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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aino-Maija Metsola1839948493|title=My First Animals |rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Get used to two simple words if you have a child, ''What's That?'' You will hear it over and over and over again. If you are lucky they are pointing at something that you actually know – chair, hat, my sense of regret. Sometimes they will point at something that is not too familiar. Here the parental practise A World of making something up comes into play – it's a bird type thing. Books that show images of items, colours or animals may seem a little dull to an adult, but to a toddler learning about the world they are a who's who of what's that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809677</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDogs|author=Andrea Beaty Carlie Sorosiak and David Roberts|title=Rosie Revere's Big Project Book for Bold EngineersLuisa Uribe|rating=45

|summary=For In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a long time nowsucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, people have worried about females taking up STEM subjects – the sciences, engineering I've never met one I didn't trust and suchlikeI've loved most of them. But I know of at least two sources of role models in that regardwish I felt the same about human beings. OneSo, most obviouslyany book about dogs, is I'm going to sit down and devour. Then I'Star Wars'' – let's face m going to go back and read it properly. And so it, the latest main film had a girl who scavenged parts but could fly the was with ''Millennium FalconA World of Dogs'' , with ease, and the likes of [[Star Wars: Ahsoka by E K Johnston|Ahsoka]] is adept at mending some sort of flying farming machinesninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. If you don't wish to go too fantastical, or are seeking role models for Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the younger audience, there is the output accidental owner of [[:Category:Andrea Beaty and David Roberts|Andrea Beaty]]an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419719106</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1529507987|title=What's Where on Earth? Atlas: The World as You've Never Seen It BeforeRepair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)

|genre=ReferenceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I dread love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to think how old the atlas we used programme when I was want to be cheered up. After a child washard day, but at least we had onethere's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You see, the value is in what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and I didn't need to go to school or a library to check up on whatever bit of trivia I was seekingthe memories they hold. I'm so old a lot of things about it now would No expense appears to be most redundant, but if you choose to risk your arm spared and buy an atlas for the family shelves that all generations will benefit from, experts spend as much time and effort as opposed is required to relying on electronic achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and updateable sources of information, then this they're all brilliant at explaining what it is the one to havethey're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228379</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Graham and Stephen Biesty024162343X|title=Stephen Biesty's TrainsStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|genre=ArtChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Trains look imposingI 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, but true fans (little boysit was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, usually from I didn't so much want to learn about three years old the British army's successes (and upwardsoccasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to know dispute what lies beneath right the skin which you can seearmy had to be there in the first place. They Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.}}{{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 know how do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it workscomes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Getting Kurt has to grips with one in real life 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 quite a big ask, but the next best thing 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. 'Stephen Biesty's TrainsKristallnacht'' which features trains from happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all over the world and spanning round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the early steam train (complete younger Kurt at home with cow catcher) right through his mother and sisters anxious to the trains hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the future which can reach a speed of 430 kph US, while Fritz and don't even run his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on rails. Once the same train reaches a speed of 150 kph the wheels are raised to Buchenwald and the train is held up by magnetic forces alonestone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783704241</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913750353|title=Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed Britannica's Word of the WorldDay|author=Rachel IgnotofskyPatrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy

|summary=''Women in ScienceBritannica's Word of the Day'' has a sub-title: '' takes fifty prominent women in STEM fields 366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and celebrates their achievementsTickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. There are women from the ancient world and women working today. Each of them is given a double page spread including a stylised portrait and infoboxes with factoids It starts on one side and a page of text January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you how to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a brief biography definition and outline of her achievementsthen includes the word in a sentence so that you know how it should be used. These intrepid women are inspirational for their work You also get an engaging and their discoveries but also for frequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the barriers they overcame - barred from classes or employment because they were women or even barred from employment because they were black in racially segregated America.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360519</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK0711266204|title=Forest The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Woodland CreaturesVivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=This book knows that if youI have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I're going ve established which species feed from the ground, which pop to learn about forest life and the animals, plants feeders for a quick snatch of some food and trees who settles in it, then you're only going to be itching to go and explore the woods for yourselfa good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It's for would have been wonderful if, as a very young audiencechild, so always expects an adult hand I'd had access to guide you – but provides a warm companion itself through several quick and easy tasks, and a few lessonsbook such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''. The balance between carrot and stick, or duty and reward, is great So – but what exactly is the edutainment going to provide, and what will it demand of us?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273110</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK0192779230|title=Sharks and Other Sea CreaturesVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45

|summary=Never before 'Germs' seems to have I found much cause become a catch-all word to point out cover anything unpleasant which has the sort of lower-casepotential to make you ill. In the first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, almost-OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a-subtitle wording on clear and accessible introduction to the front world of a bookgerms. I say that because very little of this is We get an informed look at how people originally thought about sharks – so if you have a youngster intending to come here diseases and learn all their bloodthirsty imagination can hold, then what they may well be disappointedthought caused them and how the thinking has developed over time. If you take it on board that the The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'other sea creaturesspeak like a scientist' make up the bulk which explains some of the booktrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, then all well protists and viruses – and goodhow we should protect ourselves. And even better, if you expect yourself to ''make'' the bulk of said creatures…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241274389</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Theo Guignard1800464495|title=Labyrinth100 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

|summary=Of all ''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the books published for peoplewomb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.''s paper-based hobbies when  Did you know this? I was didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a youngsterstrong predictor of later achievement, it's remarkable double that all of them have been revisited and revampedliteracy skills. '' I say this because they certainly weren't exactly brilliant fun back then. No, we didn't have quite the modern style of colouringknow this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy -in booksreading stories, teaching pen grips, but singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they were availablestart school. But do we think the same way about maths, if you'd gone beyond counting? I don'join the dots'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. }} {{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 strange year: I read only recently doubt anyone would argue with that origami is allegedly coming back – statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and I remember how every church book sale for years had ''Origamisome 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 others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, ''Origami 2'' or ''Origami 3'' paperbacks somewhere for ten pencefrom children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. But And there's also the ultimate in paper-based fun back then was the use-once format fact that for far too long, lack of the maze booksleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. This is the modern equivalent – but boyBeing up early, hasn't working late has been praised and the idea grown up since then…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809987</amazonuk>ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano1849767343|title=Life Count on Earth: Farm: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5

|summary=IThe title and format of this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it'm sure I was full of questions when I was s a nipper – which means I was too full of questionsbasic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. Parents just donIt isn't need to be deflecting questions all the time, do they? Living on the edge of : it's a village in the middle hymn of nowhere as I did, I knew quite a lot about farms and farming – that different animals gave different results, that different vehicles meant different things and that the crops behind our house changedpraise to maths. But for the inner city child, there It's about why maths is a chance they have never met a cow or seen a silo. This colourful book, bright so wonderful and how you meet it in both senses of the word, will allow the very young reader the opportunity of their own fantasy trip to the working countrysideeveryday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808999</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano1849767009|title=Life on Earth: Human Body: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction For Sharing|summary=I wonder how much time IThis could have been one of those books which 've saved in not being a parent – and therefore not having had preaches to answer such pesky questions as why is the sky blue, where did I come from, where does my wee come from, what choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is earwax, OK and why do I have a spleen? Still, apart from the first two, those questions ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and -bothered person in the answers supermarket who is coughing fit to them and bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more are in this than a book, which is about not wearing clothes. It's a lovely primer for biology, celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and a great source of quick facts for the very youngevery possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, all presented with an addictive lift-the-flap approachthey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809006</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare Hibbert1776572858|title=Moments in History that Changed the WorldHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=One of the problems with presenting humankindIt's history as a timeline is more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that not she'd get me a lot happened at perfectly identified timesbook about it. Of course we can pinpoint when the US Declaration A couple of Independence days later I was signedhanded a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, or when Poland was invaded in September 1939, but when (and even whyclinical language which had never been used in our house before) the Maya cities died out? We donand I was told that it wouldn't knowbe discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. How do you pin a date to the Renaissance, or the invention of the modern city? This book may aim to be a portrayal of key moments in timeI ''knew'' more, but even it admits you have to be vague in itemising the specific days and dateswas little ''wiser''. Get over thatThankfully, and the pages are packed with informationtimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356703</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1526362759|title=Baby Dinosaurs (Follow the Trail)Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45

|summary= If you ever have the misfortune What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to stumble across some as yet undiscovered dinosaur I offer this piece acquire more of advice; don't take your finger it (nope - robbing banks is out) and track their spine, donwhat you can do with it when you't put ve managed to get hold of it in their mouth and . Your reasons for wanting money don't go following them matter: we all need it to their parentsome extent. InsteadYou might want to go into business, runbe a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy. Run faster than you have ever run before in There's also the opposite direction. The unfortunate thing is that anyone with a toddler knows, they love possibility of using to grab and poke anything – including terrible lizards if they got do good in the chanceworld. Better play safe than sorry and just get them a book that allows them to get their dinosaur touching thrills vicariously. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273129</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Packham and Jason Cockcroft178112938X|title=Amazing Animal BabiesSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Many children love animalsIt's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but they love baby animals even morethe story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. Would you rather watch a dog or watch a puppy? A cat or a kitten? A meerkat or a smaller meerkat? ''Survival in Space: The answer Apollo 13 Mission'' is a no brainer to most children who enjoy the wide-eyed stumbling brilliant retelling of youth that is not dissimilar to their ownwhat happened. However, someone needs to give them the facts about baby animals and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277467</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin Jenkins Kathleen Boucher and Stephen BiestySara Chadwick|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo Nine Ways to the Mars Rover 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 Beyondfor 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}}  {{Frontpage|isbn=1609809173|title=Eiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I take it as read that you know some of the history of space explorationBrash and elegant, even if the young person you buy books for doesn't know it all. So I won't go into the extremes reached by the ''Voyager'' space craftsophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the processes we needed to be expert 1889 World's Fair in before we could launch anything. You probably have some inkling of how we learnt that we're not Paris encompassed the centre of everything – best, the gradual discovery of how curved worst and the planet was, beautiful from many countries and how other things orbited other things in turn proving we are not that around which everything revolvescultures. What you might not be so genned up on is the history of books conveying The French Republic laid out model villages from all this to a young audience. When I was a nipper they were stately textstheir colonies, with a few accurate diagrams – if you were lucky. For a long time nowput on art shows, however, they've been anything but statelydance performances, food festivals and often aren't worried about accuracy as such in their visual designconcerts to stun the senses. They certainly long ago shod the boringAnd towering above it all, plain white page. Until now…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406360082</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie|title= Pairs Underwater|rating= 4|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Following on from [[Pairs in the Garden by Smriti Prasadam-Halls most popular and Lorna Scobie]], comes the aquatic themed ''Pairs Underwater''. It's a lift-the-flap book with the added twist of a game of ''Memory'' thrown in, as you try most hated monument to match French accomplishment and daring – the pairs across each double page spreadEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808824</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Frau Isa1848576536|title=Little People, Big DreamsHumanatomy: Marie CurieHow the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=45

|summary=Some little girls want to be princesses''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, but the girl who would become Marie Curie wanted to be a scientist. She was from a poor family in Warsaw but she was determined and go inside your insides!'' That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do well and won honestly, I don't see how you could resist. This informative book provides a gold medal for her studies. In Poland, in wonderful primer about the middle of human body to curious children- from the nineteenth century, only men were allowed skeletal system to go to Universitythe muscular system via circulation, so Marie moved to Paris where she had to study in an unfamiliar language, but was soon the best maths respiration and science student. It was here that she met and married Pierre Curiedigestion, another scientist and they jointly discovered radium and polonium: they would eventually win the Nobel Prize for Physics for this work. Marie was the first woman right up to receive the honourDNA that makes who we are. Pierre was killed in a road accident, but Marie went on to win a second Nobel Prize, this time for Chemistry. Her work is still benefiting people today.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Elisa MunsoLangford_Emily|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Agatha ChristieEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=As a child Agatha Christie and her mother would read a book together every afternoonEmily found words ''useful'', but there were early signs of counting was what the future novelist would become: she always had loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there's no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a better idea about how the story should endstep further and began counting in twos. She would read in bed at night knew all about odd and detective novels were always her favouriteseven numbers. In Then she began counting in threes: half of the First World War Agathalist were even numbers, who but the other half was odd and it was then this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in her early twentiesthrees which she called ''threeven''. (Actually, nursed wounded soldiers in hospitals: her experiences with poisons and toxic potions would be put to good use when her this confused me a little bit at first detective novels were published just after as they're a subset of the end odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of the war. Most people have heard of her first and most famous detective - Hercule Poirot - or of Miss Marple. Mrs Christie's novels were widely read and her plays were very popular in theatreseven numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809596</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna ScobieBuckingham_Dawn|title= Pairs in The Little Book of the GardenDawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating= 45|genre= Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'Pairs in ' at ''The Little Book of the gardenDawn Chorus'' is but the pull of the sounds of a fun book/game hybrid for little fingers into creepy crawliesdozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. It's a lift- I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the-flap book with a difference, because not only do you get birds and listening to see what's underneath, you then must see if you can find a matching pairtheir song. But beware! You cannot Then - just use process of elimination because there are 7 flaps on each page, but only 3 pairs to find. One poor creature is I could - I went back and did it all alone with no partneragain and it was just as good the second time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808832</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marc MartinPankhurst_Women|title=LotsFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=35

|summary=The children's encyclopaedia A lot of history is not the same genre about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as those used by adultsrole models. Whilst the older generation had to make do with giant tomes filled with information Of course, this isn't true and perhapsthere are plenty of women who, throughout history, if you are luckyhave achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, a small black and white picture every now and again; the kids get full colour books with more images than factsor created something never seen before. ''Lots'' by Marc Martin takes So here, in this even further by reducing wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the facts even further and bombarding your eyeballs with illustrationsstories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704659</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Krystyna Mihulka and Krystyna Poray GodduIgnotofsky_Sport|title=KrysiaWomen in Sport: A Polish Girl's Stolen Childhood During World War IIFifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5

|summary=Most of us would think of Polish children suffering ''Women in World War Two because of the Nazi death camps – they and their families suffering through countless round-ups, ghettoization, and transport to the end of the line, where they might by hint or dint survive Sport'' is coming to tell the horrid tale. But most of us would think of such Polish children as Jewish victims of just before the HolocaustWinter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. This book opens the eyes up in It celebrates a century and a most vivid fashion to those who were not Jewish. They did not get resettled in half of the Nazi ''Lebensraum'', but were sent miles away to the East. Krysiadevelopment of women's family were split upsport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, partly due to her father being a Polish reservist when the Nazis invadedcovering sports as diverse as swimming, and then courtesy of Stalinfencing, who had [[The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalinriding, 1939-1941 by Roger Moorhouse|signed a pact]] with Hitler dividing the country between the two statesskating, before they turned bitter enemiesand much more. Krysia's family, living in the eastern city Think of Lwow, were packed up a sport and sent – a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in the stereotypical cattle train – eastthis book somewhere. And east, and east – right the way across the continent to rural Kazakhstan, Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a communal farm in the middle of anonymous desert, deep in Communist Soviet landsstriking portrait. Proof, if proof were needed, that that horrendous war still carries narratives that will be new to us…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1613734417</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Simon Rogers|title= Infographics: Technology|rating= 5|genre= Reference|summary=As parents, we can often be bombarded with questions as our children start to discover the world. These questions soon become increasingly complex, especially with the latest technological advances. How do computers work? What's inside a smartphone? How can earth communicate with spacecraft? Thankfully we now have a handy, illustrated guide to help us: ''Infographics: Technology''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704489</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ben Handicott and Kenard Pak|title= The Hello Atlas|rating= 4|genreisbn= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Sannu! Kina lafiya?'' That's how Azumi greets us in this book. He's from Africa, and he speaks Hausa. Do you? Don't worry if not, because you're about to learn.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808492</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=DKRooney_Dino|title=Knowledge Encyclopedia: Animal!|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The encyclopedia may be an informative type of book, but it's not always the most interesting. A series of dry facts plastered all over the page with nary an image in sight. This dry type of learning is never going to work with some of our modern youth, more used to spending time looking for imaginary animals on their phones, than researching real ones in a book. If you want to capture their attention, you must first draw their eyes. DK have attempted this in one of the most colourful and vibrant encyclopedias you are likely to see.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228417</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne-Sophie Baumann, Olivier Latyk Rooney and Robb Booker (translator)|title=The Ultimate Book of SpaceSuzanne Carpenter

|summary=SpaceLift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. For all the hugeThis one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, empty expanse through various different ages of itdinosaurs, it's we meet a full and very fiddly thing to experience. The National Space Centre, in the hotbed variety of cosmology and space science that is Leicestercreatures, is chock full some of things to touch, grip, pull and move around – and so is this book. Itwhom are very familiar but some I's a right gallimaufry d never heard of things that pop up out of the pagebefore! Each scene peels open, with things to turn and pulllayer by layer, and even an astronaut on showing you what the end of a curtain wire. Within minutes of opening this book I had undressed an astronaut various dinosaurs are getting up to find what was under his spacesuit, dropped the dome on an observatory to open up the telescopewith background noises, roars and swung squawks to accompany them! The book creates a Soyuz supply module around so dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it could dock at 's very visual, placing the International Space Station. Educational fun like dinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that can only be a good thing for the budding young scientistspike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01AGIOSQ2</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody RevensonMason_poo|title=Incredibuilds: Buckbeak: Deluxe Model and Book Set (Harry Potter)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The general perception is that to become a leading British actor, you need the fillip of Eton or somesuch education. But you don't have to be an actor to make a great film. ''Gravity'' for instance has extended scenes where the only thing natural is the performers' faces – everything else, even their bodies, was made in Britain by people using computers. The eight ''Harry Potter'' films, also made in the UK, needed a lot of computing power as well, but also a lot of craftsmen with their hands on tools and a keen eye. What better way to start training the young reader into that side of things, than with tasking them with making a, er, hippogriff?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707232</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jody Revenson|title=Incredibuilds: Aragog: Deluxe Model and Book Set (Harry Potter)|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Aragog the giant spider, don't you know, took six man years just to build, and weighed a ton. After countless trial models and pieces of visual design work, he could finally be constructed, and he stretched across eighteen feet of the studio floor. Or, conversely, he is about seven inches long and seven wide, and you put him together in a day or two, for the cost of this book-and-gift set and some craft paints.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707240</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPoo That Animals Do|author=Jody Revenson|title=Incredibuilds: House-Elves: Deluxe Book Paul Mason and Model Set (Harry Potter)Tony de Saulles|rating=4.5

|summary=How do you create a house-elf like Dobby? WellI know, I know, sometimes you have a tennis ball on a stringreally don't want to encourage your children's poo jokes, but this book is brilliant! I sat and point actors so they look at read it, by myself when the kids had gone to school and say their lines to a pretty-found it fascinating! Who knew there was so much empty space. You then film Toby Jones doing the elfI didn's lines, t know about poo? The book manages to be both funny (and use that sound file silly) as well as being very interesting and his facial expressions as basis for your CGI creation – the first major character to come from the digital realm in the ''Harry Potter'' filmseducational. You can throw in Using a few puppetsmixture of facts and figures, photographs and now and again funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a gifted small person, particularly little at the end of film #7… Or, vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about different types of coursepoo, you can get this gift setwhy poos smell, and press the wooden parts out, muckle them together – and lo and behold, a six inch tall Dobby for your windowsillwhy wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707070</amazonuk>