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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]==Children's non__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --fiction==__NOTOC__>{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicole DryburghZabriskie1|title=Talk to the Hand|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We first met Nicole Dryburgh in her book ''The Way I See It'', which she wrote at eighteen, and which detailed her battles with cancer and the loss A Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of her sight. We loved the warts-Belonging and-all picture of her life that she gave us thenCommunity, and so we were really pleased to see that she's written a second book. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340996978</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewRooted in Indigenous Wisdom|author=Gary Blackwood|title=The Great Race: The Amazing Round-The-World Auto Race Of 1908Stephanie Zabriskie
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|summary=In 1908, Henry Ford's Model T hadn't yet brought cars to the masses. The pioneers of the world of automobiles were experimenting Across many African and discovering just what the car could doIndigenous systems, differences in how children learn, sense , by driving right round or process the world. Except they didn't want were not treated as disorders to be pioneerscorrected. One They were understood as natural variations of human intelligence and awareness, each holding value within the competitors, Antonio Scarfoglio, put it so perfectly when he said community.''We had set out to perpetuate an act This lovely story is a synthesis of splendid follythat tradition, which was carried down through generations by oral retellings. It shows that a community or society is not to open made up from interchangeable building blocks of human beings but by a new way for men. We wished range of people with different skills and different personalities, all contributing to be madmen, not pioneers.'' Isn't a whole that about combines them all and to the best quote you've ever read?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0810994895</amazonuk>benefit of them all.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola DaviesB0GFQ81YQK|title=Gaia WarriorsHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie
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|summary=The best way Before people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to read this book is tal to treat it like a magazine: flip each other. First, the earth created bodies. And then, the sky breathed life into them. These were the pages first humans and they belonged to both earth and dip insky. I can guarantee that you will find something And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, especially how they came to catch your eyebe. Fashion addicts could start on page 136 ''Dressing for When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the earth and their life returned to the climate'', foodies may prefer page 124 ''Rock-star food''sky. The array of different typefaces And that is why the earth and page colours make the book very easy sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to browse, and the author excels at explaining difficult concepts in a straightforward way. So certain sections in it could be considered not just as care for older children or teen readers, but as an informative read for adults as wellboth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406312347</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gary BlackwoodB0GHPMNF6P|title=Mysterious Messages - A History of Codes How the Sky and Ciphers|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=There's something utterly cool about codes and ciphers. It's not just the spies with their secret world, it's the mystery of an ostensibly random set of letters or pictures. It's being able to unravel them and see what they're hiding. It's a combination of geeky riddle solving (and geeks are cool, so there) and uncovering Earth Made People: From the unknown meanings. Gary Blackwood treats us to a history Oral Stories of codes and ciphers, looking at their creation, the stories behind them, and how to crack them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0525479600</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMalagasy Elders|author=Robert Crowther|title=Cars - A Pop-Up Book Of AutomobilesStephanie Zabriskie|rating=34.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Robert Crowther tells the story of the car, from Cugnot's steam engine, Trevithick's road locomotive and Benz's Motorwagen, right through to the record-breaking Thrust SSC and to future cars, like the biodegradable Eco One. There are plenty of pop-ups and pull tabs to bring it all to life, and it's packed with detail.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406312274</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Various|title=Hello Kitty Guide to Life|rating=4
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|summary=''Hello Kitty'' is a huge worldwide phenomenon with a whole heap of related merchandise featuring Before people came and joined the animals, there was only the cute cartoon cat in dresses sky and ribbonsthe earth. It appeals Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to girls and women of many agestal to each other. First, but this new hardback book ''Hello Kitty – Guide to Life'' is aimed at the brand's younger fansearth created bodies. And then, probably around 6 the sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and they belonged to 14 year oldsboth earth and sky.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000732622X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Abbott Nez |title=Cromwell Dixon's Sky-Cycle|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Meet Cromwell DixonAnd so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, especially how they came to be. He's a real tinkererWhen they grew old and died, forever in a barn or somewhere building something manically unusualtheir bodies returned to the earth and their life returned to the sky. Luckily - although his long-suffering mother may disagree with And that word - he's around at is why the birth of powered flightearth and the sky are both revered. Will his plans Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to, and care for a pedalled air machine work?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399250417</amazonuk>, both.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tracey TurnerStephanie Zabriskie|title=Deadly Peril and How To Avoid ItMaasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders
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|summary=Have you ever wondered what to do if you're bitten by blue-ringed octopus, or if you find yourself up 'How Maasai Women Spoke to your neck in quicksand? It's Cows is a dangerous world out there and Tracey Turner has all children’s nonfiction book drawn from the information that young explorersoral traditions of Maasai elders in Ngorongoro, daredevils and fact-hounds need to knowTanzania.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597944</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philip Ardagh|title=Philip Ardagh's Book of Howlers, Blunders and Random Mistakery|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=There's nought so queer as folk. From the idiot who broke into a car without realising his name and date of birth were clearly seen on his tattoo on CCTV, to the people who ordered someone to paint clothes on all the people in the Sistine Chapel - before others came along who decided the original had been better, and the people who dismissed The Beatles as never likely to make a name for themselves. We have long been a race of idiots.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330471724</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Robinson1839948493|title=Bad Kids: the Worst-Behaved Children in HistoryA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe
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|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm starting to wonder about the type of person who would write such a horrible sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and terrifying I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, any book for children; itabout dogs, I'm going to sit down and devour. Then I's as confusing as trying m going to work out an age category for this bookgo back and read it properly. And so it was with ''Bad KidsA World of Dogs'' is a gruesome look through history using the ways children were punished through the ages as a central core. It runs right through history from ancient Iraq, where you could get your fingers chopped off for hitting your parents (they only recently abolished that one) with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the modern day and the use accidental owner of ASBOsan American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230737870</amazonuk>
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|summary=HenryI love 's House is extraordinary: it's full of fossils, footprints, and even real dinosaurs. Jaggers the caretaker and Mr Boffin show him around, explaining all about dinosaurs, as Henry sees for himself just what amazing creatures they were, and learns the differences between the various types.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407107194</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Conn Iggulden and David Iggulden|title=The Dangerous Book of Heroes|rating=3|genre=History|summary=For most of us (well, for me certainly) the word Repair Shop''hero. It' summons an image of capes, spandex and garish primary colourss my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. Conn and David Iggulden have written After a book about the other kind – the every hard day heroes from history, who achieve incredible things there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without the aid of superpowersever mentioning what they're worth. From household names like Horatio Nelson and Winston Churchill You see, the value is in what these possessions are worth to lesser known the people, like Aphra Behn who own them and Hereward the Wake, ''The Dangerous Book of Heroes'' covers a comprehensive range of characters from the history of the British Empirememories they hold. From campaigners for political change, brilliant battle strategists No expense appears to daring explorers, each be spared and every one of the people in this book lived brilliant lives experts spend as much time and changed effort as is required to achieve the world foreverdesired result.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000726092X</amazonuk> Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing. But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Brocket024162343X|title=Ripping Things to DoStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera
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|summary=Right from I was the very moment bad company other people got into at school. I opened the envelope this book was delivered disruptive in, religious education classes because I had disputed the distinct feeling this would be existence of a real gem 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of a bookWWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and how occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right I wasthe army had to be there in the first place. Though, initially Looking back, I still believe I was reminded of right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the Iggulden brothersproblem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera' s ''Dangerous Book for BoysStolen History'' series, this book has a very different ethos, even though the subject matter overlaps somewhat unavoidably making it bear comparison.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980966</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andy Cullen Jeremy Dronfield and Simon RickertyDavid Ziggy Greene|title=Peas!Fritz and Kurt
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=The farmer sows We start with the seed from which Penelope pair of brothers Fritz and Pete Pea grow. They're pickedKurt, packedand their muckers, delivereddoing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, boughthelping the neighbours, cooked being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and eatenat 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 we follow instead of having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them on every step 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 journeyturn 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141502584</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Davies and Neal Layton1913750353|title=WhatBritannica's Eating You?Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy
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|summary=Did ''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 that there are more than 430 types of parasites that can live about this brilliant book. It starts on humans? Are January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you scratching? Good! Now you know what how to pronounce it was like for me reading What(''raz-muh-TAZ's Eating You? It's ), gives you a fantastically detailed introduction to parasites - on humans definition and other animals - then includes the word in a sentence so that any science-loving child will loveyou know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406313548</amazonuk> I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aidan Potts0711266204|title=The Smash! Smash! TruckSecret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=35
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|summary=The Smash! Smash! Truck looks at I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the process vast numbers of recycling glassbirds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I've established which species feed from the ground, taking which pop to the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a brief look at the Big Banggood munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if, atoms and the water cycleas a child, I'd had access to explain why recycling is a good ideabook such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385608934</amazonuk> So – what is it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leo Hickman 0192779230|title=Will Jellyfish Rule the Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World?of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas
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|summary=Have you ever wondered why it rains so much in Britain? What a glacier and a canary have in common? Or how lizards once managed to sunbathe in Antarctica? Green expert Leo Hickman is here to answer all these questions and more in his new book, 'Germs'Will Jellyfish Rule the World?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141323345</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cylin Busby and John Busby|title=The Year We Disappeared: A Fatherseems to have become a catch-Daughter Memoir|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=''When my dad dies, his body will go all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the Harvard Medical School at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston,'' ''though I suspect they are mostly interested in his headpotential to make you ill... His was in an interesting case - In the lower half of his jaw'' ''was removed when he was shot first book in the head with what looks to be a shotgun. His tongue was torn in halfvery promising new series, his teeth OUP and gums blown'' ''away, leaving Isabel Thomas have provided a bit clear and accessible introduction to the world of bone that was once his chin connected with dangling flesh germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the front of his facethinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802015</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Phil Robins |title=Can I Come Home, Please?|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Using the sound archives which explains some of the Imperial War Museum trickiest concepts and other primary sourcesyou'll soon be familiar with bacteria, this affecting volume gives an overview of the progress of Nazism as seen through the eyes of children in different parts of Europe. The simplicity of the language used in the transcribed interviews means it is accessible to children from Y6fungi, yet remains useful to GCSE students as a succinct, linear timeline of WW2protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407109030</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Adolph1800464495|title=Who Am I?100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: The Family Tree ExplorerSupport All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith
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|summary=A fascination ''Babies seem to be born with family history seems more than just a passing fadan amazing number sense: for many it's a hobby approaching an obsession and understanding shapes in a mobile (both geographically the womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and socially) comprehending addition and globalised society, people unable to answer a 'where we are all going' question find security and identity in pursuing an answer to subtraction at nine months old.'where do I come from?'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847245099</amazonuk>}}
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, 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 similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anita Ganeri and Mike Phillips1406395404|title=Planet In PerilThe Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=Saving the Earth is the latest bandwagon upon which authors seem determined to jump 2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with children's authors at the forefront that statement. Lots of the chargeour routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've seen quite a few which were little more than a watered-down version of got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to adults will have the sort odd bad night but worrying about your lack of information which would be given sleep is only likely to an adult and I can imagine that a lot of children would feel patronisedmake it worse. This And there''Horrible Geography Handbook'' – ''Planet in Peril'' is s also the fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a breath of fresh airvirtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. WellBeing up early, apart, that is, from when working late has been praised and the loo gets a ability to survive on little too well usedsleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407105779</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Blackest Hole in Space1849767343|author=Penny Little and Vincent Vigla|rating=2.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Charlie and his dad build a rocket, then Charlie and Doggo head off into space, where they're sucked into a black hole. They have a bit of a look around (as one does in a black hole, apparently), then head off home for their tea.|amazonuktitle=<amazonuk>0340944676</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCount on Me|author=Stewart Ross|title=Moon: Science, History, and MysteryMiguel Tanco|rating=4.5
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|summary=By now we should be living in colonies on Mars The title and still using computers format of this book might lead you to think that take up a whole room: futurologists have it's either about responsibility - or it's a talent basic 1-2-3 book for getting things spectacularly wrong, but their predictions express those just starting out on the human ability to dream and transcend its limitations and conditionsnumbers journey. It isn't: we dream it's a hymn of reaching for the stars – and humans actually walked on the Moonpraise to maths. It's hard to believe that first landing happened forty years ago!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0545127327</amazonuk>about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melanie Walsh1849767009|title=10 Things I Can Do To Help My WorldIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=45
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|summary=ItThis could have been one of those books which 's never preaches to early to start making a difference. Melanie Walshthe choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'' that it's book introduces young children to simple things shameful will avoid it like they can do to change avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the world, from switching lights off, supermarket who is coughing fit to turning off the taps when brushing your teethbust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. What It's morea celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, the book is made from 100% recycled materials, making buying it an 11th thing you can do to help your worldthey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406320293</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rolf Heimann1776572858|title=DragonmaziaHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome 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'Dragonmazia'' is packed to d get me a book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the rafters with detailedbasics, engaging, varied in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and fascinating mazes. ThereI was told that it wouldn's a strong dragon theme throughout, without ever getting samey: there are medieval dragons, Oriental dragons, and a few cuddly dragons too. Each page generally has one big maze, with a few smaller mazes or puzzles dotted around t be discussed any further as it''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. It doesn I ''knew''t have an overall narrativemore, but therewas little ''wiser''s plenty of detail to pore over beyond the mazes themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>192127249X</amazonuk> Thankfully, times have changed.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=We Are What We Do1526362759|title=Teach Your Granny To TextDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande
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|summary=I loved this What a relief! A book. I loved the positive tone about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of this book. It it (nope - robbing banks is just so packed full out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of greatit. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, interactive ideas for living be a better lifeclever shopper, that I a saver (you might even passed it onto become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to my householdbuy. There's resident politician. He agreed that there were lots also the possibility of ideas using to do good in it that capture the spirit of these new-austerity times, and took a note of a few for his next council meetingworld. It's true!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406320714</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Comic Strip History of the WorldApollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=It''The Comic Strip History of s fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the World'' isKennedy Space Centre in Florida, as you might expect, a comic strip history but the story of that journey remains one of the world. It covers everything from the Big Bang to the present day, with each period greatest survival stories of history summed up in a page or twoall time. It ''s very much a potted history Survival in the vein of the Horrible Histories series and 1066 and All That. ItSpace: The Apollo 13 Mission''s is a fantastic book, both as a light fun read, and as a brief education into everything that has been beforebrilliant retelling of what happened. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594317</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dugald SteerKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=SpyologyNine Ways to Empower Tweens
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Agent K – also known as Spencer Blake – set ''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book for tweens, setting out to write this manual show them vital #lifeskills. Don't groan! I know there is a market glut of Spyology, otherwise known as Tradecraft, in the course of his last missionsuch books for we grown-ups and for young adults too, the deadly Operation CODEX. Obviously he saved the civilised world (again) but he apparently perished during the operation. No one was more surprised than the head of Special Intelligence Service (P.O. Box 850, London) when the manual which I now have in front of me turned up at the headquarters of MI6 there is a needful space in an unmarked envelope several months after Agent K disappeared. The original plan was to use it to train new recruits using various challenges based on Operation CODEX. It's recently become available increasingly technological world accessible to the public under the fifty year ruleyounger and younger children for material for tweens too. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184011861X</amazonuk>0228818826}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Sparrow 1609809173|title=Voyage Across The CosmosEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=45
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|summary=In Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the course of a year I see some wonderful books but this must rank as one of 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the most stunning that I've seen for a long time. Billed as ''a journey to best, the edge of space worst and time'' the reader is off beautiful from many countries and cultures. The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on a journey of a hundred art shows, dance performances, food festivals and thirty billion trillion kilometres from earthconcerts to stun the senses. On And towering above it all, the way you'll see some breathtaking sights most popular and get an idea of the unbelievable scale of most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – the cosmosEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847245242</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marion Bataille1848576536|title=Abc 3dHumanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=45
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|summary=Wow. This is an ABC book with a difference. The publisher's notes say it's "astoundingly beautiful" and it is. Marion Bataille's careful, ingenious alphabet pops up from the pages to amaze and entrance all who look. From A, a proud pyramid on the inside cover, to Z, standing on its side at the end, each letter of our alphabet has a personality of its Get under your own. E morphs into Fskin, V mirrors itself and becomes Wpick your brains, and U is a cascade of parabolas. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747595798</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Paul Kieve|title=Hocus Pocus|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Hocus Pocus'go inside your insides!' is part biography of the greatest magicians of all time, part fictional tale of the author meeting them as they come alive from his posters, and part magic instruction manual. All the parts foster an interest in magic, and act as an inspiration to the next generation of magicians.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074759094X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Scarry|title=What Do People Do All Day?|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=As its title suggests, the book is about what people do all day. Since different people all do different things, the book covers a lot of topics. The first section looks at Busy Town itself along the high street. This book truly shines with some of the best examples of Scarry's illustrations, as we see the town above ground, and below ground in intricate detail. We see the men digging tunnels and the underground pipes, street cleaners at work, and peeks into the bank and various shops as well as the fire department, doctor, dentist, and so on. All are clearly labelled and much fun is to be had after reading the narrative, looking at and discussing all the marvellous detail. As the book progresses, we get to see what Mummy does all day at home, what the farmer does, the door to door salesman, the policeman, the fireman, the blacksmith, the postmen, the ferry workers, and so on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007189508</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne MorddelLangford_Emily|title=The Big Field: A ChildEmily's Year Under the Southern CrossNumbers|author=Joss Langford
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|summary=Emily found words ''My Mama and Papa work hard in the city and theyuseful''re always busy, but counting was what she loved best. ThatObviously, you can count anything and there's why we live on Granny's farmno limit to how far you can go, Chloe but then Emily moved a step further and Baby began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and meeven numbers.'' We never know the name, or gender Then she began counting in threes: half of the narratorlist were even numbers, but the other half was odd and itwas this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''s a gentle, sensitive voice which guides us through the seasons. The farm – Southern Cross - has been in the family for (Actually, this confused me a little bit at least three generations, first as Grannythey's grandfather burned all re a subset of the trees in the big field and planted coffee and soybeans. Her father did the same odd numbers but Granny says that she keeps forgetting sound as though they ought to plough – be a subset of the even numbers, but she says it with a smile. She has something else in mind for the fieldall worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>2953186409</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynn Cullen and Amy YoungBuckingham_Dawn|title=Moi The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Marie AntoinetteAndrea Pinnington|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Marie Antoinette and her pug dog, Sebastien, had an idyllic life in her native Austria. What a treat! She was the fifteenth child I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Empress, who, in Dawn Chorus'' but the traditions pull of the time, used her children sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to make marriages which would strengthen her own positionresist on a cold and rather wet February morning. Marie Antoinette was told at I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the age of thirteen that she was birds and listening to marry a Prince – the grandson of the King of Francetheir song. Sebastien narrates this charming tale of Marie Antoinette's journey to France, her marriage, life at Versailles Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it was just as good the birth of her daughter Theresesecond time around. It stops mercifully short of her execution.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074759774X</amazonuk>So, what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clarke Hutton Pankhurst_Women|title=A Picture Fantastically Great Women Who Made History of Great Discoveries|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=3.5
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|summary=As soon A lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as I opened this book I was taken back though there were no women in time by history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to read about half a centuryor regard as role models. In a frieze around my classroom walls were lithographs by Clarke Hutton Of course, this isn't true and they're all to be founds there are plenty of women who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. So here , in this wonderful picture book first published in 1954. Unusually it's the illustrator who is given credit for the book with Mabel George's text only being acknowledged on from Kate Pankhurst, are the title page stories of some of the bookthem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199118353</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Walker Ignotofsky_Sport|title=The Human MachineWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5
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|summary=In my youth (yes, alright – but it was quite some time ago) books for children about ''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the human body were written Winter Olympics in South Korea in text-book style with some parts being obviously well-thumbed February 2018. It celebrates a century and others largely ignored other than a half of the development of women's sport by those who would be going on to do A level biologylooking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and much more. As Think of a result many people of my generation are ignorant about how their body really works – or only learn about sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it when something goes wrongis probably in this book somewhere. ''The Human Machine: An Owner's Guide to the Body'' Each entry is a welcome look at the subject written in double-page spread with a chatty and informal style brief biography and in a format familiar to the target age group of eight plusstriking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199116776</amazonuk>
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|summary=Gearing up for Lift the long school summer holidays yet? If not, you probably should be. It always pays to plan in advance. Bored children aren't flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a pretty sightchild. You could certainly prepare yourself well This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by taking layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a look at the latest in Bloomsbury's 101 Things To Do series. This one is Things You Wish Youvariety of creatures, some of whom are very familiar but some I'd Invented 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 it entertained me for a good few hours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747591989</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mike Flynn|title=squawks to accompany them! The Ultimate Survival Guide For Boys|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=A potentially interesting book about how to survive in the wilderness or your back gardencreates a dinosaur experience, which unfortunately misses the mark by not rather than just being enough of one thing or the other. Itfacts about dinosaurs it's worth a readvery visual, but you wouldn't take it on a dangerous camping trip to placing the back gardendinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230700519</amazonuk>
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