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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]==Children's non__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --fiction==__NOTOC__>{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David BorgenichtZabriskie1|title=WCS Junior SurviveoPedia HC (Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook Junior Editions)A Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of Belonging and Community, Rooted in Indigenous Wisdom|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=45
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|summary=You probably recall all the Worst-Case Scenario books that were a big publishing phenomenon about a decade ago. They itemised things that might be a cause for concern''Across many African and Indigenous systems, whether differences in the officehow children learn, sense , or process the dating world, or the junglewere not treated as disorders to be corrected. And then they seemed to run out They were understood as natural variations of info, human intelligence and vanish. But worry not, for the main instigator, David Borgenicht, is backawareness, with a range of similar books for each holding value within the junior audience. And here he offers a large format encyclopaedia pictorially warning us about dangers in the world around us, and offering advice for us to memorise so we can escape as best we cancommunity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>081187690X</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Camilla de la Bedoyere, Clive Gifford, John Farndon, Steve Parker, Stewart Ross and Philip SteeleB0GFQ81YQK|title=Discover How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Extreme WorldOral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5
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|summary=In my day it would have been called 'an encyclopaedia'. It would have had a lot more textBefore people came and joined the animals, been rather dull – there was only the sky and remained largely unread by those who received it as a worthy presentthe earth. For 'Discover Everything was quiet until the earth and the Extreme World' you need sky began to tal to start at each other. First, the opposite end of earth created bodies. And then, the scalesky breathed life into them. It's about visual impactThese were the first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. A fact is linked to a picture And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and the more striking the better – learned and only then is it explainedremembered, especially how they came to be. The text is as simple as possible – clearWhen they grew old and died, unambiguous wording which drives their bodies returned to the point home as quickly as possible. The layout encourages you earth and their life returned to move the book so sky. And that you see is why the pictures better earth and the sky are both revered. Only together can read the wordsthey create human beings. It's fun And that is why people must pay attention to, and (say it quietly) it's educationalcare for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184810474X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard BrasseyB0GHPMNF6P|title=The Story How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of the OlympicsMalagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's Before people came and joined the story of animals, there was only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the Olympics from earliest times – 776 BC earth and the sky began to tal to each other. First, the earth created bodies. And then, the sky breathed life into them. These were the first Games at Olympia right through humans and they belonged to the 2012 Games in London both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and even a few hints about remembered, especially how things might they came to be different for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. It's told in When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the form which seems earth and their life returned to appeal to every child – the comic strip – but don't be mislead into thinking sky. And that this is light-weight or superficialwhy the earth and the sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. It's anything butAnd that is why people must pay attention to, and care for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000489</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally Kindberg and Tracey TurnerStephanie Zabriskie|title=The Comic Strip Big Fat Book How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of KnowledgeMaasai Elders
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|genre=Graphic NovelsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Who doesn't like 'How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a nice comic, eh? There's something so accessible about the lovely picture and text combos, and facts are far children’s nonfiction book drawn from dull when they come via speech bubbles, don't you think? Taking full advantage of this fact, Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner have, for some time, been creating factual books for children which pass on their insight and Important Information through the medium oral traditions of comics. Now for the first timeMaasai elders in Ngorongoro, you can collect 3 of their titles in one simple volumeTanzania. Combining the previous reviewed [[The Comic Strip History of the World by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|History of the World]] and [[The Comic Strip History of Space by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|History of Space]] with the ''Greatest Greek Myths''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408808242</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jason Heller1839948493|title=The Captain Jack Sparrow Handbook: A Guide to Swashbuckling with the Pirates World of the CaribbeanDogs|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summaryauthor=You don't see pirates reading many books. If you ask me, it's because their hooks make the pages hard to turn. Of course, the salty damp air would do nothing for a book's longevity, just one more reason to make sure you've read and understood this before you take to the ocean wave Carlie Sorosiak and set sail on your adventures.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745048</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Claudia Myatt|title=Go Green! A Young Person's Guide to the Blue PlanetLuisa Uribe
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|summary=Go Green!? Forget In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that title. What planet does that come from? LetI's start againm a sucker for dogs. This fantastic book is about the In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn'bluet trust and I'' stuffve loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, everything from oceans to raindrops. The any book covers just about every angle that a child passionate about water might conceivably find of interest – marine creaturesdogs, icebergs, sunken volcanoes, tsunamis, undersea exploration, bores I'm going to sit down and whirlpools, inland waterways, tides, lochs devour. Then I'm going to go back and locksread it properly. There are answers to lots And so it was with ''A World of questions of the Dogs'Why is the sea blue?' variety. Sandwiched into this comprehensive guide to the physical geography and biodiversity of the seas (probably enough for GCSE) is a large dollop of green ketchup, with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to be sure, but my instinctive reaction is that here is four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the best childrenaccidental owner of an American Dingo - she's introduction to 'water' that I've ever seenlearned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906435014</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lindsey Fraser1529507987|title=J K Rowling: the Mystery of FictionThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5
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|summary=Easily one of the most renowned authors of the 21st century, JI love ''The Repair Shop''.K It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. Rowling After a hard day, there's incredibly successful Harry Potter series shook the core of the literary worldnothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. It provoked a reaction You see, the likes of which have never been seen before, and likely never will. A unique set of factors combined value is in order for what these possessions are worth to the Harry Potter books to reach people who own them and the level of success memories they enjoyed, and these factors are explored in this biography of Rowlinghold. It is difficult not No expense appears to be fascinated by spared and the person who experts spend as much time and effort as is responsible for required to achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the phenomenon that is Harry Potter, experts and although writing is a profession that doesnthey't have a typical path by which re all brilliant at explaining what it can be reached, Rowling's story is anything but orthodox, and her personal 'rags to richesthey' story only enhances the Harry Potter legacyre doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906134693</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Bond024162343X|title=Paddington's Guide to LondonStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Some things are just 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 brilliant idea'god'. Young Paddington Bear has written a guide book to his adopted home in Where was the way that only he could do proof? In history lessons, itwas probably worse still. All his old friends are there – Mr Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and Mrs Brown and their children Jonathan and Judy along with their housekeeper Mrs Bird and of course occasional failures, but we mustndidn't forget Paddingtondwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies's old friend Mr Gruber who has an encyclopaedic knowledge of Londonas want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. SoLooking back, where is Paddington planning I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to take you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007415915</amazonuk>approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris Van AllsburgJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Queen of the Falls|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Annie Edson Taylor was sixty-two years old and a widow. She didn't have very much money saved and she was worried about her future - until she had an inspiration. She would have a barrel made - a very stout and water-tight barrel - and she would be the first person to brave the thundering waters of Niagra Falls in this barrel. Chris Van Allsburgh tells us her story from the moment of inspiration right through to the times after the epic trip, but in truth the words are simpy there to eleborate on his wonderful drawings. They're so good that you could be forgiven for thinking that they're black Fritz and white photographs on occasions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392722</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Judy Bartkowiak|title=NLP For TeensKurt
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|genre=Home and FamilyConfident Readers|summary=NLP For Teens is part 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 Engaging NLP series synagogue choir and is at a follow-on from NLP for Childrenvocational school. Many a parent Kurt has been tempted to leave home when make sure the lamps are turned on at their children are teenagers; difficult very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as it a light switch. But this is for the parents ittime just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a traumatic time for 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 teens younger Kurt at home with his mother and anything which makes it a little easier is sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to be applauded particularly when Britain or the changes will come from US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the teens rather than being imposed by same train to Buchenwald and the parentstone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907685901</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francesca Simon and Tony Ross1913750353|title=A Horrid Factbook: Horrid HenryBritannica's BodiesWord of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=When you eat or chew, 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 know all that little clumps of earwax fall out of your ears! And in a lifetime you produce enough urine need to fill know about 450 baths! Do this brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you know how loud the loudest burp was? Or what to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a bogey is made of? If these are definition and then includes the sort of facts and figures, complete with word in a handful of Horrid Henry sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and Tony Rossfrequently amusing illustration too. I don' illustrations, that would rock your childt think I's world then this is ve ever encountered a word which uses the book for youletter Z four times before!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001620</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruthie Knapp and Jill McElmurry0711266204|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 from the point of view Secret Life of Leonardo da Vinci's painting herself, and will strike a chord with any intelligent and curious youngsters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408811588</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBirds|author=Melissa Wareham|title=Take Me Home: Tales of Battersea DogsMoira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45
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|summary=Melissa Wareham always wanted I have recently discovered a dog but her parents would never allow it great pleasure: I sit and she didnwatch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I't get good enough exam results 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 her next option – becoming a vetgood munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. Not one to be deterred she joined the staff at Battersea Dogs HomeIt would have been wonderful if, first as a kennel maid and eventually child, I'd had access to a book such as the head ''The Secret Life of rehomingBirds''. 'Take Me Home' So – what is the story of some of the highlights of her life at the home and some of the dogs which she met whilst she was there.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849413924</amazonuk>it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick Dillon and P J Lynch0192779230|title=Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Story Invisible World of BritainGerms|author=Isabel Thomas
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Author Patrick Dillon has put together 'Germs' seems to have become a clear, wellcatch-written and beautifully concise story of Britain, summing up all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. In the history of Britain and Ireland first book in what looks to be a little over 320 pages. Significant eventsvery promising new series, ranging from the Norman Conquest OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the South Sea Bubble, and groups world of germs. We get an informed look at how people ranging from highwaymen to originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the Romantic poets, are each dealt with in between 1 and 3 pages written in Dillonthinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist's chatty, easy to read style. There are also maps, including those which explains some of the D-Daylandings trickiest concepts and the Civil War battles, a timeline for each major period (Middle Ages, Tudorsyou'll soon be familiar with bacteria, Stuartsfungi, Georgians, Victorians protists and Twentieth Century) viruses – and some gorgeous illustrations by former Kate Greenaway winner PJ Lynchhow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406311928</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nina Grunfeld1800464495|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 100 Ways in their life', who are unsure what 100 Days to do next. The author is Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing 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>}} {{newreviewLove of Maths|author=Ruth Wickings and Frances Castle|title=Pop-Up: A Paper Engineering MasterclassEmma Smith
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=With its subtitle of ''A Paper Engineering Masterclass''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, you know exactly what you're getting from ''Pop-Up''. You'll see how pop-up books are madebeing aware of quantities at seven hours old, learn the tips of the tradeassessing probability at six months old, and make four elaborate 3D models yourselfcomprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old. If you're not rushing out to buy it immediately, there's something wrong with you!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140633085X</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=Ian Winton and Fred Pearce1406395404|title=The Big Green BookAwesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=Well, the title's right2020 has been a strange year: itI doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('s big, itwho needs sleep? - I's green (in message, not colourve got loads to be doing) and it's a bookothers will worry unnecessarily. ''The Big Green Book'' Most people, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is a super guide only likely to environmental issues for young kidsmake it worse. It And there's packed to also the brim with informationfact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, working late has more flaps been praised and pop-ups than you could shake a stick atthe ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905811438</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Der Manuelian1849767343|title=Hieroglyphs From A To ZCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=34.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=This look at hieroglyphs comes with stencils, so The title and format of this book might lead you to think that children can write it's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out their own coded messageson the numbers journey. Itisn't: it's a simple introduction for any budding Egyptologists, and has a lot hymn of additional information praise to maths. It's about Ancient Egypt to keep them interestedwhy maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0764953060</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Mayhew1849767009|title=Katie and the Waterlily PondIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=45
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|summary=When Katie and Grandma are at the art gallery, they see thereThis could have been one of those books which 's a competition preaches to paint a picture in the style of Monet. Grandma has a bit of a rest, whilst Katie goes off to look at choir': the Monet exhibition for inspiration. When one of only people who'll buy it are the paintings speaks to her - really speaks to her - she steps inside it people who know that nudity is OK and explores... Subtitled the ones who ''A Magical Journey Through Five Monet Masterpiecesknow'', that it''Katie s shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and -bothered person in the Waterlily Pondsupermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It'' is s a wonderful introduction for children to art in general celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and Claude Monet in particularmarkings. They'll get a feel for ''re fine. In The Woods and Giverny''fact, they''Bathers at La Grenouillère'', ''Path Through the Poppies'', ''The Waterlily Pond'', and ''The Rue Montorgueil, Paris''wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408304635</amazonuk>
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{{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's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the 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''. Thankfully, times have changed.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Browne1526362759|title=Play The Shape GameDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=You might have already played the shape game. It involves doing What a squiggle on a piece relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of paperwhat it is, then either why it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you or someone else has can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to turn that squiggle some extent. You might want to go into business, be a full picture. Anthony Browne played it lots when he was littleclever shopper, and now hea saver (you might even become an ''investor''s playing it with 45 celebrities ) and there might be something you. Proceeds from the book and the auction of the artwork are going really, ''really'' want to [http://www.rainbowtrust.orgbuy.uk The Rainbow Trust Children There's Charity], who provide emotional and practical support also the possibility of using to families who have a child with a life threatening or terminal illness. A fantastic causedo good in the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331317</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=Vicki Myron David Long and Brett WitterStefano Tambellini (illustrator)|titlerating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=DeweyIt'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 True Story Apollo 13 Mission'' is a brilliant retelling of a World-famous Library Catwhat happened.}}{{Frontpage|author=Kathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=Nine Ways to Empower Tweens
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|summary=This heart''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-warming help book tells the wonderful true story of a cat called Dewey. His beginnings were very humble and his life could quite probably have been quite short if it had not been for a fortuitous event that occurred one cold winter morning. Vicki Myron, the chief librarian at Spencer Library in Iowatweens, heard some very strange noises coming from the book drop box that borrowers used in order setting out to return their books when the library was closedshow them vital #lifeskills. On opening the box she discovered Don't groan! I know there is a smallmarket glut of such books for we grown-ups and for young adults too, dirty, shivering kitten and her heart melted. As but there is a consequence, the kitten, which was soon needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to be named Dewey, was adopted younger and became the official library catyounger children for material for tweens too. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847388442</amazonuk>0228818826}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Thomson and Chloe Thomson1609809173|title=Have You Started Yet?: You and your period: getting the facts straightEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=45
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|summary=Every young girl will face her periods starting but it’s Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the best, the preparation which goes on beforehand which will determine whether or not this is seen as worst and the body developing naturally or a problembeautiful from many countries and cultures. Both are attitudes which are likely The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, food festivals and concerts to stay through life and it’s obviously better that it’s stun the firmer rather than senses. And towering above it all, the latter. ‘’Have You Started Yet’’ gives factual information in an informative most popular and reassuring manner and in a form which is easily readable the most hated monument to girls of about nine years old French accomplishment and abovedaring – the Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230744907</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey Turner1848576536|title=Dreadful FatesHumanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=4.5
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|summary=Imagine the delight you get, as a book reviewer, when you chance upon a title that stands out, by filling a nice handy gap in the market you'd never even noticed, and doing it so well you want to alert as many people as possible. This is such a time'Get under your own skin, Dreadful Fates is such a bookpick your brains, and as for the gap… This book hits upon the darker corners of all those copious go inside your insides!'highlights of history for the kids' books, touches upon The Darwin Awards compilations of stupid people dying in stupid ways, and merges with those collections of famous last words and epitaphs some of us like flicking through now and again – and does it all for the under-thirteen audience.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408124211</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard PlattLangford_Emily|title=Would You Believe...bed testers get paid to sleep?!Emily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=It is quite certain 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 step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, but the reader other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. (Actually, this book will not be confused me a little bit at first as they're a bed tester, however broad subset of the smile it carries odd numbers but sound as it suggests anyone can get the employment though they dream after. Neither will she or he ought to be a vital scribe for some ancient civilisation, a slave, a drudgesubset of the even numbers, or a worker in a Communist collective farm. But but it is definitely an eye-opener how all that and so much more can be considered by just 48 tidy pagesworked out well when I really thought about it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199119864</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard PlattBuckingham_Dawn|title=Would You Believe...Vatican City is a country?!|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Cities don’t just spring up around us. They have taken thousands of years of civilisation to form, however surprising that might appear at times. Conversely, there are some who are just a few hundreds of years old that have been empty for centuries, and others that have been planned over a drawing board and become a capital city in a decade-long instant. All are within these tidy 48 pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199119708</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Platt|title=Would You Believe...two cyclists invented the aeroplane?!|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Where can you find a welter The Little Book of trivia and facts about transport from the ages, from the first use of Shanks’s pony, to the latest holidays to the edge of space? What has so much detail it can fit in the reasons for Mark Twain’s pen-name? Where can the adult browsing their child’s non-fiction library find a 'Glamorous Glennis' going 'kinda screwy' and see how it refers to the breaking of the sound barrier? In these tidy 48 pages, for one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199119694</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDawn Chorus|author=Glenn Murphy|title=Science: Sorted! Evolution, Nature Caz Buckingham and StuffAndrea Pinnington
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Ever wanted What a treat! I really did mean to know about evolution, nature and stuff? Unsurprisingly, this is the book for you. If youjust ''re interested in [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0330508938?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0330508938 space, black holes and stuff], then Glenn Murphy has also written a sister book in the glance''Science: Sorted!at '' series packed full The Little Book of all the information youDawn Chorus'd want to know. It's all written with but the pull of the fabulous quality that made [[Why is Snot Green? by Glenn Murphy|Why is Snot Green?]] such sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a must-readcold and rather wet February morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330508946</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nicole Dryburgh|title=Talk to I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about 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, birds and which detailed her battles with cancer and the loss of her sightlistening to their song. We loved the warts Then - just because I could -I went back and-did it all picture of her life that she gave us then, again and so we were really pleased to see that she's written a it was just as good the second booktime around. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340996978</amazonuk> So, what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gary BlackwoodPankhurst_Women|title=The Fantastically Great Race: The Amazing Round-The-World Auto Race Of 1908Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst
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|summary=In 1908, Henry Ford's Model T hadn't yet brought cars to the massesA lot of history is about men. The pioneers of the world of automobiles were experimenting Kings and generals and inventors and discovering just what the car could do, by driving right round the worldpoliticians. Except they didn't want to be pioneers. One of the competitorsSometimes, Antonio Scarfoglio, put it so perfectly when he said ''We had set out to perpetuate an act of splendid follyfeels almost as though there were no women in history at all, not let alone ones young girls might like to open up a new way for menread about or regard as role models. We wished to be madmenOf course, not pioneers.'' Isnthis isn't that about the best quote you've ever read?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0810994895</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nicola Davies|title=Gaia Warriors|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The best way to read this book is to treat it like a magazine: flip the pages true and dip in. I can guarantee that you will find there are plenty of women who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something to catch your eyenever seen before. Fashion addicts could start on page 136 ''Dressing for the climate''So here, foodies may prefer page 124 ''Rock-star food''. The array of different typefaces and page colours make the in this wonderful picture book very easy to browsefrom Kate Pankhurst, and are the author excels at explaining difficult concepts in a straightforward way. So certain sections in it could be considered not just as for older children or teen readers, but as an informative read for adults as wellstories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406312347</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gary BlackwoodIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Mysterious Messages - A History of Codes and CiphersWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=There's something utterly cool about codes and ciphers. It's not Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the spies with their secret world, it's the mystery of an ostensibly random set of letters or picturesWinter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It's being able to unravel them celebrates a century and see what they're hiding. Ita half of the development of women's a combination sport by looking at fifty of geeky riddle solving (and geeks are coolits highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, so there) and uncovering the unknown meaningsmuch more. Gary Blackwood treats us to Think of a history of codes sport and ciphers, looking a pioneering woman succeeding at their creation, the stories behind them, it is probably in this book somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and how to crack thema striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0525479600</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert CrowtherRooney_Dino|title=Cars - A Pop-Up Book Of AutomobilesDiscovering Dinosaurs|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summaryauthor=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 Anne Rooney 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 LifeSuzanne Carpenter
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''Hello Kitty'' is Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a huge worldwide phenomenon child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a whole heap variety of related merchandise featuring the cute cartoon cat in dresses and ribbons. It appeals to girls and women creatures, some of many ages, whom are very familiar but this new hardback book some I''Hello Kitty – Guide d never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the various dinosaurs are getting up to Life'' is aimed at the brand's younger fans, probably around 6 with background noises, roars and squawks to 14 year olds.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000732622X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Abbott Nez |title=Cromwell Dixonaccompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's Sky-Cycle|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Meet Cromwell Dixon. He's a real tinkerervery visual, forever placing the dinosaurs in a barn or somewhere building something manically unusual. Luckily - although his long-suffering mother may disagree with their habitats and giving us sounds too that word - he's around at the birth of powered flightspike your imagination. Will his plans for a pedalled air machine work?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399250417</amazonuk>
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