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|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=I love ''The Vikings have got a lot Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to own be cheered up to. A huge DNA study After a hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You see, the value is in 2014 was what these possessions are worth to the first thing that proved to people who own them and the Orkney residents that they had Viking blood in their veins – memories they had been insisting it was that of the Irishhold. The Vikings it was that forced our English king's army to march from London to Yorkshire to kill off one invasion, only No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend the next fortnight schlepping back to Hastings to try as much time and fend off another – and the Normans had the same Norse origin effort as the first lot, hence the name. There is a Thames Valley village just outside Henley – ie pretty damned far from required to achieve the coast – that has a Viking longship on its signpostdesired result. Yes, they got to a lot of places, from Greenland to Kiev, from Murmansk to Turkey and Regular viewers know the Med, experts and their misaligned history they're all brilliant at explaining what it is well worth visiting – particularly on these pagesthey're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937908</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Stolen History|author=Emily Hawkins Sathnam Sanghera|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. Looking back, I 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 ''Stolen History''.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jeremy Dronfield and Lucy LetherlandDavid Ziggy Greene|title=Atlas of Dinosaur Adventures: Step Into a Prehistoric WorldFritz and Kurt
|rating=4
|genre=Confident 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' 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 Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a 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 round-ups of 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 US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…
|isbn=024156574X
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|isbn=1913750353
|title=Britannica's Word of the Day
|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you how to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a definition and then includes the word in a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0711266204
|title=The Secret Life of Birds
|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I've established which species feed from the ground, which pop to the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I'd had access to a book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''. So – what is it?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0192779230
|title=Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs
|author=Isabel Thomas
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=You might think'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, what with books about dinosaurs being just as varied (OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and almost as old) as dinosaurs themselves, that there was little accessible introduction to say the world of germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them that hadnand 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't been saidll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and few new ways viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800464495|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of giving us information about themMaths|author=Emma Smith|rating=4. Well5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''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 would put it didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to you that this school is a novel variantstrong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills. Over many jumbo spreads, we get '' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a different dinosaur good start in a different situation each timeliteracy - reading stories, whether it be being bornteaching pen grips, being slain or learning to fly, and the book singing rhymes - gives us all children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the usual factssame way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, not in chronological order, nor part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of us use maths in some other more spurious fashion, but grouped by where these dinosaurs liveddaily 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 continentAwesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-wide chapters 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 several entrants in eachbeen 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, and what with from children to adults will have the book hitting all corners odd bad night but worrying about your lack of our current globe, sleep is only likely to make it brings worse. And there's also the world fact that for far too long, lack of dinosaur remains right sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to our doorseem like laziness. Being up early, working late has been praised and makes this old subject feel remarkably new…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030349</amazonuk>the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Long and Harry Bloom1849767343|title=Pirates Magnified: With a 3x Magnifying GlassCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=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 numbers journey. It isn't: it's a hymn of praise to maths. It's becoming easier about why maths is so wonderful and easier how you meet it in everyday life.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1849767009|title=It Isn't Rude to spot be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This could have been one of those books for which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the young about pirates – people who know that surely nudity is about OK and the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the only career from hot-and-bothered person in the seventeenth century that gets supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so many volumes produced much more than a book about itnot wearing clothes. It must be 's a combination celebration of the derring-do, the illegality, bodies: bodies large and small and of course the fancy dress every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and silly speak that appeals – nowhere else would you see markings. They're fine. In fact, they're wonderful.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=How Do You Make a youngster studying one countryBaby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=It's attacks on another, more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and reading told me that she'd get me a book about how treasures, slaves and other resources changed handsit. This volume, however, tries its best to stand out, and has adopted the equally prevalent concept A couple of getting days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the reader to pore over large dioramas to seek the small detail hidden basics, in clinical language which had never been used in the imagesour house before) and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. For onceI ''knew'' more, thoughbut was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, there's a thoroughly educative reasoning behind ittimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030276</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Caroline Alliston1526362759|title= Build Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding Engineers, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating= 45|genre= Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=''Build ItWhat a relief! 25 Creative STEM Projects A book about money, for Budding Engineers'' takes a strictly hands-on approach to science to show children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how scientific ideas can be applied to realacquire more of it (nope -world situations. The book contains 25 projects robbing banks is out) and what you can do with varying degrees it when you've managed to get hold of complexity it. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to demonstrate topics such as air travelsome extent. You might want to go into business, programmable machinesbe a clever shopper, lighta saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, motion and electricity''really'' want to buy. The book is designed with There's also the younger scientist possibility of using to do good in mind, so there is a focus on the fun aspect, with many of the projects involving toysworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938483</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=Laura Knowles Kathleen Boucher and Chris MaddenSara Chadwick|title=We Travel So FarNine Ways to Empower Tweens
|rating=4.5
|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.
|isbn= 0228818826
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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=The lead singer of Foreigner said ''I've travelled so far to change this lonely life.'' WellBrash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, hethe 1889 World's gone nowhere Fair in comparison to Paris encompassed the best, the worst and the beautiful from many of these creatures, who probably wouldn't call countries and cultures. The French Republic laid out model villages from all their life lonelycolonies, either. Masses of animals gatherput on art shows, herd, schooldance performances, food festivals and fly in unison, and all make their migration concerts to change their livesstun the senses. Some hide from the danger of winter stormsAnd towering above it all, many seek the food they need before hibernation or their first meals after breeding, some just trot up a volcano to lay eggs in most popular and the one place they know will keep them warm. It might seem most hated monument to be an unusual approach French accomplishment and daring – having a sparsely-texted book solely about one aspect of animal nature, but on this evidence it's an approach that certainly worksthe Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277339</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1848576536|title=13½ Incredible Things You Need to Know About EverythingHumanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Having the Internet in the home for a child to learn from is all well and good, but it won't replace an encyclopaedia. For one thing'Get under your own skin, there definitely is an instance of having too much of a good thing – it is no use for the young mind to be exposed to every bit of knowledge we may have amassed. Nopick your brains, and go inside your insides!'' That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you need someone authoritative enough to come along do and collate the important bitshonestly, letting you learn just enough, and the key things I don't see how you do need to know, all from one placecould resist. This informative book doesn't really term itself as an encyclopaedia, that has provides a wonderful primer about the human body to be said, but its large format puts it on curious children- from the shelf next skeletal system to themthe muscular system via circulation, respiration and its colourful and educative mien proves it's a very close relativedigestion, at least of the modern kind. What it has decided to do is right up to structure the world into certain subjects, and to give us 13½ facts regarding every topic. And what a diverse range of topics it has amassedDNA that makes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241238935</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKLangford_Emily|title=My Encyclopedia of Very Important AnimalsEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The animal kingdom is Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there's no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a diverse one, full of creatures that do step further and began counting in twos. She knew all sorts of thingsabout odd and even numbers. The number Then she began counting in threes: half of animals out there is so vast that the list were even vets need to do a quick google numbers, but the other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when something strange appears you counted in their practicethrees which she called ''threeven''. For budding vet-(Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to-be animals are a constant source subset of the even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.)}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=The Little Book of fascination the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=5|genre=Animals and they will absorb as much knowledge as you can give them. Wildlife|summary=What a treat! It is not practical I really did mean to visit just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the zoo every day, Dawn Chorus'' but getting the pull of the 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 educational indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and listening to their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and entertaining animal encylopedia isit was just as good the second time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241276357</amazonuk> So, what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKPankhurst_Women|title=DK Children's EncyclopediaFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=More than sixty years ago my grandparents bought me an encylopedia: A lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it was a major purchase for them feels almost as they didn't really ''do'' booksthough there were no women in history at all, but it was a treasure trove for me and I still have it todaylet alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. It didnOf course, this isn't just teach me facts - it taught me how to find out information for myself true and how to use an index. It opened my eyes to subjects I'd there are plenty of women who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never considered and widened my knowledge on those I already lovedseen before. In formatSo here, in size and content it was very similar to ''DK Children's Encyclopedia'' and I can imagine a younger me hunched over it and begging just to be allowed to finish this bit before I went to bedwonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the stories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241283868</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres LozanoIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Life on EarthWomen in Sport: Dinosaurs: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I was ''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a big fan half of dinosaurs when I was a nipper. Since then the science regarding them has evolved leaps and bounds. Wedevelopment of women've got in touch with them perhaps being feathereds sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, and have assumed colours and noises they made – we can even extrapolate from their remains what their eyesightskating, 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 Think of discovering them, analysing them, a sport 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 pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in the laboratory?' I would put this as the answer – even if it book somewhere. Each entry is made itself of a hundred questionsdouble-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808972</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Rooney_Dino
|title=Discovering Dinosaurs
|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Lift the 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 dinosaurs, we meet a variety of creatures, some of whom are very familiar but some I'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the various dinosaurs are getting up to, with background noises, roars and squawks to accompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.
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