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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]==Children's non-fiction==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul MoranB0GFQ81YQK|title=What If... Humans Were Like Animals?How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary='What If Humans Were More Like Animals' takes various unusual animal attributes Before people came and imagines what it would be like if humans had an equivalent behaviourjoined the animals, ability, or physical featurethere was only the sky and the earth. For instance, if we had teeth like a shark, we wouldn't have Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to worry about eating too many sweetseach other. First, brushing our teeth, or even chomping down on a hard objectthe earth created bodies. Whenever a tooth fell outAnd then, a new one would take its placethe sky breathed life into them. If we had These were the comparative strength of a Hercules beetlefirst humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, we could lift a double decker busespecially how they came to be. When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the earth and if we could jump their life returned to the equivalent of a froghopper insect, we'd be able to leap over sky scrapers with ease. Not all of And that is why the earth and the animal traits would be so much fun thoughsky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. We wouldn't want our parents And that is why people must pay attention to eat us if we were not as strong as our siblings like the vole, and while eyes on our hands like a starfish might have a few advantagescare for, it would be very awkward as well - who wants to pick things up with their eyes?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780550421</amazonuk>both.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan SnowB0GHPMNF6P|title=How Dinosaurs Really Workthe Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=It’s sometimes difficult 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 find books which appeal tal to reluctant readerseach other. First, particularly boysthe earth created bodies. Three cheers, And then, for Alan Snow who has produced a really smashing book about those ever-popular dinosaursthe sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. Here is a book which will appeal not only And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, especially how they came to bright kids during be. When they grew old and died, their inevitable dinosaur phase, bodies returned to the earth and also their life returned to more struggling readers, a little later onthe sky. This And that is exactly why the sort of book kids earth and the sky are both revered. Only together can pore over they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to, and care for several weeks on end in order to become something of an authority on prehistoric animals in front of their mates, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857073141</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tony RobinsonStephanie Zabriskie|title=Tony Robinson's Weird World How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Wonders - World War IIMaasai Elders|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders 'How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is an informative, easy to read book for children covering WW2. I would describe it as something of a cross between a school text children’s nonfiction book and Terry Deary's Horrible Histories series - as much as I am certain Mr Deary would shudder at drawn from the thought oral traditions of any of his books being crossed with a text bookMaasai elders in Ngorongoro, Tanzania. This isn't quite facts, facts and nothing but the facts, it does break things up with humour, but I would describe this as book meant to teach history, unlike Deary's books which I would describe as books which make reading fun, and just happen to inform children on history as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447227689</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary1839948493|title=Terrifying Tudors (Horrible Histories)A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and I've always thought Terry Deary was years ahead loved most of his timethem. I wish I felt the same about human beings. He was writing books that boys really wanted So, any book about dogs, I'm going to read many years before the current emphasis on boy friendly reading material sit down and all the efforts to close the ever widening gender gap in readingdevour. Horrible Histories have always been brilliant to motivate boys Then I'm going to go back and read, but the older copies do show their ageit properly. Progress has been made in the way books are printed to make them more accessible to struggling readers over the last 20 years. Horrible Histories new editions celebrating And so it was with ''20 Horrible YearsA World of Dogs'' has addressed this issue and makes the books not only the type of books that boys want , with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to read, but also my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the type accidental owner of book that younger children or those with reading difficulties can readan American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135783</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary1529507987|title=Awful Egyptians The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Horrible HistoriesIllustrator)|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I love ''Facts, facts and nothing but the factsThe Repair Shop'' - if this is your idea of a history book - stop right here. Terry Deary It's Horrible Histories do contain facts, in a well laid out easy my go-to follow manner. But Terry Deary did not intend programme when I want to write the Horrible History as history books, but rather as joke booksbe cheered up. They may have ended up with far more history than he originally intended, but they remain After a collection of amusing stories and jokeshard day, rather there's nothing better than a collection of dry factswatching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. Deary never intended his books You see, the value is in what these possessions are worth to be used to teach history - in fact the mere mention of this really sets him offpeople who own them and the memories they hold. He set out No expense appears to write books that children wanted to read, books that are both engaging be spared and entertaining, the experts spend as much time and whether he intended it effort as such or not - he has created a series which truly engages boys long before this concept became popular. Very few children pick up a book because they want is required to learn about historyachieve the desired result. Children pick up Deary's books because he speaks directly to them, not in the language of authority and Regular viewers know the adult world, but in a as co-conspirator. They read his books because they are fun, but because he makes history both entertaining experts and relevant to them, they actually do learn this as well. What's more, they remember re all brilliant at explaining what it unlike the facts is they might memorise for a history quiz're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135759</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary024162343X|title=Measly Middle Ages (Horrible Histories)Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The Horrible Histories series is a favourite with both schools and Home Educators, but Terry Deary never intended his books to be used I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education. He originally set out to write a joke book, based on a historical subject, but freed from classes because I disputed the constraints of school - he discovered what so many of us have also found - history really is fun. Instead existence of a joke book with a bit of history, Deary ended up with a history book - with quite a lot of jokes'god'. But these books were never intended as educational texts, they were written to entertain, and Where was the proof? his Horrible Histories - Measly Middle Ages does just thatIn history lessons, it entertains both children and adultswas probably worse still. It is difficult Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to read any of Dearylearn about the British army's books without learning somethingsuccesses (and occasional failures, but learning is incidental - the fun comes first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135767</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hallfridur Olafsdottir and Porarinn Mar Baldursson|title=Maximus Musicus Visits the Orchestra|rating=3.5|genre=Childrenwe didn's Non-Fiction|summary=One day Maxi wanders into a rehearsal of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, where he is entranced t dwell on those) in what came to hear Ravel’s Bolero. He encounters most of be called 'the orchestral instruments and there’s a lot of whimsical humour colonies' as Maxi moves from instrument want to instrument. Eventually he falls asleep on dispute what right the stage, tired out by army had to be there in the excitement of his adventuresfirst place. He wakes to a loud booming noise as the beginning of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is playedLooking back, and he finds I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the orchestra is in concertproblem' politely. He scuttles down into a packed auditorium. At the end of the concert, Maximus joins in the standing ovation which precedes the stirring home-grown encoreI wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1937330176</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip ArdaghJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=The Truth About LoveFritz and Kurt
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=We are never too far from springtimestart with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, whendoing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, of coursehelping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours''young maneach 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 fancy lightly turns will, and instead of having a national vote to thoughts of lovekeep 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. [[:Category:Philip Ardagh|Beardy Ardagh]] is hoping that young people's fancies These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to trivia about love customshear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, predictions of who they'll marry while Fritz and what his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the whole symbolism around love, Valentines same train to Buchenwald and marriage meanthe stone quarry there. The emphasis is on young – this book is definitely suited And us wondering how the titular event for the primary school library, although he slips up once when asking if we think our partners smell nice.adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144720784X</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sharon Werner and Sarah Nelson Forss1913750353|title=Alphasaurs Britannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Other Prehistoric TypesSue Macy|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I suppose ''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 could describe any book need to know about dinosaurs as being sixty-five million years in the making. What is definite is that this title was certainly not knocked up overnightbrilliant book. After a suitably clever, rhyming introduction, we enter the world of prehistory It starts on January 1st with A''Razzmatazz'', and exit with Z, having met 27 tells you how to pronounce it (yes''raz-muh-TAZ''), there's gives you a surprise guest entrant) animals along definition and then includes the wayword in a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. And I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the way we meet them on these supremely clever pages is the selling point.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609051939</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Dilger0711266204|title=Wild Town The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (RSPBillustrator)|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Would you like to know what about I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the thriving wildlife in Britainvast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I's towns and cities? What natural riches are out thereve established which species feed from the ground, if only you know where (and how) which pop to look? ''Wild Town'' will tell you. Divided into habitats - desert, grasslands, wetlands, forests, scrub, caves - the book describes animals, feeders for a quick snatch of some food and some plants, to be found who settles in each. You'll be amazed at what's out there. And you'll find out a lot about for a teeming natural world right on your doorstepgood munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It will tell you the best places to spot animals and plants - andwould have been wonderful if, as a child, thanks I'd had access to the wonderful photography, youa book such as 'll have no trouble recognising them once you're there. From the iconic foxes and badgers to the less well known species The Secret Life of bird, amphibian and insect, itBirds''s all there in all its diversity and beauty.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408173905</amazonuk> So – what is it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Camilla de la Bedoyere, John Farndon, Ian Graham, Richard Platt and Philip Steele0192779230|title=Discover the Awesome Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible Worldof Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Back in 2011 I was impressed by [[Discover 'Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the Extreme World by Camilla de la Bedoyere, Clive Gifford, John Farndon, Steve Parker, Stewart Ross and Philip Steele]]potential to make you ill. I said that In my day it would have been called an encyclopaedia. It would have had the first book in what looks to be a lot more textvery promising new series, been rather dull – OUP and remained largely unread by those who received it as Isabel Thomas have provided a worthy present, but with that book you needed clear and accessible introduction to start at the opposite end world of the scalegerms. It's We get an informed look at how people originally thought about visual impact. A fact is linked to a picture diseases and the more striking the better – what they thought caused them and only then is it explained. The text is as simple as possible – clear, unambiguous wording which drives how the point home as quickly as possiblethinking has developed over time. The layout encourages you to move the book so that you see the pictures better and vocabulary can read the words. Itbe confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 's fun and (say it quietly) itspeak like a scientist's educational. Now I'm not in which explains some of the habit of recycling reviews (honest!) but sometimes you know that trickiest concepts and you can't say it any better as exactly the same comments apply to Discover the Awesome Worldll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848108559</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Martin1800464495|title=Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy: Cool 100 Ways in 100 Days to Remember StuffTeach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=When I look back on my school days it didn't 'Babies seem terribly complicated, but when I see what my grandchildren are coping to be born with I'm ''amazed'' at all that they have to remember. They need to have methods of jogging their memories. 'Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy' gives them lots of ways of remembering a rich variety of factsan amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, but also shows them how they can develop their own ways being aware of helping their memory. It's a book about mnemonics such as rhymesquantities at seven hours old, acrosticsassessing probability at six months old, stories, grouping, linking, pictures, acronyms and wordplaycomprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old. It's not just the methods of remembering that are there - there are all sorts of facts in with the methods.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780551053</amazonuk>}}Did you know this? I didn't! How about:
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=Robert Leroy Ripley1406395404|title=Ripley's Believe It or Not 2013The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=You know it's getting near Christmas when you spot the annual Ripley's ''Believe It or Not'', 2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. the celebration Lots of all thatour routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('s macabre, shocking, gruesome and frequently downright revolting who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and that's just the peopleothers will worry unnecessarily. Just wait until you get Most people, from children to adults will have the non-human itemsodd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. We donAnd there't usually cover annuals at Bookbag because they've frequently gone out of fashion before s also the fact that for far too many months have passedlong, but these books can be read year after year lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and they're still going sleep made to make the average adult feel rather unwellseem like laziness. Yes - you're right. Kids are going Being up early, working late has been praised and the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to love itput on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946739</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona Foden1849767343|title=How to be Gorgeous: Smart Ways to Look and Feel FabulousCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The first point that author Fiona Foden stresses is that title and format of this is a book about how to be gorgeous, but she goes on might lead you to explain think that this isnit't just s either about having glossy hair, great skin and responsibility - or it's a wonderful dress (although she does admit that these help)basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. Itisn's about looking amazing, but still being you. Itt: it's about having confidence in who you are and having a positive energy about youhymn of praise to maths. It's about having great friends - and ''being'' a great friend, in fact being the sort of person that everyone wants to know. She promises that most of what she suggests why maths is not going to break the Bank - somethings are virtually, if not totally, free so wonderful and how you meet it's all easyin everyday life. So how does it live up to the promises?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407132695</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harriet Ziefert and Liz Murphy1849767009|title=ABC Dentist: Healthy Teeth from A It Isn't Rude to Zbe Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=I hope that children are not as fearful This could have been one of going those books which 'preaches to the dentist as used regularly to be choir': the case, but even those only people who 'll buy it are unworried will benefit from this useful book directed mainly at the five to ten age group, although Ipeople who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know''m sure that older children it's shameful will find avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of interest tooevery possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. The ABC format might suggest a younger age rangeThey're fine. In fact, but donthey't be fooled!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609052749</amazonuk>re wonderful.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Rosen1776572858|title=Fantastic Mr DahlHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=Reading this book is rather like curling up in a deep, squishy armchair with a cup of cocoa It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and some squashed-fly biscuits while told me that she'd get me a favourite uncle chats to you book about booksit. He tells you interesting things about Roald Dahl's life 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 then he discusses how those events may have affected his writing, secure in the knowledge I was told that you already know and love the stories. Just it wouldn't be discussed any further as important, he pauses in his chat from time to time to ask your opinion — and it's clear he's really interested in your answerwasn't something which nice people talked about''. Do you prefer the original version of I ''James and the Giant Peachknew''more, or the one which but was eventually published? Can you imagine how funny it would be to see your grandfather looking in through your bedroom windowlittle ''wiser''. Thankfully, like the BFG?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141322136</amazonuk>times have changed.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner1526362759|title=The Comic Strip Book of DinosaursDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=35
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=If I asked What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you 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 put your hands up if you had some extent. You might want to go into business, be a dinosaur book as clever shopper, a youth Isaver (you might even become an ''investor''d feel the draught from here. My grander examples certainly stayed on my shelves for years ) and survived several readingsthere might be something you really, and I'm sure that's not unique - plus, over the intervening years science has learnt a lot of extra facts, really'' want to make the books more accuratebuy. Here then, for There's also the 5-9s, is a primer possibility of prehistory, and one such as using to do good in the young me never hadworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408817462</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Various178112938X|title=Hello Kitty DictionarySurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=The Hello Kitty Dictionary takes a concept It's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the story of that many young students might not find too interesting (me, on journey remains one of the other hand, I love books full greatest survival stories of words) and puts a colourful and fun spin on itall time. Because if you’re having to look up how to spell ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a word, or brilliant retelling of what something means, it helps to have pages with lemon and violet and aquamarine borders, dotted with presents and hearts and starshappened. That’s not to say the dictionary isn’t clear and easy to read because it certainly is: the decorations don’t extend into the centre of the pages, and the entries themselves are bold fuchsia followed by neat black explanations, all neatly formatted on crisp white pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007457197</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|author=Kathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick
|title=Nine Ways to Empower Tweens
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book for tweens, setting out to show them vital #lifeskills. Don't groan! I know there is a market glut of such books for we grown-ups and for young adults too, but there is a needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for tweens too.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francesca Simon and Tony Ross1609809173|title=A Horrid Factbook: FoodEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=For a horrid child our Henry has acquired a lot of factsBrash and elegant, you know sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the latest of his Horrid Fact Books is about food. It follows the usual format of quick-fire facts liberally accompanied by brilliant illustrations from Tony Ross. The book1889 World's divided into chapters which are just Fair in Paris encompassed the right length to appeal to best, the emerging reader worst and to give a regular feel-good buzz when there's another chapter under the beltbeautiful from many countries and cultures. With ninety-nine pages of text there's enough The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, food festivals and concerts to give stun the sense of having read ''a book'' but without senses. And towering above it being too much of a trial. It ticks all , the most popular and the most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – the boxes as an early readerEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444006339</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Robinson1848576536|title=Tony Robinson's Weird World of WondersHumanatomy: RomansHow the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=You could be mistaken for thinking [[:Category:Tony Robinson|Tony Robinson]] had written books like this before, for he was doing 'Horrid History'-style TV programmes before the official ones were made. This series fits so well into his erudite yet family audience-friendly mannerGet under your own skin, pick your brains, and this second book takes us in a primary school curriculum-suiting way into the world of Rome. A lot is in these books, from trivia for all ages (I didngo inside your insides!'t know, or had forgotten, that all those Julius Caesar reliefs and statues are of him in a wig as he was bald), to the delectable gross-out (the posh man's cuisine) to the foregrounding of the obvious difference between them and us (in a word, slavery).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330533894</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathleen KingLangford_Emily|title=Make and Do: BakeEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I love the idea of kids cookingEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. ThereObviously, you can count anything and there's going no limit to be messhow far you can go, probably but then Emily moved a bit step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of waste the list were even numbers, but the other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when youcounted in threes which she called ''threeven''. (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're going a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to have to bite your tongue an awful lotbe a subset of the even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really is the most amazing funthought about it. Best )}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=The Little Book of all, though - from an early age kids learn that they can go into the kitchen Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=5|genre=Animals and make something which they can eat. Wildlife|summary=What a treat! They donI really did mean to just ''glance't need to go to ' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the shops and buy sounds of a ready meal or dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a takeaway for junk foodcold and rather wet February morning. They can make something themselvesI spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and listening to their song. It's a life skillThen - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it was just as good the second time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849154384</amazonuk> So, what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Green and Simon BasherPankhurst_Women|title=Basher Science: OceansFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I've often wondered why this planet A lot of history is called 'earth' when three-quarters of it obviously isn't and it seems that I'm not aloneabout men. Dan Green Kings and Simon Basher have decided to take a close look at the oceans generals and other bodies of water on the planet inventors and to explain them politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in simple wordshistory at all, accompanied by Simon Brasher's illustrations which are almost - but not quite - mangalet alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. ItOf course, this isn's a style which kids t true and there are going to be comfortable with - and they're not going to associate it with plenty of women who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something boring which they have to learnnever seen before. It's funSo here, in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the stories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753433443</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard BrasseyIgnotofsky_Sport|title=The QueenWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Those of ''Women in Sport'' is coming to us who've been around for longer than just before the Queen has been on the throne tend to forget that not everyone knows about her history or who-is-who Winter Olympics in South Korea in the familyFebruary 2018. Richard Brassey has set out to remedy that with this easy-read, almost comic-style book about Her Majesty It celebrates a century and therea half of the development of women's lots in there in the way sport by looking at fifty of fascinating informationits highest achievers, some fun facts and (I'll confess!) a few anecdotes which left me chucklingcovering sports as diverse as swimming, sometimes with and sometimes... erfencing, wellriding, I think we'll gloss over that bitskating, but let me say that and much more. Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book somewhere. Each entry is not at all sycophantic!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001272</amazonuk>a double-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Margaret Anne Brady had been at Lift the orphanage for several years when flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a variety of the Sisters told her that shecreatures, some of whom are very familiar but some I'd been asked never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the various dinosaurs are getting up to, with background noises, roars and squawks to accompany them! The book creates a lady who was crossing dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, placing the Atlantic. This was a dream come true for Margaret as he only relative - her brother William - lived dinosaurs in Boston their habitats and he'd been trying to save up her fare so giving us sounds too that she could join him in the USA. Mrs Carstairs is wealthy and she and Margaret will be travelling First Class - on the maiden voyage of RMS ''Titanic''. All Margaret's dreams seemed to be coming true at oncespike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407131419</amazonuk>
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