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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton1839948493|title= Lots – The Diversity A World of Life on EarthDogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe

|summary= How many different kinds In the interests of living things are there on Earth? Lots…thatfull disclosure, I must tell you that I's how manym a sucker for dogs. Children will learn lots In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and lots from this wonderful bookI've loved most of them. I wish I learned lots from it toofelt the same about human beings. There are 100So,000 different kinds of mushroomsany book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and devour. Who knew? Well Then I certainly didn'tm going to go back and read it properly. This is one And so it was with ''A World of those special books Dogs'', with crossninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-over appeallegged friends. Tiny children will adore Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the illustrations, slightly older ones will learn fascinating facts and readers accidental owner of any age will be moved by the message that we need to take better care of our beautiful environmentan American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406360481</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kiki Ljung1529507987|title=Build a ... ButterflyThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)

|summary=I love butterflies: they're one of the delights of my garden and it'The Repair Shop''. It's always my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a pleasure when hard day, there are children there and 's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they 're worth. You see a butterfly close up, possibly for the first time, as it rests on a flowervalue is in what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and the memories they hold. Kiki Ljung has given us No expense appears to be spared and the opportunity to learn about butterflies experts spend as much time and also effort as is required to build a 3D model of our ownachieve the desired result. The book Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is primarily aimed at the five to eight year old age group, but I have to confess that I had a great deal of fun building my own painted ladythey're doing. I learned quite a bit too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809154</amazonuk>But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo024162343X|title=Good Night Stories for Rebel GirlsStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=ItI was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 's been said very often that god'. Where was the proof? In history is told by the winners'lessons, it was probably worse still. Well, Not too often history, long after the news and even destinies are written by menend of WWII, and the proof is between these covers. I didn't know anything so much want to learn about this before reading it, even if it has become the most richly-backed crowd-funded book ever. IBritish army'd never heard of the Hollow Flashlights successes (and occasional failures, powered purely by body warmth – which is rich if youbut we didn're old enough t dwell on those) in what came to remember be called 'the brou-ha-ha when a maverick British bloke did a wind-up radio. Icolonies'd never read about as want to dispute what right the Niger female who has successfully made a stand against forced, arranged marriage, rejecting a cousin for a fate she wishes army had to write for herselfbe there in the first place. My ignorance may, perhaps, show me up to be a chauvinist of sortsLooking back, I still believe I was right - but I think it is further evidence regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the gaze is maleproblem' and that the media are phallocentricpolitely. I hope too that this book doesnwish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''t turn any of its readers into a feminist, for that would be as bad as the chauvinist charge against me. If anything it is designed to create equals, and that is as it should be, even if there is still a long way to go…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014198600X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam HancherJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Taking Flight: How the Wright Brothers Conquered the SkiesFritz and Kurt|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Flight. It happens all 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 usthe empty market place, wherever we may behelping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and many at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the young audience members Sabbath preventing them for this book who have taken to the air alreadyusing anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But it was once something impossible this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to take for grantedHitler's will, and this book easily takes us back instead of having a national vote to those dayskeep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. It presents us ''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 dangerhis mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, determinationwhile Fritz and his father are, and a certain pair of American brothers going all out unknown initially to get both their names in each other, packed off on the history books same train to Buchenwald and their feet in the skies…stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847809286</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meurig Bowen, Rachel Bowen and Daniel Frost1913750353|title=The School Britannica's Word of Musicthe Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=35

|summary=I have a love/hate relationship with music. I love it in that I own several large bookshelves full ''Britannica's Word of CDs, and have seen and met quite the Day'' has a few noted performers, from Radiohead sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Philip Glass, but I hate it in that as regards making it I can only hit things (Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that only you need to know about this brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with my hands, never with my feet at the same time). Only in the last few years have people been at all appreciative of my singing''Razzmatazz'', for want of a better word, and one of those suggested closing my eyes tells you how to sound better pronounce it (I think she also may have plugged her ears when I wasn't looking). That from a kid who was lumbered with something big and brass to lumber about on the school bus with, dammit. But hey, what's the use of my own example being so offraz-muh-puttingTAZ''), when there is gives you a world of pleasure, mental definition and physical exercise and fun to be had from being active then includes the word in music? This book, dressed as the lesson programme of a full-on, proper musical college, is only designed to encourage sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and informfrequently amusing illustration too. But does it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808603</amazonuk>I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michaela DePrince and Elaine DePrince0711266204|title= Ballerina Dreams|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Africa is a place full of music and rhythm and joy The Secret Life of movement. It is not, however, always a place for the structured tuition and commitment required by ballet. Sometimes there are more pressing issues than whether your pointe shoes are darned or whether you have a pianist available or will have to dance to pre-recorded music. For Michaela, growing up in Sierra Leone, her concerns were more simple: where was her next meal coming from, and who was going to look after her now she had been left orphaned by the war.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057132973X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBirds|author=Katie Scott Moira Butterfield and Kathy Willis|title=Botanicum Activity BookVivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45

|summary=Children and adults who enjoyed [[Botanicum (Welcome To The Museum) by Katie Scott I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and Kathy Willis]] are going to love watch the ''Botanicum Activity Book''vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. DonI't be misled by ve established which species feed from the suggestion that ground, which pop to the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I'd had access to a book is aimed at the seven-plus age group: theresuch as ''s plenty in here for anyone who is still capable The Secret Life of holding a pen or pencilBirds''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783706791</amazonuk> So – what is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlotte Guillain and Yuval Zommer0192779230|title=Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Street Beneath My FeetInvisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas

|summary=It's one thing for Germs' seems to have become a noncatch-fiction book for all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the young potential to show them something they themselves can explore – the pattern of the stars, perhaps, or the life in their back yardmake you ill. But when it gets to things that are equally important to know about but are impossible to see In the first book in real life, why, then the game is changed. The artistic imagination has what looks to be key, in portraying the invisiblea very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and presenting what can only come from accessible introduction to the pages world of a bookgerms. And this example does it We get an informed look at its best, as it delves into the layers of the soil below said back yard, down how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and down, through all how the different kinds of rock, until we reach the unattainable centre of the planetthinking has developed over time. And thereThe vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist's only one way to go from there – back out which explains some of the other sidetrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, with yet more for us to be shown. It's a fantastic journeyfungi, then protists and viruses – and a quite fantastic volumehow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937312</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yuval Zommer1800464495|title=The Big Book 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Beasts (Big Books)Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith

|summary=One of the many issues people have ''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the TV nature programmewomb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, such as [[Planet Earth II by Stephen Moss|Planet Earth II]]assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is the obvious one a strong predictor of all the blood and guts it features – yeslater 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 amongst all the cutesyliteracy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, comical animal life are creatures eating other creatures (normally singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the cutesysame way about maths, comical onesbeyond counting? I don't think we do, what's worse)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. }} You'll be pleased to know, however, {{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 doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this book is very light on death and destructionwill have brought about sleep problems. Yes, here are lions sharing some chunks of meat Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant (while the females that caught and killed it sit and wait their turn'who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing), here are salmon seemingly willingly flying towards brown bears, and here is a red fox stashing a dead mouse while in a time of plentyothers will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but there worrying about your lack of sleep is so little only likely to make this even a PG book – it will be perfect for worse. And there's also the home shelf or fact that in for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a primary schoolvirtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, working late has been praised and the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>050065106X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aino-Maija Metsola1849767343|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 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>}}{{newreviewCount on Me|author=Andrea Beaty and David Roberts|title=Rosie Revere's Big Project Book for Bold EngineersMiguel Tanco|rating=4.5

|summary=For a long time now, people have worried about females taking up STEM subjects – the sciences, engineering The title and suchlike. But I know format of at least two sources of role models in this book might lead you to think that regard. One, most obviously, is it''Star Wars'' – lets either about responsibility - or it's face it, the latest main film had a girl who scavenged parts but could fly basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. It isn't: it'Millennium Falcon'' with ease, and the likes s a hymn of [[Star Wars: Ahsoka by E K Johnston|Ahsoka]] is adept at mending some sort of flying farming machinespraise to maths. If you donIt't wish to go too fantastical, or are seeking role models for the younger audience, there s about why maths is the output of [[:Category:Andrea Beaty so wonderful and David Roberts|Andrea Beaty]]how you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419719106</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1849767009|title=WhatIt Isn's Where on Earth? Atlas: The World as You've Never Seen It Beforet Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceFor Sharing|summary=I dread This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to think how old the atlas we used when I was a child was, but at least we had one, choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and I didnthe ones who ''know'' that it't need s shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to go to school or bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a library to check up on whatever bit of trivia I was seekingbook about not wearing clothes. IIt'm so old s a lot celebration of things about it now would be most redundant, but if you choose to risk your arm bodies: bodies large and buy an atlas for the family shelves that all generations will benefit from, as opposed to relying on electronic small and updateable sources of informationevery possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, then this is the one to havethey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228379</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Graham and Stephen Biesty1776572858|title=Stephen Biesty's TrainsHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)

|genre=ArtHome and Family|summary=Trains look imposing, but true fans (little boys, usually from about three It's more than sixty years old since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and upwards) want to know what lies beneath told me that she'd get me a book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the skin basics, in clinical language which you can see. had never been used in our house before) They want to know how and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it works''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. Getting to grips with one in real life is quite a big askI ''knew'' more, but the next best thing is was little ''Stephen Biestywiser's Trains'' which features trains from all over the world and spanning the early steam train (complete with cow catcher) right through to the trains of the future which can reach a speed of 430 kph and don't even run on rails. Once the train reaches a speed of 150 kph the wheels are raised and the train is held up by magnetic forces aloneThankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704241</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1526362759|title=Women in ScienceDosh: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the WorldHow to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rachel IgnotofskyRashmi Sirdeshpande

|summary=''Women in Science'' takes fifty prominent women in STEM fields and celebrates their achievements. There are women from the ancient world and women working today. Each What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of them it (nope - robbing banks is given a double page spread including a stylised portrait out) and infoboxes what you can do with factoids on one side and it when you've managed to get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, be a page of text with clever shopper, a brief biography saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and outline of her achievementsthere might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy. These intrepid women are inspirational for their work and their discoveries but There's also for the barriers they overcame - barred from classes or employment because they were women or even barred from employment because they were black possibility of using to do good in racially segregated Americathe world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360519</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK178112938X|title=Forest Life Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Woodland CreaturesStefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Dyslexia Friendly|summary=This book knows that if youIt're going to learn about forest life and s fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the animals, plants and trees Kennedy Space Centre in itFlorida, then you're only going to be itching to go and explore but the story of that journey remains one of the woods for yourselfgreatest survival stories of all time. It's for a very young audience, so always expects an adult hand to guide you – but provides a warm companion itself through several quick and easy tasks, and a few lessons. 'Survival in Space: The balance between carrot and stick, or duty and reward, Apollo 13 Mission'' is great – but a brilliant retelling of what exactly is the edutainment going to provide, and what will it demand of us?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273110</amazonuk>happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=DKKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=Sharks 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 Other Sea Creaturesyounger children for material for tweens too. |isbn= 0228818826}}  {{Frontpage|isbn=1609809173|title=Eiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=45

|summary=Never before have I found much cause to point out Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the sort of lower-casebest, almost-a-subtitle wording on the front of a bookworst and the beautiful from many countries and cultures. I say that because very little of this is about sharks – so if you have a youngster intending to come here and learn The French Republic laid out model villages from all their bloodthirsty imagination can holdcolonies, then they may well be disappointed. If you take it put on board that the 'other sea creatures' make up the bulk of the bookart shows, dance performances, then all well food festivals and goodconcerts to stun the senses. And even bettertowering above it all, if you expect yourself the most popular and the most hated monument to ''make'' French accomplishment and daring – the bulk of said creatures…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241274389</amazonuk>Eiffel Tower.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Theo Guignard1848576536|title=LabyrinthHumanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=4.5

|summary=Of all the books published for people's paper-based hobbies when I was a youngster, it's remarkable that all of them have been revisited and revamped. I say this because they certainly weren't exactly brilliant fun back then. No, we didn't have quite the modern style of colouring-in booksGet under your own skin, but they were availablepick your brains, if youand go inside your insides!'d gone beyond 'join the dots That'. I read only recently that origami is allegedly coming back – and I remember how every church book sale for years had s what ''OrigamiHumanatomy''invites you to do and honestly, I don''Origami 2'' or ''Origami 3'' paperbacks somewhere for ten pencet see how you could resist. But This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the ultimate in paperhuman body to curious children-based fun back then was from the use-once format of skeletal system to the maze book. This is the modern equivalent – but boymuscular system via circulation, respiration and digestion, hasn't right up to the idea grown up since then…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809987</amazonuk>DNA that makes who we are.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres LozanoLangford_Emily|title=Life on Earth: Farm: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!Emily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=IEmily found words ''useful''m sure I was full of questions when I , but counting was a nipper – which means I was too full of questionswhat she loved best. Parents just donObviously, you can count anything and there't need s no limit to be deflecting questions all the timehow far you can go, do they? Living on the edge of but then Emily moved a village step further and began counting in the middle of nowhere as I did, I twos. She knew quite a lot all about farms odd and farming – that different animals gave different resultseven numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, that different vehicles meant different things but the other half was odd and that the crops behind our house changedit was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. But for the inner city child(Actually, there is this confused me a chance little bit at first as they have never met 're a cow or seen subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a silo. This colourful book, bright in both senses subset of the wordeven numbers, will allow the very young reader the opportunity of their own fantasy trip to the working countrysidebut it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808999</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres LozanoBuckingham_Dawn|title=Life on Earth: Human Body: With 100 Questions The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and 70 Lift-flaps!Andrea Pinnington

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Animals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I wonder how much time Ireally did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus''ve saved in not being but the pull of the sounds of a parent – and therefore not having had dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to answer such pesky questions as why is the sky blue, where did I come from, where does my wee come from, what is earwax, resist on a cold and why do rather wet February morning. I have a spleen? Still, apart from spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the first two, those questions birds and the answers listening to them their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and more are in this book, which is a lovely primer for biology, did it all again and a great source of quick facts for it was just as good the very youngsecond time around. So, all presented with an addictive lift-the-flap approach.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809006</amazonuk>what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare HibbertPankhurst_Women|title=Moments in Fantastically Great Women Who Made History that Changed the World|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=45

|summary=One A lot of the problems with presenting humankind's history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as a timeline is that not a lot happened though there were no women in history at perfectly identified timesall, let alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. Of course we can pinpoint when the US Declaration , this isn't true and there are plenty of Independence was signedwomen who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or when Poland was invaded in September 1939shown incredible bravery, but when (and even why) the Maya cities died out? We don't knowor created something never seen before. How do you pin a date to the RenaissanceSo here, in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, or are the invention stories of the modern city? This book may aim to be a portrayal some of key moments in time, but even it admits you have to be vague in itemising the specific days and dates. Get over that, and the pages are packed with informationthem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356703</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Baby Dinosaurs (Follow the Trail)Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=45

|summary= If you ever have the misfortune to stumble across some as yet undiscovered dinosaur I offer this piece of advice; don't take your finger and track their spine, don't put it Women in their mouth and donSport''t go following them is coming to their parentus just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. InsteadIt celebrates a century and a half of the development of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, runriding, skating, and much more. Run faster than you have ever run before Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in the opposite directionthis book somewhere. The unfortunate thing Each entry is that anyone a double-page spread with a toddler knows, they love to grab and poke anything – including terrible lizards if they got the chance. Better play safe than sorry brief biography and just get them a book that allows them to get their dinosaur touching thrills vicariouslystriking portrait. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273129</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris Packham and Jason Cockcroft|title=Amazing Animal Babies|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Many children love animals, but they love baby animals even more. Would you rather watch a dog or watch a puppy? A cat or a kitten? A meerkat or a smaller meerkat? The answer is a no brainer to most children who enjoy the wide-eyed stumbling of youth that is not dissimilar to their own. However, someone needs to give them the facts about baby animals and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277467</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Martin Jenkins and Stephen Biesty|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo to the Mars Rover and Beyond|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I take it as read that you know some of the history of space exploration, 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 craft, and the processes we needed to be expert in before we could launch anything. You probably have some inkling of how we learnt that we're not the centre of everything – the gradual discovery of how curved the planet was, and how other things orbited other things in turn proving we are not that around which everything revolves. What you might not be so genned up on is the history of books conveying all this to a young audience. When I was a nipper they were stately texts, with a few accurate diagrams – if you were lucky. For a long time now, however, they've been anything but stately, and often aren't worried about accuracy as such in their visual design. They certainly long ago shod the boring, plain white page. Until now…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406360082</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna ScobieRooney_Dino|title= Pairs Underwater|rating= 4|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Following on from [[Pairs in the Garden by Smriti Prasadam-Halls 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 to match the pairs across each double page spread.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808824</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Isabel Sanchez Vegara Anne Rooney and Frau Isa|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Marie CurieSuzanne Carpenter

|summary=Some little girls want to be princesses, but Lift the girl who would become Marie Curie wanted to be flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a scientistchild. She was from This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a poor family in Warsaw variety of creatures, some of whom are very familiar but she was determined to do well and won a gold medal for her studies. In Poland, in the middle some I'd never heard of the nineteenth centurybefore! Each scene peels open, only men were allowed to go to Universitylayer by layer, so Marie moved to Paris where she had showing you what the various dinosaurs are getting up to study in an unfamiliar language, but was soon the best maths and science student. It was here that she met and married Pierre Curiewith background noises, another scientist and they jointly discovered radium roars and polonium: they would eventually win the Nobel Prize for Physics for this work. Marie was the first woman squawks to receive the honour. Pierre was killed in accompany them! The book creates a road accidentdinosaur experience, but Marie went on to win a second Nobel Prizerather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, this time for Chemistry. Her work is still benefiting people todayplacing the dinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Elisa MunsoMason_poo|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Agatha ChristieThe Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles|rating=45

|summary=As a child Agatha Christie and her mother would read a book together every afternoonI know, but there were early signs of what the future novelist would become: she always had a better idea about how the story should end. She would read in bed at night and detective novels were always her favourites. In the First World War AgathaI know, who was then in her early twentiessometimes you really don't want to encourage your children's poo jokes, nursed wounded soldiers in hospitals: her experiences with poisons but this book is brilliant! I sat and toxic potions would be put to good use read it by myself when her first detective novels were published just after the end of the war. Most people have heard of her first kids had gone to school and most famous detective - Hercule Poirot - or of Miss Marple. Mrs Christiefound it fascinating! Who knew there was so much I didn's novels were widely read t know about poo? The book manages to be both funny (and her plays were silly) as well as being very popular in theatres.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809596</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Smriti Prasadam-Halls interesting and Lorna Scobie|title= Pairs in the Garden|rating= 4|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Pairs in the garden'' is a fun book/game hybrid for little fingers into creepy crawlieseducational. It's Using a lift-the-flap book with a differencemixture of facts and figures, because not only do you get to see what's underneathphotographs and funny cartoons, you then must see if you can find come away having sniggered a little at the vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a matching pair. But beware! You cannot just use process lot about different types of elimination because there are 7 flaps on each pagepoo, why poos smell, but only 3 pairs to find. One poor creature is all alone with no partnerand why wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808832</amazonuk>