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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]==Children's non-fiction==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melissa WarehamB0GFQ81YQK|title=Rescuing GusHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5
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|summary=Melissa Wareham Before people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. Everything was ''convinced'' that she must be adopted: how could someone like her who ''loved'' dogs have been born quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to parents whoeach other. First, wellthe earth created bodies. And then, wouldn't have the sky breathed life into them in . These were the house? She wasn't even that convinced when her mother produced her birth certificatefirst humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. Melissa wouldn't And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, especially how they came to be able . When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to have a dog until she had a home of her own but in the meantime she got a job at Battersea Dogs' Home earth and it was there their life returned to the sky. And that she met Gus. He wasn't in is why the first flush of youth earth and his breath was a weapon of mass destructionthe sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to, but he and Melissa bonded and when he was very poorly - he had kennel cough - she took him homecare for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849418179</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary and Martin BrownB0GHPMNF6P|title=Deadly Days in History (Horrible Histories)|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Horrible Histories' catch phrase is History - with all How the nasty bits left in. This is not completely true, Scholastic is not going to print a children's book with details which are too graphic for children, but this is without a doubt the nastiest Sky and most gruesome of all of the Horrible Histories books we have read. While I am happy enough reading most of the Horrible Histories books to my 4 year old as well as my 8 year old, I do think this one is best for Earth Made People: From the older children, would recommend a minimum age Oral Stories of 7, and this only if the child is already aware of the Holocaust, or the parent is prepared to broach this subject in a sensitive manner and provide further information. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407121456</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMalagasy Elders|author=Paul Moran|title=What If... Humans Were Like Animals?Stephanie Zabriskie
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|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|author=Alan SnowStephanie Zabriskie|title=How Dinosaurs Really WorkMaasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating=4.5
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|summary=It’s sometimes difficult ''How Maasai Women Spoke to find books which appeal to reluctant readers, particularly boys. Three cheers, then, for Alan Snow who has produced a really smashing book about those ever-popular dinosaurs. Here Cows is a children’s nonfiction book which will appeal not only to bright kids during their inevitable dinosaur phase, and also to more struggling readers, a little later on. This is exactly drawn from the sort of book kids can pore over for several weeks on end in order to become something oral traditions of an authority on prehistoric animals Maasai elders in front of their matesNgorongoro, Tanzania.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857073141</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary1839948493|title=The Beastly Best Bits (Horrible Histories)A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Horrible Histories: The Beastly Best Bits begins with a brief introduction by a black clad executioner who looks like he has stepped of In the pages interests of the [[Terrifying Tudors (Horrible Histories) by Terry Deary|Horrible Histories Terrifying Tudors]] bookfull disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. Our friendly executioner will be our guide for the rest In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, any bookabout dogs, pointing out some of the most gruesome moments in historyI'm going to sit down and devour. After some classic gallows humour Then I'm going to go back and a brief mention read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of Vlad the Impaler we begin the tour Dogs'', with ancient Mesopotamianinety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. The book includes Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the Assyrians, Sumerians, Persians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Vikings, Normans, Samurai Aztecs, Incas, Irish and Americans. It also covers several different periods accidental owner of English history, gangsters in The Roaring 20an American Dingo - she's, the first and second world wars, and learned quite a quick section on Ruthless Rulerslot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407136100</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary1529507987|title=Terrifying Tudors The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Horrible HistoriesIllustrator)|rating=4.5
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|summary=Ilove ''The Repair Shop''ve always thought Terry Deary was years ahead of his time. He was writing books that boys really wanted It's my go-to read many years before the current emphasis on boy friendly reading material and all the efforts programme when I want to close the be cheered up. After a hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever widening gender gap in readingmentioning what they're worth. Horrible Histories have always been brilliant to motivate boys to read You see, but the older copies do show their age. Progress has been made value is in the way books what these possessions are printed worth to make the people who own them more accessible to struggling readers over and the last 20 yearsmemories they hold. Horrible Histories new editions celebrating ''20 Horrible Years'' has addressed this issue No expense appears to be spared and makes the books not only experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the type of books that boys want to read, but also desired result. Regular viewers know the type of book that younger children or those with reading difficulties can readexperts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135783</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary024162343X|title=Awful Egyptians (Horrible Histories)Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''Facts, facts and nothing but I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the facts'' - if this is your idea existence of a history book - stop right here. Terry Deary's Horrible Histories do contain facts, in a well laid out easy to follow mannergod'. But Terry Deary did not intend to write Where was the Horrible History as proof? In history bookslessons, but rather as joke booksit was probably worse still. They may have ended up with far more history than he originally intended, but they remain a collection of amusing stories and jokes, rather than a collection of dry facts. Deary never intended his books to be used to teach history - in fact Not too long after the mere mention end of this really sets him off. He set out to write books that children wanted to readWWII, books that are both engaging and entertaining, and whether he intended it 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 I didn't so much want to learn about history. Children pick up Dearythe British army's books because he speaks directly to themsuccesses (and occasional failures, not but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the language of authority and colonies' as want to dispute what right the adult world, but army had to be there in a as co-conspiratorthe first place. They read his books because they are fun Looking back, I still believe I was right - but because he makes history both entertaining and relevant I regret that I lacked the maturity to them, they actually do learn this as wellapproach 'the problem' politely. What I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's more, they remember it unlike the facts they might memorise for a history quiz''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135759</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage|author=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Fritz and Kurt|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|isbn=024156574X}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary1913750353|title=Measly Middle Ages (Horrible Histories)Britannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The Horrible Histories series is ''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a favourite with both schools sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Home Educators, but Terry Deary never intended his books Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to be used in educationknow about this brilliant book. He originally set out to write a joke book, based It starts on a historical subjectJanuary 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', but freed from the constraints of school tells you how to pronounce it (''raz- he discovered what so many of us have also found muh- history really is fun. Instead of a joke book with a bit of historyTAZ''), Deary ended up with gives you a history book - with quite definition and then includes the word in a lot of jokes. But these books were never intended as educational texts, they were written to entertain, and his Horrible Histories - Measly Middle Ages does just sentence so that, you know how it entertains both children should be used. You also get an engaging and adultsfrequently amusing illustration too. It is difficult to read any of Deary I don't think I's books without learning something, but learning is incidental - ve ever encountered a word which uses the fun comes first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135767</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hallfridur Olafsdottir and Porarinn Mar Baldursson0711266204|title=Maximus Musicus Visits the OrchestraThe Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=One day Maxi wanders into I have recently discovered a rehearsal great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, where he is entranced to hear Ravel’s Bolerobirds which visit our garden on a daily basis. He encounters most of the orchestral instruments and there’s a lot of whimsical humour as Maxi moves from instrument to instrumentAn hour can pass without my noticing. Eventually he falls asleep on I've established which species feed from the stageground, tired out by which pop to the excitement feeders for a quick snatch of his adventuressome food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. He wakes It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I'd had access to a loud booming noise book such as the beginning ''The Secret Life of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is played, and he finds that the orchestra is in concertBirds''. 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 encore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1937330176</amazonuk>So – what is it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Ardagh0192779230|title=Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Truth About LoveInvisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=We are never too far from springtime, when, of course'Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. In the first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a ''young man's fancy lightly turns clear and accessible introduction to thoughts the world of love''germs. [[:Category:Philip Ardagh|Beardy Ardagh]] is hoping that young We get an informed look at how people's fancies turn to trivia originally thought about love customs, predictions of who diseases and what they'll marry thought caused them and what how the whole symbolism around love, Valentines and marriage meanthinking has developed over time. The emphasis is on young – this book is definitely suited for vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the primary school librarytrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, although he slips up once when asking if protists and viruses – and how we think our partners smell niceshould protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144720784X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sharon Werner and Sarah Nelson Forss1800464495|title=Alphasaurs and Other Prehistoric Types100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach 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=I suppose you could describe any book about dinosaurs as being sixty-five million years ''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the making. What is definite is that this title was certainly not knocked up overnight. After a suitably cleverwomb, rhyming introductionbeing aware of quantities at seven hours old, we enter the world of prehistory with Aassessing probability at six months old, and exit with Z, having met 27 (yes, therecomprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.''s a surprise guest entrant) animals along the way. And the way we meet them on these supremely clever pages is the selling point.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609051939</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=Camilla de la Bedoyere, John Farndon, Ian Graham, Richard Platt and Philip Steele1406395404|title=Discover the The Awesome WorldPower of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=Back in 2011 2020 has been a strange year: I was impressed by [[Discover the Extreme World by Camilla de la Bedoyere, Clive Gifford, John Farndon, Steve Parker, Stewart Ross and Philip Steele]]doubt anyone would argue with that statement. I said that In my day it would Lots of our routines have been called an encyclopaediacompletely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. It would have had a lot more text, been rather dull – Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and remained largely unread by those who received it as a worthy presentothers will worry unnecessarily. Most people, but with that book you needed from children to start at adults will have the opposite end odd bad night but worrying about your lack of the scalesleep is only likely to make it worse. It And there's about visual impact. A also the fact is linked to that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a picture virtue and the more striking the better – and only then is it explainedsleep made to seem like laziness. The text is as simple as possible – clear Being up early, unambiguous wording which drives working late has been praised and the point home as quickly as possible. The layout encourages you ability to move the book so that you see the pictures better and can read the words. It's fun and (say it quietly) it's educational. Now I'm not in the habit of recycling reviews (honest!) but sometimes you know that you can't say it any better as exactly the same comments apply survive on little sleep has almost become something to Discover the Awesome Worldput on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848108559</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Martin1849767343|title=Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy: Cool Ways to Remember StuffCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=When I look back on my school days The title and format of this book might lead you to think that it didn't seem terribly complicated, but when I see what my grandchildren are coping with Is either about responsibility - or it'm ''amazed'' at all that they have to remember. They need to have methods of jogging their memoriess a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. It isn'Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezyt: it' gives them lots of ways of remembering s a rich variety hymn of facts, but also shows them how they can develop their own ways of helping their memorypraise to maths. It's a book about mnemonics such as rhymes, acrostics, stories, grouping, linking, pictures, acronyms why maths is so wonderful and wordplay. It's not just the methods of remembering that are there - there are all sorts of facts how you meet it in with the methodseveryday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780551053</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Goldschadt1849767009|title=Craft-A-Day: 365 Simple Handmade ProjectsIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=Looking back on my childhood This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the most useful skill I acquired was that of making things. I was choir': the daughter of a man only people who made a greenhouse out of a derelict bus, so 'll buy it was inevitable are the people who know that something would rub off on me. Well over half a century later it still stands me in good stead: I can see nudity is OK and the ones who ''howknow'' to make things, that it''how'' to solve problems s shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and my imagination was fired up at an early stage. Not everyone is lucky enough to have a bus-to-greenhouse converter bothered person in-house, but the best start supermarket who is being encouraged coughing fit to make things ''regularly'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 every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and learning that you donmarkings. They't always have to buy everything you needre fine. A drum rollIn fact, please for Sarah Goldschadt's ''Craft-A-Day'they're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745951</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Leroy Ripley1776572858|title=Ripley's Believe It or Not 2013How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=You know itIt's getting near Christmas when you spot the annual Ripleymore than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she's ''Believe It or Not'', d get me a book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the celebration of all that's macabrebasics, shocking, gruesome and frequently downright revolting - in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told thatit wouldn't be discussed any further as it 's just the 'wasn't something which nice peopletalked about''. Just wait until you get to the non-human items. We donI ''knew't usually cover annuals at Bookbag because they've frequently gone out of fashion before too many months have passedmore, but these books can be read year after year and theywas little ''wiser're still going to make the average adult feel rather unwell. Yes - you're right. Kids are going to love itThankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946739</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona Foden1526362759|title=Dosh: How to be Gorgeous: Smart Ways to Look and Feel FabulousEarn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The first point that author Fiona Foden stresses is that this is What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to be gorgeous, but she goes on to explain that this isn't just about having glossy hair, great skin and a wonderful dress acquire more of it (although she does admit that these helpnope - robbing banks is out)and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. ItYour reasons for wanting money don's about looking amazing, but still being yout matter: we all need it to some extent. It's about having confidence in who you are and having You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a positive energy about saver (you. Itmight even become an ''investor''s about having great friends - ) and there might be something you really, ''beingreally'' a great friend, in fact being the sort of person that everyone wants want to knowbuy. She promises that most There's also the possibility of what she suggests is not going using to break do good in the Bank - somethings are virtually, if not totally, free and it's all easyworld. So how does it live up to the promises?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407132695</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harriet Ziefert and Liz Murphy178112938X|title=ABC DentistSurvival in Space: Healthy Teeth from A to ZThe Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=I hope that children are not as fearful of going to It's fifty years since the dentist as used regularly to be Apollo 13 mission was launched from the caseKennedy Space Centre in Florida, but even those who are unworried will benefit from this useful book directed mainly at the five to ten age group, although I'm sure story of that older children will find it journey remains one of interest toothe greatest survival stories of all time. ''Survival in Space: The ABC format might suggest Apollo 13 Mission'' is a younger age range, but don't be fooled!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609052749</amazonuk>brilliant retelling of what happened.
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|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=Michael Rosen1609809173|title=Fantastic Mr DahlEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Reading this book is rather like curling up in a deepBrash and elegant, sophisticated, squishy armchair with a cup of cocoa controversial and some squashed-fly biscuits while a favourite uncle chats to you about books. He tells you interesting things about Roald Dahlvibrant, the 1889 World's lifeFair in Paris encompassed the best, the worst and then he discusses how those events may have affected his writing, secure in the knowledge that you already know beautiful from many countries and love the storiescultures. Just as importantThe French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, he pauses in his chat from time food festivals and concerts to time to ask your opinion — and stun the senses. And towering above it's clear he's really interested in your answer. Do you prefer all, the original version of ''James most popular and the Giant Peach'', or the one which was eventually published? Can you imagine how funny it would be most hated monument to see your grandfather looking in through your bedroom window, like French accomplishment and daring – the BFG?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141322136</amazonuk>Eiffel Tower.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner1848576536|title=The Comic Strip Book of DinosaursHumanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=35
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=If I asked you all to put ''Get under your own skin, pick your hands up if you had a dinosaur book as a youth I'd feel the draught from here. My grander examples certainly stayed on my shelves for years and survived several readingsbrains, and Igo inside your insides!'m sure that's not unique - plus, over the intervening years science has learnt a lot of extra facts, to make the books more accurate. Here then, for the 5-9s, is a primer of prehistory, and one such as the young me never had.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408817462</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francesca Simon and Tony RossLangford_Emily|title=A Horrid Factbook: FoodEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=For a horrid child our Henry has acquired a lot of factsEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you know can count anything and there's no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and the latest of his Horrid Fact Books is began counting in twos. She knew all about foododd and even numbers. It follows the usual format Then she began counting in threes: half of quick-fire facts liberally accompanied by brilliant illustrations from Tony Ross. The book's divided into chapters which are just the right length to appeal to list were even numbers, but the emerging reader other half was odd and to give a regular feel-good buzz it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when thereyou counted in threes which she called ''threeven''s another chapter under the belt. With ninety-nine pages (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of text there's enough the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to give be a subset of the sense of having read ''a book'' even numbers, but without it being too much of a trial. It ticks all the boxes as an early readerworked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444006339</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony RobinsonBuckingham_Dawn|title=Tony Robinson's Weird World The Little Book of Wonders: Romansthe Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=You could be mistaken for thinking [[:Category:Tony Robinson|Tony Robinson]] had written books like this before, for he was doing What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'Horrid History'-style TV programmes before but the pull of the official ones were madesounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. This series fits I spent an indulgent hour or so well into his erudite yet family audience-friendly manner, reading all about the birds and this second book takes us in a primary school curriculum-suiting way into the world of Romelistening to their song. A lot is in these books, from trivia for all ages (Then - just because I could - I didn't know, or had forgotten, that went back and did it all those Julius Caesar reliefs again and statues are of him in a wig it was just as he was bald), to good the delectable gross-out (the posh man's cuisine) to the foregrounding of the obvious difference between them and us (in a wordsecond time around. So, slavery).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330533894</amazonuk>what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony RobinsonPankhurst_Women|title=Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders: EgyptiansFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|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 beforeA lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, for he was doing 'Horrid History'-style TV programmes before the official let alone ones were madeyoung girls might like to read about or regard as role models. This series fits so well into his erudite yet family audience-friendly mannerOf course, this isn't true and this launching book takes us to the strangest there are plenty of worlds - yet one only a museum visit awaywomen who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, that of the ancient Egyptiansor created something never seen before. A lot is So here, in these pages - complete with adult stuff glossed over (just how in-bred '''were''' those Ptolemys?!)this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the gross-out being relished (making mummies, and stories of some alleged Egyptian medicines) and the obvious differences between them and us foregrounded so we can empathise with of them (and at the same time remember it's harder for most of us to sleep on our roofs than they would have found it).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330533878</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathleen KingIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Make and DoWomen in Sport: BakeFifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I love ''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a half of the idea development of kids cooking. Therewomen's going to be messsport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, probably and much more. Think of a bit of waste sport and you're going to have to bite your tongue an awful lot, but a pioneering woman succeeding at it really is the most amazing funprobably in this book somewhere. Best of all, though Each entry is a double- from an early age kids learn that they can go into the kitchen and make something which they can eat. They don't need to go to the shops page spread with a brief biography and buy a ready meal or to a takeaway for junk food. They can make something themselves. It's a life skillstriking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849154384</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Green and Simon BasherRooney_Dino|title=Basher Science: OceansDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I've often wondered why this planet is called 'earth' when three-quarters was a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of it obviously isn't and it seems that I'm not alone. Dan Green and Simon Basher have decided to take dinosaurs, we meet a close look at the oceans and other bodies variety of water on the planet and to explain them in simple wordscreatures, accompanied by Simon Brasher's illustrations which some of whom are almost - very familiar but not quite - manga. Itsome I's a style which kids d never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the various dinosaurs are going getting up to be comfortable , with - background noises, roars and they're not going squawks to associate accompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it with something boring which they have to learn. It's funvery visual, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753433443</amazonuk>
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