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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Sewell1839948493|title=The Big Bird SpotA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=45

|summary=Recently I stood on a viewing platform at In the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs as a very helpful volunteer guided my sight line to one interests of the puffins whofull disclosure, I must tell you that I'd arrived on the cliffs in the last few daysm a sucker for dogs. FinallyIn nearly eight decades, I found 've never met one, after visually sorting through all I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the other birds on the precipitous cliff facesame about human beings. It was great fun So, any book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and very rewardingdevour. The third double-page spread in wild-life author Then I'm going to go back and artist Matt Sewellread it properly. And so it was with 's first book for children, ''The Big Bird SpotA World of Dogs'', shows some cliffs very like those at Bempton, but this time you're going with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to be looking for twenty three Little Auks, in amongst the guillemots, puffins, herring gulls and razorbillsmy four-legged friends. Oh, and youAuthor Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she're looking for s learned quite a pair of binoculars too: our bird watcher is very careless, because you're going to have to find them in every picturelot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653265</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Bowsher1529507987|title=Lift-the-Flap The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Colour: OceanSonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=When you think about it, itI love ''The Repair Shop's quite startling that oceans cover most of our planet and they're home to nearly half of all species, apart from humans. We donIt't know a lot about the oceans either s my go- less than 5% of the area has been explored, but it is an area of outstanding beautyto programme when I want to be cheered up. With Alice BowsherAfter a hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they''Lift-re worth. You see, the value is in what these possessions are worth to the-Flap people who own them and Colour: Ocean'' children as young as two have the opportunity memories they hold. No expense appears to do a little exploration be spared and the experts spend as much time and effort as is required to colour their own picturesachieve the desired result. The flaps are a stroke of genius: when we look Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at the sea we see little more than the movement of the water, but how different explaining what it would be if you could see a little of what is going on underneaththey're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809294</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Jane Gillespie and Yukai Du024162343X|title=100 Steps for ScienceStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=3.5

|summary=Science is a far reaching subject that covers almost everything that exists I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the Universe from existence of a 'god'. Where was the smallest specks to the largest space bound objects. proof? Point at anything and there will be some sort of scientist who has studied In history lessons, itwas probably worse still. Trying Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to fit all of this into 100 hundred steps for children is ambitious learn about the British army's successes (and should occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be lordedthere in the first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but if you are going I regret that I lacked the maturity to try and do this; at least make it readableapproach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808050</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amanda Wood, Mike Jolley Jeremy Dronfield and Frances CastleDavid Ziggy Greene|title=Spot the Mistake: Lands of Long AgoFritz and Kurt|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=You'll like as not have seen a children's book before We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and harangued 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 for containing errorscomes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. This book Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at least two hundred, their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and thatworkmanlike as a light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's not will, and instead of having a problemnational vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. Yes''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups of Jews. These in personifying their turn leave the idea younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of learning through your mistakesan evacuation to Britain or the US, we get ten large dioramas of historical activitywhile Fritz and his father are, all containing twenty things that shouldn't be there. Your task, should you choose unknown initially to accept iteach other, is packed off on the same train to try Buchenwald and find them allthe stone quarry there. And us wondering how the learning is also here, as we get text to tell us what titular event for the goofs were designed to show us. Make no mistake, adult variant of all this is a clever and absorbing read…could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847809634</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Clark Smith and Matt Tavares1913750353|title=Lighter than Air: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman Pilot|rating=4.5|genre=ChildrenBritannica's Non-Fiction |summary=We're in Paris, and – not to be too rude about things – we seem surrounded by idiots. For one, it seems they think the perfect place to experiment with manned hot air balloon flights is in the middle of the biggest city in the world. For another, they think only men could suffer the slightly colder and slightly thinner air experienced on such an adventure – women would never be able to cope. Meanwhile, a young girl is dreaming of flight, as so many are wont to do, completely unaware that she will soon marry one Word of the most famed balloonists. They will have joint journeys skyward, before his early demise – leaving the young woman, Sophie Blanchard, to go it alone and become the first female pilot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763677329</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDay|author=Jonathan Litton and Thomas Hegbrook|title=The Earth Book: A World of Exploration Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and WonderSue Macy|rating=4.5

|summary=The Earth. I kind ''Britannica's Word of quite like it, 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 – it seems to serve my purposeabout this brilliant book. I don It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz't think I've taken too much out of it, all told, and if tells you how to pronounce it(''raz-muh-TAZ's divided up into 200 countries I'm getting close to having visited ), gives you a definition and then includes the word in a quarter of themsentence so that you know how it should be used. But way back when I just didn't You also get on with studying itan engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. I didndon't like geography – what with having to draw maps, oxbow lakes and whatnot I think it was one of those subjects I was put off through the pictorial element – and dropped it as soon as I could. But then, I didn't have ve ever encountered a word which uses the likes of this book to inspire me…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575246</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Barr, Steve Williams and Amy Husband0711266204|title=The Story Secret Life of SpaceBirds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=I have no actual idea how recently discovered a great pleasure: I first got an interest in spacesit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. Perhaps it's there because I'm so old ve established which species feed from the ground, which pop to almost coincide with the last Apollo astronauts being on the moon (and that's pretty old, it's been so long) and it kind feeders for a quick snatch of rubbed off on me. Perhaps in fact all young children are interested in space anyway, some food and don't need any impetus or reason to look up who settles in wonderfor a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. But It would have been wonderful if they do, this is the newest way of nudging the newer as a child towards , I'd had access to a keenness for all things celestialbook such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''. And So – what is it's a pretty good way indeed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807488</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton0192779230|title= Lots – Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Diversity Invisible World of Life on EarthGerms|author=Isabel Thomas

|summary= How many different kinds of living things are there on Earth? Lots…that's how manyGerms' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. Children will learn lots In the first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and lots from this wonderful bookaccessible introduction to the world of germs. I learned lots from it too We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the thinking has developed over time. There are 100,000 different kinds The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of mushrooms. Who knew? Well I certainly didnthe trickiest concepts and you't. This is one of those special books ll soon be familiar with cross-over appeal. Tiny children will adore the illustrationsbacteria, fungi, slightly older ones will learn fascinating facts protists and viruses – and readers of any age will be moved by the message that how we need to take better care of our beautiful environmentshould protect ourselves. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406360481</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kiki Ljung1800464495|title=Build 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a ... ButterflyLove of Maths|author=Emma Smith

|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? I love butterfliesdidn't! How about: they ''re one Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of the delights later achievement, double that of my garden and itliteracy skills.'' I didn's always a pleasure when there t know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children there and they see a butterfly close upgood start in literacy - reading stories, possibly for the first timeteaching pen grips, as it rests on singing rhymes - gives children a flowersolid foundation when they start school. Kiki Ljung has given us But do we think the opportunity to learn same way about butterflies and also to build a 3D model maths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of our ownmaths. The book is primarily aimed at the five to eight year old age group, but I have to confess But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that I had giving our children a great deal of fun building my own painted ladysimilar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial. I learned quite a bit too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809154</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo1406395404|title=Good Night Stories for Rebel GirlsThe Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Teens|summary=It's 2020 has been said very often a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that 'history is told by the winners'statement. Well, too often history, the news Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and even destinies are written by men, and the proof is between these coversfor some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. I didn't know anything about Some teens will dismiss this before reading it, even if it has become the most richly-backed crowd-funded book ever. Ias irrelevant ('d never heard of the Hollow Flashlight, powered purely by body warmth – which is rich if you're old enough to remember the brouwho needs sleep? -ha-ha when a maverick British bloke did a wind-up radio. I'd never read about the Niger female who has successfully made a stand against forced, arranged marriage, rejecting a cousin for a fate she wishes ve got loads to write for herselfbe doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. My ignorance mayMost people, perhaps, show me up from children to be a chauvinist adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sorts, but I think sleep is only likely to make it is further evidence that worse. And there's also the gaze is male' and fact that the media are phallocentric. I hope for far too that this book doesn't turn any long, lack of its readers into sleep has been lauded as a feminist, for that would be as bad as the chauvinist charge against mevirtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. If anything it is designed to create equalsBeing up early, working late has been praised and that is as it should be, even if there is still a long way the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to go…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014198600X</amazonuk>put on your CV.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Hancher1849767343|title=Taking Flight: How the Wright Brothers Conquered the SkiesCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary=Flight. It happens all around us, wherever we may be, The title and many are the young audience members for format of this book who have taken might lead you to the air already. But think that it's either about responsibility - or it was once something impossible to take 's a basic 1-2-3 book for granted, and this book easily takes us back to those daysjust starting out on the numbers journey. It presents us with danger, determination, and isn't: it's a certain pair hymn of American brothers going all out praise to get both their names in the history books maths. It's about why maths is so wonderful and their feet how you meet it in the skies…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809286</amazonuk>everyday life.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meurig Bowen, Rachel Bowen and Daniel Frost1849767009|title=The School of MusicIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=35|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=I This could have a love/hate relationship with music. I love it in that I own several large bookshelves full been one of CDs, and have seen and met quite a few noted performers, from Radiohead those books which 'preaches to Philip Glass, but I hate the choir': the only people who'll buy it in are the people who know that as regards making it I can only hit things (nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'' that only with my hands, never with my feet at it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the same time). Only hot-and-bothered person in the last few years have people been at all appreciative of my singing, for want of a better word, and one of those suggested closing my eyes supermarket who is coughing fit to sound better (I think she also may have plugged her ears when I wasn't looking)bust. That from But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a kid who was lumbered with something big and brass to lumber book about on the school bus with, dammitnot wearing clothes. But hey, whatIt's the use of my own example being so off-putting, when there is a world celebration of pleasure, mental bodies: bodies large and physical exercise small and fun to be had from being active in music? of every possible hue. This book, dressed as the lesson programme of a full-on, proper musical college, is only designed to encourage Bodies with disabilities and informmarkings. They're fine. But does it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808603</amazonuk>In fact, they're wonderful.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michaela DePrince and Elaine DePrince1776572858|title= Ballerina DreamsHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary= Africa is It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a place full book about it. A couple of music and rhythm and joy of movement. It is not, however, always days later I was handed a place for pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the structured tuition basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and commitment required by balletI was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. Sometimes there are I ''knew'' more pressing issues than whether your pointe shoes are darned or whether you have a pianist available or will have to dance to pre-recorded music. For Michaela, growing up in Sierra Leone, her concerns were more simple: where but was her next meal coming fromlittle ''wiser''. Thankfully, and who was going to look after her now she had been left orphaned by the wartimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057132973X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katie Scott and Kathy Willis1526362759|title=Botanicum Activity BookDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45

|summary=Children What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and adults who enjoyed [[Botanicum what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (Welcome To The Museumyou might even become an ''investor'') by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis]] are going to love the there might be something you really, ''Botanicum Activity Bookreally''want to buy. DonThere't be misled by s also the suggestion that the book is aimed at possibility of using to do good in the seven-plus age group: there's plenty in here for anyone who is still capable of holding a pen or pencilworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783706791</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlotte Guillain and Yuval Zommer178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Street Beneath My FeetApollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)

|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=It's one thing for a non-fiction book for fifty years since the young to show them something they themselves can explore – Apollo 13 mission was launched from the pattern of the starsKennedy Space Centre in Florida, perhaps, or but the life in their back yard. But when it gets to things story of that are equally important to know about but are impossible to see in real life, why, then the game is changed. The artistic imagination has to be key, in portraying the invisible, and presenting what can only come from the pages journey remains one of a book. And this example does it at its best, as it delves into the layers greatest survival stories of the soil below said back yard, down and down, through all the different kinds of rock, until we reach the unattainable centre of the planettime. And there's only one way to go from there – back out the other side, with yet more for us to be shown. It's Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a fantastic journey, then – and a quite fantastic volumebrilliant retelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937312</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yuval ZommerKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=The Big Book of Beasts (Big Books)Nine Ways to Empower Tweens

|summary=One of the many issues people have with the TV nature programmeBrash and elegant, such as [[Planet Earth II by Stephen Moss|Planet Earth II]]sophisticated, is the obvious one of all the blood controversial and guts it features – yesvibrant, the 1889 World's Fair in amongst all Paris encompassed the cutesybest, comical animal life are creatures eating other creatures (normally the cutesyworst and the beautiful from many countries and cultures. The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, comical ones, what's worse). You'll be pleased to knowput on art shows, howeverdance performances, that this book is very light on death food festivals and destructionconcerts to stun the senses. YesAnd towering above it all, here are lions sharing some chunks of meat (while the females that caught most popular and killed it sit and wait their turn), here are salmon seemingly willingly flying towards brown bears, the most hated monument to French accomplishment and here is a red fox stashing a dead mouse while in a time of plenty, but there is so little to make this even a PG book daring – it will be perfect for the home shelf or that in a primary schoolEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>050065106X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aino-Maija Metsola1848576536|title=My First Animals Humanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=45 |genre=For SharingChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=''Get used to two simple words if you have a childunder your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!''What That's That?what ''Humanatomy'' You will hear it over invites you to do and over and over again. If you are lucky they are pointing at something that you actually know – chair, hathonestly, my sense of regret. Sometimes they will point at something that is not too familiar. Here the parental practise of making something up comes into play – itI don's a bird type thingt see how you could resist. Books that show images of items, colours or animals may seem This informative book provides a little dull wonderful primer about the human body to an adultcurious children- from the skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, respiration and digestion, but right up to a toddler learning about the world they DNA that makes who we are a who's who of what's that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809677</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Beaty and David RobertsLangford_Emily|title=Rosie RevereEmily's Big Project Book for Bold EngineersNumbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=For a long time nowEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, people have worried about females taking up STEM subjects – the sciencesyou can count anything and there's no limit to how far you can go, engineering but then Emily moved a step further and suchlikebegan counting in twos. But I know of at least two sources of role models in that regardShe knew all about odd and even numbers. OneThen she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, most obviously, is ''Star Wars'' – let's face it, the latest main film had a girl who scavenged parts but could fly the other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''Millennium Falconthreeven'' with ease. (Actually, and the likes of [[Star Wars: Ahsoka by E K Johnston|Ahsoka]] is adept this confused me a little bit at mending some sort first as they're a subset of flying farming machines. If you don't wish the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to go too fantastical, or are seeking role models for be a subset of the younger audienceeven numbers, there is the output of [[:Category:Andrea Beaty and David Roberts|Andrea Beaty]]but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419719106</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKBuckingham_Dawn|title=What's Where on Earth? Atlas: The World as You've Never Seen It BeforeLittle Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I dread really did mean to think how old just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the atlas we used when I was sounds of a child dozen different birds singing their hearts out was, but at least we had one, and I didn't need far too much to go to school or resist on a library to check up on whatever bit of trivia I was seekingcold and rather wet February morning. I'm spent an indulgent hour or so old a lot of things reading all about it now would be most redundant, but if you choose the birds and listening to risk your arm their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and buy an atlas for the family shelves that did it all generations will benefit from, again and it was just as opposed to relying on electronic and updateable sources of information, then this is good the one to havesecond time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228379</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Graham and Stephen BiestyPankhurst_Women|title=Stephen Biesty's TrainsFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst

|genre=ArtChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Trains look imposing, but true fans (little boys, usually from A lot of history is about three years old men. Kings and generals and inventors and upwards) want to know what lies beneath the skin which you can seepoliticians. They want Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to know how it worksread about or regard as role models. Getting to grips with one in real life is quite a big askOf course, but the next best thing is this isn''Stephen Biesty's Trains'' which features trains from all over the world t true and spanning the early steam train (complete with cow catcher) right through to the trains there are plenty of women who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. So here, in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the future which can reach a speed stories of 430 kph and don't even run on rails. Once the train reaches a speed some of 150 kph the wheels are raised and the train is held up by magnetic forces alonethem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704241</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Ignotofsky_Sport|title=Women in ScienceSport: 50 Fifty Fearless Pioneers Athletes Who Changed the WorldPlayed to Win

|summary=''Women in ScienceSport'' takes fifty prominent women is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in STEM fields and February 2018. It celebrates their achievements. There are women from the ancient world and women working today. Each of them is given a double page spread including a stylised portrait and infoboxes with factoids on one side century and a page half of text with a brief biography and outline the development of her achievements. These intrepid women are inspirational for their work and their discoveries but also for the barriers they overcame - barred from classes or employment because they were women or even barred from employment because they were black in racially segregated America.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360519</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=DK|title=Forest Life and Woodland Creatures|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=This book knows that if you're going to learn about forest life and the animalssport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, plants and trees in itcovering sports as diverse as swimming, then you're only going to be itching to go and explore the woods for yourself. It's for a very young audiencefencing, so always expects an adult hand to guide you – but provides a warm companion itself through several quick and easy tasksriding, and a few lessons. The balance between carrot and stickskating, or duty and reward, is great – but what exactly is the edutainment going to provide, and what will it demand of us?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273110</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=DK|title=Sharks and Other Sea Creatures|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Never before have I found much cause to point out the sort more. Think of lower-case, almost-a-subtitle wording on the front of sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this booksomewhere. I say that because very little of this Each entry is about sharks – so if you have a youngster intending to come here double-page spread with a brief biography and learn all their bloodthirsty imagination can hold, then they may well be disappointeda striking portrait. If you take it on board that the 'other sea creatures' make up the bulk of the book, then all well and good. And even better, if you expect yourself to ''make'' the bulk of said creatures…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241274389</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Theo GuignardRooney_Dino|title=Labyrinth|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Of all the books published for people's paper-based hobbies when I was a youngster, it's remarkable that all of them have been revisited and revamped. I say this because they certainly weren't exactly brilliant fun back then. No, we didn't have quite the modern style of colouring-in books, but they were available, if you'd gone beyond 'join the dots'. I read only recently that origami is allegedly coming back – and I remember how every church book sale for years had ''Origami'', ''Origami 2'' or ''Origami 3'' paperbacks somewhere for ten pence. But the ultimate in paper-based fun back then was the use-once format of the maze book. This is the modern equivalent – but boy, hasn't the idea grown up since then…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809987</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano|title=Life on Earth: Farm: With 100 Questions Anne Rooney and 70 Lift-flaps!Suzanne Carpenter

|summary=I'm sure I was full of questions when Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a nipper – which means I was too full of questionschild. Parents just don't need to be deflecting questions all the timeThis one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, do they? Living on the edge through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a village in the middle variety of creatures, some of nowhere as whom are very familiar but some I did'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, I knew quite a lot about farms and farming – that different animals gave different resultslayer by layer, that different vehicles meant different things and that showing you what the crops behind our house changed. But for the inner city childvarious dinosaurs are getting up to, with background noises, there is roars and squawks to accompany them! The book creates a chance they have never met a cow or seen a silo. This colourful bookdinosaur experience, bright in both senses of the wordrather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, will allow placing the very young reader the opportunity of dinosaurs in their own fantasy trip to the working countrysidehabitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808999</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres LozanoMason_poo|title=Life on Earth: Human Body: With 100 Questions The Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and 70 Lift-flaps!Tony de Saulles

|summary=One of the problems with presenting humankindI know, I know, sometimes you really don't want to encourage your children's history as a timeline poo jokes, but this book is that not a lot happened at perfectly identified times. Of course we can pinpoint brilliant! I sat and read it by myself when the US Declaration of Independence kids had gone to school and found it fascinating! Who knew there was signed, or when Poland was invaded in September 1939, but when (and even why) the Maya cities died out? We donso much I didn't know. How do you pin a date to the Renaissance, or the invention of the modern cityabout poo? This The book may aim manages to be both funny (and silly) as well as being very interesting and educational. Using a portrayal mixture of key moments in timefacts and figures, photographs and funny cartoons, but even it admits you have to be vague in itemising come away having sniggered a little at the specific days and dates. Get over thatvulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about different types of poo, why poos smell, and the pages are packed with informationwhy wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356703</amazonuk>