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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]==Children's non__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --fiction==__NOTOC__>{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Thomson and Chloe Thomson1839948493|title=Have You Started Yet?: You A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and your period: getting the facts straightLuisa Uribe|rating=45
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|summary=Every young girl will face her periods starting but it’s In the preparation which goes on beforehand which will determine whether or not this is seen as the body developing naturally or interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a problemsucker for dogs. Both are attitudes which are likely to stay through life In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and it’s obviously better that it’s I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the firmer rather than the lattersame about human beings. ‘’Have You Started Yet’’ gives factual information in an informative So, any book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and reassuring manner devour. Then I'm going to go back and in a form which is easily readable read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to girls my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about nine years old and abovedogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230744907</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey Turner1529507987|title=Dreadful FatesThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)
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|summary=Imagine the delight you get, as a book reviewer, I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when you chance upon I want to be cheered up. After a title that stands outhard day, by filling a nice handy gap in the market youthere's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they'd never even noticedre worth. You see, and doing it so well you want the value is in what these possessions are worth to alert as many the people as possiblewho own them and the memories they hold. This is such a No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend as much time, Dreadful Fates is such a book, and effort as for is required to achieve the gap… desired result. This book hits upon Regular viewers know the darker corners of experts and they're all those copious brilliant at explaining what it is they'highlights of history for the kids' books, touches upon The Darwin Awards compilations of stupid people dying in stupid ways, and merges with those collections of famous last words and epitaphs some of us like flicking through now and again – and does it all for the under-thirteen audiencere doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408124211</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Platt024162343X|title=Would You Believe...in Mexico people picnic at granny's grave?!Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=45
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|summary=Well if there’s one important aspect I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of families, it is that books are includeda 'god'. It is evident from Where was the detailsproof? In history lessons, trivia and facts here that you don’t need a father, a mother, or siblingsit was probably worse still. You might even have several spreads Not too long after the end of half- and step-siblingsWWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and copious parents hereoccasional failures, but we 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 and everywherein the first place. You might get to have a nanny, a cohort of family helpersLooking back, I still believe I was right - but one thing I would thrust on anybody would be a collection of books at home – and yes, books such as these tidy 48 pages would be among themregret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199119856</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard PlattJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Would You Believe...bed testers get paid to sleep?!Fritz and Kurt
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=It is quite certain We start with the reader pair of this book will not be a bed testerbrothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, however broad helping the smile it carries as neighbours, being dutiful when it suggests anyone can get comes to the employment they dream aftersynagogue choir and at a vocational school. Neither will she or he be a vital scribe Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for some ancient civilisation, using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a slavelight switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a drudgenational vote to keep the Nazis out, or a worker invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in a Communist collective farmGermany, as did all the round-ups of Jews. But it is definitely These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an eye-opener evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all that and so much more can be considered by just 48 tidy pages. this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0199119864</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Platt1913750353|title=Would You Believe...Vatican City is a country?!|rating=4.5|genre=ChildrenBritannica's Non-FictionWord of the Day|summaryauthor=Cities don’t just spring up around us. They have taken thousands of years of civilisation to form, however surprising that might appear at times. Conversely, there are some who are just a few hundreds of years old that have been empty for centuriesPatrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and others that have been planned over a drawing board and become a capital city in a decade-long instant. All are within these tidy 48 pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199119708</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Platt|title=Would You Believe...two cyclists invented the aeroplane?!Sue Macy|rating=45
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|summary=Where can you find ''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a welter of trivia sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and facts Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about transport from the agesthis brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', from the first use of Shanks’s pony, to the latest holidays tells you how to the edge of space? What has so much detail pronounce it can fit in the reasons for Mark Twain’s pen(''raz-name? Where can the adult browsing their child’s nonmuh-fiction library find a TAZ'Glamorous Glennis' going 'kinda screwy' ), gives you a definition and see then includes the word in a sentence so that you know how it refers to the breaking of should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the sound barrier? In these tidy 48 pages, for one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199119694</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Glenn Murphy0711266204|title=Science: Sorted! Evolution, Nature The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and StuffVivian Mineker (illustrator)
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|summary=Ever wanted to know about evolution, nature I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and stuff? Unsurprisinglywatch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I've established which species feed from the ground, this is which pop to the book feeders for you. If you're interested a quick snatch of some food and who settles in [http://wwwfor a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0330508938?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0330508938 space It would have been wonderful if, black holes and stuff]as a child, then Glenn Murphy has also written a sister book in the ''Science: Sorted!'' series packed full of all the information youI'd want had access to know. It's all written with the fabulous quality that made [[Why is Snot Green? by Glenn Murphy|Why is Snot Green?]] such a must-read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330508946</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nicole Dryburgh|title=Talk to the Hand|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We first met Nicole Dryburgh in her book such as ''The Way I See ItSecret Life of Birds'', which she wrote at eighteen, and which detailed her battles with cancer and the loss of her sight. We loved the warts-and-all picture of her life that she gave us then, and so we were really pleased to see that she's written a second book. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340996978</amazonuk> So – what is it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gary Blackwood0192779230|title=The Great RaceVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Amazing Round-The-Invisible World Auto Race Of 1908of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=In 1908, Henry Ford's Model T hadnGerms't yet brought cars seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the massespotential to make you ill. The pioneers of In the world of automobiles were experimenting and discovering just first book in what the car could dolooks to be a very promising new series, by driving right round OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the worldof germs. Except We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they didn't want to be pioneers. One of thought caused them and how the competitors, Antonio Scarfoglio, put it so perfectly when he said ''We had set out to perpetuate an act of splendid folly, not to open up a new way for menthinking has developed over time. We wished to The vocabulary can be madmen, not pioneers.confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' Isn't that about which explains some of the best quote trickiest concepts and you've ever read?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0810994895</amazonuk>ll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Davies1800464495|title=Gaia Warriors100 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
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The best way ''Babies seem to read this book is to treat it like a magazinebe born with an amazing number sense: flip the pages and dip understanding shapes in. I can guarantee that you will find something to catch your eye. Fashion addicts could start on page 136 ''Dressing for the climate''womb, foodies may prefer page 124 ''Rock-star food''. The array being aware of different typefaces quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and page colours make the book very easy to browse, comprehending addition and the author excels subtraction at explaining difficult concepts in a straightforward waynine months old. So certain sections in it could be considered not just as for older children or teen readers, but as an informative read for adults as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406312347</amazonuk>}}''
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=Have you ever wondered what to do if you2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('re bitten by bluewho needs sleep? -ringed octopusI've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, or if you find yourself up from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your neck in quicksand? Itlack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. And there's also the fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a dangerous world out there virtue and Tracey Turner sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, working late has all been praised and the information that young explorers, daredevils and fact-hounds need ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to knowput on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597944</amazonuk>
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|summary=HenryThe title and format of this book might lead you to think that it's House is extraordinary: either about responsibility - or it's full of fossils, footprints, and even real dinosaurs. Jaggers the caretaker and Mr Boffin show him around, explaining all about dinosaurs, as Henry sees a basic 1-2-3 book for himself those just what amazing creatures they were, and learns starting out on the differences between the various typesnumbers journey.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407107194</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Conn Iggulden and David Iggulden|title=The Dangerous Book of Heroes|rating=3|genre=History|summary=For most of us (well, for me certainly) the word It isn'herot: it' summons an image of capes, spandex and garish primary colours. Conn and David Iggulden have written s a book about the other kind – the every day heroes from history, who achieve incredible things without the aid hymn of superpowerspraise to maths. From household names like Horatio Nelson and Winston Churchill, to lesser known people, like Aphra Behn and Hereward the Wake, It''The Dangerous Book of Heroes'' covers a comprehensive range of characters from the history of the British Empire. From campaigners for political change, brilliant battle strategists to daring explorers, each s about why maths is so wonderful and every one of the people how you meet it in this book lived brilliant lives and changed the world forevereveryday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000726092X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Brocket1849767009|title=Ripping Things It Isn't Rude to Dobe Nude|author=Rosie Haine
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|summary=The farmer sows This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the seed from which Penelope only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... 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 Pete Pea growmarkings. They're pickedfine. In fact, packed, delivered, bought, cooked and eaten, and we follow them on every step of their journeythey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141502584</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Davies and Neal Layton1776572858|title=What's Eating How Do YouMake a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=Did you know that there are It's more than 430 types of parasites sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that can live on humans? Are you scratching? Good! Now you know what she'd get me a book about it . A couple of days later I was like for me reading What's Eating You? It's handed a fantastically detailed introduction to parasites - on humans pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and other animals - I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any science-loving child will lovefurther as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406313548</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aidan Potts1526362759|title=The Smash! Smash! TruckDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=35
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The SmashWhat a relief! Smash! Truck looks at the process A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it 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 recycling glassit. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, taking in be a brief look at the Big Bangclever shopper, atoms a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy. There's also the water cycle, possibility of using to explain why recycling is a do good ideain the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385608934</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leo Hickman 178112938X|title=Will Jellyfish Rule the World?Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=Have you ever wondered why it rains so much in Britain? What a glacier and a canary have in common? Or how lizards once managed to sunbathe in Antarctica? Green expert Leo Hickman is here to answer all these questions and more in his new book, ''Will Jellyfish Rule the World?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141323345</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cylin Busby and John Busby|title=The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir|rating=4.5|genre=ChildrenIt's Non-Fiction |summary=''When my dad dies, his body will go to fifty years since the Harvard Medical School at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston,'' ''though I suspect they are mostly interested in his head... His Apollo 13 mission was in an interesting case - launched from the lower half of his jaw'' ''was removed when he was shot Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the head with a shotgun. His tongue was torn in half, his teeth and gums blown'' ''away, leaving a bit story of bone that was once his chin connected with dangling flesh at journey remains one of the front greatest survival stories of his faceall time. ''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802015</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Phil Robins |title=Can I Come Home, Please?|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Using the sound archives of the Imperial War Museum and other primary sources, this affecting volume gives an overview of the progress of Nazism as seen through the eyes of children Survival in different parts of Europe. Space: The simplicity of the language used in the transcribed interviews means it Apollo 13 Mission'' is accessible to children from Y6, yet remains useful to GCSE students as a succinct, linear timeline brilliant retelling of WW2what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407109030</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony AdolphKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=Who Am I?: The Family Tree ExplorerNine Ways to Empower Tweens
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=A fascination with family history seems more than just ''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a passing fad: self-help book for many ittweens, setting out to show them vital #lifeskills. Don's t groan! I know there is a hobby approaching an obsession market glut of such books for we grown-ups and in a mobile (both geographically and socially) and globalised societyfor young adults too, people unable to answer but there is a 'where we are all going' question find security and identity needful space in pursuing an answer increasingly technological world accessible to 'where do I come from?'younger and younger children for material for tweens too. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847245099</amazonuk>0228818826}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Various1609809173|title=BobEiffel's Great Green Book (Bob the Builder)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Bob the Builder and his crew of machines live in the glorious Sunflower Valley and enjoy their work. However, as well as building new developments, they like to look after the world around them. Their motto is ''Reduce,'' '' Reuse and Recycle'' and they apply this to everything that they do. This book aims to introduce the youngest of children to the benefits of recycling, how to recycle and look after the world around them using characters that are familiar and in a way that teaches, not preaches.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140524657X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ali Valenzuela|title=Weighing It Up|rating=3|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Although never having had an eating disorder myself, I have been interested in them since I was young. I was a competitive gymnast and that is a world where eating disorders do creep in. Now I'm a mother of three teenage daughters, I worry about the subject from a whole new angle, especially as one of them is a size 6-8 and idolises those super-skinny celebrities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988401</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTower for Young People|author=Anita Ganeri and Mike Phillips|title=Planet In PerilJill Jonnes
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Saving the Earth is Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the latest bandwagon upon which authors seem determined to jump with children1889 World's authors at Fair in Paris encompassed the forefront of best, the charge. I've seen quite a few which were little more than a watered-down version of worst and the sort of information which would be given to an adult beautiful from many countries and I can imagine that a lot of children would feel patronisedcultures. This ''Horrible Geography Handbook'' – ''Planet in Peril'' is a breath of fresh air. WellThe French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, apartdance performances, that isfood festivals and concerts to stun the senses. And towering above it all, from when the loo gets a little too well usedmost popular and the most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – the Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407105779</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Blackest Hole in Space1848576536|authortitle=Penny Little and Vincent Vigla|rating=2.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Charlie and his dad build a rocket, then Charlie and Doggo head off into space, where they're sucked into a black hole. They have a bit of a look around (as one does in a black hole, apparently), then head off home for their tea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340944676</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewHumanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Stewart Ross|title=Moon: Science, History, Nicola Edwards and MysteryJem Maybank|rating=45
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|summary=By now we should be living in colonies on Mars and still using computers that take up a whole room: futurologists have a talent for getting things spectacularly wrong''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, but their predictions express the human ability to dream and transcend its limitations and conditions: we dream of reaching for the stars – and humans actually walked on the Moon. Itgo inside your insides!''s hard to believe that first landing happened forty years ago!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0545127327</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rolf HeimannLangford_Emily|title=DragonmaziaEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Emily found words ''Dragonmaziauseful'' is packed to the rafters with detailed, engagingbut counting was what she loved best. Obviously, varied you can count anything and fascinating mazes. Therethere's no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a strong dragon theme throughout, without ever getting sameystep further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: there are medieval dragons, Oriental dragonshalf of the list were even numbers, but the other half was odd and a few cuddly dragons tooit was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. Each page generally has one big maze (Actually, with this confused me a few smaller mazes or puzzles dotted around it. It doesnlittle bit at first as they't have an overall narrative, re a subset of the odd numbers but there's plenty sound as though they ought to be a subset of detail to pore over beyond the mazes themselveseven numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>192127249X</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=We Are What We DoBuckingham_Dawn|title=Teach Your Granny To TextThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I loved this bookreally 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 rather wet February morning. I loved spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the positive tone of this bookbirds and listening to their song. It is Then - just so packed full of great, interactive ideas for living a better life, that because I could - I even passed went back and did it onto to my household's resident politician. He agreed that there were lots of ideas in all again and it that capture was just as good the spirit of these new-austerity timessecond time around. So, and took a note of a few for his next council meeting. It's true!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406320714</amazonuk>what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Kindberg and Tracey TurnerPankhurst_Women|title=The Comic Strip Fantastically Great Women Who Made History of the World|author=Kate Pankhurst
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''The Comic Strip History A lot of the World'' history isabout men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as you though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might expectlike to read about or regard as role models. Of course, a comic strip history this isn't true and there are plenty of the world. It covers everything from the Big Bang to the present daywomen who, with each period of throughout history summed up in a page , have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or twocreated something never seen before. It's very much a potted history So here, in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the vein stories of the Horrible Histories series and 1066 and All That. It's a fantastic book, both as a light fun read, and as a brief education into everything that has been beforesome of them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594317</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dugald SteerIgnotofsky_Sport|title=SpyologyWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5
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|summary=Agent K – also known as Spencer Blake – set out ''Women in Sport'' is coming to write this manual us just before the Winter 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 Spyologyits highest achievers, otherwise known covering sports as Tradecraftdiverse as swimming, in the course of his last missionfencing, riding, skating, the deadly Operation CODEX. Obviously he saved the civilised world (again) but he apparently perished during the operation. No one was and much more surprised than the head of Special Intelligence Service (P.O. Box 850, London) when the manual which I now have in front Think of me turned up a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at the headquarters of MI6 it is probably in an unmarked envelope several months after Agent K disappeared. The original plan was to use it to train new recruits using various challenges based on Operation CODEXthis book somewhere. It's recently become available to the public under the fifty year ruleEach entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184011861X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Sparrow Rooney_Dino|title=Voyage Across The CosmosDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=In Lift the course 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 year I see variety of creatures, some wonderful books of whom are very familiar but this must rank as one some I'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the most stunning that I've seen for a long time. Billed as ''a journey various dinosaurs are getting up to the edge of space , with background noises, roars and time'squawks to accompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it' s very visual, placing the reader is off on a journey of a hundred dinosaurs in their habitats and thirty billion trillion kilometres from earth. On the way you'll see some breathtaking sights and get an idea of the unbelievable scale of the cosmosgiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847245242</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marion BatailleMason_poo|title=Abc 3d|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Wow. This is an ABC book with a difference. The publisher's notes say it's "astoundingly beautiful" and it is. Marion Bataille's careful, ingenious alphabet pops up from the pages to amaze and entrance all who look. From A, a proud pyramid on the inside cover, to Z, standing on its side at the end, each letter of our alphabet has a personality of its own. E morphs into F, V mirrors itself and becomes W, and U is a cascade of parabolas. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747595798</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPoo That Animals Do|author=Paul Kieve|title=Hocus PocusMason and Tony de Saulles|rating=4.5
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|summary=I know, I know, sometimes you really don't want to encourage your children'Hocus Pocus'' s poo jokes, but this book is part biography of the greatest magicians of all time, part fictional tale of the author meeting them as they come alive from his posters, brilliant! I sat and part magic instruction manual. All read it by myself when the parts foster an interest in magic, kids had gone to school and act as an inspiration to the next generation of magicians.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074759094X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Scarry|title=What Do People Do All Dayfound it fascinating! Who knew there was so much I didn't know about poo?|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=As its title suggests, the book is about what people do all day. Since different people all do different things, the book covers a lot of topics. The first section looks at Busy Town itself along the high street. This book truly shines with some of the best examples of Scarry's illustrations, as we see the town above ground, and below ground in intricate detail. We see the men digging tunnels manages to be both funny (and the underground pipes, street cleaners at work, and peeks into the bank and various shops silly) as well as the fire department, doctor, dentist, being very interesting and so oneducational. All are clearly labelled Using a mixture of facts and much fun is to be had after reading the narrativefigures, looking at photographs and discussing all the marvellous detail. As the book progressesfunny cartoons, we get to see what Mummy does all day you come away having sniggered a little at home, what the farmer doesvulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about different types of poo, the door to door salesman, the policeman, the fireman, the blacksmith, the postmen, the ferry workerswhy poos smell, and so onwhy wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007189508</amazonuk>
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