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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Young Rewired StateB0GFQ81YQK|title=Get Coding!How the Sky and the Earth Made People: Learn HTML, CSS & JavaScript & build a website, app & gameFrom the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5

|summary=Learning 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 tal to codeeach other. First, even heading into my seventh decadethe earth created bodies. And then, changed my the sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and they belonged to both earth and for today's children it's important because it opens sky. And so many doorspeople lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, especially how they came to be. It might look complicatedWhen they grew old and died, but all it required is concentration their bodies returned to the earth and - eventually - imaginationtheir life returned to the sky. I had a reasonable mastery of And that is why the skills of basic HTML in three days with earth and the benefit of a personal tutorsky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to, and care for, but where to go if you don't have that privilege or if you need some extra support? ''Get Coding!'' seems like the perfect answerboth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406366846</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea MillsB0GHPMNF6P|title=Top Of The League How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=34.5

|summary=Football is known as Before people came and joined the beautiful game and when I animals, there was younger I kind of believed this. I would spend my free time playing Heads only the sky and Volleys with my mates and then go home to try and complete my Panini sticker albumthe earth. There Everything was even quiet until the halcyon days when Blackburn Rovers won earth and the titlesky began to tal to each other. As I have grown olderFirst, my cynicism has grown toothe earth created bodies. Leicester may be championsAnd then, but the day I feel that a group of multimillionaires beating a group of slightly richer multimillionaires is a win for sky breathed life into them. These were the everymanfirst humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, will especially how they came to be a sad one. Perhaps When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the love of football still burns bright in earth and their life returned to the youth of today? ''Top Of sky. And that is why the League'' certainly hopes so as it is full of facts earth and figures all about the ball sky are both revered. Only together can they call footcreate human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to, and care for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934577</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Justin MilesStephanie Zabriskie|title=Ultimate Mapping Guide for KidsHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating=45

|summary=I've always been fascinated by maps: diverse features can be converted into symbols, 'How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a children’s nonfiction book drawn on a piece from the oral traditions of paper and then passed to someone else to interpretMaasai elders in Ngorongoro, Tanzania. Making or reading maps '' The Maasai are skills which stay with you throughout life a cattle-herding people and learning 'this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to' is relatively simple be so. Cattle are status and great fun. Author Justin Miles had a car accident wealth in 1999 Maasai culture but this doesn't tell the whole story of the intimate and brain injuries meant that he had to learn to walk symbiotic connection its people, and talk from scratch. Whilst he was doing this he decided to become a full time explorer and to support charities which inspire children to learn. He raises funds by taking on daring challengesespecially its women, which have included climbing mountains, exploring the Arctic, crossing deserts with their cows and cutting his way through for the junglenatural world. If a man knows about mapsThe oral tradition retelling the many conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, then it's Justin Milesdoes.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178493464X</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Imogen Greenberg and Isabel Greenberg1839948493|title=The Ancient EgyptiansA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=3.5

|summary=There was more to the Ancient Egyptians than keeping In the entrails interests of their dead in a jarfull disclosure, but I must tell you that is I'm a pretty cool fact anyway. As a civilisation they knocked around sucker for centuries until Cleopatra had a nasty incident with an Aspdogs. Cramming all the information on 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 most complex same about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and devour. Then I'm going to go back and intriguing peoples of all time is a big ask; making read it assessable to children is even biggerproperly. Imogen Greenberg and Isabel Greenberg have attempted this in And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'The Ancient Egyptians', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808255</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Imogen Greenberg and Isabel Greenberg1529507987|title=The Roman EmpireRepair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=You may not think it from I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my writing, but go-to programme when I actually have want to be cheered up. After a degree in historyhard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. Some of this was on You see, the Roman Empire, but even I struggle value is in what these possessions are worth to remember what happened when during the time period. The Republic people who own them and Empire spanned hundreds of years, so Alexander rocking up with his elephants did not happen anywhere near the rise of Julius Caesarmemories they hold. Modern youths would not think No expense appears to shove be spared and the invention of experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the microchip in with the Napoleonic Wars, so why would you do this with Rome? desired result. Kids need a simple book that tells them about Regular viewers know the Roman Empire, but also puts experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it all in a context and timeline is they can understand're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808565</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Kovecses024162343X|title=One Hundred Words: A first handwriting bookStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=45

|summary=Little Mouse is learning to writeI was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. ActuallyNot too long after the end of WWII, you donI didn't just learn to write, you have so much want to learn to hold and use a pencil and to control it so that about the point goes where you want it to. Pencils - British army's successes (and particularly crayons - have a mind of their own, you know! Sooccasional failures, but we start of with the tripod grip and some tips about didn't dwell on those) in what came to do if you find that difficult. Then webe called 're straight into the action, starting with drawing a straight line from side colonies' as want to side and dispute what right the army had to see what's required we have a footballer kicking a ball be there in the direction we're going to gofirst place. There are fifteen examples where you trace the lineLooking back, just so you get I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the hang of it and then you get maturity to have a go on your ownapproach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808018</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kay Maguire Jeremy Dronfield and Danielle KrollDavid Ziggy Greene|title=Nature's Day: Out Fritz and AboutKurt

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=I love books which encourage children We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to interact with nature - as opposed do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a computer screenvocational school. I like Kurt has to see make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them getting outdoorsfor 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, preferably getting and instead of having a bit dirtynational vote to keep the Nazis out, being independent and getting excited about natureinvite them in with open arms. A good teacher will inspire children, but ''NatureKristallnacht''s Day: Out 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 About'' provides support sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and encouragement in equal measures his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and might just be what a child needsthe stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184780800X</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danielle Kroll and Nghiem Ta1913750353|title=Pattern Play: CutBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Fold Renee Kelly and Make Your Own 3D Animal ModelsSue Macy|rating=45

|summary=Here''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a neat idea for you. Provide pages with animal prints on one side sub- only by animal prints, I mean the sort of colours title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and pattern Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you see all that you need to know about this brilliant book. It starts on animalsJanuary 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', not paw prints! Some are subtle and others are rather more intells you how to pronounce it (''raz-yourmuh-face. On TAZ''), gives you a definition and then includes the reverse of these printed pages provide word in a cutting line sentence so that you can cut and fold the paper and know how it becomes a 3D model of should be used. You also get an animal. Provide some stickers which replicate faces, tails or beaks - or whatever else you feel needs highlighting - engaging and number these so that they get into the right placefrequently amusing illustration too. All you need to add to the mix is I don't think I've ever encountered a pair of scissors, parental supervision if necessary for word which uses the cutting, a little imagination and you have hours of fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807321</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Handford0711266204|title=Where's Wally: The Colouring BookSecret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)

|summary=Are you looking for something relaxing, easy to complete I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which will allow your mind to wander freely as you gently colour in visit our garden on a pleasing design? daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. Do you want to indulge your imagination and use the colours I've established which tempt you at species feed from the momentground, content that it will not affect which pop to the finished creation? feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. Would you like large spaces which you can shade in large swoops It would have been wonderful if, as it pleases you? Are you aiming for a soothing finished product which is easy on the eye? Sorry: youchild, I've got the wrong d had access to a booksuch as ''The Secret Life of Birds''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406367303</amazonuk> So – what is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah Patterson0192779230|title=My Book Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Stories: Write Your Own AdventuresGerms|author=Isabel Thomas

|summary=If you happen 'Germs' seems to have two children, born five years apart, become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you can count on having to live through practically four full years of school holidays – and that doesn't include Bank Holidays or teacher trainingill. Weather permitting, that's well over 1,400 days where In the impetus is on first book in what looks to take them somewherebe a very promising new series, or spend moneyOUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the world of germs. So We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what better they thought caused them and cheaper place to take them than their own imagination? how the thinking has developed over time. And if you The vocabulary canbe confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 't quite unlock speak like a scientist' which explains some of the door that leads theretrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we can certainly suggest this bookshould protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356355</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Claybourne1800464495|title=50 Things You Should Know About100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Wild WeatherSupport All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith|rating=4.5

|summary=Oh''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, this takes me back. Out being aware of all the things we learn quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at school six months old, and comprehending addition and profess subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to never want to need as an adultschool is a strong predictor of later achievement, the water cycle is one double that of literacy skills.'' I didn't know this either! I had forgotten 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 aboutmaths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, until nowin 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.}} It forms the basis {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=2020 has been a lot strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our weather, after all – the way landmasses routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and seas warm the air above them differentlyothers will worry unnecessarily. Most people, thus causing motion in from children to adults will have the shape odd bad night but worrying about your lack of winds and altering atmospheric pressure, that we call weathersleep is only likely to make it worse. And from there's also the gentlest high pressure, fact that someone somewhere will always deem for far too hotlong, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to the most furious electrical storm, weather is certainly something a lot of people seem like to talk aboutlaziness. Is this book Being up early, working late has been praised and the ideal place ability to learn the basics of such a thing?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178493304X</amazonuk>survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maria Ana Peixe Dias, Ines Teixeira do Rosario, Bernardo P Carvalho and Lucy Greaves (translator)1849767343|title=Outside: A Guide to Discovering NatureCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5

|summary=IThe title and format of this book might lead you to think that it'm on s either about responsibility - or it's a mission: I want children basic 1- adults too 2- to spend a lot more time outside. I want them to have the benefits of fresh air, increasing their levels of vitamin D and 3 book for those just starting out on the knowledge of what nature can offer themnumbers journey. I'd like the television, computers, mobile phones, video games and even books to be laid aside and attention given to what is available for free, but which - if we donIt isn't care for : it - might not always be there's a hymn of praise to maths. Fortunately the authors of It''Outside: A Guide to discovering Nature'' have the same ideass about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807690</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington1849767009|title=The Nature ExplorerIt Isn's Scrapbookt Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine

|genre=Animals and WildlifeFor Sharing|summary=This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir'An activity book, but not as you know it: the only people who'' is what ll buy it says on are the back cover - people who know that nudity is OK and I have to agree. Here at Bookbag we tend to avoid the ones who ''activity booksknow' as they usually have soft covers, lots of stickers and they're the sort of thing you pick up at the supermarket checkout in the hope that it will buy you an hour or two's peace shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the school holidayssupermarket who is coughing fit to bust. ''The Nature Explorer's Handbook'' is But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a different beast altogetherbook about not wearing clothes. It's part album in which you're going to collect a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and store your own finds, part explanation of the best practices of how you should go about this every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and part nature guidemarkings. ItThey's a substantial hardback book with an elastic band to keep it shut - as it's really going to get quite bulky when your collection growsre fine. Production values for the book are high - this really is something which will be treasured for yearsIn fact, they're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190848926X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peggy Caravantes1776572858|title=Marooned in the ArcticHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)

|genre=BiographyHome and Family|summary=Misogynists are manmadeIt's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. And if anyone My mother was in deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a position to hate men and the lot they put on their shoulders, book about it was Ava Blackjack. Her surname spoke A couple of an abusive man she had days later I was handed a son bypamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, but it in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was her time with four other men told that made for one of the last centuryit wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''s more remarkable stories. An Inuit nativeI ''knew'' more, but one brought up in a city and with English lessons, she was invited on an excursion alongside many other little ''wiser'Eskimo' and four intrepid Westerners, to the uninhabited Wrangel Island, perched off the northern Siberian coast. They were there just to stick a flag in it and call it British, even if they were pretty much fully American and Canadian, and the chap whose ideas these all were bore an Icelandic name; she was along to provide native expertise, especially waterproof fur clothing. And that was it – none of her kin joined her, leaving her in one tent and four men in anotherThankfully, in one of the world's most remote and inhospitable placestimes have changed. And that was just the start of her worries…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1613730985</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Pinnington and Caz Buckingham1526362759|title=The Little Book of Woodland Bird SongsDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande

|summary=Take What a well-put-together board relief! A book (don't worry about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it being a board book - no one is going to say that they’re a bit too old for a board book once they see , why it)matters, add exquisite pictures how to acquire more of a dozen birds - one on each double-page spread it (nope - robbing banks is out) and then fill in the details. Youwhat you can do with it when you'll need the name ve managed to get hold of the bird in English and Latin and a description of the bird in words which a child can understand but which wonit. Your reasons for wanting money don't patronise an adult. Then you'll matter: we all need details of where the bird is found, what it eatsto some extent. You might want to go into business, where it nestsbe a clever shopper, how many eggs it lays, how the male and female adults differ and their size. Then a saver (you need a might even become an ''investor'Did you know?' fact ) and this needs to there might be something which will interest childrenyou really, but which adults might not know either''really'' want to buy. Does it sound simple? Well it isn There't, but 'The Little Book s also the possibility of Woodland Bird Songs' does it perfectlyusing to do good in the world. And there}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=It's a bonusfifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but Ithe story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. 'll tell you about that 'Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a momentbrilliant retelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908489286</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Serge BlochKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=3, 2, 1... Draw!Nine Ways to Empower Tweens

|summary=I canBrash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the 1889 World't draw. I've never been able to draw. A blank sheet of paper s Fair in Paris encompassed the best, the worst and the beautiful from many countries and a pencil frightens mecultures. I thought I was probably a little bit old to change my ways but then I discovered ''3The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, 2dance performances, 1... Draw!'' food festivals and there might have been a movement within concerts to stun the tectonic plates of my brainsenses. It's a drawing book which isn't about blank pages: And towering above it's about imagination and inspirationall, with the first encouraged most popular and the second delivered by most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – the barrow loadEiffel Tower. I've just had more fun than I thought possible with pencil and paper!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807240</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Juno Dawson1848576536|title=Mind Your HeadHumanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=5|genre=TeensChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!''The number of young people suffering from mental ill health is increasing year-on-year. Yet we still find it difficult That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to talk about. And mental health still hasndo and honestly, I don't achieved parity with physical health in terms of services and healthcare availablesee how you could resist. Enter Mind Your Head.This is informative book provides a frank and accessible overview of wonderful primer about the human body to curious children- from the issues facing young people with regards skeletal system to mental ill health. It covers the various types of illnessmuscular system via circulation, the treatments availablerespiration and digestion, how right up to manage them. It includes personal stories and exercises and is written in a chatty but serious way. Juno Dawson is the transgender author you might have known before as James DawsonDNA that makes who we are. She's brought in clinical psychologist Dr Olivia Hewitt to help her. And also illustrator Gemma Correll to avoid any appearance of dourness. Because Mind Your Head is about serious things but is an absolute pleasure to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405311</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Eng Gee FanLangford_Emily|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Frida KahloEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|genre=Emerging ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Frida Kahlo Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was born in Mexicowhat she loved best. When she was a young schoolgirl she contracted polio Obviously, you can count anything and was left with a leg which was ''skinny as a rake'there's no limit to how far you can go, but she bore the problem stoically then Emily moved a step further and began counting in some ways delighted in being differenttwos. Then one day Frida was in a bus which crashed into a car. She was badly injured knew all about odd and even when she was over the worst numbers. Then she still had to rest began counting in bed and filled threes: half of the time by drawing pictureslist were even numbers, including a self portrait. Eventually but the other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she showed her pictures to a famous artist - Diego Rivera - who liked the pictures, called ''andthreeven'' Frida. They married and Rivera encouraged Frida(Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they's painting. She exhibitedre a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of the even numbers, eventually in New York, to great acclaimbut it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807704</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Ana AlberoBuckingham_Dawn|title=The Little People, Big Dreams: Coco ChanelBook of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=45|genre=Emerging ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Gabrielle Chanel lived in an orphanage in What a French town and after the death of her mother she went treat! I really did mean to a strict convent school. The fact that she was just ''differentglance'' didnat 't make her life 'The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'easy'', but there were early indications that she the pull of the sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was going far too much to be resist on a seamstress. After she left school she sewed by day cold and sang by night and it was as she sang that she gained her nickname - ''Coco'' - which came from the soldiers in the audiencerather wet February morning. But her dream was designing clothes and I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the first step was designing birds and making hats: this led listening to her opening a hat shoptheir song. One evening, at a party she realised that a lot of the women weren't dancing: their corsets were so tight that they Then - just because I could hardly breathe - I went back and did it all again and it was this that prompted Coco to create a new stylejust as good the second time around. Her clothes were simpleSo, straight and comfortable to wear.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807712</amazonuk>what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jason Quinn and Naresh KumarPankhurst_Women|title=World War Two: Against the Rising Sun (Campfire Graphic Novels)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=World War Two – so often a lesson subject for our primary school children, even after all this time. Nazis, Soviets, Pearl Harbor – but wait. That last wasn't just the clarion call to the Americans to join in with the rest of our Allies – it was a mere episode in a fuller story – the half of the war that was never seen by those in Europe, beyond the fact the British Empire was certainly changed forever. The War in the Pacific is something I was certainly never taught much about in school, at any age. And here's a graphic novel version of the tale from a publisher in India that can serve at last as a salutary lesson.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9381182051</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Lewis Helfand and Lalit Kumar Sharma|title=World War Two: Under the Shadow of the Swastika (Campfire Graphic Novels)Kate Pankhurst|rating=45

|summary=One A lot of the most common subjects at primary schoolhistory is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, getting on for three generations since it happenedfeels almost as though there were no women in history at all, is of let alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. Of course World War Two. It has the impact that sixty million dead people deserve – but only if it, this isn's taught correctlyt true and there are plenty of women who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. One of the ways to present it is So here, in this wonderful picture book, which comes from a slightly surprising place – an Indian publisher completely new to me – but succeeds in being remarkably competentKate Pankhurst, complete and really quite readableare the stories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9381182140</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Packham and Jason CockroftIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Amazing Animal JourneysWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5

|summary=It's only relatively recently that man has actually moved home at certain points of the year 'Women in Sport'' is coming to take advantage of us just before the weather or the availability of food, but wild life has been doing it for much longer Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and every year billions a half of animals move from one part the development of the planet to another - thatwomen's birdssport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, mammalsfencing, reptilesriding, amphibiansskating, fish and insectsmuch more. This is known as migration - Think of a sport and it's a real pleasure to see pioneering woman succeeding at it used other than is probably in the context of sensationalist newspaper headlinesthis book somewhere. Wildlife expert Chris Packham has written this introduction to the subject Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and it's been beautifully illustrated by Jason Cockrofta striking portrait. (He's the man who did the cover artwork for the final three Harry Potter books!)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277459</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christina WilsdonRooney_Dino|title=Ultimate ReptileopediaDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|rating=4.5

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