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|summary=I was a big fan of dinosaurs when I was a nipper. Since then the science regarding them has evolved leaps and bounds. We've got in touch with them perhaps being feathered, and have assumed colours and noises they made – we can even extrapolate from their remains what their eyesight, hearing and so much more may have been like. But science will never stop, and the next generation will need to be on board with the job of discovering them, analysing them, and presenting them to a world that never seems to get enough of the nasty, superlative beasties of Hollywood renown. As you're the kind of person to ask questions, you may well ask '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 questions.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808972</amazonuk>
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|author=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano
|title=Life on Earth: Jungle: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=We're constantly being asked to save something. Save the hedgerows, save the elephant, save our seas. There's absolutely nothing wrong with any of those goals – some of them are larger than the others, and more demanding, but they are all worthy. But seeing 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? Forget jugular, you'll be saving the jaguar; you'll be protecting the source of a lot of our food, spices and medicines – and when did a hedgerow near you 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 worthwhile.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809014</amazonuk>
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|author=Andrea Beaty and David Roberts
|title=Iggy Peck's Big Project Book for Amazing Architects
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Out of all the things I wanted to be as a child, an architect was not one of them. Which is a shame, perhaps – I might have had a few Prince Charles-friendly ideas under my belt, and even if I hadn't exactly progressed at that I might have been more at ease at those stupid team-bonding 'build-a-this-or-that' exercises you are sometimes forced to undergo as an adult. I never knew I would ever hold any importance in my ability to draw buildings, conceptualise towns and create model structures of my own creations – partly because I knew I had no ability. But for the likes of Iggy Peck, the whole idea is never 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 you.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419718924</amazonuk>
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|author=Isabel Otter and Maxime Lebrun
|title=My First Wild Activity Book
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=You sit down together as a family and ask your child what they would like to read from your bulging bookcase. Will they choose 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? Nope. Neither of these. All you will hear is ''Stickers!'' Your child would rather play with a sticker activity book than read with you, so best make it a worthwhile sticker activity book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575726</amazonuk>
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|author= Steve Martin and Essi Kimpimaki
|title= Scientist Academy: Are You Ready For the Challenge?
|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?'' and ''Why?'' Curious kids and budding scientists are going to love the new ''Scientist Academy'' book by Ivy Kids, which is filled with practical experiments and fun activities with an educational twist.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240502X</amazonuk>
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|author=Rebecca Jones
|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 it'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>
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|author=Stephan Lomp
|title=Wilfred and Olbert’s Totally Wild Chase
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Meet Wilfred and Osbert. They're not only the kind to completely flout the rules of the natural history explorer's club they belong to, but when they both spot an undiscovered butterfly together, they are the kind to fight tooth and claw to be the first to lay claim to it alone, and devil take the other one. What they don't know is that the drama that ensues when 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 of them just so happened to have in his pocket… This, then, is a fun and silly biology lesson – but that's only the best kind, surely?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848696795</amazonuk>
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|author=Libby Walden and Stephanie Fizer Coleman
|title=Hidden World: Forest
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Sometimes, less is more. But a wood doesn't understand that, does it – it just stretches on and on, expanding outwards and outwards, and upwards and upwards – it's quite a galling thing for a young person to understand. This book reverts to the very basic detail that will let the very young student 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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