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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1839948493|title=100 PeopleA World of Dogs|author=Masayuki SebeCarlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe
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|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=If In the interests of full disclosure, I told must tell you this was that I'm a sucker for dogs. 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 book in which every double page spread features exactly 100 peopleabout dogs, I'm going to sit down and there’s no real story devour. Then I'm going to go back and read it properly. And so it was with it''A World of Dogs'', you might be underwhelmedwith ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. You might wonder what Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the point would be. But I can tell you in one word: funaccidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579866</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529507987|title=Top 10 For Boys 2014The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Paul TerryWalker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5
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|summary=OK, Ilove ''The Repair Shop''. It'll admit – sometimes there comes a time s my go-to programme when it would appear terribly easy I want to post a review of a book, when something so self-explanatory pops be cheered up that a description of it hardly seems necessary. And you can judge the contents of this book similarly easily too – it takes the After a hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they'Top Ten of Everything'' format developed by the late Russell Ash, and makes it funkier, smaller, more brashly colourful, and apparently, suitable for boysre worth. There You see, the value is in what these possessions are unofficial, opinionated lists, and bits where kids can scribble their worth to the people who own content them and ratingsthe memories they hold. But despite how easy it No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend as much time and effort as is required to get a handle on achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the book, I do hereby solemnly swear etc that I read almost every word, experts and just as I should, even no longer being a boy I learned a lotthey're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0600623459</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Make a Mobile: 12 Cool Designs to Press Out and HangStolen History|author=Lydia CrookSathnam Sanghera
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Back when I was a lad, and reading books on space science from my the bad company other people got into at school library, they were nothing like this. There I was little that disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god'. Where was as colourfulthe proof? In history lessons, no recap for every pageit was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, no homework suggestionsI didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, and certainly but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. Looking back, I still believe I was nothing as upright -but I regret that I lacked the maturity to-date as exoplanets or the latest dimensions of approach 'the International Space Stationproblem' politely. Many of the changes are valuable, and make this volume quite a successI wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005734</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Myths in 30 SecondsJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|authortitle=Anita GaneriFritz 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…
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1913750353
|title=Britannica's Word of the Day
|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Back when I was ''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a lad, sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and reading books Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. It starts on mythology from my school libraryJanuary 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', they were nothing like this. There was no fulltells you how to pronounce it (''raz-muh-colour, no recaps, no homework suggestionsTAZ''), gives you a definition and certainly there was not then includes the global PC-flavoured reach word in a sentence so that broadened things out from Greek, Roman you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and the occasional bit of Norse mythfrequently amusing illustration too. YouI don'll excuse me if t think I say why in this instance all those changes aren't completely for ve ever encountered a word which uses the better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005742</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Paper Play0711266204|author=Lydia Crook|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summarytitle=Paper Play is a virtual time machine, taking us back to an era before the PC, tablet and games console, when children had the ability to amuse themselves for hours with a few sheets of paper, some scissors and some glue. Simple papercraft skills were passed down from generation to generation, arming creative minds with a seemingly endless supply The Secret Life of crafting ideas, including paper dress-up dolls, flying contraptions and finger puppets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762449578</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBirds|author=Libby Abadee Moira Butterfield and Cath Armstrong|title=Craft it Up Around the WorldVivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=With long summer holidays looming ahead along with uncertain British weather it's alway I have recently discovered a good idea to have plans about activities great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which will involve and interest childrenvisit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. In I''Craft it Up Around ve established which species feed from the World'' we've got thirty five suggestions for projects ground, which will keep children entertained. As pop to the title suggests we're going on feeders for a world tour quick snatch of some food and you can pick the projects to suit other activities you who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have plannedbeen wonderful if, as a reminder child, I'd had access to a book such as ''The Secret Life of a holiday or just on a random basisBirds''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782490388</amazonuk> So – what is it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192779230|title=Read On - Unsolved MysteriesVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Keith WestIsabel Thomas
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|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary='Germs'Collins Read On'' books are not specifically listed as seems to have become a dyslexia friendly line of books. Instead, these are what is known as hicatch-lo books. Book developed all word to motivate and engage older readers, while still being accessible cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to readers who are reading far below grade levelmake you ill. I would estimate In the reading level of this first book in what looks to be roughly age eighta very promising new series, but the subject matter is apt to appeal to children much older, or even adults. Although not designed especially for children with dyslexia like the famous Barrington Stoke range, this does OUP and Isabel Thomas have several features to make this book more appropriate provided a clear and accessible introduction to children with dyslexia than the average children's book. With the exception world of a few small picture captions, this is printed in black ink with a large standard fontgerms. The print is double spaced, with short paragraphs We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and chapters giving how the reader plenty of breaksthinking has developed over time. The paper is thick enough that print vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the trickiest concepts and pictures from the other side will not show through. This combined you'll soon be familiar with the easy to read text will help to build a child's confidencebacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007488904</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dougal Dixon1800464495|title=If Dinosaurs Were Alive Today100 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=The book starts ''Babies seem to be born with a simple question. How would we cope, how would dinosaurs cope if they had not become extinct and were around today? They're put an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in contextthe womb, going back to the beginnings being aware of Planet Earth four and a half billion years ago and working forward to show how life evolved and asking if the skills the dinosaurs developed would allow them to survive today. The four groups of dinosaurs - plant-eatersquantities at seven hours old, meat-eatersassessing probability at six months old, ocean-dwellers and flying reptiles - are then looked comprehending addition and subtraction at in some detailnine months old.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about:|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848985762</amazonuk>}}''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills.''
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=Judith Kerr1406395404|title=Judith Kerr's CreaturesThe Awesome Power of Sleep: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Judith KerrHow Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan
|rating=5
|genre=AutobiographyTeens|summary=In children's literature there are some authors whom you know are not just reliable, but always impressive2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. One Lots of those names is [[:Category:Judith Kerr|Judith Kerr]]our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. For decades sheSome teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I's been delighting our children (and grandchildren) but it still came as something of a surprise ve got loads to discover that she would be ninety in June 2013doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. To celebrate thisMost people, Harper Collins from children to adults will have published ''Creatures'' in which Judith tells not just her own story the odd bad night but that worrying about your lack of the sleep is only likely to make it worse. And there''creatures'' - s also the characters in her books fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and her family - who have contributed sleep made to her inspirational lifeseem like laziness. It isBeing up early, though, far more than just an autobiography with a marvellous collection of paintings, drawings working late has been praised and memorabiliathe ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007513216</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sharky and George1849767343|title=Don't You DareCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Older readers like myself may recognise a great many The title and format of Sharky and Georgethis book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's ideas from our own childhood games, in a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the days when childrennumbers journey. It isn't: it's games usually did take place outdoors. Most a hymn of us will have played games like torch tag (which is enemy spotlight in this book), cops and robbers, boxes with a pen and paper, made drip sand castles, skimmed a stone or built a dam in childhoodpraise to maths. So you might ask - It's about why do need a book to teach us games we already know how to play? The sad fact maths is, most of these games are rapidly being forgotten. I rarely see children other than my own play any type of tag or hide so wonderful and seek gameshow you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258292</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Davide Cali and Gabrriella Giandelli1849767009|title=Monsters and LegendsIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary=My sons love stories This could have been one of unsolved mysteries, monsters those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and mythical creatures. Like many boys, my oldest has a very strong leaning towards the non-fiction side of things. This book is for children ones who want to ''know how '' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the legends were born, if any of the creatures could be real, hot-and what -bothered person in the science behind the story supermarket who iscoughing fit to bust. But.. I do feel this . Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book is better suited to older children seeking a more rational explanation to the old stories, but my youngest did enjoy it as wellabout not wearing clothes. It might be useful for 's a child with a slight fear celebration of monsters to get a more realistic view bodies: bodies large and small and of themevery possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, but I would use caution with a child who is truly terrified of monsters as it might just give them more things to be afraid ofthey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263036</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Punk Science1776572858|title=How Do Try This at Home: Cook It!!You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=''Do Try This At Home - Cook It!!'s more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she' is d get me a fun, very boy friendly book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet ( but not just for boys) cookbook combining very basic recipeswhich delivered nothing more than the basics, science facts and a few science experiments with food. Not every recipe in this book includes science facts clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and in some the science bit is limited to mentioning vitamins or giving us a very simple fact like the fact a tomato is a fruit, or a water chestnut isnI was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't really a nutsomething which nice people talked about''. But other recipes have quite a bit of scientific information. For instance this will tell you why cooking makes an egg hard I ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. makes cheese softer. Children will learn what an emulsion isThankfully, why onions make us cry, how yeast works, how to make a bouncing rubber-like egg and how to make a colour changing cabbage solution that will tell if a substance is acid or alkalinetimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447205537</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Glenn Murphy1526362759|title=Super GeekDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, DinosaursGrow It, Brains and SupertrainsGive It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Super GeekWhat a relief! A book about money, Dinosaursfor children, Brains and Supertrains with clear explanations of what it is divided into eight sections. The first four sections are questions on dinosaurs and prehistoric life, the human brainwhy it matters, natural disasters how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and finally transport. The following four sections are much longer and provide not only the answers to the previous sectionswhat you can do with it when you' questions, but a detailed, scientific explanation in clear easy ve managed to understand language that even my four year old can usually followget hold of it. These answers are very well written and quite interesting Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to both of my children, and even as an adult I found this both educational and entertainingsome extent. I have You might want to admitgo into business, I learned be a few things from this book as wellclever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and we will certainly there might be brushing up on our knowledge something you really, ''really'' want to buy. There's also the possibility of using to do good in the human brain before bringing this out againworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447227166</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melissa Wareham178112938X|title=Rescuing GusSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=Melissa Wareham It's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was ''convinced'' that she must be adopted: how could someone like her who ''loved'' dogs have been born to parents wholaunched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, well, wouldn't have them in but the house? She wasn't even story of that convinced when her mother produced her birth certificatejourney remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. Melissa wouldn't be able to have a dog until she had a home of her own but 'Survival in the meantime she got a job at Battersea DogsSpace: The Apollo 13 Mission' Home and it was there that she met Gus. He wasn't in the first flush of youth and his breath was is a weapon brilliant retelling of mass destruction, but he and Melissa bonded and when he was very poorly - he had kennel cough - she took him homewhat happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849418179</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.
|isbn= 0228818826
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary and Martin Brown1609809173|title=Deadly Days in History (Horrible Histories)Eiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Horrible Histories' catch phrase is History - with all Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the nasty bits left in. This is not completely true, Scholastic is not going to print a children1889 World's book with details which are too graphic for childrenFair in Paris encompassed the best, but this is without a doubt the nastiest worst and most gruesome of all of the Horrible Histories books we have readbeautiful from many countries and cultures. While I am happy enough reading most of the Horrible Histories books to my 4 year old as well as my 8 year oldThe French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, I do think this one is best for the older childrenput on art shows, would recommend a minimum age of 7dance performances, food festivals and this only if concerts to stun the child is already aware of senses. And towering above it all, the Holocaust, or most popular and the parent is prepared most hated monument to broach this subject in a sensitive manner French accomplishment and provide further informationdaring – the Eiffel Tower. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407121456</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Moran1848576536|title=What If... Humans Were Like Animals?Humanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary='What If Humans Were More Like Animals' takes various unusual animal attributes and imagines what it would be like if humans had an equivalent behaviourGet under your own skin, ability, or physical feature. For instance, if we had teeth like a shark, we wouldn't have to worry about eating too many sweets, brushing our teeth, or even chomping down on a hard object. Whenever a tooth fell out, a new one would take its place. If we had the comparative strength of a Hercules beetle, we could lift a double decker buspick your brains, and if we could jump the equivalent of a froghopper insect, wego inside your insides!'d be able to leap over sky scrapers with ease. Not all of the animal traits would be so much fun though. We wouldn't want our parents 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 advantages, it would be very awkward as well - who wants to pick things up with their eyes?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780550421</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony RobinsonLangford_Emily|title=Tony RobinsonEmily's Weird World of Wonders - World War IINumbers|author=Joss Langford
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Tony RobinsonEmily found words ''useful''s Weird World of Wonders is an informative, easy to read book for children covering WW2but counting was what she loved best. I would describe it as something of a cross between a school text book Obviously, you can count anything and Terry Dearythere's Horrible Histories series - as much as I am certain Mr Deary would shudder at the thought of any of his books being crossed with no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a text bookstep further and began counting in twos. This isn't quite facts She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, facts and nothing but the facts, other half was odd and it does break things up with humourwas this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the odd numbers but I would describe this sound as book meant though they ought to teach historybe a subset of the even numbers, unlike Dearybut it all worked out well when I really thought about it.)}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at 's books which 'The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. I would describe as books which make spent an indulgent hour or so reading fun, all about the birds and listening to their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it was just happen to inform children on history as wellgood the second time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447227689</amazonuk> So, what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry DearyPankhurst_Women|title=The Beastly Best Bits (Horrible Histories)Fantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst
|rating=5
|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 A lot of the pages of the [[Terrifying Tudors (Horrible Histories) by Terry Deary|Horrible Histories Terrifying Tudors]] bookhistory is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Our friendly executioner will be our guide for the rest of the bookSometimes, pointing out some of the most gruesome moments it feels almost as though there were no women in historyat all, let alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. After some classic gallows humour Of course, this isn't true and a brief mention there are plenty of Vlad the Impaler we begin the tour with ancient Mesopotamia. The book includes the Assyrianswomen who, Sumerians, Persians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Vikings, Normans, Samurai Aztecsthroughout history, Incashave achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, Irish and Americansor created something never seen before. It also covers several different periods of English historySo here, gangsters in The Roaring 20'sthis wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the first and second world wars, and a quick section on Ruthless Rulersstories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407136100</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry DearyIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Terrifying Tudors (Horrible Histories)Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I've always thought Terry Deary was years ahead of his time. He was writing books that boys really wanted 'Women in Sport'' is coming to read many years us just before the current emphasis on boy friendly reading material and all the efforts to close the ever widening gender gap Winter Olympics in reading. Horrible Histories have always been brilliant to motivate boys to read, but the older copies do show their age. Progress has been made South Korea in the way books are printed to make them more accessible to struggling readers over the last 20 yearsFebruary 2018. Horrible Histories new editions celebrating ''20 Horrible Years'' has addressed this issue It celebrates a century and makes a half of the books not only the type development of women's sport by looking at fifty of books that boys want to readits highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, but also the type and much more. Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book that younger children or those somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with reading difficulties can reada brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135783</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry DearyRooney_Dino|title=Awful Egyptians (Horrible Histories)Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|rating=54
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''Facts, facts and nothing but Lift the facts'' - if this is your idea of flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a history book - stop right herechild. Terry Deary's Horrible Histories do contain factsThis one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, in a well laid out easy to follow manner. But Terry Deary did not intend to write the Horrible History as history booksthrough various different ages of dinosaurs, but rather as joke books. They may have ended up with far more history than he originally intended, but they remain we meet a collection variety of amusing stories and jokescreatures, rather than a collection some of dry facts. Deary whom are very familiar but some I'd never intended his books to be used to teach history - in fact the mere mention heard of this really sets him off. He set out to write books that children wanted to readbefore! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, books that showing you what the various dinosaurs 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 getting up a book because they want to learn about history. Children pick up Deary's books because he speaks directly to them, not in the language of authority and the adult worldwith background noises, but in a as co-conspirator. They read his books because they are fun, but because he makes history both entertaining roars and relevant squawks to accompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, they actually do learn this as well. Whatrather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's morevery visual, they remember it unlike placing the facts they might memorise for a history quizdinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135759</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry DearyMason_poo|title=Measly Middle Ages (Horrible Histories)The Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The Horrible Histories series is a favourite with both schools and Home EducatorsI know, I know, but Terry Deary never intended his books sometimes you really don't want to be used in education. He originally set out to write a joke book, based on a historical subjectencourage your children's poo jokes, but freed from this book is brilliant! I sat and read it by myself when the constraints of kids had gone to school - he discovered what and found it fascinating! Who knew there was so many of us have also found - history really is funmuch I didn't know about poo? The book manages to be both funny (and silly) as well as being very interesting and educational. Instead of a joke book with Using a bit mixture of historyfacts and figures, Deary ended up with photographs and funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a history book - with quite little at the vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about different types of jokes. But these books were never intended as educational textspoo, they were written to entertain, and his Horrible Histories - Measly Middle Ages does just thatwhy poos smell, it entertains both children and adults. It is difficult to read any of Deary's books without learning something, but learning is incidental - the fun comes firstwhy wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135767</amazonuk>
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