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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Litton and Thomas Hegbrook1839948493|title=The Earth Book: A World of Exploration Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and WonderLuisa Uribe|rating=4.5
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|summary=The Earth. I kind In the interests of quite like itfull disclosure, I must tell you know – it seems to serve my purposethat I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I don've never met one I didn't think trust and I've taken too much out loved most of itthem. I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, all toldany book about dogs, and if it's divided up into 200 countries I'm getting close going to having visited a quarter of themsit down and devour. But way back when Then I just didn't get on with studying m going to go back and read itproperly. I didnAnd so it was with ''A World of Dogs''t like geography – what , with having ninety-six pages devoted entirely to draw maps, oxbow lakes and whatnot I think it was one of those subjects I was put off through the pictorial element – and dropped it as soon as I couldmy four-legged friends. But then, I didn't have Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the likes accidental owner of this book to inspire me…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575246</amazonuk>an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Barr, Steve Williams and Amy Husband1529507987|title=The Story of SpaceRepair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)
|rating=4.5
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|summary=I have no actual idea how I first got an interest in spacelove ''The Repair Shop''. Perhaps itIt's there because my go-to programme when I'm so old want to almost coincide with the last Apollo astronauts being on the moon (and thatbe cheered up. After a hard day, there's pretty old, itnothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they's been so long) and it kind of rubbed off on mere worth. Perhaps You see, the value is in fact all young children what these possessions are interested in space anyway, worth to the people who own them and don't need any impetus or reason to look up in wonderthe memories they hold. But if they do, this No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the newest way of nudging desired result. Regular viewers know the newer child towards a keenness for experts and they're all things celestial. And brilliant at explaining what itis they's a pretty good way indeedre doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807488</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton024162343X|title= Lots – The Diversity of Life on EarthStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary= How many different kinds I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of living things are there on Earth? Lots…thata 'god's how many. Children will learn lots and lots from this wonderful book. I learned lots from Where was the proof? In history lessons, it toowas probably worse still. There are 100Not too long after the end of WWII,000 different kinds of mushrooms. Who knew? Well I certainly didn't. This is one of so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those special books with cross-over appeal. Tiny children will adore ) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the illustrations, slightly older ones will learn fascinating facts and readers of any age will army had to be moved by there in the message first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that we need I lacked the maturity to take better care of our beautiful environmentapproach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406360481</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kiki LjungJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Build Fritz and Kurt|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. Butterfly And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|isbn=024156574X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1913750353|title=Britannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=4.5
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|summary=I love butterflies: they're one 'Britannica's Word of the delights of my garden Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you how to pronounce it(''raz-muh-TAZ''s always ), gives you a pleasure when there are children there definition and they see then includes the word in a butterfly close up, possibly for the first time, as sentence so that you know how it rests on a flowershould be used. Kiki Ljung has given us the opportunity to learn about butterflies You also get an engaging and also to build a 3D model of our ownfrequently amusing illustration too. The book is primarily aimed at the five to eight year old age group, but I have to confess that don't think I had 've ever encountered a great deal of fun building my own painted lady. I learned quite a bit tooword which uses the letter Z four times before!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809154</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo0711266204|title=Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=It's been said very often that 'history is told by the winners'. Well, too often history, the news and even destinies are written by men, and the proof is between these covers. I didn't know anything about this before reading it, even if it has become the most richly-backed crowd-funded book ever. I'd never heard of the Hollow Flashlight, powered purely by body warmth – which is rich if you're old enough to remember the brou-ha-ha when a maverick British bloke did a wind-up radio. I'd never read about the Niger female who has successfully made a stand against forced, arranged marriage, rejecting a cousin for a fate she wishes to write for herself. My ignorance may, perhaps, show me up to be a chauvinist of sorts, but I think it is further evidence that 'the gaze is male' and that the media are phallocentric. I hope too that this book doesn't turn any The Secret Life 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>}}{{newreviewBirds|author=Adam Hancher|title=Taking Flight: How the Wright Brothers Conquered the SkiesMoira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=FlightI 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. It happens all around usI've established which species feed from the ground, wherever we may be, and many are which pop to the young audience members feeders for this book a quick snatch of some food and who have taken to the air already. But it settles in for a good munch but I wish I was once something impossible to take for granted, and this book easily takes us back to those daysmore knowledgeable. It presents us with dangerwould have been wonderful if, determinationas a child, and I'd had access to a certain pair book such as ''The Secret Life of American brothers going all out to get both their names in the history books and their feet in the skies…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809286</amazonuk>Birds''. So – what is it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meurig Bowen, Rachel Bowen and Daniel Frost0192779230|title=Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The School Invisible World of MusicGerms|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=35
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I 'Germs' seems to have become a love/hate relationship with musiccatch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. I love it In the first book in that I own several large bookshelves full of CDswhat looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have seen provided a clear and met quite a few noted performers, from Radiohead accessible introduction to Philip Glass, but I hate it in that as regards making it I can only hit things (and that only with my hands, never with my feet at the same time)world of germs. Only in the last few years have We get an informed look at how people been at all appreciative of my singing, for want of a better word, originally thought about diseases and one of those suggested closing my eyes to sound better (I think she also may have plugged her ears when I wasn't looking). That from a kid who was lumbered with something big what they thought caused them and brass to lumber about on how the school bus with, dammitthinking has developed over time. But hey, whatThe vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 's the use of my own example being so off-putting, when there is speak like a world scientist' which explains some of pleasure, mental the trickiest concepts and physical exercise and fun to you'll soon be had from being active in music? This bookfamiliar with bacteria, dressed as the lesson programme of a full-onfungi, proper musical college, is only designed to encourage protists and viruses – and informhow we should protect ourselves. But does it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808603</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michaela DePrince and Elaine DePrince1800464495|title= Ballerina Dreams|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Africa is a place full 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of music and rhythm and joy of movement. It is not, however, always a place for the structured tuition and commitment required Your Baby’s Development by ballet. Sometimes there are more pressing issues than whether your pointe shoes are darned or whether you have Nurturing 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>}}{{newreviewLove of Maths|author=Katie Scott and Kathy Willis|title=Botanicum Activity BookEmma Smith|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Children ''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and adults who enjoyed [[Botanicum (Welcome To The Museum) by Katie Scott comprehending addition and Kathy Willis]] are going to love the subtraction at nine months old.''Botanicum Activity Book Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills. Don'' I didn't be misled by the suggestion know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the book is aimed at the seven-plus age group: theresame way about maths, beyond counting? I don's plenty t think we do, in here for anyone who is still capable part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of holding us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a pen or pencilsimilar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783706791</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlotte Guillain and Yuval Zommer1406395404|title=The Street Beneath My FeetAwesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=It's one thing for 2020 has been a non-fiction book for the young to show them something they themselves can explore – the pattern of the stars, perhaps, or the life in their back yardstrange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. But when it gets to things that are equally important to know Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about but are impossible to see in real life, why, then the game is changedsleep problems. The artistic imagination has Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be key, in portraying the invisible, doing) and presenting what can only come from the pages of a bookothers will worry unnecessarily. And this example does it at its bestMost people, as it delves into from children to adults will have the layers odd bad night but worrying about your lack of the soil below said back yard, down and down, through all the different kinds of rock, until we reach the unattainable centre of the planetsleep is only likely to make it worse. And there's only one way to go from there – back out also the other sidefact that for far too long, with yet more for us lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to be shownseem like laziness. It's a fantastic journeyBeing up early, then – working late has been praised and a quite fantastic volumethe ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937312</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yuval Zommer1849767343|title=The Big Book of Beasts (Big Books)Count on Me|author=Miguel Tanco
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=One The title and format of the many issues people have with the TV nature programme, such as [[Planet Earth II by Stephen Moss|Planet Earth II]], is the obvious one of all the blood and guts this book might lead you to think that it features – yes, in amongst all the cutesy, comical animal life are creatures eating other creatures (normally the cutesy, comical ones, what's worse). Youeither about responsibility - or it'll be pleased to know, however, that this s a basic 1-2-3 book is very light for those just starting out on death and destructionthe numbers journey. Yes, here are lions sharing some chunks of meat (while the females that caught and killed It isn't: it sit and wait their turn), here are salmon seemingly willingly flying towards brown bears, and here is a red fox stashing 's a dead mouse while in a time hymn of plenty, but there praise to maths. It's about why maths is so little to make this even a PG book – wonderful and how you meet it will be perfect for the home shelf or that in a primary schooleveryday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>050065106X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aino-Maija Metsola1849767009|title=My First Animals It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=45
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Get used This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to two simple words if you have a child, the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''Whatknow's That?'that it' You s shameful will hear avoid it over like they avoid the hot-and over and over again-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. If you are lucky they are pointing at But... Rosie Haines makes it into something that you actually know – chair, hat, my sense so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of regretevery possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. Sometimes In fact, they will point at something 're wonderful.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that is not too familiarshe'd get me a book about it. Here A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the parental practise of making basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something up comes into play – itwhich nice people talked about''s a bird type thing. Books that show images of itemsI ''knew'' more, colours or animals may seem a but was little dull to an adult, but to a toddler learning about the world they are a who's who of what's thatwiser''. Thankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809677</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Beaty and David Roberts1526362759|title=Rosie Revere's Big Project Book for Bold EngineersDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=For What a long time nowrelief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, people have worried about females taking up STEM subjects – the scienceswhy it matters, engineering how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and suchlikewhat you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. But I know of at least two sources of role models in that regardYour reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. OneYou might want to go into business, most obviouslybe a clever shopper, is a saver (you might even become an ''Star Warsinvestor'' – let's face it) and there might be something you really, the latest main film had a girl who scavenged parts but could fly the ''Millennium Falconreally'' with ease, and the likes of [[Star Wars: Ahsoka by E K Johnston|Ahsoka]] is adept at mending some sort of flying farming machineswant to buy. If you donThere't wish s also the possibility of using to go too fantastical, or are seeking role models for do good in the younger audience, there is the output of [[:Category:Andrea Beaty and David Roberts|Andrea Beaty]]world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419719106</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK178112938X|title=What's Where on Earth? AtlasSurvival in Space: The World as You've Never Seen It Before|rating=4.5|genre=Reference|summary=I dread to think how old the atlas we used when I was a child was, but at least we had one, and I didn't need to go to school or a library to check up on whatever bit of trivia I was seeking. I'm so old a lot of things about it now would be most redundant, but if you choose to risk your arm and buy an atlas for the family shelves that all generations will benefit from, as opposed to relying on electronic and updateable sources of information, then this is the one to have.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228379</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewApollo 13 Mission|author=Ian Graham David Long and Stephen Biesty|title=Stephen Biesty's TrainsStefano Tambellini (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=ArtDyslexia Friendly|summary=Trains look imposing, but true fans (little boys, usually It's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from about three years old and upwards) want to know what lies beneath the skin which you can see. They want to know how it works. Getting to grips with one Kennedy Space Centre in real life is quite a big askFlorida, but the next best thing is ''Stephen Biesty'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 story of that journey remains one of the future which can reach a speed greatest survival stories of 430 kph and don't even run on railsall time. Once the train reaches ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a speed brilliant retelling of 150 kph the wheels are raised and the train is held up by magnetic forces alonewhat happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704241</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=Women 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 Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the Worldan 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=Rachel IgnotofskyJill Jonnes
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the 1889 World''Women s Fair in Science'' takes fifty prominent women in STEM fields Paris encompassed the best, the worst and celebrates their achievements. There are women the beautiful from the ancient world many countries and women working todaycultures. Each of them is given a double page spread including a stylised portrait and infoboxes with factoids The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on one side art shows, dance performances, food festivals and a page of text with a brief biography concerts to stun the senses. And towering above it all, the most popular and outline of her achievements. These intrepid women are inspirational for their work the most hated monument to French accomplishment and their discoveries but also for daring – 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 AmericaEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360519</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1848576536|title=Forest Life Humanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Woodland CreaturesJem Maybank|rating=45 |genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=This book knows that if you're going to learn about forest life and the animals'Get under your own skin, pick your brains, plants and trees in it, then go inside your insides!'' That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you're only going to be itching to go do and explore the woods for yourself. Ithonestly, I don's for a very young audience, so always expects an adult hand to guide t see how you – but could resist. This informative book provides a warm companion itself through several quick and easy taskswonderful primer about the human body to curious children- from the skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, respiration and a few lessons. The balance between carrot and stickdigestion, or duty and reward, is great – but what exactly is right up to the edutainment going to provide, and what will it demand of us?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273110</amazonuk>DNA that makes who we are.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKLangford_Emily|title=Sharks and Other Sea CreaturesEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Never before have I Emily found much cause to point out the sort of lower-casewords ''useful'', almost-a-subtitle wording on the front of a bookbut counting was what she loved best. I say that because very little of this is about sharks – so if Obviously, you have a youngster intending can count anything and there's no limit to come here and learn all their bloodthirsty imagination how far you can holdgo, but then they may well be disappointedEmily moved a step further and began counting in twos. If you take it on board that the 'other sea creatures' make up the bulk of the book, then She knew all well about odd and goodeven numbers. And Then she began counting in threes: half of the list were even betternumbers, if but the other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you expect yourself to counted in threes which she called ''makethreeven'' . (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the bulk odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of said creatures…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241274389</amazonuk>the even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Theo GuignardBuckingham_Dawn|title=LabyrinthThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Of all the books published for people's paper-based hobbies when I was What a youngster, it's remarkable that all of them have been revisited and revamped. treat! I say this because they certainly werenreally did mean to just ''glance'' at 't exactly brilliant fun back then. No, we didn't have quite The Little Book of the modern style of colouring-in books, but they were available, if youDawn Chorus'd gone beyond 'join but the dots'pull of the sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. I read only recently that origami is allegedly coming back – spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and I remember how every church book sale for years had ''Origami'', ''Origami 2'' or ''Origami 3'' paperbacks somewhere for ten pencelistening to their song. But the ultimate in paperThen - just because I could -based fun I went back then and did it all again and it was just as good the use-once format of the maze booksecond time around. This is the modern equivalent – but boySo, hasn't the idea grown up since then…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809987</amazonuk>what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres LozanoPankhurst_Women|title=Life on Earth: Farm: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!Fantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I'm sure I was full A lot of questions when I was a nipper – which means I was too full of questionshistory is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Parents just don't need to be deflecting questions Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all the time, do they? Living on the edge of a village in the middle of nowhere let alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as I didrole models. Of course, I knew quite a lot about farms this isn't true and farming – that different animals gave different resultsthere are plenty of women who, throughout history, that different vehicles meant different have achieved amazing things and that the crops behind our house changed. But for the inner city childor shown incredible bravery, there is a chance they have or created something never met a cow or seen a silobefore. This colourful bookSo here, bright in both senses of the wordthis wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, will allow are the very young reader the opportunity stories of some of their own fantasy trip to the working countrysidethem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808999</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres LozanoIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Life on EarthWomen in Sport: Human Body: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=One ''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a half of the problems with presenting humankinddevelopment of women's history as a timeline is that not a lot happened sport by looking at perfectly identified times. Of course we can pinpoint when the US Declaration fifty of Independence was signedits highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, or when Poland was invaded in September 1939fencing, riding, skating, but when (and even why) the Maya cities died out? We don't knowmuch more. How do you pin Think of a date to the Renaissance, or the invention of the modern city? This book may aim to be sport and a portrayal of key moments in time, but even pioneering woman succeeding at it admits you have to be vague is probably in itemising the specific days and datesthis book somewhere. Get over that, Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and the pages are packed with informationa striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356703</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKRooney_Dino|title=Baby Discovering Dinosaurs (Follow the Trail)|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary= If you ever Lift the flap books have the misfortune to stumble across progressed somewhat since I was a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a variety of creatures, some of whom are very familiar but some as yet undiscovered dinosaur I offer this piece 'd never heard of advice; don't take your finger and track their spinebefore! Each scene peels open, don't put it in their mouth and don't go following them to their parent. Insteadlayer by layer, run. Run faster than showing you have ever run before in what the opposite direction. various dinosaurs are getting up to, with background noises, roars and squawks to accompany them! The unfortunate thing is that anyone with book creates a toddler knowsdinosaur experience, they love to grab and poke anything – including terrible lizards if they got rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, placing the chance. Better play safe than sorry dinosaurs in their habitats and just get them a book giving us sounds too that allows them to get their dinosaur touching thrills vicariouslyspike your imagination. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273129</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Packham and Jason CockcroftMason_poo|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>}}{{newreviewPoo That Animals Do|author=Martin Jenkins and Stephen Biesty|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo to the Mars Rover Paul Mason and BeyondTony de Saulles
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Some little girls I know, I know, sometimes you really don't want to be princessesencourage your children's poo jokes, but this book is brilliant! I sat and read it by myself when the girl who would become Marie Curie wanted kids had gone to be a scientist. She school and found it fascinating! Who knew there was from a poor family in Warsaw but she was determined so much I didn't know about poo? The book manages to do be both funny (and silly) as well as being very interesting and won educational. Using a gold medal for her studies. In Poland, in the middle mixture of the nineteenth century, only men were allowed to go to Universityfacts and figures, so Marie moved to Paris where she had to study in an unfamiliar language, but was soon the best maths and science student. It was here that she met photographs and married Pierre Curiefunny cartoons, another scientist and they jointly discovered radium and polonium: they would eventually win you come away having sniggered a little at the Nobel Prize for Physics for this work. Marie was the first woman to receive the honour. Pierre was killed in vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a road accidentlot about different types of poo, but Marie went on to win a second Nobel Prizewhy poos smell, this time for Chemistry. Her work is still benefiting people todayand why wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809618</amazonuk>
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