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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1839948493|title=The Story A World of the World CupDogs|author=Richard BrasseyCarlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Look at In the calendar and interests of full disclosure, I must tell you will see that it is I'm a year ending in an even numbersucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, what does this mean? I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. To a host of football fans it means a summer free from boredom as an International Tournament will fill I wish I felt the void that the Premier League has leftsame about human beings. For non-football fans itSo, any book about dogs, I's more excuses for people m going to watch a pigskin be knocked aroundsit down and devour. Be you young or old, football can get in your blood Then I'm going to go back and you want to know moreread it properly. For the younger fanAnd so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', there are worse places with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to start their obsession than the World Cup and getting to know more about my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the esteemed tournament in Richard Brassey’s 'The Story accidental owner of the World Cupan American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144400946X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529507987|title=Outdoor WonderlandThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Josie JefferyWalker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=When I was growing love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up we had ‘Why Don’t You’ to inspire us . After a hard day, there'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 do during the summer holidays, but I still don’t understand why a TV show would encourage me people who own them and the memories they hold. No expense appears to switch off be spared and the telly – how am I meant experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what to do? A far more sensible guide for outdoor fun it is a book like Josie Jeffery’s ‘Outdoor Wonderland’, an informative book full of interesting things to do outside no matter the weather or time of daythey're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400826</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Secrets of the SeashoreStolen History|author=Carron Brown and Alyssa NassnerSathnam Sanghera|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=This book starts I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a rock pool'god'. It’s not a boring Where was the proof? In history lessons, quietit was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, calm placeI didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, though, it’s bustling with life, and with every page that turns but we learn more about didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the mysterious creatures that live within itfirst place. You might not see them at first Looking back, I still believe I was right - but with a hint of magic they appearI regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401105</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Earth in 30 SecondsJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|authortitle=Anita GaneriFritz and Kurt
|rating=4
|genre=children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=As a former cataloguer We start with the pair of children’s books there are names that are synonymous with juvenile non-fictionbrothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in my time 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the author Anita Ganeri synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has graced my work table 112 timesto 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. She But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a prolific author and her legacy continues 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 form round-ups of ‘Earth Jews. These in 30 Seconds’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, part while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of a series of books for 7-11 year olds that explore scientific principles in easy bite size pieces.all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782401091</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913750353|title=Flowerpot Farm: A First Gardening Activity BookBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Lorraine HarrisonPatrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=With ''Britannica's Word of the demand for us Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to eat seemingly more fruit Stretch Your Cranium and vegetables every day, the world of grow-your-own is back. Why buy from the supermarket when Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you can release the kids into the garden need to graze like cattle? Howeverknow about this brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', before tells you do thishow to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), perhaps gives you should pick up a book like ‘Flowerpot Farm’ by Lorraine Harrison definition and Faye Bradley which will show them then includes the word in a sentence so that you know how to create their own fruit, veg it should be used. You also get an engaging and flower garden no matter how small frequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I've ever encountered a space they have to work with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400818</amazonuk>word which uses the letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0711266204|title=A First Book The Secret Life of NatureBirds|author=Nicola Davies Moira Butterfield and Mark HearldVivian Mineker (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=There is I have recently discovered a difference between great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a book for children that the kids themselves will like and one that adults will likedaily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. A more mature person may like some interesting illustrations or imaginative storyI've established which species feed from the ground, but most which pop to the feeders for a quick snatch of the children I know are happy just to see some dinosaurs food and who settles in their pantsfor a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. HoweverIt would have been wonderful if, as a child, there are books that transcend this and can appeal I'd had access to both groupsa book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''. Books that may have slightly dry reading for the very young, but illustrations that will transfix and amaze So – introducing ‘A First Book of Nature’ written by Nicola Davies and illustrated by Mark Hearld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140634916X</amazonuk>what is it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192779230|title=Jake's BonesVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Jake McGowan-LoweIsabel Thomas
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=My oldest son 'Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has wanted the potential to make you ill. In the first book in what looks to be a palaeontologist since he was three very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the world of germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and both boys are fascinated by how things workthe thinking has developed over time. Last year my youngest saw The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some scientific anatomy drawings of the trickiest concepts and begged for moreyou'll soon be familiar with bacteria, so I began looking for children's books on skeletonsfungi, protists and anatomy. There are very few available viruses – and this looked the best by far, I spent two days searching not only British but American booksellers before noticing that the book had not been released yet - so sadly how we were forced to wait. It was worth waiting for though, this book is truly one of a kindshould protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783250259</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1800464495
|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths
|author=Emma Smith
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''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 comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1849767343|title=Secrets of the Apple TreeCount on Me|author=Carron Brown and Alyssa NassnerMiguel Tanco|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=On The title and format of this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a cold winter night, long after bedtime, what could be more inviting than curling up under basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the blankets with numbers journey. It isn't: it's a book hymn of praise to read by torch light? What surprises might your torch reveal? In the case of ‘Secrets of the Apple Tree’ you may get more than maths. It's about why maths is so wonderful and how you bargained for…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400680</amazonuk>meet it in everyday life.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1849767009|title=Eye Benders: The Science of Seeing and BelievingIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Clive Gifford and Professor Anil SethRosie Haine
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=My husband doesnThis could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir't usually do books, but when this arrived in : the post only people who'll buy it was a good two hours before anyone could get it out of his hands. The whole family ended up joining in are the people who know that nudity is OK and commenting on each illustration or illusion. On the surface, ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it just seems like some lightthey avoid the hot-hearted fun, and this book certainly -bothered person in the supermarket who is funcoughing fit to bust. But in addition to being great fun... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, this is an incredibly educational book as wellthey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400842</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey Kelly1776572858|title=A Day That Changed History: The Assassination of John F KennedyHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I have asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a vivid memory of hearing book about the assassination of John F Kennedyit. He A couple of days later I was young, charismatic and handed a hope for pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the future after the old guard who seemed to have basics, in clinical language which had never been used in power for ever - our house before) and then he I was gonetold that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. Books on JFK are easy to find - youI ''knew'll find our favourites [[Top Ten Books on President John F Kennedy|here]], but it's rather more difficult to find a book which puts Kennedy and what happened into context, so I but was delighted to receive a copy of little ''wiser'A Day That Changed History: The Assassination of John F Kennedy'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445123576</amazonuk> Thankfully, times have changed.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1526362759|title=Richard Hammond's Great Mysteries of the WorldDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Richard HammondRashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Have you ever wondered whether or not the Loch Ness Monster actually exists? What a relief! A book about the Abominable Snowman? Do you think about money, for children, with clear explanations of what really goes on inside the Bermuda Triangle? Wellit is, why it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don't expect matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a definitive answer from Richard Hammondsaver (you might even become an ''investor's ') and there might be something you really, 'Great Mysteries of the World'really'. You'll have want to make up your own mind after being presented with the argumentsbuy. You There'll need s also the possibility of using to marshal your brainpower. There are eighteen mysteries here, arranged within four topics - Weird Waters, Alien Encounters, Creepy Creatures and Ancient Treasures. All do good in the biggies are hereworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0370332377</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=Deadly DetectivesSurvival in Space: Top Tips to Track WildlifeThe Apollo 13 Mission|author=Steve BackshallDavid Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=Steve Backshall is best known for his Deadly 60 series, which focuses on deadly predators. This book has plenty of predators It's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from all around the world, but it also includes many less dangerous creatures, including a fair amount on animals Kennedy Space Centre in the UK. Tracking a fox may not sound as exciting as tracking a leopardFlorida, but it something many children may find a chance to do in the UK, and Steve very helpfully shows story of that journey remains one of the reader how to differentiate between a fox print and that greatest survival stories of a dogall time. ''Survival in Space: The book has several other footprint illustrations, teaching children subtle differences between may types Apollo 13 Mission'' is a brilliant retelling of printswhat happened. It even had crab and bird prints to look for at the seaside. But this is about so much more than tracking and footprints.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444006436</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|author=Kathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick
|title=Nine Ways to Empower Tweens
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book for tweens, setting out to show them vital #lifeskills. Don't groan! I know there is a market glut of such books for we grown-ups and for young adults too, but there is a needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for tweens too.
|isbn= 0228818826
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1609809173|title=Bones RockEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Peter L Larson and Kristin DonnanJill Jonnes
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Most children go through a dinosaur phaseBrash and elegant, sophisticated, but there are always a few children who are completely captivated by dinosaurs - controversial and everything that goes with them. This is vibrant, the 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the most detailed palaeontology book for children I have ever found. This book is written for older childrenbest, even teens who may wish to seriously consider palaeontology as a career choicethe worst and the beautiful from many countries and cultures. The book beginsFrench Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, not with dinosaurs, but with science. The book explains how science works. It presents scienceput on art shows, not as a set of factsdance performances, but of theories food festivals and ideas that are subject concerts to changestun the senses. Science becomes a living And towering above it all, the most popular and fluid thing rather than a stuffy set facts the most hated monument to memorise. Reading this book, I can almost forget how much I hated science as a childFrench accomplishment and daring – the Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>193122935X</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1848576536
|title=Humanatomy: How the Body Works
|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!''
That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do and honestly, I don't see how you could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the human body to curious children- from the skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, respiration and digestion, right up to the DNA that makes who we are.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Langford_Emily|title=Alan Turing (Real Lives)Emily's Numbers|author=Jim EldridgeJoss Langford
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Alan Turing Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was one of Britainwhat she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there's greatest thinkers no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the last century. He did pioneering work on computing list were even numbers, but the other half was odd and artificial intelligenceit was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. He was also (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a hero subset of World War II, working in the famous code-breaking community at Bletchley Park, cracking German naval codes used odd numbers but sound as though they ought to lethal effect organising U-boat attacks. Turing was be a subset of the man who beat the Enigma machineeven numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472900103</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=How the Meteorite Got to the MuseumBuckingham_Dawn|author=Jessie Hartland|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summarytitle=This is a cumulative tale in which one small event sets off a chain The Little Book of other events which are repeated throughout the story. If your child loves books like ''This is the House That Jack Built'', this may prove a very useful addition to you home library, but this is a type of story telling which I have found some children really take to, and others do not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609052528</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Discover the Savage WorldDawn Chorus|author=Simon Adams, Camilla de la Bedoyere, Ian Graham, Steve Parker, Phil Steele, Clint Twist Caz Buckingham and Amanda AskewAndrea Pinnington
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=The range of subjects covered in What a treat! I really did mean to just ''Discover the Savage Worldglance'' is astonishing. The first three chapters are science related topics. The first section at ''Earth's Power'' covers the birth The Little Book of the universe, earthquakes, volcanoes and other natural disasters. Dawn Chorus'' Deadly Nature'' brings new meaning to but the phrase ''acting like animals'', as we see pull of the darker side sounds of nature, from venomous creatures, deadly carnivores and a real surprise about dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a very common cold and well known birdrather wet February morning. ''Wild Science'' has a mixed bag of topics with dangerous elements, explosions, fireworks and exactly how a bullet works, as well as I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birth of a star. ''Tough Machines'' dips into technology and innovation with an incredible variety of mechanical subjects with everything from massive transport vehicles birds and diggers, listening to robots, military vehicles, ice breaking ships, rockets, and flood control systemstheir song. The focus turns to geography with ''Harsh Lands'' show a myriad of cultures Then - just because I could - I went back and lifestyles in inhospitable locations. Life is difficult in some regions due to nature, but man made hazards like Chernobyl did it all again and land mines occur it was just as well. Finally we close with history and ''Brutal Battles''good the second time around. This covers ancient warfare with events such as the Battle of Marathon and the Siege of Masada right up to the SommeSo, the Battle Of Stalingrad with a heavy focus on snipers and the Battle of Kursk.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848109180</amazonuk>what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Pankhurst_Women|title=Professor Astro Cat's Frontiers of SpaceFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Dominic Walliman and Ben NewmanKate Pankhurst
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The first thing I noticed A lot of history is about this book was the illustrationsmen. There is a strong nostalgic feel to this that makes me think of space race era film clips Kings and generals and inventors and early Flash Gordon comicspoliticians. Perhaps Sometimes, it was the wonderfully fun illustrations that made me assume (incorrectly) that this would be less academic than most of the books feels almost as though there were no women in our space collection. I was expecting this history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to be a fun light readabout or regard as role models. It was certainly fun, the whole family loved this bookOf course, but it was anything but a light read. We spent three days reading this book, researching topics online after reading about them, engaging the entire family in debates on space, conducting experiments inspired by our research etc... We had to rearrange our entire school week - and we still havenisn't finished - we have a number true and there are plenty of new projects inspired by this book planned for next week as well. This book iswomen who, throughout history, without any doubt one of the most educational books we have ever read, all the while not only holding the children's interestachieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, but completely captivating themor created something never seen before.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263079</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Book Of Space: All About StarsSo here, Planets and Rockets!|author=Clive Gifford|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=There's always a danger in putting a definitive article in the name of a children's non-fiction this wonderful picture book title. Luckily enough this volume does go almost as far as making itself definitive, with a lot of numbers and facts, yet a delivery that makes all of those and the theories and terminology it uses all palatable to the browserfrom Kate Pankhurst, and still manages to throw in the redundant unfunny cartoons at are the side. In using an intelligent system stories of going through all the subjects under the broad subject some of space, with none of the tables, box-outs and so on other editors choose, this proves one of the more sober, measured and successful books of its kindthem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780551398</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Ignotofsky_Sport|title=Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2014Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Robert Leroy RipleyRachel Ignotofsky
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I don't normally do annuals. I'm afraid too many of Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the silly cartoon variety put me off the genre, but this is something completely differentWinter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It seems celebrates a century and a shame to even call it an annual. Instead I would call this an interactive encyclopaedia half of the bizarredevelopment of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, unusualcovering sports as diverse as swimming, twisted fencing, riding, skating, and much more. Think of a sport and absolutely delightful facts that challenge you to 'Believe a pioneering woman succeeding at it or not!'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847947166</amazonuk>is probably in this book somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.
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{{newreview|title=Horrid Henry's World Records|author=Francesca Simon and Tony Ross|rating=4|genre=Confident ReadersFrontpage|summaryisbn=My son chose this book because he does like Horrid Henry, and he especially loves books with facts. As a parent, I have tried to supply my children with a wide choice of reading material, but I have to admit, I have leaned more towards fiction than non fiction simply because I mistakenly assumed it would be more fun. Girls do tend to prefer fiction, so I based my choices upon my own childhood reading habits. But when my sons began to beg for ''books a bout real things'', I saw the error of my ways.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444009214</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewRooney_Dino|title=Dork Diaries OMG: All About Me Diary!Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Rachel Renee RussellAnne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I feel was a pattern formingchild. After three books in the [[:Category:Rachel Renee Russell|Dork Diaries series]] came a throw-awayThis one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, [[Dork Diaries: How to Dork Your Diary by Rachel Renee Russell|tie-in volume]] that offered we meet a bit variety of a story to it but was not full-on plot and action like the routine books. After six real novels comes thiscreatures, where for the first time the star some of the book really is not Nikki Maxwell, whom are very familiar but whoever buys it (or gets it bought for them). This is where the franchise branches away from fictionsome I'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, to cover the purchaser or fan of the serieslayer by layer, and gives her showing you what the chance various dinosaurs are getting up to spill about herself, her school lifewith background noises, roars and her BFFs. I think this is where I'm supposed squawks to go ''SQUEEEEEEE!!!!!accompany them!The book creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471117731</amazonuk>s very visual, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Mason_poo|title=100 PeopleThe Poo That Animals Do|author=Masayuki SebePaul Mason and Tony de Saulles
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=OKI know, Iknow, sometimes you really don'll admit – sometimes there comes a time when it would appear terribly easy t want to post a review of a bookencourage your children's poo jokes, when something so self-explanatory pops up that a description of it hardly seems necessary. And you can judge the contents of but this book similarly easily too – is brilliant! I sat and read it takes the ''Top Ten of Everything'' format developed by myself when the late Russell Ash, kids had gone to school and makes found it funkier, smaller, more brashly colourful, fascinating! Who knew there was so much I didn't know about poo? The book manages to be both funny (and apparently, suitable for boys. There are unofficial, opinionated lists, and bits where kids can scribble their own content silly) as well as being very interesting and ratingseducational. But despite how easy it is to get Using a handle on the book, I do hereby solemnly swear etc that I read almost every wordmixture of facts and figures, photographs and just as I shouldfunny cartoons, even no longer being you come away having sniggered a boy I learned little at the vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0600623459</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Make a Mobile: 12 Cool Designs to Press Out and Hang|author=Lydia Crook|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=''Make a Mobile'' is a delightful crafting book crammed full about different types of projects for parents poo, why poos smell, and children to share. The book contains 12 unique designs that fit together beautifully and are surprisingly easy to make. The perforated pages allow the components of each mobile to be simply pushed out from the page without the need for nimble scissor skillswhy wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005807</amazonuk>
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