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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Camilla Hallinan1839948493|title=The Ultimate Peter Rabbit: A Visual Guide to the World of Beatrix PotterDogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=45

|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I had 'm a deprived childhood: I never knew Peter Rabbitsucker for dogs. HeIn nearly eight decades, I'd have been at about his half century by the time ve never met one I could have been reading him, but books at home didn't go beyond Enid Blytontrust and I've loved most of them. Peter was drawing his old age pension by I wish I felt the time that same about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and devour. Then I discovered him when my daughter fell in love with him 'm going to go back and - in her turn - read them to her own children thirty years laterit properly. HeAnd so it was with 's well past his century now and still delighting children 'A World of all ages: heDogs's accessible and relatable and I can't recollect ever meeting a child who didn, with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she't have s learned quite a soft spot for himlot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241289653</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1529507987|title=My Encyclopedia of Very Important ThingsThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary= Depending on the curiosity level of your child, you may start I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to hate the word whybe cheered up. Why is the sky blue? Why do some elephants have bigger ears After a hard day, there's nothing better than others? watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. WhyYou see, why, why, why! I can suggest the value is in what these possessions are worth to most parents that the people who own them and the memories they make something up that sounds vaguely intelligenthold. The problem No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend as much time and effort as is that kids are canny little thingsrequired to achieve the desired result. So, rather than trying to download Regular viewers know the entirety of the internet into your head, get your child their own first encyclopaedia, something like ''My Encyclopedia of Very Important Thingsexperts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241224934</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Mariadiamantes024162343X|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Amelia EarhartStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=3.5

|summary=Amelia Earhart I was born just before the end bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god'. Where was the nineteenth century but she would become proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the most famous female pilot end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the twentiethBritish army's successes (and occasional failures, having first become interested but we didn't dwell on those) in planes when she went what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to an airshow when she was just nineteenbe there in the first place. Shortly afterwards a pilot gave her a ride in a biplane and from Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that moment on she knew that she had I lacked the maturity to flyapproach 'the problem' politely. There I wish I'd had been precursors to this obsession though: when she was a little girl she like to imagine that she could stretch her wings and fly like a birdSathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808859</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen BateJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Peter Fritz and Kurt|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. 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 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 national vote to keep the Nazis out, 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 Periltheir 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 his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|isbn=024156574X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1913750353|title=Britannica'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 and creativity. This interactive book encourages readers to get cutting, glueing, twisting, colouring some food 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 BabiesThe Secret Life of Birds'' to explore the further delights within its pages. Once hooked, the reader So – what is rewarded with a visual feast of adorable baby creatures, each page seemingly cuter than the last.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785941003</amazonuk>it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nikalas Catlow and David Sinden0192779230|title=Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Arty Book|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Arty is your creative friend. He is the star Invisible World of this art activity book from Nikalas Catlow and David Sinden. He's a bit brusque on the first page. This 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 think?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408870665</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGerms|author=CoderDojo|title=Build Your Own Website: Create with CodeIsabel 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. What stands out is the superlative contentBodies with disabilities and markings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786170116</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= National Geographic Kids|title= Angry Birds Playground: Atlas (Angry Birds Playgrounds)|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= They're fine. In fact, they'Angry Birds Playground'' is a new educational book series based on a geographical themere wonderful. Rovio-the team responsible for the popular game- have teamed up with National Geographic Kids to create a stunning set of books that perfectly blend the cheeky humour from the game with informative text and breathtaking real-world photography. The series will appeal to young fans of the game and anyone who has an interest in the wonders of the natural world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1426324596</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Archer and Caroline Craig1776572858|title=The Kew Gardens Children's Cookbook: Plant, Cook, EatHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)

|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I grew up in the immediate post war periodasked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a book about it. Growing your own vegetables A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been a necessity used in the war our house before) and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it was still a habit for those who had a bit of garden, so ''The Kew Gardens Childrenwasn's Cookbookt something which nice people talked about'' was a real pleasure for me, as well as a touch of nostalgia. The principle is very simple: show children how to grow their own vegetables and then how to transform them into delicious food. It sounds simpleI ''knew'' more, doesnbut was little ''wiser''t it? . WellThankfully, it might come as a surprise, but it is!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750298197</amazonuk>times have changed.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Haslam and Steve Parker1526362759|title= A Journey Through Nature|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Beautifully presented, this is a book that takes a worldwide look at the natural world, in both urban and rural locations. We start off in the city, looking at pigeonsDosh: How to Earn It, the American racoonSave It, the Australian possum and the South American Marmoset. I learnt 3 things from those first two pagesSpend It, including what Kits areGrow It, how long babies live with the possum mothers and the pregnancy traits of the monkeys. We were off to a good start.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934496</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGive It|author=Aleksandra Mizielinski, Daniel Mizielinski and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|title=Under Earth, Under WaterRashmi Sirdeshpande

|summary=One What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of the major remits what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of children's nonit (nope -fiction books robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get them to look around them and gain a better understanding hold of what theyit. Your reasons for wanting money don're seeingt matter: we all need it to some extent. After You might want to go into business, be a volume such as thisclever shopper, the obvious response is to see that as a saver (you might even become an incredibly narrow focus. For this book will take the reader ''investor'') and show them exactly what they canthere might be something you really, ''really't see – from microscopic things living in soil even seasoned Scrabble players haven't heard of, right down want to buy. There's also the fish swimming their way towards the Mariana Trench, the deepest section possibility of sea on earth. Make no bones about it, this book is entirely focused on what is beneath our feet and sea levels, and – no pie using to do good in the sky response this – it is a winnerworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783703644</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Haslam and Steve Parker178112938X|title= A Journey Through the Weather|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= We're British. We LOVE to talk about the weather. But beyond the usual platitudes of ''Bit cold out isn't it'' or ''What a beautiful day'', how much do you actually know about what's happening up Survival in the sky? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178493450X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSpace: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=Emma Adams David Long and James Weston Lewis|title=The Great Fire of London: 350th Anniversary of the Great Fire of 1666Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)

|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=While It's fifty years since the average primary school child may not quite be able to fathom Apollo 13 mission was launched from the importance and actual length Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the story of 350 years, it is no reason not to put a book out looking back that distance journey remains one of time to major historical events. But it has to be a good book to justify the mental greatest survival stories of all time travel that entails. And you have to hit on a remarkable subject, something that will open the young eyes to the danger, tragedy and drama of our history. Something like the Great Fire of London, as seen ''Survival in this large hardback, which when it comes down to it, and for many reasons, Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a very good book indeedbrilliant retelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750298200</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Young Rewired StateKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=Get CodingNine Ways to Empower Tweens|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book for tweens, setting out to show them vital #lifeskills. Don't groan!: Learn HTMLI know there is a market glut of such books for we grown-ups and for young adults too, CSS & JavaScript & build but there is a website, app & gameneedful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for tweens too. |isbn= 0228818826}}  {{Frontpage|isbn=1609809173|title=Eiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes

|summary=Learning to codeBrash and elegant, even heading into my seventh decadesophisticated, changed my life controversial and for todayvibrant, the 1889 World's children it's important because it opens so Fair in Paris encompassed the best, the worst and the beautiful from many doorscountries and cultures. It might look complicatedThe French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, but all it required is concentration food festivals and - eventually - imaginationconcerts to stun the senses. I had a reasonable mastery of And towering above it all, the skills of basic HTML in three days with most popular and the benefit of a personal tutor, but where most hated monument to go if you don't have that privilege or if you need some extra support? ''Get Coding!'' seems like French accomplishment and daring – the perfect answerEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406366846</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Mills1848576536|title=Top Of The League Humanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=3.5

|summary=Football is known as the beautiful game ''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, 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 inside your insides!'' That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to try do and complete my Panini sticker album. There was even the halcyon days when Blackburn Rovers won the title. As honestly, I have grown older, my cynicism has grown toodon't see how you could resist. Leicester may be champions, but the day I feel that This informative book provides a group of multimillionaires beating a group of slightly richer multimillionaires is a win for wonderful primer about the everyman, will be a sad one. Perhaps human body to curious children- from the love of football still burns bright in skeletal system to the youth of today? ''Top Of the League'' certainly hopes so as it is full of facts muscular system via circulation, respiration and figures all about digestion, right up to the ball they call footDNA that makes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934577</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin MilesLangford_Emily|title=Ultimate Mapping Guide for KidsEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=IEmily found words ''useful''ve always been fascinated by maps: diverse features can be converted into symbols, drawn on a piece of paper and then passed to someone else to interpretbut counting was what she loved best. Making or reading maps are skills which stay with Obviously, you throughout life can count anything and learning there's no limit to how to' is relatively simple far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and great funbegan counting in twos. Author Justin Miles had a car accident in 1999 She knew all about odd and brain injuries meant that he had to learn to walk and talk from scratcheven numbers. Whilst he Then she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, but the other half was odd and it was doing this he decided to become a full time explorer and to support charities list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which inspire children to learnshe called ''threeven''. He raises funds by taking on daring challenges(Actually, which have included climbing mountains, exploring this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of the Arcticeven numbers, crossing deserts and cutting his way through the jungle. If a man knows but it all worked out well when I really thought about maps, then it's Justin Miles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178493464X</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Imogen Greenberg Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the 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 so reading all about the birds and listening to their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and Isabel Greenbergdid it all again and it was just as good the second time around. So, what do you get?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Pankhurst_Women|title=The Ancient EgyptiansFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=3.5

|summary=There was more to the Ancient Egyptians than keeping the entrails A lot of their dead in a jar, but that history is a pretty cool fact anywayabout men. As a civilisation they knocked around for centuries until Cleopatra had a nasty incident with an AspKings and generals and inventors and politicians. Cramming Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all the information on one of the most complex and intriguing peoples of all time is a big ask; making it assessable , let alone ones young girls might like to children is even biggerread about or regard as role models. Imogen Greenberg Of course, this isn't true and Isabel Greenberg there are plenty of women who, throughout history, have attempted achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. So here, in this in ''The Ancient Egyptians''wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the stories of some of them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808255</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Imogen Greenberg and Isabel GreenbergIgnotofsky_Sport|title=The Roman EmpireWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=45

|summary=You may not think it from my writing, but I actually have a degree ''Women in history. Some of this was on the Roman Empire, but even I struggle Sport'' is coming to remember what happened when during us just before the time periodWinter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. The Republic It celebrates a century and Empire spanned hundreds a half of years, so Alexander rocking up with his elephants did not happen anywhere near the rise development of Julius Caesarwomen's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and much more. Modern youths would not think to shove the invention Think of the microchip a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in with the Napoleonic Wars, so why would you do this book somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with Rome? Kids need a simple book that tells them about the Roman Empire, but also puts it all in brief biography and a context and timeline they can understandstriking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808565</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna KovecsesRooney_Dino|title=One Hundred Words: A first handwriting bookDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter

|summary=Little Mouse is learning to writeLift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. ActuallyThis one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, you don't just learn to writethrough various different ages of dinosaurs, you have to learn to hold and use a pencil and to control it so that the point goes where you want it to. Pencils - and particularly crayons - have we meet a mind variety of their owncreatures, you knowsome of whom are very familiar but some I'd never heard of before! SoEach scene peels open, we start of with layer by layer, showing you what the tripod grip and some tips about what various dinosaurs are getting up to do if you find that difficult. Then we're straight into the action, starting with drawing a straight line from side to side background noises, roars and squawks to see whataccompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's required we have a footballer kicking a ball in the direction we're going to go. There are fifteen examples where you trace the linevery visual, just so you get placing the hang of it dinosaurs in their habitats and then you get to have a go on giving us sounds too that spike your ownimagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808018</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kay Maguire and Danielle KrollMason_poo|title=Nature's Day: Out The Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and AboutTony de Saulles|rating=45

|summary=I love books which know, I know, sometimes you really don't want to encourage your children 's poo jokes, but this book is brilliant! I sat and read it by myself when the kids had gone to interact with nature - school and found it fascinating! Who knew there was so much I didn't know about poo? The book manages to be both funny (and silly) as opposed to a computer screenwell as being very interesting and educational. I like to see them getting outdoors, preferably getting Using a bit dirtymixture of facts and figures, being independent photographs and getting excited funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a little at the vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about nature. A good teacher will inspire childrendifferent types of poo, why poos smell, but ''Nature's Day: Out and About'' provides support and encouragement in equal measures and might just be what a child needswhy wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780800X</amazonuk>