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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0GFQ81YQK|authortitle=Katie Scott How the Sky and Kathy Willisthe Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|titleauthor=Botanicum (Welcome To The Museum)Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=34.5|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=''Welcome to Before people came and joined the Museum'' it says on animals, there was only the front cover sky and I'll admit that for the moment I earth. Everything was confused as I've never associated museums with living plantsquiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to each other. First, but as soon as I stepped inside the coversearth created bodies. And then, I knew where I wasthe sky breathed life into them. One of These were the authorsfirst humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, Professor Kathy Willis is the Director of Science at Kew Gardens: she's undoubtedly based her thoughts on Kewespecially how they came to be. When they grew old and died, but for me I was back in their bodies returned to the glasshouses at earth and their life returned to the [http://wwwsky.rbgeAnd that is why the earth and the sky are both revered.orgOnly together can they create human beings.uk/ Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh] - the glorious 'Botanics'. I'm not certain And that is why we're supposed people must pay attention to be in a museum, unless it's that it allows us to refer to author Kathy Willis and illustrator Katie Scott as curatorscare for, both. Still it's a contrivance which doesn't affect the content.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783703946</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah PattersonB0GHPMNF6P|title=My Book How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Stories: Write Your Own Fairy TalesMalagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie

|summary=Pity Before people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and the child these days who never reads fairy talessky began to tal to each other. The irony in thatFirst, howeverthe earth created bodies. And then, is that the sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and they may well be too busy watching ''Frozen'' on repeat belonged to read fairy talesboth earth and sky. But read them And so people lived between sky and soil and they should, in some form or another, planted and learned and of one era or another. They don't all have to go back to the oldest collectionsremembered, especially as how they will like as not came to be more gory than what, say, Disney or Ladybird Books put out in our youth. They can read a fairy tale from any age, then – When they grew old and when they're donedied, they can easily turn their bodies returned to this book, which provides more than enough impetus for you the earth and their life returned to write your ownthe sky. Fairy tales do, as it happens, have And that is why the earth and the ability sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to last , and care for centuries – but there's nothing quite like giving them a little tweak to get them up-to-date…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356428</amazonuk>, both.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Harriet RussellStephanie Zabriskie|title= This Book Thinks You're a ScientistHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= ''This Book Thinks You're How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a Scientistchildren’s nonfiction book drawn from the oral traditions of Maasai elders in Ngorongoro, Tanzania.'' takes children through  The Maasai are a cattle-herding people and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to be so. Cattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn't tell the whole world story of scientific areas: forces the intimate and motionssymbiotic connection its people, lightand especially its women, matter, sound, electricity have with their cows and magnetismfor the natural world. It encourages children to look, ask questions and a The oral tradition retelling the many conversations Maasai women have a go. This science-based activity book, published in association had with the Science Museumtheir cows, will stimulate and inspire young mindsdoes.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0500650810</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah Patterson1839948493|title=My Book A World of Stories: Write Your Own MythsDogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=45

|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I don't know about you, but as m a young child I was always looking ahead, not backwardssucker for dogs. MusicallyIn nearly eight decades, I could bear a few of my older brother's records, but wanted to know what was released next week, ve never what was in the charts met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of my parent's erathem. I think wish I felt the same would have been said about my readinghuman beings. So, any book about dogs, and my interests – although thatI's only m going to a certain extentsit down and devour. I don't think Then I'd have thanked you for pointing m going to my dinosaur books, right next to my space go back and science fiction shelves, and I think Iread it properly. And so it was with ''d have preferred you to see the latest novel, rather than those books A World of myths I also enjoyed. Myths? TheyDogs''re, like, old. But they don't need much embellishment with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to be seen as great funmy four-legged friends. The next step, however, to see them as something you yourself could write, well – thatAuthor Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a bit greater. But it's one taken by this book, neverthelesslot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356436</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Camilla Hallinan1529507987|title=The Ultimate Peter Rabbit: A Visual Guide to the World of Beatrix PotterRepair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=I had a deprived childhood: I never knew Peter Rabbitlove ''The Repair Shop''. HeIt'd have been at about his half century by the time s my go-to programme when I could have been reading himwant to be cheered up. After a hard day, but books at home didnthere's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they't go beyond Enid Blytonre worth. Peter was drawing his old age pension by You see, the time that I discovered him when my daughter fell in love with him and - value is in her turn - read them what these possessions are worth to her the people who own children thirty years laterthem and the memories they hold. He's well past his century now No expense appears to be spared and still delighting children of all ages: he's accessible the experts spend as much time and relatable effort as is required to achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and I canthey't recollect ever meeting a child who didnre all brilliant at explaining what it is they't have a soft spot for himre doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241289653</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK024162343X|title=My Encyclopedia of Very Important ThingsStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=45

|summary= Depending on I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the curiosity level existence of your child, you may start to hate the word whya 'god'. Why is Where was the sky blueproof? Why do some elephants have bigger ears than others? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Why, why, whyNot too long after the end of WWII, why! I can suggest didn't so much want to most parents that they make something up that sounds vaguely intelligent. The problem is that kids are canny little things. Solearn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, rather than trying but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to download dispute what right the entirety of army had to be there in the internet into your head, get your child their own first encyclopaediaplace. Looking back, something like I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem'My Encyclopedia of Very Important Thingspolitely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241224934</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Isabel Sanchez Vegara Jeremy Dronfield and MariadiamantesDavid Ziggy Greene|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Amelia EarhartFritz and Kurt|rating=3.54|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Amelia Earhart was born just before We start with the end pair of the nineteenth century but she brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would become want to do – kicking things around the most famous female pilot of empty market place, helping the twentiethneighbours, having first become interested in planes being dutiful when she went it comes to an airshow when she was just nineteenthe synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Shortly afterwards Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a pilot gave her light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a ride national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in a biplane 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 the US, while Fritz and from that moment his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on she knew that she had the same train to flyBuchenwald and the stone quarry there. There had been precursors to And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this obsession though: when she was a little girl she like to imagine that she could stretch her wings and fly like a bird.come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847808859</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Bate1913750353|title=Peter in PerilBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=3.5

|summary=Meet Peter. He hasn't got 'Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant lifebook. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', by modern standards – always getting into troubletells you how to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a definition and playing some form of football with coat buttons, but with then includes the word in a loving nanny sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and parentsfrequently amusing illustration too. The trouble is that he is living in Budapest, and while Peter understands nothing about the outside worldI don't think I's problems as yet, he is about to see what happens when ve ever encountered a word which uses the Nazis take control. And, in these graphic novel-styled pages, so are we…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191095957X</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Raman Prinja0711266204|title=50 Things You Should Know About SpaceThe Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=3.5

|summary=Space is I have recently discovered a cold great pleasure: I sit and desolate place, but learning about it does not need to be. Nothing else quite captures watch the immensity that is Space – all the stars and planets out there that could contain alien lifevast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. How An hour can you capture this majesty and put it onto a page so that you inspire the youth of today to be the astronauts and astronomers of tomorrow? pass without my noticing. A series of dry fact is perhaps not I've established which species feed from the best optionground, unless they happen which pop to be the feeders for a very specific type quick snatch of child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934720</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Clive Gifford|title=This is Not a Science Book: A Smart Art Activity Book|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''This is Not a Science Book'' explores the often-overlooked link between science some food and creativity. This interactive book encourages readers to get cutting, glueing, twisting, colouring and shading who settles in order to create a variety of at-home experiments that are as entertaining as they are educational. The activities are also perfect for a rainy day; making this book a welcome resource during the long (and often wet) school holidaysgood munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782403973</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Laura Barwick|title=Animal Babies|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Let's face it: with It would have been wonderful if, as a fluffy lion cub on the coverchild, inviting readers I'd had access to take a peek inside, only the most hard-hearted of individuals could resist the temptation to pick up book such as ''Animal Babies'' to explore the further delights within its pages. Once hooked, the reader is rewarded with a visual feast The Secret Life of adorable baby creatures, each page seemingly cuter than the last.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785941003</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nikalas Catlow and David Sinden|title=The Arty Book|rating= 5|genre= ChildrenBirds's Non-Fiction|summary=Arty is your creative friend. He is the star of this art activity book from Nikalas Catlow and David Sinden. He's a bit brusque on the first page. This So – what is Arty announces a big, black arrow. And Arty commands, Colour me in. Who could resist? Because Arty is a winsome little figure with nutty, curly hair and great big red glasses. On the cover, those red glasses spell book and they look unruly and exciting, don't you thinkit?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408870665</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=CoderDojo0192779230|title=Build Your Own WebsiteVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: Create with CodeThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas

|summary=The Nanonauts want 'Germs' seems to have become a website for their band, and who better catch-all word to build it for them than cover anything unpleasant which has the CoderDojo network of free computing clubs for young people? potential to make you ill. In this handbook, created the first book in conjunction with the CoderDojo Foundation, children of seven plus will learn how what looks to build be a website using HTMLvery promising new series, CSS OUP and JavascriptIsabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the world of germs. Don't worry too much if some of those words don't mean anything to you - all will be made clear as you read through We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the bookthinking has developed over time. ThereThe vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 's also information about how to start speak like a CoderDojo Nano club with friends - scientist' which has great benefits in terms explains some of harnessing creativitythe trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, learning fungi, protists and viruses – and how to code - and the benefits of teamworkwe should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405278730</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Walden1800464495|title=In Focus100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: 101 Close Ups, Cross-Sections and CutawaysSupport All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith|rating=4.5

|summary=Only recently I've had reason to applaud a children's non-fiction book for concentrating on showing its audience what they have no hope Babies seem to see – be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in that casethe womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, the underground and underwater worlds, from the shallowest plant roots to the deepest oceanic explorations comprehending addition and everything in betweensubtraction at nine months old. Other unseen worlds are all around us, however – they're what goes ' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on on the inside entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of things – inside literacy skills.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a pocket watch (remember them?)good start in literacy - reading stories, inside a yurtteaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a space shuttlesolid foundation when they start school. But do we think the same way about maths, a volcanobeyond counting? I don't think we do, a toilet… This pleasant square block in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of book not only gives us the outside image use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a caption, but the full story of the innards, meaning the young reader is certainly going where they've never been before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184857505X</amazonuk>similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=CoderDojo1406395404|title=Build The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Own Website: Create with CodeTeenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan

|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=The Nanonauts want 2020 has been a website for their band, strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and who better to build it for them than the CoderDojo network of free computing clubs for young people? some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. In Some teens will dismiss this handbook, created in conjunction with the CoderDojo Foundation, children of seven plus will learn how as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to build a website using HTML, CSS be doing) and Javascriptothers will worry unnecessarily. Don't worry too much if some of those words don't mean anything Most people, from children to you - all adults will be made clear as you read through have the bookodd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. ThereAnd there's also information about how the fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to start a CoderDojo Nano club with friends - which seem like laziness. Being up early, working late has great benefits in terms of harnessing creativity, learning how to code - been praised and the benefits of teamworkability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405278730</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Bright1849767343|title=See Inside Dinosaurs Count on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=34.5

|summary=What would you do if the doorbell rang The title and when format of this book might lead you opened the door you saw to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a giant Trojanbasic 1-Horse waiting 2-3 book for you? I for one would not drag those just starting out on the thing in; it would be too big and could be full of angry Greeksnumbers journey. The same could be said of It isn't: it'See inside Dinosaurs'' by Michael Brights a hymn of praise to maths. You may think that It's about why maths is so wonderful and how you are buying one thing, but instead you are getting an impressive triceratops skeleton, or a T-Rex model, or maybe even a bookmeet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934739</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Parker1849767009|title=100 Facts Butterflies & MothsIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine

|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=Damn This could have been one of those bees. Theybooks which 'preaches to the choir're not : the only flying creatures vanishing from our world at alarming rates, people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the others, ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like butterflies they avoid the hot-and moths, are actually runners-up bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to Mr Bumble and his mysteriously dying ilk in pollinating plantsbust. Plus they're But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more visually attractivethan a book about not wearing clothes. But even though this book has two nudges and a thanks given to the Butterfly Conservation body, thatIt's certainly not the more notable feature a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of these pagesevery possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. What stands out is the superlative contentThey're fine. In fact, they're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786170116</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= National Geographic Kids1776572858|title= Angry Birds Playground: Atlas How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (Angry Birds Playgroundstranslator)|rating= 5|genre= Confident ReadersHome and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'Angry Birds Playground'' is d get me a new educational book series based on a geographical themeabout it. Rovio-the team responsible for the popular game- have teamed up with National Geographic Kids to create A couple of days later I was handed a stunning set of books that perfectly blend pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the cheeky humour from the game with informative text basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and breathtaking real-world photographyI was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. The series will appeal to young fans of the game and anyone who has an interest in the wonders of the natural world Thankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1426324596</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Archer and Caroline Craig1526362759|title=The Kew Gardens Children's CookbookDosh: PlantHow to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, CookGrow It, EatGive It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande

|summary=I grew up in the immediate post war period. What a relief! Growing your own vegetables had been a necessity in the war and it was still a habit for those who had a bit of gardenA book about money, so ''The Kew Gardens Children's Cookbook'' was a real pleasure for mechildren, as well as a touch with clear explanations of nostalgia. The principle what it is very simple: show children , why it matters, how to grow their own vegetables acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and then how what you can do with it when you've managed to transform them into delicious foodget hold of it. It sounds simple, doesnYour reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it? to some extent. WellYou might want to go into business, it be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might come as a surprisebe something you really, but it is!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750298197</amazonuk>''really'' want to buy. There's also the possibility of using to do good in the world.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Haslam and Steve Parker178112938X|title= A Journey Through NatureSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary= Beautifully presented, this is a book that takes a worldwide look at It's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the natural world, in both urban and rural locations. We start off Kennedy Space Centre in the city, looking at pigeonsFlorida, but the American racoon, the Australian possum and the South American Marmoset. I learnt 3 things from those first two pages, including what Kits are, how long babies live with the possum mothers and story of that journey remains one of the pregnancy traits greatest survival stories of the monkeysall time. We were off to ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a good startbrilliant retelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934496</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Aleksandra MizielinskiKathleen 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, Daniel Mizielinski 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 Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)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. |isbn= 0228818826}}  {{Frontpage|isbn=1609809173|title=Under Earth, Under WaterEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes

|summary=One of Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the major remits of children1889 World's non-fiction books is Fair in Paris encompassed the best, the 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 get them to look around them and gain a better understanding of what they're seeingstun the senses. After a volume such as thisAnd towering above it all, the obvious response is most popular and the most hated monument to see that as an incredibly narrow focusFrench accomplishment and daring – the Eiffel Tower. For this book will take }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1848576536|title=Humanatomy: How the reader Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=5 |genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and show them exactly go inside your insides!'' That's what they can''Humanatomy'' invites you to do and honestly, I don't see – how you could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the human body to curious children- from microscopic things living in soil even seasoned Scrabble players haven't heard of, right down the skeletal system to the fish swimming their way towards the Mariana Trenchmuscular system via circulation, the deepest section of sea on earth. Make no bones about it, this book is entirely focused on what is beneath our feet respiration and sea levelsdigestion, and – no pie in right up to the sky response this – it is a winnerDNA that makes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783703644</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Haslam and Steve ParkerLangford_Emily|title= A Journey Through the WeatherEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= WeEmily found words ''useful''re British, but counting was what she loved best. We LOVE Obviously, you can count anything and there's no limit to talk how far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the weather. But beyond list were even numbers, but the usual platitudes other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''Bit cold out isnthreeven't it'. (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they' or ''What re a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a beautiful day''subset of the even numbers, how much do you actually know but it all worked out well when I really thought about what's happening up in the sky? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178493450X</amazonuk>it.)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Adams and James Weston LewisBuckingham_Dawn|title=The Great Fire of London: 350th Anniversary Little Book of the Great Fire of 1666Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=While What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the average primary school child may not quite be able to fathom Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the importance and actual length sounds of 350 years, it is no reason not to put a book dozen different birds singing their hearts out looking back that distance of time was far too much to major historical events. But it has to be resist on a good book to justify the mental time travel that entailscold and rather wet February morning. And you have to hit on a remarkable subject, something that will open I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the young eyes birds and listening to the danger, tragedy and drama of our historytheir song. Something like the Great Fire of London, as seen in this large hardback, which when Then - just because I could - I went back and did it comes down to all again and it, and for many reasons, is a very was just as good book indeedthe second time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750298200</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Young Rewired StatePankhurst_Women|title=Get Coding!: Learn HTML, CSS & JavaScript & build a website, app & gameFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst

|summary=Learning to code, even heading into my seventh decade, changed my life A lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and for today's children it's important because it opens so many doorspoliticians. It might look complicatedSometimes, but all it required is concentration and - eventually - imagination. I had a reasonable mastery of the skills of basic HTML feels almost as though there were no women in three days with the benefit of a personal tutorhistory at all, but where let alone ones young girls might like to go if you donread about or regard as role models. Of course, this isn't true and there are plenty of women who, throughout history, have that privilege achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or if you need created something never seen before. So here, in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the stories of some extra support? ''Get Coding!'' seems like the perfect answerof them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406366846</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea MillsIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Top Of The League Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=3.5

|summary=Football ''Women in Sport'' is known as the beautiful game and when I was younger I kind of believed this. I would spend my free time playing Heads and Volleys with my mates and then go home coming to try and complete my Panini sticker album. There was even us just before the halcyon days when Blackburn Rovers won the title. As I have grown older, my cynicism has grown tooWinter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. Leicester may be champions, but the day I feel that It celebrates a group of multimillionaires beating century and a group half of slightly richer multimillionaires is a win for the everymandevelopment of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, will be a sad onecovering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and much more. Perhaps the love Think of football still burns bright a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in the youth of today? ''Top Of the League'' certainly hopes so as it this book somewhere. Each entry is full of facts a double-page spread with a brief biography and figures all about the ball they call foota striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934577</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin MilesRooney_Dino|title=Ultimate Mapping Guide for KidsDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter

|summary=Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I've always been fascinated was a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by maps: diverse features can be converted into symbolslayer, drawn on through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a piece variety of creatures, some of paper and then passed to someone else to interpret. Making or reading maps whom are skills which stay with you throughout life and learning very familiar but some I'how to' is relatively simple and great fun. Author Justin Miles had a car accident in 1999 and brain injuries meant that he had to learn to walk and talk from scratch. Whilst he was doing this he decided to become a full time explorer and to support charities which inspire children to learn. He raises funds d never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by taking on daring challengeslayer, which have included climbing mountainsshowing you what the various dinosaurs are getting up to, exploring the Arcticwith background noises, crossing deserts roars and cutting his way through the jungle. If squawks to accompany them! The book creates a man knows dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about maps, then dinosaurs it's Justin Milesvery visual, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178493464X</amazonuk>