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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aino-Maija Metsola1839948493|title=ColoursA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Lift In the flaps books are very popular in my houseinterests of full disclosure, though I seldom use must tell you that term to describe I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. Rip I wish I felt the flaps is more aptsame about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I imagine fellow parents reading this review will wince 'm going to sit down and nod at this point whilst librarians will perspire devour. Then I'm going to go back and reach reflexively for the sellotaperead it properly. And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'Colours' by Aino, with ninety-Maija Metsola is a lift the flaps book for the very youngsix pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. As Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the title suggests, this edition aims to teach the concept accidental owner of colour with the added spice of extra pictures hidden behind flapsan American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806090</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lincoln Peirce1529507987|title=Big Nate: Laugh-O-Rama The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Big Nate Activity Book 4Illustrator)

|summary=This seems I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a firmly established publishing practise now – hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You see, the enhanced readership experience offered to fans of a franchise by a tie-in activity book. This value is yet another example – looking like a genuine entry in an on-going series, it instead offers the fan of the characters the chance what these possessions are worth to interact with them in new ways, as well as looking back through the shelves of their collection, and inwardly as well, at their people who own thoughts them and tastesthe memories they hold. Note I say it's for a fan – this example will alienate anyone else from No expense appears to be spared and the first page – but for experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the right audience it’s generally a good thingdesired result. And in this instance Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what itis they's a very, very good thing indeedre doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007569076</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom 024162343X|title=Wild AdventuresStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=45

|summary=When I was growing up, TV only had four channels and games consoles came the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the form existence of a 'god'. Where was the rubber keyed ZX Spectrum. Despite these meagre offeringsproof? In history lessons, we would it was probably worse still spend endless summer hours in . Not too long after the sitting room if our parents had not thrown us outside. In 2015end of WWII, there are far more TV channels I didn't so much want to watch learn about the British army's successes (and games come occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in high fidelity, what chance does nature have against ‘Call of Duty’? You would came to be surprised, called 'the colonies' as despite all want to dispute what right the creature comforts of army had to be there in the front roomfirst place. Looking back, children I still want believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to play outside, all they have to be - is inspiredapproach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804365</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrienne BarmanJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=CreaturepediaFritz and Kurt

|genre=Animals and WildlifeConfident Readers|summary=''Creaturepedia'' welcomes young readers 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 greatest show on earthempty market place, showcasing more than 600 different creatures within its pages. Rather than listing helping the animals in traditional alphabetical orderneighbours, this book groups creatures according being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a variety of criteria, including colour, habits 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 outstanding physical characteristicsworkmanlike as a light switch. Of course But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, there is and instead of having a handy index at the end national vote to keep the traditionalists happy tooNazis out, invite them in with open arms. There are a few unusual categories thrown ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as inGermany, such as mythical beats did all the round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and extinct animalssisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, as well as endangered species that sadlywhile Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, may become extinct very soonpacked off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847806341</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Weltman1913750353|title=This is Not a Maths BookBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy

|genre=ArtChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I have ''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to admit, I wasnStretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus't a huge fan of maths at school. Maybe if I'd had which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book when I was a child, I would have been. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'This is not a Maths Book' cleverly bridges the gap between maths and art and teaches kids , tells you how to make beautiful patterns and shapes by using mathematical principles. We learn about parabolic curves, Pascalpronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''s triangle), gives you a definition and then includes the stomachion, tesselation and 3D drawingsword in a sentence so that you know how it should be used. Because the pages are interactive You also get an engaging and hands-on, kids are learning the rules of maths without realising itfrequently amusing illustration too. After all, there is no reason why maths shouldn I don't be funthink I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402055</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Pinnington and Caz Buckingham0711266204|title=The Little Book Secret Life of Garden Bird SongBirds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)

|summary=Take I have recently discovered a well-put-together board book (don't worry about it being a board book - no one is going to suggest that they're a bit too old for that), add exquisite pictures great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of a dozen birds - one which visit our garden on each double-page spread - and then fill in the detailsa daily basis. You'll need the name of the bird in English and Latin and a description of the bird in words which a child An hour can understand but which won't patronise an adultpass without my noticing. Then youI'll need details of where ve established which species feed from the bird is foundground, what it eats, where it nests, how many eggs it lays, how which pop to the male feeders for a quick snatch of some food and female adults differ and their size. Then you need who settles in for a 'Did you know?' fact and this needs to be something which will interest children, good munch but which adults might not know eitherI wish I was more knowledgeable. Does it sound simple? Well it isn'tIt would have been wonderful if, but 'The Little Book of Garden Bird Song' does it perfectly. And there's as a bonuschild, but I'll tell you about that in d had access to a moment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908489251</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom |title=Viking Longship|rating=3.5|genre=Childrenbook such as 's Non-Fiction|summary=''Fly on the Wall'' is a new series The Secret Life of history books by award-winning duo Manning and Granström, which aim to bring history to life for young readers. Birds''Viking Longship'' is the story of Grimm, a Viking warrior who buys a broken ship called the Sea Dragon and fixes it up to set sail in search of pastures new. The story follows Grimm's progress as he invades England with his band of warriors and then creates a farm settlement where his family can live in peace. The book touches on various aspects of Viking life before coming full circle when the settlement So – what is raided by Saxons, culminating in a Viking funeral and a final image of the longboat in flames.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806244</amazonuk>it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Jenkins0192779230|title=Actual SizeVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas

|summary=There’s an enormous disembodied eye staring at me'Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. At 30cm it’s as big as In the first book in what looks to be a dinner plate very promising new series, OUP and it’s in my living roomIsabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the world of germs. Which is no bad thing because if I met it in We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the sea then I’d really thinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be in trouble. Fortunately the eye is contained on page four confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the intriguing trickiest concepts and really rather splendidyou'll soon be familiar with bacteria, book 'Actual Size'fungi, protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805949</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom 1800464495|title=Roman Fort|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Fly on the Wall'' is a new series 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of history books Your Baby’s Development by award-winning duo Manning and Granström, which aim to bring history to life for young readers. ''Roman Fort'' follows the adventures Nurturing a Love of Centurion Vespian as he escorts the lady Lepidina and her son to the safety of the Roman fort to celebrate her best friend's birthday. Along the way, the story touches on various aspects of Roman life, including clothing, family life, buildings and religion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806252</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMaths|author=Quentin Blake|title=Tell me a Picture - Adventures in Looking at ArtEmma Smith

|summary=When did you last read a children's book that absolutely flummoxed you 'Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the way it showed or told you something womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you didn't knowthis? (And please be an adult when you answer that, or else it wonI didn't be quite so impressive.) Back in 2001, Quentin Blake wasn! How about: 't a Knight yet – he hadn't even got his CBE – but he did get allowed Maths ability on entry to put on his own show at the National Galleryschool is a strong predictor of later achievement, with other peopledouble that of literacy skills.'' I didn's pictures t know this either! I think most parents are aware that contain oddities, giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, unexpected detail – sparks on canvas and paper that would inspire anyone lookingteaching pen grips, of whatever age, to piece things together, work things out, ''form singing rhymes - gives children a narrative''solid foundation when they start school. The pictures came with no major labellingBut do we think the same way about maths, no context – just what they heldbeyond counting? I don't think we do, and some typically scratched Blake characters discussing the images as a lead-inpart because so many of us are afraid of maths. They were simply hung But why are we? Most of us use maths in alphabetical order, daily life without realising and probably could not have been more different. This then is it follows that giving our children a picture book of the most literal kind, with 26 storiessimilar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806422</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michelle Magorian1406395404|title=Impossible!The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Josie is twelve, and 2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would much rather be a boyargue with that statement. She attends a stage school Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and we first meet her being criticised by her Headmistress for having had her hair cut short, in the hope of playing a boy’s part in a showsome teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>190999104X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Richard Scarry|title=Paul Smith for Richard Scarry Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('s Cars and Trucks and Things That Go |rating=4|genre=Childrenwho needs sleep? - I's Non-Fiction|summary=The pig family are heading out for a picnic ve got loads to be doing) and – goodness – they are going others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to adults will have some ride! This the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. And there's also the loose story line fact that functions for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a vehicle (pun intended) to introduce a mind boggling array of ‘things that go’. In and around Ma and Pa Pig’s house there are no less than seven motors. That’s a quiet page in Richard Scarry’s ''Cars and Trucks virtue and Things That Go''. Prepare sleep made to be dazzled along the journey by more vehicles than you ever thought existed all illustrated and labelledseem like laziness. This is an American book so some of the cars Being up early, trucks working late has been praised and fire engines may look a the ability to survive on little unfamiliar. However, I’m pretty sure though that I never saw a shark car, wolf wagon or pickle truck sleep has almost become something to put on either the M5 or the I5your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007581068</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dylan Thomas and Peter Bailey1849767343|title=A Child’s Christmas in WalesCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary=Christmas time growing up in a Welsh seaside town was magical for Dylan Thomas, always snowy The title and full format of adventure. From attempting this book might lead you to extinguish house fires with snowballs to hippo footprints in think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the snow his childhood in the snow was numbers journey. It isn't: it's a time hymn of wonder praise to maths. It's about why maths is so wonderful and pure joyhow you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444013467</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Walter Dean Myers1849767009|title=An African Princess: From African Orphan It Isn't Rude to Queen Victoria’s Favourite|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=This elegant edition of An African Princess tells of the life of Sarah Bonetta who is suddenly swept from the threat of a savage execution in 1848 only to face a brave new world under the patronage of the imperious Queen Victoria. Meticulously researched by the twice elected US National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Walter Dean Myers, it is a creatively imaginative account, with an historical backbone of genuine diary entries, letters, autobiographical work, contemporary newspapers, social and anthropological studies and period photographs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406354449</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewbe Nude|author=Trudi Esberger|title=The Boy Who Lost His BumbleRosie Haine|rating=4.5

|summary=A little boy loves his garden This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and he particularly loves the bees ones who ''know'' that visit it each day's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... He is Rosie Haines makes it into something so fascinated by his buzzy friends that he gives them each names much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and records their habits small and characteristicsof every possible hue. Then the weather changes, it grows cold Bodies with disabilities and his bees disappearmarkings. They're fine. Where can they be? Will In fact, they come back? The boy is puzzled and saddened by their departure and tries hard to encourage his missing friends to return're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846436613</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Backshall1776572858|title=Deadly Pole to Pole DiariesHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=Dear Diary, today It's more than sixty years since I really woke up on the wrong side of the bedasked how babies were made. For most people My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that means waking up in she'd get me a grumpy mood, but for me book about it literally means the wrong side of the bed. A couple of days later I stepped straight into was handed a pool full of viscous fish pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and then I climbed out, only to was told that it wouldn't be chased by a beardiscussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I am either eating too much cheese before I go to bed or partaking on a magnificent journey from Pole to Pole visiting dangerous animals on the way''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444013769</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1526362759|title=Excavate! DinosaursDosh: Paper Toy PaleontologyHow to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Jonathan Tennant, Vladamir Nikolov and Charlie SimpsonRashmi Sirdeshpande

|summary=I believe that What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is now an established worldwide fact that dinosaurs are awesome. I have checked the latest edition , why it matters, how to acquire more of Nature it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it would appear that this is definitely the case. Dinosaurs are without doubt the coolest creatures Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to have roamed the Earthsome extent. Do you know what makes them really great? The fact that that left fabulous fossils and brilliant bones behind. Any kid would love the chance You might want to dig up some old bones and build their own dinosaur.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1612125204</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Rattle and Rap|author=Susan Steggall|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Apparentlygo into business, back in the days of steambe a clever shopper, every little boy used to dream of being a saver (you might even become an engine driver. The trains in ''Rattle investor'') and Rapthere might be something you really, ''really' are all diesel but the allure of travel still wafts strongly from the pages. This is one in a series of vehicle-themed books aimed at pre-schoolers' want to buy. It’s unusual to find engaging non-fiction for the under fives. With There's also the focus on vehicles, Susan Stegall takes a staple possibility of many a children’s book but, unlike some other authors, she treats using to do good in the subject with imagination and creativity. It’s enough to make an anthropomorphised tank engine blushworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805833</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=Inventions Survival in 30 SecondsSpace: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=Dr Mike GoldsmithDavid Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)

|genre=Popular ScienceDyslexia Friendly|summary=My son is incredibly curious and is constantly bombarding me with questions about how things work or how things are made. It seems that 's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the minute I have found Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the answer to story of that journey remains one of his questions, another has formulated inside his head to replace itthe greatest survival stories of all time. I was delighted then, when ''Inventions Survival in 30 SecondsSpace: The Apollo 13 Mission'' arrived for me to review, as I saw it as is a dose brilliant retelling of much-needed respite from my endless researchwhat happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401482</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Our Amazing PlanetKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|authortitle=Jon Richards and Ed SimkinsNine Ways to Empower Tweens

|summary=As reference books goBrash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, this is one of the 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the best I’ve seen in a long time. Covering topics such as space, planet earth, the animal kingdom worst and the human bodybeautiful from many countries and cultures. The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, this colourful book is a powerful tool for homework help from juniors through food festivals and concerts to early senior schoolstun the senses. And towering above it all, beautifully presented the most popular and easy the most hated monument to draw information fromFrench accomplishment and daring – the Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750281219</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1848576536|title=Dead or Alive?Humanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Clive Gifford Nicola Edwards and Sarah HorneJem Maybank|rating=4.5

|summary=Animals ''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!'' That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do the most amazing thingsand honestly, but dying is not one of themI don't see how you could resist. In fact, animals dislike dying so much that over This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the millennia they have evolved many ingenious ways of not being dead – or as scientists like human body to call this not dead state; alive. What better way curious children- from the skeletal system to avoid death than the muscular system via circulation, respiration and digestion, right up to act dead or smell so bad the DNA that no one would possibly want to eat you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405268581</amazonuk>makes who we are.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Langford_Emily|title=Atlas of AdventuresEmily's Numbers|author=Lucy LetherlandJoss Langford

|summary=Emily found words ''The world is full of adventuresuseful'', but counting was what she loved best. With this inviting opening line Obviously, you can count anything and there's 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 list were even numbers, but the other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven'Atlas of Adventures'. (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they' encourages young readers re a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to travel the world from be a subset of the comfort of their own sofa. Boldeven numbers, bright illustrations show defining landmarks and celebrations from but it all around the world and each double-page spread is filled with bite-sized facts incorporated into the artworkworked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780585X</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=Two Player Big Fun The Little Bookof the Dawn Chorus|author=Lydia CrookCaz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=My house is full of technology designed to inspire and entertain: computers, iPads, games consoles, mobile devices...yet despite this, the kids seem to constantly complain that they are bored. Maybe the problem is that we are so used What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''being entertainedThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'', that perhaps we have forgotten how but the pull of the sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to entertain ourselvesresist on a cold and rather wet February morning. Lydia Crook, paper engineer, aims I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and listening to change their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all of that by bringing out our creative again and playful side in it was just as good the excellent (and completely absorbing) ''Two Player Big Fun Book''second time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401423</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Pankhurst_Women|title=The Human Body in 30 SecondsFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Anna ClaybourneKate Pankhurst

|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Our body A lot of history is an amazing machine, capable of performing a myriad of tasks simultaneouslyabout men. Even when we are sleeping, our body is busy processing information, pumping blood, regulating temperature Kings and generals and inventors and filtering wastepoliticians. When we are hurtSometimes, a host of repair systems jump into operation to sort out the damage. When we are invaded by a foreign bodyit feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, our immune system works let alone ones young girls might like to repel the invaders. We are constantly making new discoveries read about the wonderful way that our body worksor regard as role models.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401474</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Big Fat Christmas Book (Horrible Histories)|author=Terry Deary Of course, this isn't true and Martin Brown|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=I was reading Terry Deary there are plenty of women who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before he even started writing the ‘Horrible History’ franchise. It seems that as I grew out of children’s non-fiction just as he exploded in popularitySo here, selling millions of books in the series and even spawning a successful TV show (that I admit to watching). It has been years since the first Horrible History this wonderful picture bookfrom Kate Pankhurst, but they are still popular enough to produce an annual the stories of sorts, but is this a case some of annual horribilis?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407147749</amazonuk>them.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Ignotofsky_Sport|title=The Paint BookWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Miri FlowerRachel Ignotofsky

|genre=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Craft blogger Miri Flower challenges bored children everywhere with her lovely new series of art books, which utilise basic materials that can be found in most homes. ''The Paint BookWomen in Sport'' outlines seventy simple projects which encourage kids is coming to get crafty and creative with paintsus just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. Itcelebrates a century and a half of the development of women's going to get messysport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, so house-proud parents turn away nowand much more.Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book somewhere.Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071123583X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Rooney_Dino|title=The Pencil BookDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Miri FlowerAnne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|rating=54|genre=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Summer is almost overLift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. Gone are the carefree days playing outdoors in the sunshine This one comes with friends. Here come the rainy days and dark eveningssounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a variety of creatures, heralding the inevitable cry some of: ''whom are very familiar but some I'm boredd never heard of before!''. Author and craft-blogger Miri Flower (fantastic name!) comes Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the various dinosaurs are getting up to the rescue of harassed parents everywhere , with her new series of art books which encourage children background noises, roars and squawks to utilise simple materials to create fun games and artwork. ''accompany them! The Pencil Bookbook creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it'' sees s very visual, placing the humble pencil takes centre stage, with seventy projects to keep kids engaged dinosaurs in their habitats and amusedgiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0711235848</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Mason_poo|title=Mad About Mega Beasts!The Poo That Animals Do|author=Giles Andreae Paul Mason and David Wojtowycz (Illustrator)Tony de Saulles

|genre=For SharingChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=When I was small know, I was fascinated with things that were big; big buildingsknow, big vehicles, big animals. Howeversometimes you really don't want to encourage your children's poo jokes, but this book is brilliant! I have recently learnt that sat and read it by myself when the kids had gone to school and found it fascinating! Who knew there is was so much I didn't know about poo? The book manages to be both funny (and silly) as well as being very interesting and educational. Using a size that is bigger than big – mega. What beastsmixture of facts and figures, both from now photographs and from funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a little at the pastvulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about different types of poo, why poos smell, are large enough to achieve this accolade and be welcomed into the hallowed pages of this book?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408329352</amazonuk>why wombats do square poos.