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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]==Children's non__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --fiction==__NOTOC__>{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francesca Simon and Tony Ross1839948493|title=A Horrid Factbook: FoodWorld of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=45
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|summary=For a horrid child our Henry has acquired a lot In the interests of factsfull disclosure, I must tell you know that I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and the latest I've loved most of his Horrid Fact Books is about foodthem. It follows I wish I felt the usual format of quick-fire facts liberally accompanied by brilliant illustrations from Tony Rosssame about human beings. The So, any bookabout dogs, I's divided into chapters which are just the right length to appeal m going to the emerging reader sit down and to give a regular feel-good buzz when there's another chapter under the beltdevour. With ninety-nine pages of text thereThen I's enough m going to give the sense of having go back and read it properly. And so it was with ''a bookA World of Dogs'' but without it being too much of a trial, with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. It ticks all Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the boxes as accidental owner of an early readerAmerican Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444006339</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Robinson1529507987|title=Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders: RomansThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=34.5
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|summary=You could I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to be mistaken for thinking [[:Category:Tony Robinson|Tony Robinson]] had written books like this beforecheered up. After a hard day, for he was doing there'Horrid Historys nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they'-style TV programmes before the official ones were madere worth. This series fits so well into his erudite yet family audience-friendly mannerYou see, and this second book takes us in a primary school curriculum-suiting way into the world of Rome. A lot value is in what these books, from trivia for all ages (I didn't know, or had forgotten, that all those Julius Caesar reliefs and statues possessions are of him in a wig as he was bald), worth to the delectable gross-out (people who own them and the memories they hold. No expense appears to be spared and the posh man's cuisine) experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the foregrounding of desired result. Regular viewers know the obvious difference between them experts and us (in a word, slavery)they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330533894</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Robinson024162343X|title=Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders: EgyptiansStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=3.5
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|summary=You could be mistaken for thinking [[:Category:Tony Robinson|Tony Robinson]] had written books like this before, for he I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was doing disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'Horrid Historygod'-style TV programmes before . Where was the official ones were madeproof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. This series fits Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so well into his erudite yet family audience-friendly mannermuch want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, and this launching book takes us but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the strangest of worlds army had to be there in the first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - yet one only a museum visit away, but I regret that of I lacked the maturity to approach 'the ancient Egyptiansproblem' politely. A lot is in these pages - complete with adult stuff glossed over (just how in-bred I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's 'were'Stolen History'' those Ptolemys?!), the gross-out being relished (making mummies, and some alleged Egyptian medicines) and the obvious differences between them and us foregrounded so we can empathise with them (and at the same time remember it's harder for most of us to sleep on our roofs than they would have found it).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330533878</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kathleen KingJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Make Fritz and Do: BakeKurt
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=I love We start with the idea pair of kids cookingbrothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. ThereKurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours's each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to be messcave to Hitler's will, probably and instead of having a bit of waste and you're going national vote to have to bite your tongue an awful lotkeep the Nazis out, but it really is the most amazing funinvite them in with open arms. Best of ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all, though the round- from an early age kids learn that they can go into ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the kitchen younger Kurt at home with his mother and make something which they can eat. They don't need sisters anxious to go hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the shops US, while Fritz and buy a ready meal or his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to a takeaway for junk foodBuchenwald and the stone quarry there. They can make something themselves. It's a life skill.And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849154384</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Green and Simon Basher1913750353|title=Basher Science: OceansBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=45
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|summary=I've often wondered why this planet is called 'earthBritannica's Word of the Day'' when threehas a sub-quarters of it obviously isntitle: ''t 366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and it seems Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that I'm not aloneyou need to know about this brilliant book. Dan Green and Simon Basher have decided to take a close look at the oceans and other bodies of water It starts on the planet and January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you how to explain them in simple words, accompanied by Simon Brasherpronounce it (''s illustrations which are almost raz- but not quite muh- manga. ItTAZ''s ), gives you a definition and then includes the word in a style which kids are going to sentence so that you know how it should be comfortable with - used. You also get an engaging and they're not going to associate it with something boring which they have to learnfrequently amusing illustration too. ItI don't think I's fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753433443</amazonuk>ve ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Brassey0711266204|title=The QueenSecret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Those I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of us whobirds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I've been around for longer than established which species feed from the Queen has been on the throne tend ground, which pop to forget that not everyone knows about her history or who-is-who in the family. Richard Brassey has set out to remedy that with this easy-read, almost comic-style book about Her Majesty and there's lots in there in the way feeders for a quick snatch of fascinating information, some fun facts food and (who settles in for a good munch but I wish I'll confess!) a few anecdotes which left me chuckling, sometimes with and sometimeswas more knowledgeable... er It would have been wonderful if, wellas a child, I think we'll gloss over that bit, but let me say that this d had access to a book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''. So – what is not at all sycophantic!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001272</amazonuk>it?
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|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=If there was 'Germs' seems to have become a prize for catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the most lavish book received here at Bookbag Towers for review, this would definitely be on the shortlistpotential to make you ill. A lovely large format hardback, In the cover is a delight itself - with first book in what looks to be a 3D lenticular image, embossed bitsvery promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a plastic gem stuck in it..clear and accessible introduction to the world of germs. And inside there are packets of goodies to open We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and explore, making this more of a literary toy than a bookhow the thinking has developed over time. The book aims to introduce the cleverer child to vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the wonders of stagecraft and magic, trickiest concepts and so here are props for some tricks for you to do'll soon be familiar with bacteria, some instructions for other illusions of your ownfungi, protists and viruses – and a historical guide to how the masters of their trade did itwe should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848772084</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia McKissack, Frederick L McKissack Jr and Randy DuBurke1800464495|title=Best Shot 100 Ways in the West100 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='We're going Babies seem to do be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the real Westwomb, Nat. You're as real as the rest being aware of 'em - Bat Mastersonquantities at seven hours old, Calamity Janeassessing probability at six months old, Wild Bill, the Earpsand comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.' So says a publisher to a lowly railroad porter, Nat. But if this guy's as real as the rest of those famous names, why does his not trip off the tongue? Is it purely because as the most famous African-American cowboy, he still was not allowed to be as famous as he should?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0811857492</amazonuk>}}
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 that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Backshall1406395404|title=PredatorsThe Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=Many readers 2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would probably know argue with that on the simple count statement. Lots of humans they helped our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to dispatchbe doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, mosquitoes may be from children to adults will have the most deadly animals everodd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. But did you know And there's also the fact that if you take into account the success rate for far too long, lack of huntssleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, diversity working late has been praised and spread, ladybirds are more successful predators than tigers? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444004174</amazonuk>the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ewa Solarz, Aleksandra Mizielinski and Daniel Mizielinski1849767343|title=DesignCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Although The title and format of this is a book for children I can imagine plenty of grown ups who would find might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it fascinating! It's a wonderful dip in and basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out book and I actually found myself keeping it in our washing basket in on the bathroom so I could have a quick read whenever I needed to spend a penny! numbers journey. It depicts 69 objects from all over the world that were designed in the last 150 years. Thereisn't: it's everything here from octopus-inspired lemon juicers through to sofas made to look like a pair hymn of lips or an Ottoman that resembles a shapely ladypraise to maths. It's bottom!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877467839</amazonuk>about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lois Rock and Steve Noon1849767009|title=The Lion Bible in its TimeIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=This factual book approaches stories from could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the bible in a historical way, looking at choir': the lives only people would have been living at who'll buy it are the time, people who know that nudity is OK and the sort of homes ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they had avoid the hot-and -bothered person in the reigning monarchs of each erasupermarket who is coughing fit to bust. Working through from the old testament to the new testament But... Rosie Haines makes it covers into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It's a wide range celebration of biblical stories bodies: bodies large and is illustrated throughout small and of every possible hue. Bodies with fascinatingdisabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, detailed picturesthey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745960154</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Barnardo1776572858|title=DragonoliaHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=45|genre=children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=This book is, first of all, a rather beautiful book to beholdIt's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. The red cloth hardback cover with the curled-up golden dragon on the front immediately make you want to pick it up My mother was deeply embarrassed and look inside! Ittold me that she's also d get me a rather unusual bookabout it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, being a mix of both fiction in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and non-fiction, so when you begin I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it you're initially not quite sure what you're looking atwasn't something which nice people talked about''. As you read on you discover that thereI ''knew''s a story running throughout by Sir Richard Baronsmore, a famous dragon hunterbut was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, and with each story he tells there is also a craft project of something related to make!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904967248</amazonuk>times have changed.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Ardagh1526362759|title=Philip Ardagh's Book of KingsDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, QueensGrow It, Emperors and Rotten Wart-Nosed CommonersGive It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=If you deem What a good relief! A book about money, for children's historical trivia book to be one that tells you, the adultwith clear explanations of what it is, something they didn't know about historical triviawhy it matters, then this how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is a good example. I didnout) and what you can do with it when you't know George V broke his pelvis when his horse fell on him, startled by some post-WWI huzzahsve managed to get hold of it. I didnYour reasons for wanting money don't know Charles VI of France nearly got torched in matter: we all need it to some drunken bacchanalextent. The length of time Charlemagne sat on You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a throne (over 400 whole years saver (you might even if he wasnbecome an ''investor''t wholly whole all that time)) was news and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to me, as was the raffle that was held (more or less) for being the unknown soldierbuy. Therefore this is a There's also the possibility of using to do good book for children and in the adults willing to instill some historical trivia into themworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330471732</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Leroy Ripley178112938X|title=Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2012|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Here at Bookbag we don't usually cover annuals. In our experience people either know they want them or don't bother with them and once the year is out there's not a lot of interest Survival in them, particularly if they're based on a character which might well have gone out of fashion. Ripley's ''Believe It Or Not!'' is different. Space: The series is about interesting facts – all of which are true - which are going to surprise the readers and will continue to surprise them years down the line. Just to test this out we had a look back at the [[Ripley's Believe It or Not 2010 by Robert Leroy Ripley|2010 edition]] and it's still as shocking, gruesome and downright compulsive as it was when we first saw it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946704</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewApollo 13 Mission|author=Stephen Law|title=The Complete Philosophy FilesDavid Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=It''The Philosophy Files'' and s fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. ''Survival in Space: The Philosophy Files 2Apollo 13 Mission'' were first published in 2000 and 2003 respectively. Now we have them combined and reissued with illustrations by the wonderful Daniel Postgateis a brilliant retelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444003348</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|author=Kathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick
|title=Nine Ways to Empower Tweens
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book for tweens, setting out to show them vital #lifeskills. Don't groan! I know there is a market glut of such books for we grown-ups and for young adults too, but there is a needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for tweens too.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Geraldine McCaughrean and Richard Brassey1609809173|title=Great Stories from British HistoryEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the 1889 World''Since when was History True?'' is s Fair in Paris encompassed the heading of best, the first chapter worst and it's one which you need to read ''before'' you buy this the beautiful book, because it would be easy to assume from the title many countries and the pictures cultures. The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on the cover that it's a history ''text'' book you're going art shows, dance performances, food festivals and concerts to invest in. In ''some'' ways you are but what you are actually acquiring is a ''story'' book. This is a book of stun the great stories of British historysenses. Some of them are (broadly) trueAnd towering above it all, some have been debunked by historians the most popular and some have simply fallen into disuse the most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – but Geraldine McCaughrean would hate to see them lost altogetherthe Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001426</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Betty G Birney1848576536|title=Humphrey's World of PetsHumanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The verb to pet means to cosset, pay loving attention to''Get under your own skin, to have loving, touching time with. It might as well mean to have in pick your household while spending a lot of money onbrains, and being duty-bound and beholden to. Fish (which you can't even properly pet, of course) need a permanent power supply for their water's thermometer. Chinchillas need a special sand for their bathing in. Therego inside your insides!'s even pet-friendly detergents for washing out your hamster cages. Wherever you look there's time and money expenditure in owning a pet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571270263</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caitlin Watson and Vic Le BillonLangford_Emily|title=Marvin and Milo: Adventures in ScienceEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=My dad studied physicsEmily found words ''useful'', and I think he but counting was always a little disappointed that I didn't fall in love with the subject toowhat she loved best. Perhaps if heObviously, you can count anything and there'd had s no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a Marvin step further and Milo book to share with me things would've been different? began counting in twos. Marvin She knew all about odd and Milo are a cat and a dog who like doing experimentseven numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, but the other half was odd and it was this book contains 45 list of their experiments odd numbers which occurred when you are most definitely encouraged counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to try at home!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230758495</amazonuk>be a subset of the even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Camilla de la Bedoyere, Clive Gifford, John Farndon, Steve Parker, Stewart Ross and Philip SteeleBuckingham_Dawn|title=Discover The Little Book of the Extreme WorldDawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=In my day it would have been called What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance''an encyclopaediaat '. It would have had a lot more text, been rather dull – and remained largely unread by those who received it as a worthy present. For 'Discover The Little Book of the Extreme WorldDawn Chorus' you need to start at ' but the opposite end pull of the scale. It's about visual impact. A fact is linked sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a picture cold and the more striking the better – and only then is it explainedrather wet February morning. The text is as simple as possible – clear, unambiguous wording which drives the point home as quickly as possible. The layout encourages you to move the book I spent an indulgent hour or so that you see reading all about the pictures better birds and can read the wordslistening to their song. It's fun Then - just because I could - I went back and (say did it quietly) all again and it's educationalwas just as good the second time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184810474X</amazonuk> So, what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard BrasseyPankhurst_Women|title=The Story of the OlympicsFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=It's the story A lot of the Olympics from earliest times – 776 BC history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and the first Games politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at Olympia right through all, let alone ones young girls might like to the 2012 Games in London and even a few hints read about how things might be different for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiroor regard as role models. It's told in the form which seems to appeal to every child – the comic strip – but donOf course, this isn't be mislead into thinking that this is light-weight true and there are plenty of women who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or superficialcreated something never seen before. It's anything butSo here, in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the stories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000489</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Kindberg and Tracey TurnerIgnotofsky_Sport|title=The Comic Strip Big Fat Book of KnowledgeWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky
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|genre=Graphic NovelsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Who doesn't like 'Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a nice comic, eh? Therehalf of the development of women's something so accessible about the lovely picture and text combossport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, and facts are far from dull when they come via speech bubblescovering sports as diverse as swimming, don't you think? Taking full advantage of this factfencing, Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner haveriding, for some timeskating, been creating factual books for children which pass on their insight and Important Information through the medium of comicsmuch more. Now for the first time, you can collect 3 Think of their titles a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in one simple volumethis book somewhere. Combining the previous reviewed [[The Comic Strip History of the World by Sally Kindberg Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and Tracey Turner|History of the World]] and [[The Comic Strip History of Space by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|History of Space]] with the ''Greatest Greek Myths''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408808242</amazonuk>a striking portrait.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judy BartkowiakRooney_Dino|title=So You've Passed Your Driving Test... What Now? Advanced Driving Skills For Young DriversDiscovering Dinosaurs|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summaryauthor=It's always struck me that the most difficult time for young drivers is that period just after they pass their driving test. Someone has told you that you're an OK driver, right? ''But'' you're out there, all on your own, without anyone to explain those odd things which you still haven't come across or to be the extra pair of eyes. You've got a sense of freedom, but somehow it's a little bit ''daunting''. Judy Bartkowiak offers something a little bit different. It's not another book about road signs, driving etiquette Anne Rooney and stopping distances – it's some ideas for getting into the right mindset to absorb the new experiences and learning some skills which might help you in other areas of your life too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218371</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jason Heller|title=The Captain Jack Sparrow Handbook: A Guide to Swashbuckling with the Pirates of the CaribbeanSuzanne Carpenter
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=You don't see pirates reading many Lift the flap bookshave progressed somewhat since I was a child. If you ask meThis one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a variety of creatures, itsome of whom are very familiar but some I's because their hooks make d never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the pages hard various dinosaurs are getting up to turn. Of course, the salty damp air would do nothing for with background noises, roars and squawks to accompany them! The book creates a bookdinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's longevityvery visual, just one more reason to make sure you've read and understood this before you take to placing the ocean wave dinosaurs in their habitats and set sail on giving us sounds too that spike your adventuresimagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745048</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia MyattMason_poo|title=Go Green! A Young Person's Guide to the Blue PlanetThe Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Go Green!? Forget that title. What planet does that come from? LetI know, I know, sometimes you really don't want to encourage your children's start again. This fantastic poo jokes, but this book is about brilliant! I sat and read it by myself when the ''blue'' stuff, everything from oceans kids had gone to raindrops. The book covers just about every angle that a child passionate about water might conceivably find of interest – marine creatures, icebergs, sunken volcanoes, tsunamis, undersea exploration, bores school and whirlpools, inland waterways, tides, lochs and locks. There are answers to lots of questions of the found it fascinating! Who knew there was so much I didn'Why is the sea bluet know about poo?' variety. Sandwiched into this comprehensive guide The book manages to the physical geography be both funny (and biodiversity of the seas (probably enough for GCSEsilly) is a large dollop of green ketchup, to be sure, but my instinctive reaction is that here is the best children's introduction to 'water' that I've ever seenas well as being very interesting and educational.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906435014</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lindsey Fraser|title=J K Rowling: the Mystery of Fiction|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Easily one of the most renowned authors of the 21st century, J.K. Rowling's incredibly successful Harry Potter series shook the core of the literary world. It provoked Using a reaction, the likes mixture of which have never been seen beforefacts and figures, photographs and likely never will. A unique set of factors combined in order for the Harry Potter books to reach the level of success they enjoyedfunny cartoons, and these factors are explored in this biography of Rowling. It is difficult not to be fascinated by you come away having sniggered a little at the person vulture who is responsible for the phenomenon that is Harry Potter, and although writing is poos on its own feet but also knowing a profession that doesn't have a typical path by which it can be reachedlot about different types of poo, Rowling's story is anything but orthodoxwhy poos smell, and her personal 'rags to riches' story only enhances the Harry Potter legacywhy wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906134693</amazonuk>
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