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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher Edge1839948493|title=How to Write your Best Story Ever!|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Oh those feared words from my primary school days – just sit and write a story. The countless hours I spent, sifting my mind for what little I knew and what I had read before, and no real guide on hand to what to put down on the page and how. How times change. This volume, for all the vivid design and hyperbolic title, might have been the best companion to the budding author version A World of me, for it will easily sit alongside the junior scribbler wherever s/he may be from now on. It has a beginning, middle and end (and index), and can be counted on for some great, no-nonsense advice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019274352X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDogs|author=Jen Green and Wesley Robins|title=Oceans in 30 Seconds|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Oceans in 30 Seconds is the latest book in the innovative series from Ivy Press, which aims to give an informative Carlie Sorosiak and entertaining overview of a given subject in bite-sized chunks. Each given subject has its own two-page spread, with a concise description on the left, covering all of the main points, and a colourful illustration on the right hand page, complete with extra snippets of information. Each chapter also has a handy 3-second sum up, which further condenses the main idea of the chapter into a single sentence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240239X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Paula Briggs|title=Drawing Projects for Children|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=''Drawing Projects for Children'' is a beautiful, full-colour guide that encourages children to use a range of materials to create stunning and thought-provoking artwork. As the author points out, the end result is not always as important as the journey and this book helps children to move away from the more traditional, or 'safe' type of drawing styles and indulge in a little more experimentation and risk taking. The book is ideal for parents to use with their children, but each chapter is a self-contained lesson plan that facilitators and teachers can use with groups.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908966742</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anna Kovecses|title=One Thousand ThingsLuisa Uribe
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|summary=When In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you are just short of two years old there’s that I'm a whole lifetime of learning aheadsucker for dogs. Where to begin? Well In nearly eight decades, you could do a lot worse than get Mum or Dad to buy a copy of Anna Kovecses’ I've never met one I didn'One Thousand Things't trust and I've loved most of them. Don’t believe I wish I felt the mouse on the front cover holding a balloon saying ''learn your first words''same about human beings. To bill this So, any book as a ‘vocabulary builder’ is about dogs, I'm going to woefully underplay its handsit down and devour. Study hard and this book will see you safely through nursery and in Then I'm going to reception as an assured four year old who can hold their own in the cut go back and thrust of classroom debateread it properly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806074</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Carron Brown and Bee Johnson|title=On the Train|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=There’s nothing me and the little ‘un like more than a good transport themed book. Tractors remain top of my toddler’s pops but trains run a close second. One glimpse of the cover of And so it was with ''On the TrainA World of Dogs'' and his little feet did the happy dance. He hunkered down and the journey began.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240242X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Aino, with ninety-Maija Metsola|title=Colours|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Lift the flaps books are very popular in six pages devoted entirely to my house, though I seldom use that term to describe themfour-legged friends. Rip Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the flaps is more apt. I imagine fellow parents reading this review will wince and nod at this point whilst librarians will perspire and reach reflexively for the sellotape. accidental owner of an American Dingo - she'Colours' by Aino-Maija Metsola is s learned quite a lift the flaps book for the very young. As the title suggests, this edition aims to teach the concept of colour with the added spice of extra pictures hidden behind flapslot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806090</amazonuk>
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{{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)
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|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?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom 024162343X|title=Wild AdventuresStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=45
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrienne BarmanJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=CreaturepediaFritz and Kurt
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|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Weltman1913750353|title=This is Not a Maths BookBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Pinnington and Caz Buckingham0711266204|title=The Little Book Secret Life of Garden Bird SongBirds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|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. An hour can pass without my noticing. YouI'll need ve established which species feed from the name of ground, which pop to the bird in English and Latin and feeders for a description quick snatch of the bird some food and who settles in words which for a child can understand good munch but which won't patronise an adultI wish I was more knowledgeable. Then you'll need details of where the bird is foundIt would have been wonderful if, what it eatsas a child, where it nests, how many eggs it lays, how the male and female adults differ and their size. Then you need a 'Did you know?I' fact and this needs d had access to be something which will interest children, but which adults might not know either. Does it sound simple? Well it isna book such as 't, but 'The Little Book Secret Life of Garden Bird SongBirds'' does it perfectly. And there's a bonus, but I'll tell you about that in a moment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908489251</amazonuk>So – what is it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom 0192779230|title=Viking Longship|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Fly on the Wall'' is a new series of history books by award-winning duo Manning and Granström, which aim to bring history to life Very Short Introductions for young readers. ''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. Curious Young Minds: The story follows Grimm's progress as he invades England with his band Invisible World 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 is raided by Saxons, culminating in a Viking funeral and a final image of the longboat in flames.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806244</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGerms|author=Steve Jenkins|title=Actual SizeIsabel Thomas
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom 1800464495|title=Roman Fort100 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
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|summary=''Fly on Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the Wallwomb, 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 know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a new series strong predictor of history books by award-winning duo Manning and Granströmlater achievement, which aim to bring history to life for young readersdouble that of literacy skills. ''Roman Fort I didn't 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 same way about maths, beyond counting? I don' t think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows the adventures that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of Centurion Vespian our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as he escorts the lady Lepidina irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and her son others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to adults will have the safety odd bad night but worrying about your lack of the Roman fort sleep is only likely to celebrate her best friendmake it worse. And there's birthday. Along also the wayfact that for far too long, the story touches on various aspects lack of Roman life, including clothingsleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, family life, buildings working late has been praised and religionthe ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806252</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quentin Blake1849767343|title=Tell me a Picture - Adventures in Looking at ArtCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=When did The title and format of this book might lead you last read a children's book to think that absolutely flummoxed you in the way it showed or told you something you didn't know? (And please be an adult when you answer that, s either about responsibility - or else it won't be quite so impressives a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey.) Back in 2001, Quentin Blake wasnIt isn't a Knight yet – he hadn't even got his CBE – but he did get allowed to put on his own show at the National Gallery, with other people: it's pictures that contain oddities, stories, unexpected detail – sparks on canvas and paper that would inspire anyone looking, a hymn of whatever age, praise to piece things together, work things out, ''form a narrative''maths. The pictures came with no major labelling, no context – just what they held, It's about why maths is so wonderful and some typically scratched Blake characters discussing the images as a lead-in. They were simply hung how you meet it in alphabetical order, and probably could not have been more different. This then is a picture book of the most literal kind, with 26 storieseveryday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806422</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michelle Magorian1849767009|title=Impossible!It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine
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|genre=Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Josie 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 twelve, OK and the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and would -bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much rather be more than a boybook about not wearing clothes. She attends It's a stage school celebration of bodies: bodies large and we first meet her being criticised by her Headmistress for having had her hair cut shortsmall and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, in the hope of playing a boy’s part in a showthey're wonderful. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>190999104X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Scarry1776572858|title=Paul Smith for Richard Scarry's Cars How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Trucks and Things That Go Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=The pig family are heading out for a picnic It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and – goodness – they are going to have some ride! This is the loose story line told me that functions as she'd get me a book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a vehicle pamphlet (pun intendedwhich delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) to introduce a mind boggling array of ‘things and I was told that go’it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. 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 I ''Cars and Trucks and Things That Goknew''. Prepare to be dazzled along the journey by more vehicles than you ever thought existed all illustrated and labelled. This is an American book so some of the cars, trucks and fire engines may look a but was little unfamiliar''wiser''. However Thankfully, I’m pretty sure though that I never saw a shark car, wolf wagon or pickle truck on either the M5 or the I5times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007581068</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dylan Thomas and Peter Bailey1526362759|title=A Child’s Christmas in WalesDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Christmas time growing up in What a Welsh seaside town was magical relief! A book about money, for Dylan Thomaschildren, always snowy with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and full what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of adventureit. From attempting Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to extinguish house fires with snowballs some extent. You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to hippo footprints in buy. There's also the snow his childhood possibility of using to do good in the snow was a time of wonder and pure joyworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444013467</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Walter Dean Myers178112938X|title=An African PrincessSurvival in Space: From African Orphan to Queen Victoria’s FavouriteThe Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=3.5|genre=Historical FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=This elegant edition of An African Princess tells of It's fifty years since the life of Sarah Bonetta who is suddenly swept Apollo 13 mission was launched from the threat of a savage execution Kennedy Space Centre in 1848 only to face a brave new world under Florida, but the patronage story of that journey remains one of the imperious Queen Victoriagreatest survival stories of all time. Meticulously researched by the twice elected US National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Walter Dean Myers, it ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a creatively imaginative account, with an historical backbone brilliant retelling of genuine diary entries, letters, autobiographical work, contemporary newspapers, social and anthropological studies and period photographswhat happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406354449</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Trudi Esberger|title=The Boy Who Lost His Bumble|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=A little boy loves his garden Kathleen Boucher and he particularly loves the bees that visit it each day. He is so fascinated by his buzzy friends that he gives them each names and records their habits and characteristics. Then the weather changes, it grows cold and his bees disappear. Where can they be? Will they come back? The boy is puzzled and saddened by their departure and tries hard to encourage his missing friends to return.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846436613</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Steve BackshallSara Chadwick|title=Deadly Pole Nine Ways to Pole DiariesEmpower Tweens
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|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.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1609809173
|title=Eiffel's Tower for Young People
|author=Jill Jonnes
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Dear DiaryBrash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, today I really woke up on the wrong side of 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the bed. For most people that means waking up in a grumpy moodbest, but for me it literally means the wrong side of worst and the bedbeautiful from many countries and cultures. I stepped straight into a pool full of viscous fish and then I climbed The French Republic laid outmodel villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, only food festivals and concerts to be chased by a bearstun the senses. I am either eating too much cheese before I go And towering above it all, the most popular and the most hated monument to bed or partaking on a magnificent journey from Pole to Pole visiting dangerous animals on French accomplishment and daring – the wayEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444013769</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1848576536|title=Excavate! DinosaursHumanatomy: Paper Toy PaleontologyHow the Body Works|author=Jonathan Tennant, Vladamir Nikolov Nicola Edwards and Charlie SimpsonJem 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 believe that it is now an established worldwide fact that dinosaurs are awesomedon't see how you could resist. I have checked This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the latest edition of Nature and it would appear that this is definitely human body to curious children- from the case. Dinosaurs are without doubt skeletal system to the coolest creatures muscular system via circulation, respiration and digestion, right up to have roamed the Earth. Do you know what DNA that makes them really great? The fact that that left fabulous fossils and brilliant bones behindwho we are. Any kid would love the chance to dig up some old bones and build their own dinosaur.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1612125204</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Langford_Emily|title=Rattle and RapEmily's Numbers|author=Susan SteggallJoss Langford|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=ApparentlyEmily found words ''useful'', back but counting was what she loved best. 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 days of steamlist were even numbers, every little boy used to dream but the other half was odd and it was this list of being an engine driver. The trains odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''Rattle and Rapthreeven'' are all diesel but the allure . (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of travel still wafts strongly from the pages. This is one in odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a series subset of vehicle-themed books aimed at pre-schoolers. It’s unusual to find engaging non-fiction for the under fives. With the focus on vehicleseven numbers, Susan Stegall takes a staple of many a children’s book but, unlike some other authors, she treats the subject with imagination and creativity. It’s enough to make an anthropomorphised tank engine blushit all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805833</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=Inventions in 30 SecondsThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Dr Mike GoldsmithCaz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington
|rating=5
|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=My son is incredibly curious What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and is constantly bombarding me with questions about how things work or how things are maderather wet February morning. It seems that the minute I have found spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the answer birds and listening to one of his questions, another has formulated inside his head to replace ittheir song. Then - just because I was delighted then, when ''Inventions in 30 Seconds'' arrived for me to review, as could - I saw went back and did it all again and it was just as a dose of much-needed respite from my endless researchgood the second time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401482</amazonuk> So, what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Pankhurst_Women|title=Our Amazing PlanetFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Jon Richards and Ed SimkinsKate Pankhurst|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=As reference books go, this A lot of history is one of the best I’ve seen in a long timeabout men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Covering topics such Sometimes, it feels almost as spacethough there were no women in history at all, planet earthlet alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. Of course, the animal kingdom this isn't true and the human bodythere are plenty of women who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. So here, in this colourful wonderful picture book is a powerful tool for homework help from juniors through to early senior schoolKate Pankhurst, beautifully presented and easy to draw information fromare the stories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750281219</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Ignotofsky_Sport|title=Dead or Alive?Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Clive Gifford and Sarah HorneRachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Animals do ''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the most amazing thingsWinter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a half of the development of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, but dying is not one of them. In factcovering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, animals dislike dying so and much that over the millennia they have evolved many ingenious ways more. Think of not being dead – or as scientists like to call a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this not dead state; alivebook somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait. What better way to avoid death than to act dead or smell so bad that no one would possibly want to eat you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405268581</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Rooney_Dino|title=Atlas of AdventuresDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Lucy LetherlandAnne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''The world is full Lift the flap books have 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 adventures''. With this inviting opening linecreatures, the ''Atlas some of Adventures'whom are very familiar but some I' encourages young readers to travel the world from the comfort d never heard of their own sofa. Boldbefore! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, bright illustrations show defining landmarks and celebrations from all around showing you what the world various dinosaurs are getting up to, with background noises, roars and each double-page spread is filled with bite-sized squawks to accompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts incorporated into about dinosaurs it's very visual, placing the artworkdinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780585X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Mason_poo|title=Two Player Big Fun BookThe Poo That Animals Do|author=Lydia CrookPaul Mason and Tony de Saulles
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=My house is full of technology designed to inspire and entertain: computersI know, iPadsI know, games consolessometimes you really don't want to encourage your children's poo jokes, mobile devices...yet despite but this, book is brilliant! I sat and read it by myself when the kids seem had gone to constantly complain that they are bored. Maybe the problem is that we are school and found it fascinating! Who knew there was so used much I didn't know about poo? The book manages to ''be both funny (and silly) as well as being entertained'', that perhaps we have forgotten how to entertain ourselvesvery interesting and educational. Lydia CrookUsing a mixture of facts and figures, paper engineerphotographs and funny cartoons, aims to change all you come away having sniggered a little at the vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about different types of that by bringing out our creative poo, why poos smell, and playful side in the excellent (and completely absorbing) ''Two Player Big Fun Book''why wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401423</amazonuk>
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