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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0GFQ81YQK|title=How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Michael BrightStephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Before people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to each other. First, the earth created bodies. And then, the sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, especially how they came to be. When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the earth and their life returned to the sky. And that is why the earth and the sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to, and care for, both.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0GHPMNF6P|title=See Inside Dinosaurs How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=34.5

|summary=What would you do if Before people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the doorbell rang earth and when you opened the door you saw a giant Trojan-Horse waiting for you? I for one would not drag sky began to tal to each other. First, the earth created bodies. And then, the sky breathed life into them. These were the thing in; it would be too big first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and could remembered, especially how they came to be full of angry Greeks. The same could be said of ''See inside Dinosaurs'' by Michael BrightWhen they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the earth and their life returned to the sky. You may think And that you is why the earth and the sky are buying one thingboth revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to, but instead you are getting an impressive triceratops skeleton, or a T-Rex modeland care for, or maybe even a bookboth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934739</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve ParkerStephanie Zabriskie|title=100 Facts Butterflies & MothsHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders

|summary=Damn those bees. They're not the only flying creatures vanishing 'How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a children’s nonfiction book drawn from our world at alarming rates, and the others, like butterflies and mothsoral traditions of Maasai elders in Ngorongoro, Tanzania.'' The Maasai are actually runnersa cattle-up herding people and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to Mr Bumble be so. Cattle are status and his mysteriously dying ilk wealth in pollinating plants. Plus theyMaasai culture but this doesn're more visually attractive. But even though this book has two nudges t tell the whole story of the intimate and symbiotic connection its people, and a thanks given to the Butterfly Conservation bodyespecially its women, that's certainly not have with their cows and for the more notable feature of these pagesnatural world. What stands out is The oral tradition retelling the superlative contentmany conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, does.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786170116</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= National Geographic Kids1839948493|title= Angry Birds Playground: Atlas (Angry Birds Playgrounds)|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=''Angry Birds Playground'' is a new educational book series based on a geographical theme. Rovio-the team responsible for the popular game- have teamed up with National Geographic Kids to create a stunning set A World of books that perfectly blend the cheeky humour from the game with informative text and breathtaking real-world photography. The series will appeal to young fans of the game and anyone who has an interest in the wonders of the natural world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1426324596</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDogs|author=Joe Archer Carlie Sorosiak and Caroline Craig|title=The Kew Gardens Children's Cookbook: Plant, Cook, EatLuisa Uribe

|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I grew up in the immediate post war periodmust tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. Growing your own vegetables had been a necessity in the war and it was still a habit for those who had a bit of gardenIn nearly eight decades, so I've never met one I didn'The Kew Gardens Childrent trust and I's Cookbook'' was a real pleasure for me, as well as a touch ve loved most of nostalgiathem. I wish I felt the same about human beings. The principle is very simple: show children how So, any book about dogs, I'm going to grow their own vegetables sit down and then how to transform them into delicious fooddevour. It sounds simple, doesnThen I't m going to go back and read it? properly. WellAnd so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', it might come as with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a surprise, but it is!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750298197</amazonuk>lot about dogs since then.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Haslam and Steve Parker1529507987|title= A Journey Through NatureThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Beautifully presented, this is a book that takes I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a worldwide look at the natural worldhard day, in both urban and rural locationsthere's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. We start off in the city, looking at pigeons You see, the American racoon, value is in what these possessions are worth to the Australian possum people who own them and the South American Marmosetmemories they hold. I learnt 3 things from those first two pages, including what Kits are, how long babies live with No expense appears to be spared and the possum mothers experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the pregnancy traits of desired result. Regular viewers know the monkeysexperts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing. We were off to a good But how did they start.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934496</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aleksandra Mizielinski, Daniel Mizielinski and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)024162343X|title=Under Earth, Under WaterStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|summary=One of I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the major remits existence of childrena 's non-fiction books is to get them to look around them and gain a better understanding of what theygod're seeing. After a volume such as thisWhere was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the obvious response is end of WWII, I didn't so much want to see that as an incredibly narrow focus. For this book will take learn about the reader British army's successes (and show them exactly what they canoccasional failures, but we didn't see – from microscopic things living dwell on those) in soil even seasoned Scrabble players havenwhat came to be called 'the colonies't heard of, as want to dispute what right down the army had to be there in the fish swimming their way towards first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the Mariana Trench, maturity to approach 'the deepest section of sea on earthproblem' politely. Make no bones about it, this book is entirely focused on what is beneath our feet and sea levels, and – no pie in the sky response this – it is a winnerI wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783703644</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= John Haslam Jeremy Dronfield and Steve ParkerDavid Ziggy Greene|title= A Journey Through the WeatherFritz and Kurt|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary= We're Britishstart 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 empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. We LOVE Kurt has to talk about make sure the weatherlamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But beyond this is the time just before the usual platitudes Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Bit cold out isn't itKristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or ''What a beautiful day''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 much do you actually know about what's happening up in the sky?titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about… |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178493450X</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Adams and James Weston Lewis1913750353|title=The Great Fire of London: 350th Anniversary Britannica's Word of the Great Fire of 1666Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy

|summary=While ''Britannica's Word of the average primary school child may not quite be able Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to fathom the importance Stretch Your Cranium and actual length of 350 years, it is no reason not to put a book out looking back Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that distance of time you need to major historical events. But it has to be a good know about this brilliant book to justify the mental time travel that entails. And you have to hit It starts on a remarkable subjectJanuary 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', something that will open the young eyes tells you how to the dangerpronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), tragedy gives you a definition and drama of our history. Something like then includes the Great Fire of London, as seen word in this large hardback, which when a sentence so that you know how it comes down to it, should be used. You also get an engaging and for many reasons, is frequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I've ever encountered a very good book indeed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750298200</amazonuk>word which uses the letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Young Rewired State0711266204|title=Get Coding!: Learn HTML, CSS & JavaScript & build a website, app & gameThe Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)

|summary=Learning to code, even heading into my seventh decade, changed my life I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and for today's children it's important because it opens so many doorswatch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. It might look complicated, but all it required is concentration and - eventually - imaginationAn hour can pass without my noticing. I had 've established which species feed from the ground, which pop to the feeders for a reasonable mastery quick snatch of the skills of basic HTML some food and who settles in three days with the benefit of for a personal tutor, good munch but where to go I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if you don, as a child, I't have that privilege or if you need some extra support? d had access to a book such as ''Get Coding!The Secret Life of Birds'' seems like the perfect answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406366846</amazonuk> So – what is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Mills0192779230|title=Top Of Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The League Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=3.5

|summary=Football is known as 'Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the beautiful game and when I was younger I kind of believed thispotential to make you ill. I would spend my free time playing Heads In the first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and Volleys with my mates Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and then go home accessible introduction to try and complete my Panini sticker albumthe world of germs. There was even the halcyon days when Blackburn Rovers won We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the title. As I have grown older, my cynicism thinking has grown toodeveloped over time. Leicester may The vocabulary can be champions, confusing but the day I feel that Thomas gives a group of multimillionaires beating regular box headed 'speak like a group scientist' which explains some of slightly richer multimillionaires is a win for the everymantrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, will be a sad one. Perhaps the love of football still burns bright in the youth of today? ''Top Of the League'' certainly hopes so as it is full of facts protists and viruses – and figures all about the ball they call foothow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934577</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin Miles1800464495|title=Ultimate Mapping Guide for Kids100 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

|summary=''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? Ididn've always been fascinated by mapst! How about: diverse features can be converted into symbols, drawn  ''Maths ability on entry to school is a piece strong predictor of later achievement, double that of paper and then passed to someone else to interpretliteracy skills. Making or '' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading maps 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 skills which stay with you throughout we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and learning 'how to' is relatively simple and great funit follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial. }} Author Justin Miles had {{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 car accident in 1999 and brain injuries meant strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that he had to learn to walk statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and talk from scratchfor some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Whilst he was doing Some teens will dismiss this he decided as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to become a full time explorer be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to support charities which inspire children adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to learnmake it worse. He raises funds by taking on daring challenges, which have included climbing mountains, exploring And there's also the Arcticfact that for far too long, crossing deserts lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and cutting his way through the junglesleep made to seem like laziness. If a man knows about mapsBeing up early, then it's Justin Milesworking late has been praised and the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178493464X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Imogen Greenberg and Isabel Greenberg1849767343|title=The Ancient EgyptiansCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=34.5

|summary=There was more The title and format of this book might lead you to the Ancient Egyptians than keeping the entrails of their dead in a jar, but think that is it's either about responsibility - or it's a pretty cool fact anywaybasic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. As a civilisation they knocked around for centuries until Cleopatra had It isn't: it's a nasty incident with an Asp. Cramming all the information on one hymn of the most complex and intriguing peoples of all time is a big ask; making it assessable praise to children is even biggermaths. Imogen Greenberg It's about why maths is so wonderful and Isabel Greenberg have attempted this how you meet it in ''The Ancient Egyptians''everyday life. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808255</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Imogen Greenberg and Isabel Greenberg1849767009|title=The Roman EmpireIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=You may not think it from my writing, but I actually This could have a degree in history. Some been one of this was on those books which 'preaches to the Roman Empire, but even I struggle to remember what happened when during choir': the only people who'll buy it are the time period. The Republic people who know that nudity is OK and Empire spanned hundreds of years, so Alexander rocking up with his elephants did not happen anywhere near the rise of Julius Caesar. Modern youths would not think to shove ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the invention of the microchip hot-and-bothered person in with the Napoleonic Wars, supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so why would you do this with Rome? Kids need much more than a simple book that tells them about the Roman Empire, but also puts it all in not wearing clothes. It's a context celebration of bodies: bodies large and timeline small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, they can understand're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808565</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Kovecses1776572858|title=One Hundred Words: A first handwriting bookHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=Little Mouse is learning to writeIt's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. Actually, you donMy mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she't just learn to write, you have to learn to hold and use d get me a pencil and to control book about it so that the point goes where you want it to. Pencils - and particularly crayons - have A couple of days later I was handed a mind of their ownpamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, you know! in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) So, we start of with the tripod grip and some tips I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about what to do if you find that difficult''. Then weI ''knew're straight into the action' more, starting with drawing a straight line from side to side and to see whatbut was little ''wiser's required we have a footballer kicking a ball in the direction we're going to go. There are fifteen examples where you trace the lineThankfully, just so you get the hang of it and then you get to times have a go on your ownchanged.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808018</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kay Maguire and Danielle Kroll1526362759|title=Nature's DayDosh: Out and AboutHow to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45

|summary=I love books which encourage What a relief! A book about money, for children , with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to interact acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with nature - as opposed it when you've managed to get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to a computer screensome extent. I like You might want to see them getting outdoorsgo into business, preferably getting be a bit dirtyclever shopper, being independent a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and getting excited about nature. A good teacher will inspire childrenthere might be something you really, but ''Naturereally's Day: Out and About'want to buy. There' provides support and encouragement s also the possibility of using to do good in equal measures and might just be what a child needsthe world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780800X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danielle Kroll and Nghiem Ta178112938X|title=Pattern PlaySurvival in Space: Cut, Fold The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Make Your Own 3D Animal ModelsStefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=HereIt's a neat idea for you. Provide pages with animal prints on one side - only by animal prints, I mean fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the sort of colours and pattern which you see on animalsKennedy Space Centre in Florida, not paw prints! Some are subtle and others are rather more in-your-face. On but the reverse story of these printed pages provide a cutting line so that you can cut and fold journey remains one of the paper and it becomes a 3D model greatest survival stories of an animalall time. Provide some stickers which replicate faces, tails or beaks - or whatever else you feel needs highlighting - and number these so that they get into the right place. All you need to add to the mix ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a pair brilliant retelling of scissors, parental supervision if necessary for the cutting, a little imagination and you have hours of funwhat happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807321</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin HandfordKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=Where's Wally: The Colouring BookNine Ways to Empower Tweens|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Are you looking ''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book for something relaxingtweens, easy setting out to complete show them vital #lifeskills. Don't groan! I know there is a market glut of such books for we grown-ups and which will allow your mind to wander freely as you gently colour for young adults too, but there is a needful space in a pleasing design? Do you want an increasingly technological world accessible to indulge your imagination younger and use the colours which tempt you at the moment, content that it will not affect the finished creation? Would you like large spaces which you can shade in large swoops as it pleases you? Are you aiming younger children for material for a soothing finished product which is easy on the eye?tweens too. |isbn= 0228818826}}

Sorry: you've got the wrong book.{{Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406367303</amazonuk>}}{{newreview1609809173|authortitle=Deborah PattersonEiffel's Tower for Young People|titleauthor=My Book of Stories: Write Your Own AdventuresJill Jonnes

|summary=If you happen to have two childrenBrash and elegant, born five years apartsophisticated, you can count on having to live through practically four full years of school holidays – controversial and that doesn't include Bank Holidays or teacher training. Weather permittingvibrant, thatthe 1889 World's well over 1Fair in Paris encompassed the best,400 days where the impetus is worst and the beautiful from many countries and cultures. The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, food festivals and concerts to take them somewherestun the senses. And towering above it all, or spend money. So what better the most popular and cheaper place the most hated monument to take them than their own imagination? And if you can't quite unlock French accomplishment and daring – the door that leads there, we can certainly suggest this bookEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356355</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Claybourne1848576536|title=50 Things You Should Know AboutHumanatomy: Wild WeatherHow the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=45

|summary=Oh''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, this takes me back. Out of all the things we learn at school and profess go inside your insides!'' That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to never want to need as an adultdo and honestly, the water cycle is one that I had forgotten don't see how you could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about, until now. It forms the basis of a lot of our weather, after all – human body to curious children- from the way landmasses and seas warm skeletal system to the air above them differentlymuscular system via circulation, thus causing motion in the shape of winds respiration and altering atmospheric pressuredigestion, right up to the DNA that makes who we call weatherare. And from the gentlest high pressure, that someone somewhere will always deem too hot, to the most furious electrical storm, weather is certainly something a lot of people like to talk about. Is this book the ideal place to learn the basics of such a thing?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178493304X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maria Ana Peixe Dias, Ines Teixeira do Rosario, Bernardo P Carvalho and Lucy Greaves (translator)Langford_Emily|title=Outside: A Guide to Discovering NatureEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=IEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there'm on a mission: I want children - adults too - s no limit to spend how far you can go, but then Emily moved a lot more time outsidestep further and began counting in twos. I want them to have the benefits of fresh air, increasing their levels of vitamin D She knew all about odd and the knowledge of what nature can offer themeven numbers. I'd like Then she began counting in threes: half of the television, computers, mobile phones, video games and list were even books to be laid aside and attention given to what is available for freenumbers, but the other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which - if we donoccurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''t care for it - might not always be there. Fortunately (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the authors odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of ''Outside: A Guide to discovering Nature'' have the same ideaseven numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807690</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus

|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''An activity book, but not as you know itglance'' is what it says on the back cover - and I have to agree. Here at Bookbag we tend to avoid 'activity books' as they usually have soft covers, lots The Little Book of stickers and theythe Dawn Chorus''re but the sort pull of thing you pick up at the supermarket checkout in the hope that it will buy you 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 spent an indulgent hour or two's peace in so reading all about the school holidaysbirds and listening to their song. ''The Nature Explorer's Handbook'' is a different beast altogether. It's part album in which you're going to collect Then - just because I could - I went back and store your own finds, part explanation of the best practices of how you should go about this did it all again and part nature guide. It's a substantial hardback book with an elastic band to keep it shut - was just as it's really going to get quite bulky when your collection growsgood the second time around. Production values for the book are high - this really is something which will be treasured for years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190848926X</amazonuk>So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peggy CaravantesPankhurst_Women|title=Marooned in the ArcticFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst

|genre=BiographyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Misogynists are manmadeA lot of history is about men. And if anyone was in a position to hate men Kings and generals and inventors and the lot they put on their shoulderspoliticians. Sometimes, it was Ava Blackjack. Her surname spoke of an abusive man she had a son byfeels almost as though there were no women in history at all, but it was her time with four other men that made for one of the last century's more remarkable storieslet alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. An Inuit nativeOf course, but one brought up in a city and with English lessons, she was invited on an excursion alongside many other 'Eskimothis isn' t true and four intrepid Westerners, to the uninhabited Wrangel Island, perched off the northern Siberian coast. They were there just to stick a flag in it and call it Britishare plenty of women who, even if they were pretty much fully American and Canadianthroughout history, and the chap whose ideas these all were bore an Icelandic name; she was along to provide native expertisehave achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, especially waterproof fur clothingor created something never seen before. And that was it – none of her kin joined herSo here, leaving her in one tent and four men in anotherthis wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, in one are the stories of some of the world's most remote and inhospitable placesthem. And that was just the start of her worries…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1613730985</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Pinnington and Caz BuckinghamIgnotofsky_Sport|title=The Little Book of Woodland Bird SongsWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky

|summary=Take a well-put-together board book (don't worry about it being a board book - no one 'Women in Sport'' is going coming to say that they’re a bit too old for a board book once they see it), add exquisite pictures of a dozen birds - one on each double-page spread - and then fill us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in the detailsFebruary 2018. You'll need the name of the bird in English and Latin It celebrates a century and a description half of the bird in words which a child can understand but which wondevelopment of women't patronise an adult. Then you'll need details s sport by looking at fifty of where the bird is foundits highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, what it eatsfencing, where it nestsriding, how many eggs it laysskating, how the male and female adults differ and their sizemuch more. Then you need Think of a 'Did you know?' fact sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this needs to be something which will interest children, but which adults might not know eitherbook somewhere. Does it sound simple? Well it isn't, but 'The Little Book of Woodland Bird Songs' does it perfectly. And there's Each entry is a double-page spread with a bonus, but I'll tell you about that in brief biography and a momentstriking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908489286</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Serge BlochRooney_Dino|title=3, 2, 1... Draw!Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|rating=4.5

|summary=Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I can't draw. I've never been able to draw. A blank sheet of paper and was a pencil frightens mechild. I thought I was probably a little bit old to change my ways but then I discovered ''3This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, 2through various different ages of dinosaurs, 1... Draw!'' and there might have been we meet a movement within the tectonic plates variety of my brain. It's a drawing book which isn't about blank pages: it's about imagination and inspirationcreatures, with the first encouraged and the second delivered by the barrow load. some of whom are very familiar but some I've just had more fun than I thought possible with pencil and paperd never heard of before!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807240</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Juno Dawson|title=Mind Your Head|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=The number of young people suffering from mental ill health is increasing year-on-year. Yet we still find it difficult to talk about. And mental health still hasn't achieved parity with physical health in terms of services and healthcare available. Enter Mind Your Head.This is a frank and accessible overview of Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the issues facing young people with regards various dinosaurs are getting up to mental ill health. It covers the various types of illness, the treatments availablewith background noises, how roars and squawks to manage accompany them. It includes personal stories and exercises and is written in ! The book creates a chatty but serious way. Juno Dawson is the transgender author you might have known before as James Dawson. Shedinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's brought very visual, placing the dinosaurs in clinical psychologist Dr Olivia Hewitt to help her. And also illustrator Gemma Correll to avoid any appearance of dourness. Because Mind Your Head is about serious things but is an absolute pleasure to readtheir habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405311</amazonuk>