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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]==Children's non__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --fiction==__NOTOC__>{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard BrasseyZabriskie1|title=The A Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of the Olympics|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=It's the story of the Olympics from earliest times – 776 BC and the first Games at Olympia right through to the 2012 Games in London Belonging and even a few hints about how things might be different for the 2016 Games Community, Rooted in Rio de Janeiro. It's told in the form which seems to appeal to every child – the comic strip – but don't be mislead into thinking that this is light-weight or superficial. It's anything but.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000489</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewIndigenous Wisdom|author=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|title=The Comic Strip Big Fat Book of KnowledgeStephanie Zabriskie
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|summary=You don't see pirates reading 'Across many books. If you ask meAfrican and Indigenous systems, differences in how children learn, sense , it's because their hooks make or process the pages hard world were not treated as disorders to turnbe corrected. Of courseThey were understood as natural variations of human intelligence and awareness, each holding value within the salty damp air would do nothing for a bookcommunity.'s longevity, just one more reason to make sure you've read and understood this before you take to the ocean wave and set sail on your adventures.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745048</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lindsey FraserB0GFQ81YQK|title=J K RowlingHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Mystery Oral Stories of FictionMalagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5
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|summary=Easily one of Before people came and joined the most renowned authors of animals, there was only the 21st century, J.Ksky and the earth. Rowling's incredibly successful Harry Potter series shook Everything was quiet until the core of earth and the literary worldsky began to tal to each other. It provoked a reactionFirst, the likes of which have never been seen beforeearth created bodies. And then, and likely never willthe sky breathed life into them. A unique set of factors combined in order for These were the Harry Potter books first humans and they belonged to reach the level of success both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they enjoyedplanted and learned and remembered, especially how they came to be. When they grew old and these factors are explored in this biography of Rowling. It is difficult not died, their bodies returned to be fascinated by the person who is responsible for earth and their life returned to the phenomenon sky. And that is Harry Potter, why the earth and although writing is a profession the sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that doesn't have a typical path by which it can be reached, Rowling's story is anything but orthodoxwhy people must pay attention to, and her personal 'rags to riches' story only enhances the Harry Potter legacycare for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906134693</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael BondB0GHPMNF6P|title=Paddington's Guide to London|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Some things are just a brilliant idea. Young Paddington Bear has written a guide book to his adopted home in How the way that only he could do it. All his old friends are there – Mr and Mrs Brown and their children Jonathan and Judy along with their housekeeper Mrs Bird Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of course we mustn't forget Paddington's old friend Mr Gruber who has an encyclopaedic knowledge of London. So, where is Paddington planning to take you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007415915</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMalagasy Elders|author=Chris Van Allsburg|title=Queen of the FallsStephanie Zabriskie
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|summary=Annie Edson Taylor Before people came and joined the animals, there was sixty-two years old only the sky and a widowthe earth. She didn't have very much money saved and she Everything was worried about her future - quiet until she had an inspirationthe earth and the sky began to tal to each other. First, the earth created bodies. And then, the sky breathed life into them. She would have a barrel made - a very stout These were the first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and water-tight barrel - learned and she would remembered, especially how they came to be . When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the first person earth and their life returned to brave the thundering waters of Niagra Falls in this barrelsky. Chris Van Allsburgh tells us her story from And that is why the moment of inspiration right through to the times after the epic trip, but in truth earth and the words sky are simpy there to eleborate on his wonderful drawingsboth revered. Only together can they create human beings. They're so good And that you could be forgiven is why people must pay attention to, and care for thinking that they're black and white photographs on occasions, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392722</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Judy BartkowiakStephanie Zabriskie|title=NLP For Teens|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=NLP For Teens is part of the Engaging NLP series and is a follow-on from NLP for Children. Many a parent has been tempted How Maasai Women Spoke to leave home when their children are teenagers; difficult as it is for Cows: From the parents it's a traumatic time for the teens and anything which makes it a little easier is to be applauded particularly when the changes will come from the teens rather than being imposed by the parent. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685901</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Francesca Simon and Tony Ross|title=A Horrid Factbook: Horrid Henry's BodiesOral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating=45
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|summary=When you eat or chew, did you know that little clumps of earwax fall out of your ears! And in a lifetime you produce enough urine ''How Maasai Women Spoke to fill about 450 baths! Do you know how loud the loudest burp was? Or what a bogey Cows is made of? If these are the sort of facts and figures, complete with a handful of Horrid Henry and Tony Ross' illustrations, that would rock your child's world then this is the children’s nonfiction book for you!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001620</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ruthie Knapp and Jill McElmurry|title=Who Stole Mona Lisa?|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Taking in a history of its production, as well as its theft, ''Who Stole Mona Lisa?'' is an intriguing look at La Gioconda. The story is told drawn from the point oral traditions of view of Leonardo da Vinci's painting herselfMaasai elders in Ngorongoro, and will strike a chord with any intelligent and curious youngstersTanzania.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408811588</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick Dillon and P J Lynch1839948493|title=The Story A World of BritainDogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe
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|summary=Author Patrick Dillon has put together In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a clearsucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, well-written I've never met one I didn't trust and beautifully concise story I've loved most of Britainthem. I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, summing up the history of Britain any book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and Ireland in a little over 320 pagesdevour. Significant events, ranging from the Norman Conquest Then I'm going to the South Sea Bubble, go back and groups read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of people ranging from highwaymen to the Romantic poetsDogs'', are each dealt with in between 1 and 3 ninety-six pages written in Dillon's chatty, easy devoted entirely to read stylemy four-legged friends. There are also maps, including those Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of the Dan American Dingo -Daylandings and the Civil War battles, she's learned quite a timeline for each major period (Middle Ages, Tudors, Stuarts, Georgians, Victorians and Twentieth Century) and some gorgeous illustrations by former Kate Greenaway winner PJ Lynchlot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406311928</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nina Grunfeld1529507987|title=How To Get What You Want|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=How To Get What You Want is a self help book aimed at young people 'at a crossroads in their life', who are unsure what to do next. The author is a Life Coach who recognises that simply knowing what you want to do is half the battle towards achieving it, and sets out to help the reader identify who they are and what they really want using self awareness type exercises like the 'Balance Chart'. Later on the book deals with how to achieve those goals by giving advice on how to focus and think positively.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406323845</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewRepair Shop Craft Book|author=Ruth Wickings Walker Books and Frances Castle|title=Pop-Up: A Paper Engineering MasterclassSonia Albert (Illustrator)
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|summary=With its subtitle of I love ''A Paper Engineering MasterclassThe Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a hard day, you know exactly there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what youthey're getting from ''Pop-Up''worth. You'll see how pop-up books , the value is in what these possessions are made, learn worth to the tips of people who own them and the trade, memories they hold. No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend as much time and make four elaborate 3D models yourselfeffort as is required to achieve the desired result. If you Regular viewers know the experts and they're not rushing out to buy all brilliant at explaining what it immediately, thereis they's something wrong with you!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140633085X</amazonuk>re doing. But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wallace and Gromit024162343X|title=Wallace and Gromit's World of InventionStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=45
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|summary=We donI 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 have many rules around these so much want to learn about the British army'ere partss successes (and occasional failures, but one of them is that we dondidn't review TV tie-dwell on those) in books. Itwhat came to be called 's not snobbery; itthe colonies's just that as want to dispute what right the army had to be there's only so many books we have time to cover and TV covers itself quite nicely alreadyin the first place. So Looking back, I still believe Iwas right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'm being naughty by reviewing the problem'politely. I wish I'Wallace and Gromitd had Sathnam Sanghera's World of Invention'', but I donStolen History''t care. I couldn't resist it! And Christmas is coming up, so you need some gift ideas, don't you? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007382189</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan James BrownJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=The Tolpuddle Boy: Transported to Hell Fritz and BackKurt
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|summary=In 1834, six men from We start with the Dorset village pair of Tolpuddle were deported to Australia for brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their trade union activities. This bookmuckers, written 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 simple style Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for childrenusing 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, tells the true story and instead of what happened having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite themin with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the politics round-ups of Jews. These in their arrest and deportation turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the campaign by trade unionists US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other supporters of trade union rights , packed off on the same train to overturn their convictionsBuchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905512775</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Winton and Fred Pearce1913750353|title=The Big Green BookBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=45
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|summary=Well, ''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a sub-title's right: it's big, it's green (in message, not colour) 366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and itTickle Your Humerus''s a which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''The Big Green BookRazzmatazz'' is a super guide , tells you how to environmental issues for young kids. Itpronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''s packed to the brim with information), gives you a definition and has more flaps then includes the word in a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and pop-ups than you could shake frequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I've ever encountered a stick at.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905811438</amazonuk>word which uses the letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Der Manuelian0711266204|title=Hieroglyphs From A To ZThe Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=3.5
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|summary=This look at hieroglyphs comes with stencils, so that children 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 write out their own coded messagespass without my noticing. It I's ve established which species feed from the ground, which pop to the feeders for a simple introduction quick snatch of some food and who settles in for any budding Egyptologistsa good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if, as a child, and has I'd had access to a lot book such as ''The Secret Life of additional information about Ancient Egypt to keep them interestedBirds''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0764953060</amazonuk> So – what is it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Mayhew0192779230|title=Katie and the Waterlily Pond|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=When Katie and Grandma are at the art gallery, they see there's a competition to paint a picture in the style of Monet. Grandma has a bit of a rest, whilst Katie goes off to look at the Monet exhibition Very Short Introductions for inspiration. When one Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of the paintings speaks to her - really speaks to her - she steps inside it and explores... Subtitled ''A Magical Journey Through Five Monet Masterpieces'', ''Katie and the Waterlily Pond'' is a wonderful introduction for children to art in general and Claude Monet in particular. They'll get a feel for ''In The Woods and Giverny'', ''Bathers at La Grenouillère'', ''Path Through the Poppies'', ''The Waterlily Pond'', and ''The Rue Montorgueil, Paris''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408304635</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGerms|author=Anthony Browne|title=Play The Shape GameIsabel Thomas|rating=45
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|summary=You might 'Germs' seems to have already played the shape game. It involves doing become a squiggle on a piece of paper, then either you or someone else catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to turn that squiggle into a full picture. Anthony Browne played it lots when he was little, and now he's playing it with 45 celebrities and make youill. Proceeds from 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 auction world of germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the artwork are going to [http://www.rainbowtrust.orgthinking has developed over time.uk The Rainbow Trust Childrenvocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the trickiest concepts and you's Charity]ll soon be familiar with bacteria, who provide emotional fungi, protists and viruses – and practical support to families who have a child with a life threatening or terminal illness. A fantastic causehow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331317</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vicki Myron and Brett Witter1800464495|title=Dewey100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: The True Story Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a World-famous Library CatLove of Maths|author=Emma Smith
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|summary=Every young girl will face her periods starting but it’s the preparation which goes on beforehand which will determine whether or not this is seen as the body developing naturally or a problem. Both are attitudes which are likely ''Babies seem to stay through life and it’s obviously better that it’s be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the firmer rather than the latter. ‘’Have You Started Yet’’ gives factual information in an informative womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and reassuring manner comprehending addition and in a form which is easily readable to girls of about subtraction at nine years months old and above.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230744907</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=Richard Platt1406395404|title=Would You Believe...bed testers get paid to sleep?!The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=It is quite certain the reader 2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this book will not have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be a bed testerdoing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, however broad from children to adults will have the smile it carries as odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it suggests anyone can get the employment they dream afterworse. Neither will she or he be a vital scribe And there's also the fact that for some ancient civilisationfar too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a slave, a drudge, or a worker in a Communist collective farmvirtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. But it is definitely an eye-opener how all that Being up early, working late has been praised and so much more can be considered by just 48 tidy pagesthe ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199119864</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Platt1849767343|title=Would You Believe...Vatican City is a country?!Count on Me|author=Miguel Tanco
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|summary=Cities don’t 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 spring up around usstarting out on the numbers journey. They have taken thousands It isn't: it's a hymn of years of civilisation praise to form, however surprising that might appear at timesmaths. Conversely, there are some who are just a few hundreds of years old that have been empty for centuries, It's about why maths is so wonderful and others that have been planned over a drawing board and become a capital city how you meet it in a decade-long instant. All are within these tidy 48 pageseveryday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199119708</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Platt1849767009|title=Would You Believe...two cyclists invented the aeroplane?!It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=Where can you find a welter This could have been one of trivia those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and facts about transport from the ages, from ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the first use of Shanks’s pony, to hot-and-bothered person in the latest holidays supermarket who is coughing fit to the edge of space? bust. What has But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much detail it can fit in the reasons for Mark Twain’s pen-name? more than a book about not wearing clothes. Where can the adult browsing their child’s non-fiction library find It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They'Glamorous Glennisre fine. In fact, they' going re wonderful.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=It'kinda screwys more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she' and see how d get me a book about it refers to the breaking . A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the sound barrier? basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. In these tidy 48 pagesThankfully, for onetimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199119694</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Glenn Murphy1526362759|title=ScienceDosh: Sorted! EvolutionHow to Earn It, Nature and StuffSave It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande
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|summary=Ever wanted to know What a relief! A book about evolutionmoney, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, nature and stuff? Unsurprisinglywhy it matters, this how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is the book for out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. If you Your reasons for wanting money don're interested in [httpt matter://wwwwe all need it to some extent.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0330508938?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0330508938 space You might want to go into business, black holes and stuff]be a clever shopper, then Glenn Murphy has also written a sister book in the saver (you might even become an ''Science: Sorted!investor'' series packed full of all the information ) and there might be something youreally, ''really''d want to knowbuy. It There's all written with also the possibility of using to do good in the fabulous quality that made [[Why is Snot Green? by Glenn Murphy|Why is Snot Green?]] such a must-readworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330508946</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicole Dryburgh178112938X|title=Talk to the Hand|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We first met Nicole Dryburgh Survival in her book ''Space: The Way I See It'', which she wrote at eighteen, and which detailed her battles with cancer and the loss of her sight. We loved the warts-and-all picture of her life that she gave us then, and so we were really pleased to see that she's written a second book. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340996978</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewApollo 13 Mission|author=Gary Blackwood|title=The Great Race: The Amazing Round-The-World Auto Race Of 1908David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=In 1908, Henry FordIt's Model T hadn't yet brought cars to fifty years since the masses. The pioneers of Apollo 13 mission was launched from the world of automobiles were experimenting and discovering just what the car could doKennedy Space Centre in Florida, by driving right round but the world. Except they didn't want to be pioneers. One story of that journey remains one of the competitors, Antonio Scarfoglio, put it so perfectly when he said ''We had set out to perpetuate an act greatest survival stories of splendid folly, not to open up a new way for men. We wished to be madmen, not pioneersall time. '' IsnSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission't that about the best quote you've ever read?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0810994895</amazonuk>is a brilliant retelling of what happened.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicola DaviesKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=Gaia WarriorsNine Ways to Empower Tweens
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=The best way ''9 Ways to read this book Empower Tweens'' is to treat it like a magazine: flip the pages and dip in. I can guarantee that you will find something self-help book for tweens, setting out to catch your eyeshow them vital #lifeskills. Fashion addicts could start on page 136 Don''Dressing t groan! I know there is a market glut of such books for the climate'', foodies may prefer page 124 ''Rockwe grown-star food''. The array of different typefaces ups and page colours make the book very easy to browsefor young adults too, and the author excels at explaining difficult concepts in but there is a straightforward way. So certain sections needful space in it could be considered not just as an increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for older children or teen readers, but as an informative read material for adults as welltweens too. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406312347</amazonuk>0228818826}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gary Blackwood1609809173|title=Mysterious Messages - A History of Codes and CiphersEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes
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|summary=There's something utterly cool about codes Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and ciphers. Itvibrant, the 1889 World's not just Fair in Paris encompassed the spies with their secret worldbest, it's the mystery of an ostensibly random set of letters or pictures. It's being able to unravel them worst and the beautiful from many countries and see what they're hidingcultures. It's a combination of geeky riddle solving (and geeks are coolThe French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, so there) food festivals and uncovering concerts to stun the unknown meaningssenses. Gary Blackwood treats us to a history of codes and ciphers, looking at their creationAnd towering above it all, the stories behind them, most popular and how the most hated monument to crack themFrench accomplishment and daring – the Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0525479600</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Humanatomy: How the Body Works
|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=VariousLangford_Emily|title=Hello Kitty Guide to LifeEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford
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|summary=Emily found words ''Hello Kittyuseful'' is , 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 huge worldwide phenomenon with a whole heap of related merchandise featuring the cute cartoon cat step further and began counting in dresses twos. She knew all about odd and ribbonseven numbers. It appeals to girls and women Then she began counting in threes: half of many agesthe list were even numbers, but the other half was odd and it was this new hardback book list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''Hello Kitty – Guide to Lifethreeven'' is aimed . (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 a subset of the brand's younger fanseven numbers, probably around 6 to 14 year oldsbut it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000732622X</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Abbott Nez Buckingham_Dawn|title=Cromwell Dixon's Sky-Cycle|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Meet Cromwell Dixon. He's a real tinkerer, forever in a barn or somewhere building something manically unusual. Luckily - although his long-suffering mother may disagree with that word - he's around at The Little Book of the birth of powered flight. Will his plans for a pedalled air machine work?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399250417</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDawn Chorus|author=Tracey Turner|title=Deadly Peril Caz Buckingham and How To Avoid ItAndrea Pinnington
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Have you ever wondered what What a treat! I really did mean to do if youjust ''glance''re bitten by blue-ringed octopus, or if you find yourself up to your neck in quicksand? Itat 's a dangerous world out there and Tracey Turner has all the information that young explorers, daredevils and fact-hounds need to know.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597944</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philip Ardagh|title=Philip Ardagh's The Little Book of Howlers, Blunders and Random Mistakery|rating=4|genre=Childrenthe Dawn Chorus's Non-Fiction|summary=There's nought so queer as folk. From but the idiot who broke into a car without realising his name and date pull of birth were clearly seen on his tattoo on CCTV, to the people who ordered someone sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to paint clothes resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the people in the Sistine Chapel birds and listening to their song. Then - just because I could - before others came along who decided the original had been better, I went back and did it all again and it was just as good the people who dismissed The Beatles as never likely to make a name for themselvessecond time around. We have long been a race of idiots.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330471724</amazonuk>So, what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Kindberg and Tracey TurnerPankhurst_Women|title=The Comic Strip Fantastically Great Women Who Made History of Space|author=Kate Pankhurst
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|summary=Sally Kindberg A lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and Tracey Turner treated us politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to a [[The Comic Strip History of the World by Sally Kindberg read about or regard as role models. Of course, this isn't true and Tracey Turner|Comic Strip History there are plenty of the World]]women who, throughout history, and have now turned their attention to spaceachieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. They explain to children everything So here, in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the origins stories of the universe, to what ancient civilisations thought some of the stars, through astronomers discovering the truth about planets, right up to current space missionsthem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594325</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony RobinsonIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Bad KidsWomen in Sport: the Worst-Behaved Children in HistoryFifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I'm starting to wonder about the type of person who would write such a horrible and terrifying book for children; it's as confusing as trying to work out an age category for this book. ''Bad KidsWomen in Sport'' is a gruesome look through history using coming to us just before the ways children were punished through the ages as a central coreWinter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. 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) to the modern day celebrates a century and a half of the use development of ASBOs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230737870</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Leroy Ripley|title=Ripley's Believe It or Not 2010|rating=4|genre=Childrenwomen's Non-Fiction|summary=If you're sport by looking for a book which is going to keep a child (or some adults!) happy for hours on end then look no further. So long at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as you don't mind the groans of (mock) disgustswimming, fencing, riding, skating, screams and much more. Think of horror a sport and constantly being asked to look a pioneering woman succeeding at (another) picture or listen as more it is read to you then you should be absolutely fineprobably in this book somewhere. Following hot on the heels of last year's success ''Ripley's Believe It or Not 2010'' Each entry is packed full of bizarre facts (some of which you might appreciate knowing – others you will definitely wish you didn't), fiends a double-page spread with a brief biography and freaksa striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847945856</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlie NortonRooney_Dino|title=The Bumper Book of BraveryDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The Bumper Book of Bravery looks at bravery in all its forms - from people in wars, to explorers enduring amazing hardshipsLift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through spies and revolutionaries, by way various different ages of sportsmen and womendinosaurs, even to brave animals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905264836</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philip Ardagh and Mike Gordon|title=Dinosaurs (Henry's House)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Henry's House is extraordinary: it's full we meet a variety 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 some of Heroes|rating=3|genre=History|summary=For most of us (well, for me certainly) the word whom are very familiar but some I'hero' summons an image d never heard of capesbefore! Each scene peels open, spandex and garish primary colours. Conn and David Iggulden have written a book about the other kind – the every day heroes from historylayer by layer, who achieve incredible things without showing you what the aid of superpowers. From household names like Horatio Nelson and Winston Churchill, various dinosaurs are getting up to lesser known people, like Aphra Behn and Hereward the Wakewith background noises, ''The Dangerous Book of Heroes'' covers a comprehensive range of characters from the history of the British Empire. From campaigners for political change, brilliant battle strategists to daring explorers, each roars and every one of the people in this book lived brilliant lives and changed the world forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000726092X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Brocket|title=Ripping Things squawks to Do|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Right from the very moment I opened the envelope this accompany them! The book was delivered in, I had the distinct feeling this would be a real gem of creates a bookdinosaur experience, and how right I was. Though, initially, I was reminded of the Iggulden brothersrather than just being facts about dinosaurs it' ''Dangerous Book for Boys'' series, this book has a s very different ethosvisual, even though placing the subject matter overlaps somewhat unavoidably making it bear comparison.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980966</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Andy Cullen dinosaurs in their habitats and Simon Rickerty|title=Peas!|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=The farmer sows the seed from which Penelope and Pete Pea grow. They're picked, packed, delivered, bought, cooked and eaten, and we follow them on every step of their journeygiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141502584</amazonuk>
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