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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby WaldenB0GFQ81YQK|title=In FocusHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: 101 Close Ups, Cross-Sections and CutawaysFrom the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5

|summary=Only recently I've had reason 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 applaud a children's non-fiction book for concentrating on showing its audience what they have no hope tal to see – in that caseeach other. First, the underground and underwater worldsearth created bodies. And then, from the shallowest plant roots sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and they belonged to the deepest oceanic explorations both earth and everything in sky. And so people lived betweensky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, especially how they came to be. Other unseen worlds are all around us, however – When they're what goes on on the inside of things – inside a pocket watch (remember them?)grew old and died, inside a yurt, a space shuttle, a volcano, a toilet… This pleasant square block of book not only gives us their bodies returned to the outside image earth and a caption, but their life returned to the full story of sky. And that is why the innards, meaning earth and the young reader sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is certainly going where they've never been before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184857505X</amazonuk>why people must pay attention to, and care for, both.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=CoderDojoB0GHPMNF6P|title=Build Your Own WebsiteHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: Create with CodeFrom the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5

|summary=The Nanonauts want a website for their bandBefore people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and who better the sky began to build it for tal to each other. First, the earth created bodies. And then, the sky breathed life into them than . These were the CoderDojo network of free computing clubs for young first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people? In this handbooklived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, created in conjunction with the CoderDojo Foundation, children of seven plus will learn especially how they came to build a website using HTMLbe. When they grew old and died, CSS their bodies returned to the earth and Javascripttheir life returned to the sky. 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 And that is why the earth and the booksky are both revered. There's also information about how Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to start a CoderDojo Nano club with friends - which has great benefits in terms of harnessing creativity, learning how to code - and the benefits of teamworkcare for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405278730</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael BrightStephanie Zabriskie|title=See Inside Dinosaurs How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating=3.5

|summary=What would you do if the doorbell rang and when you opened the door you saw ''How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a giant Trojan-Horse waiting for you? I for one would not drag children’s nonfiction book drawn from the thing oral traditions of Maasai elders in; it would be too big and could be full of angry GreeksNgorongoro, Tanzania. '' The same could Maasai are a cattle-herding people and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to be said of ''See inside Dinosaurs'' by Michael Brightso. You may think that you Cattle are buying one thingstatus and wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn't tell the whole story of the intimate and symbiotic connection its people, but instead you are getting an impressive triceratops skeletonand especially its women, or a T-Rex modelhave with their cows and for the natural world. The oral tradition retelling the many conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, or maybe even a bookdoes.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784934739</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Parker1839948493|title=100 Facts Butterflies & MothsA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe

|summary=Damn those beesIn the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. TheyIn nearly eight decades, I're not the only flying creatures vanishing from our world at alarming rates, ve never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the otherssame about human beings. So, like butterflies and mothsany book about dogs, are actually runners-up I'm going to Mr Bumble sit down and his mysteriously dying ilk in pollinating plantsdevour. Plus theyThen I're more visually attractivem going to go back and read it properly. But even though this book has two nudges and a thanks given to the Butterfly Conservation body, thatAnd so it was with ''s certainly not the more notable feature A World of these Dogs'', with ninety-six pagesdevoted entirely to my four-legged friends. What stands out is Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the superlative contentaccidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786170116</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= National Geographic Kids1529507987|title= Angry Birds Playground: Atlas The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Angry Birds PlaygroundsIllustrator)|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I love ''Angry Birds PlaygroundThe Repair Shop'' is a new educational book series based on a geographical theme. Rovio It's my go-the team responsible for the popular game- have teamed to programme when I want to be cheered up with National Geographic Kids to create . After a stunning set of books that perfectly blend hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You see, the cheeky humour from value is in what these possessions are worth to the game with informative text people who own them and breathtaking real-world photographythe memories they hold. The series will appeal No expense appears to young fans of be spared and the game experts spend as much time and anyone who has an interest in effort as is required to achieve the wonders of desired result. Regular viewers know the natural worldexperts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1426324596</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Archer and Caroline Craig024162343X|title=The Kew Gardens Children's Cookbook: Plant, Cook, EatStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|summary=I grew up was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the immediate post war periodexistence of a 'god'. Growing your own vegetables had been a necessity in Where was the war and proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still a habit for those who had a bit . Not too long after the end of gardenWWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn'The Kew Gardens Childrent dwell on those) in what came to be called 's Cookbookthe colonies'' was a real pleasure for me, as well as a touch of nostalgia. The principle is very simple: show children how want to grow their own vegetables and then how dispute what right the army had to transform them into delicious foodbe there in the first place. It sounds simpleLooking back, doesnI still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem't it? politely. Well, it might come as a surprise, but it is!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750298197</amazonuk>I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= John Haslam Jeremy Dronfield and Steve ParkerDavid Ziggy Greene|title= A Journey Through NatureFritz and Kurt|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary= Beautifully presented, this is a book that takes a worldwide look at We start with the natural worldpair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, in both urban and rural locations. We start off their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the city, looking at pigeonsempty market place, helping the American racoonneighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the Australian possum synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the South American Marmosetlamps 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. I learnt 3 things from those first two pages But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, including what Kits areand instead of having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, how long babies live invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the possum mothers younger Kurt at home with his mother and the pregnancy traits sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the monkeys. We were US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to a good startBuchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784934496</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aleksandra Mizielinski, Daniel Mizielinski and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)1913750353|title=Under EarthBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Under WaterRenee Kelly and Sue Macy

|summary=One ''Britannica's Word of the major remits of childrenDay''s nonhas a sub-fiction books is to get them to look around them and gain a better understanding of what theytitle: ''re seeing. After a volume such as this, the obvious response is 366 Elevating Utterances to see that as an incredibly narrow focus. For this book will take the reader Stretch Your Cranium and show them exactly what they canTickle Your Humerus't see – from microscopic things living in soil even seasoned Scrabble players haven't heard of, right down which probably tells you all that you need to the fish swimming their way towards the Mariana Trench, the deepest section of sea on earth. Make no bones know about it, this brilliant book is entirely focused . It starts on what is beneath our feet and sea levels, and – no pie in the sky response this – it is a winner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783703644</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Haslam and Steve Parker|title= A Journey Through the Weather|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= WeJanuary 1st with 're British. We LOVE to talk about the weather. But beyond the usual platitudes of 'Razzmatazz'Bit cold out isn't , tells you how to pronounce it('' or raz-muh-TAZ''What ), gives you a beautiful day'', how much do definition and then includes the word in a sentence so that you actually know about whathow it should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I's happening up in ve ever encountered a word which uses the sky? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178493450X</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Adams and James Weston Lewis0711266204|title=The Great Fire Secret Life of London: 350th Anniversary of the Great Fire of 1666Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)

|summary=While the average primary school child may not quite be able to fathom I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the importance and actual length vast numbers of 350 years, it is no reason not to put birds which visit our garden on a book out looking back that distance of time to major historical eventsdaily basis. But it has to be a good book to justify the mental time travel that entailsAn hour can pass without my noticing. And you have to hit on a remarkable subjectI've established which species feed from the ground, something that will open the young eyes which pop to the danger, tragedy feeders for a quick snatch of some food and drama of our historywho settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. Something like the Great Fire of LondonIt would have been wonderful if, as seen in this large hardbacka child, which when it comes down I'd had access to it, and for many reasons, is a very good book indeedsuch as ''The Secret Life of Birds''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750298200</amazonuk> So – what is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Young Rewired State0192779230|title=Get Coding!Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: Learn HTML, CSS & JavaScript & build a website, app & gameThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas

|summary=Learning 'Germs' seems to codehave become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. In the first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, even heading into my seventh decade, changed my life OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and for today's children it's important because it opens so many doorsaccessible introduction to the world of germs. It might We get an informed look complicated, but all it required is concentration at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and - eventually - imaginationhow the thinking has developed over time. I had The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a reasonable mastery scientist' which explains some of the skills of basic HTML in three days trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with the benefit of a personal tutorbacteria, fungi, but where to go if you don't have that privilege or if you need some extra support? ''Get Coding!'' seems like the perfect answerprotists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406366846</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Mills1800464495|title=Top Of The League 100 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=34.5

|summary=Football is known as ''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the beautiful game womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and when comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? I was younger didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills.'' I kind of believed didn't know this. either! I would spend my free time playing Heads and Volleys with my mates and then go home to try and complete my Panini sticker albumthink most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. There was even But do we think the halcyon days when Blackburn Rovers won the title. As same way about maths, beyond counting? I have grown olderdon't think we do, my cynicism has grown tooin part because so many of us are afraid of maths. Leicester may be champions, but the day I feel But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a group similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of multimillionaires beating Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=2020 has been a group strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of slightly richer multimillionaires is a win our routines have been completely dismantled and for the everyman, some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be a sad onedoing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Perhaps Most people, from children to adults will have the love odd bad night but worrying about your lack of football still burns bright in the youth of today? sleep is only likely to make it worse. And there''Top Of s also the League'' certainly hopes so fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as it is full of facts a virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, working late has been praised and figures all about the ball they call footability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934577</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin Miles1849767343|title=Ultimate Mapping Guide for KidsCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5

|summary=I've always been fascinated by maps: diverse features can be converted into symbols, drawn on a piece The title and format of paper and then passed this book might lead you to someone else to interpret. Making think that it's either about responsibility - or reading maps are skills which stay with you throughout life and learning it'how to' is relatively simple and great fun. Author Justin Miles had s a car accident in 1999 and brain injuries meant that he had to learn to walk and talk from scratchbasic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. Whilst he was doing this he decided to become It isn't: it's a full time explorer and to support charities which inspire children hymn of praise to learnmaths. He raises funds by taking on daring challenges, which have included climbing mountains, exploring the Arctic, crossing deserts It's about why maths is so wonderful and cutting his way through the jungle. If a man knows about maps, then how you meet it's Justin Milesin everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178493464X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Imogen Greenberg and Isabel Greenberg1849767009|title=The Ancient EgyptiansIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=There was more This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the Ancient Egyptians than keeping choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the entrails of their dead hot-and-bothered person in a jar, but that the supermarket who is a pretty cool fact anywaycoughing fit to bust. As But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a civilisation they knocked around for centuries until Cleopatra had a nasty incident with an Aspbook about not wearing clothes. Cramming all the information on one It's a celebration of the most complex bodies: bodies large and small and intriguing peoples of all time is a big ask; making it assessable to children is even biggerevery possible hue. Imogen Greenberg Bodies with disabilities and Isabel Greenberg have attempted this in ''The Ancient Egyptiansmarkings. They're fine. In fact, they're wonderful. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808255</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Imogen Greenberg and Isabel Greenberg1776572858|title=The Roman EmpireHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=You may not think it from my writing, but It's more than sixty years since I actually have asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a degree in historybook about it. Some A couple of this days later I was on handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the Roman Empirebasics, but even in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I struggle to remember what happened when during the time periodwas told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. The Republic and Empire spanned hundreds of yearsI ''knew'' more, so Alexander rocking up with his elephants did not happen anywhere near the rise of Julius Caesarbut was little ''wiser''. Modern youths would not think to shove the invention of the microchip in with the Napoleonic WarsThankfully, so why would you do this with Rome? Kids need a simple book that tells them about the Roman Empire, but also puts it all in a context and timeline they can understandtimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808565</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Kovecses1526362759|title=One Hundred WordsDosh: A first handwriting bookHow to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45

|summary=Little Mouse What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is learning to write. Actually, you don't just learn to writewhy it matters, you have how to learn to hold acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and use a pencil and to control what you can do with it so that the point goes where when you want 've managed to get hold of it to. Pencils - and particularly crayons - have a mind of their own, you know! So, Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we start of with the tripod grip and all need it to some tips about what to do if you find that difficultextent. Then we're straight You might want to go into the actionbusiness, be a clever shopper, starting with drawing a straight line from side to side saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and to see whatthere might be something you really, ''really's required we have a footballer kicking a ball in the direction we're going want to gobuy. There are fifteen examples where you trace 's also the line, just so you get the hang possibility of it and then you get using to have a go on your owndo good in the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808018</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kay Maguire and Danielle Kroll178112938X|title=Nature's DaySurvival in Space: Out The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and AboutStefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=I love books which encourage children to interact with nature - as opposed to a computer screen. I like to see them getting outdoorsIt's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, preferably getting a bit dirty, being independent and getting excited about naturebut the story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. A good teacher will inspire children, but ''Nature's DaySurvival in Space: Out and AboutThe Apollo 13 Mission'' provides support and encouragement in equal measures and might just be is a brilliant retelling of what a child needshappened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780800X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Danielle Kroll Kathleen Boucher and Nghiem TaSara Chadwick|title=Pattern Play: Cut, Fold and Make Your Own 3D Animal ModelsNine Ways to Empower Tweens|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Here's '9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a neat idea self-help book for youtweens, setting out to show them vital #lifeskills. Provide pages with animal prints on one side - only by animal prints, Don't groan! I mean the sort of colours and pattern which you see on animals, not paw prints! Some are subtle and others are rather more in-your-face. On the reverse of these printed pages provide a cutting line so that you can cut and fold the paper and it becomes know there is a 3D model market glut of an animal. Provide some stickers which replicate faces, tails or beaks - or whatever else you feel needs highlighting such books for we grown- ups and number these so that they get into the right place. All you need to add to the mix is a pair of scissors, parental supervision if necessary for the cuttingyoung adults too, but there is a little imagination needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to younger and you have hours of funyounger children for material for tweens too. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847807321</amazonuk>0228818826}}{{newreview|author=Martin Handford|title=Where's Wally: The Colouring Book|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Are you looking for something relaxing, easy to complete and which will allow your mind to wander freely as you gently colour in a pleasing design? Do you want to indulge your imagination 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 for a soothing finished product which is easy on the eye?

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 us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a bit too old for century and a board book once they see it)half of the development of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, add exquisite pictures and much more. Think of a dozen birds - one on each sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread - with a brief biography and then fill in the detailsa striking portrait. You}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Rooney_Dino|title=Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|rating=4|genre=Children'll need s Non-Fiction|summary=Lift the name flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of the bird in English and Latin and dinosaurs, we meet a description variety of the bird in words which a child can understand creatures, some of whom are very familiar but which won't patronise an adult. Then yousome I'll need details d never heard of where the bird is foundbefore! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what it eatsthe various dinosaurs are getting up to, where it nestswith background noises, how many eggs it lays, how the male roars and female adults differ and their size. Then you need squawks to accompany them! The book creates a 'Did you know?' fact and this needs to be something which will interest childrendinosaur experience, but which adults might not know either. Does rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it sound simple? Well it isn't, but 'The Little Book of Woodland Bird Songs' does it perfectly. And there's a bonusvery visual, but I'll tell you about placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that in a momentspike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908489286</amazonuk>