity BookNine Ways to Empower Tweens
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book for tweens, setting out to show them vital #lifeskills. Don't groan! I know there is a market glut of such books for we grown-ups and 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.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1609809173
|title=Eiffel's Tower for Young People
|author=Jill Jonnes
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=You sit down together as a family Brash and ask your child what they would like to read elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the best, the worst and the beautiful from your bulging bookcasemany countries and cultures. Will they choose The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, food festivals and concerts to stun the timeless classic that you yourself read as a child? Perhaps they will pluck for a modern tale with its dayglo colouring and storyline based around pants? Nopesenses. Neither of these. All you will hear is ''Stickers!'' Your child would rather play with a sticker activity book than read with youAnd towering above it all, so best make it a worthwhile sticker activity bookthe most popular and the most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – the Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575726</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Steve Martin and Essi Kimpimaki1848576536|title= Scientist AcademyHumanatomy: Are You Ready For How the Challenge?Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Kids seem to have an innate curiosity about the world around them. They are constantly asking ''How?'' Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!''Why? That's what ' Curious kids and budding scientists are going to love the new 'Humanatomy'Scientist Academy'invites you to do and honestly, I don' t see how you could resist. This informative book by Ivy Kidsprovides a wonderful primer about the human body to curious children- from the skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, which is filled with practical experiments respiration and fun activities with an educational twistdigestion, right up to the DNA that makes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240502X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca JonesLangford_Emily|title=The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: Unicorns and Rainbows|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=I've a problem with many colouring books for children: some initial effort goes into the colouring, but the chances are that little will be kept on a long-term basis and it's not particularly satisfying. How much better would it be if the colouring produced something which could be sent to someone else, who would appreciate that itEmily's unique and that effort and care has gone into the card? How much better to give a child something like ''The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: Unicorns and Rainbows'' than an ordinary colouring book which will soon be discarded?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000897</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNumbers|author=Stephan Lomp|title=Wilfred and Olbert’s Totally Wild ChaseJoss Langford
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Meet Wilfred and OsbertEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. They're not only the kind to completely flout the rules of the natural history explorerObviously, you can count anything and there's club they belong no limit tohow far you can go, but when they both spot an undiscovered butterfly together, they are the kind to fight tooth then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and claw to be even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the first to lay claim to it alonelist were even numbers, and devil take but the other onehalf was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. What they don't know is that the drama that ensues when (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're tailing this particular specimen will involve no end of peril – nearly drowning, almost being eaten by a lion, crashing a hot air balloon one subset of them just so happened the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to have in his pocket… This, then, is be a fun and silly biology lesson – but that's only subset of the best kindeven numbers, surely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848696795</amazonuk>but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Walden and Stephanie Fizer ColemanBuckingham_Dawn|title=Hidden World: ForestThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Animals and Wildlife|summary=Sometimes, less is more. But What a wood doesntreat! I really did mean to just 't understand that, does it – it just stretches 'glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and on, expanding outwards rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and outwards, listening to their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and upwards did it all again and upwards – it's quite a galling thing for a young person to understandwas just as good the second time around. This book reverts to the very basic detail that will let the very young student So, what do you get a grip on the life in the forest, whether they can actually see it for the trees in real life or not…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575971</amazonuk>?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Hegarty and Marcelo BadariPankhurst_Women|title=Time Atlas: An Interactive Timeline of Fantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=While A lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it's always useful for a child feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to have access to an atlasread about or regard as role models. Of course, so they know where they are this isn't true and what there is in every other locationare plenty of women who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, it's equally important that they know ''when'' they areor created something never seen before. So here, and what has happened at any other place in time. That's the ethos behind this ''Time Atlas''wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, which only has a few spreads, but takes us right back to prehistory, through are the birth stories of civilisation, and up to today – as well as asking a few questions some of what might happen in the futurethem. It is, after all, vital we know not only where we are, but where we may be going…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575920</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandra Lawrence and Jane NewlandIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Festivals and CelebrationsWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Every day ''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a feast day, if you follow century and a half of the Christian calendar very closely – there are probably enough saints now for each day to have about three people attributed to it. But thatdevelopment of women's just one religionsport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, one way and much more. Think of thinking, one culture – the world a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book somewhere. Each entry is host to a whole lot more, double-page spread with a brief biography and in every corner they have their own way of celebratinga striking portrait. Some poignantly light small fires }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Rooney_Dino|title=Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and set them afloat to guide Suzanne Carpenter|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Lift the visiting spirits flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of the deceased back to their post-life homes; some rejoice in the return dinosaurs, we meet a variety of springcreatures, or the bounties some of the summerwhom are very familiar but some I's harvest; some just throw crap like tomatoes or coloured water over each other. But d never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the world has a ritual calendar of events such as thesevarious dinosaurs are getting up to, with background noises, roars and this is squawks to accompany them! The book creates a brilliant book for dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, placing the young dinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that shows how diverse our celebrations can bespike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575955</amazonuk>
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