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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0GFQ81YQK|title=The Story How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of the World CupMalagasy Elders|author=Richard BrasseyStephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5
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|summary=Look at Before people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the calendar earth and you will see that it is a year ending in an even numberthe sky began to tal to each other. First, the earth created bodies. And then, what does this mean? To a host of football fans it means a summer free from boredom as an International Tournament will fill the void that sky breathed life into them. These were the Premier League has leftfirst humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. For non-football fans it's more excuses for And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, especially how they came to watch a pigskin be knocked around. Be you young or When they grew oldand died, football can get in your blood their bodies returned to the earth and you want their life returned to know morethe sky. For And that is why the younger fan, there earth and the sky are worse places both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to start their obsession than the World Cup , and getting to know more about the esteemed tournament in Richard Brassey’s 'The Story of the World Cup'care for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144400946X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0GHPMNF6P|title=Outdoor WonderlandHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Josie JefferyStephanie Zabriskie
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=When I Before people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. Everything was growing up we had ‘Why Don’t You’ quiet until the earth and the sky began to inspire us what tal to do during each other. First, the earth created bodies. And then, the sky breathed life into them. These were the summer holidaysfirst humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, but I still don’t understand why a TV show would encourage me especially how they came to be. When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to switch off the telly – how am I meant earth and their life returned to know what the sky. And that is why the earth and the sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to do? A far more sensible guide , and care for outdoor fun is a book like Josie Jeffery’s ‘Outdoor Wonderland’, an informative book full of interesting things to do outside no matter the weather or time of dayboth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400826</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Secrets of the SeashoreStephanie Zabriskie|authortitle=Carron Brown and Alyssa NassnerHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=This ''How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a children’s nonfiction book starts drawn from the oral traditions of Maasai elders in a rock pool. It’s not a boring, quietNgorongoro, calm place, though, it’s bustling with life, and with every page that turns we learn more about the mysterious creatures that live within it. You might not see them at first, but with a hint of magic they appearTanzania.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401105</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1839948493|title=Flowerpot Farm: A First Gardening Activity BookWorld of Dogs|author=Lorraine HarrisonCarlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=With In the demand interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for us to eat seemingly more fruit dogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and vegetables every day, the world I've loved most of grow-your-own is backthem. Why buy from I wish I felt the supermarket when you can release the kids into the garden to graze like cattle? same about human beings. HoweverSo, before you do thisany book about dogs, perhaps you should pick up a book like ‘Flowerpot Farm’ by Lorraine Harrison I'm going to sit down and Faye Bradley which will show them how devour. Then I'm going to create their own fruitgo back and read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', veg and flower garden no matter how small with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a space they have to work withlot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400818</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529507987|title=A First The Repair Shop Craft Book of Nature|author=Nicola Davies Walker Books and Mark HearldSonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=There is I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a difference between a book for children that the kids themselves will like and one that adults will likehard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. A more mature person may like some interesting illustrations or imaginative storyYou see, but most of the children I know value is in what these possessions are happy just worth to see some dinosaurs in their pantsthe people who own them and the memories they hold. However, there are books that transcend this No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend as much time and can appeal effort as is required to both groupsachieve the desired result. Books that may have slightly dry reading for Regular viewers know the very young, but illustrations that will transfix experts and amaze – introducing ‘A First Book of Nature’ written by Nicola Davies and illustrated by Mark Hearldthey're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140634916X</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Jake's BonesStolen History|author=Jake McGowan-LoweSathnam Sanghera
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=My oldest son has wanted to be I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a palaeontologist since he 'god'. Where was three the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and both boys are fascinated by how things workoccasional 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 there in the first place. Last year my youngest saw some scientific anatomy drawings and begged for more Looking back, so I began looking for childrenstill believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's books on skeletons''Stolen History''.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=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 anatomyat a vocational school. There Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very few available Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But this looked is the time just before the best by farAustrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, I spent two days searching not only British but American booksellers before noticing that 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 book had not been released yet round- so sadly we were forced ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to waitBuchenwald and the stone quarry there. It was worth waiting And us wondering how the titular event for though, the adult variant of all this book is truly one of a kind.could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783250259</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913750353|title=The BeatlesBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Mick Manning Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Brita GranstromSue Macy
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''Are 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 keen all that you need to paint pictures, but afraid of making mistakes?know about this brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'' With this opening gambit , tells you how to pronounce it (''Let’s Paint!raz-muh-TAZ''), kicks off gives you a short exploration of artistic styles definition and concepts. Illustrated with then includes the word in a combination of black pen and ink line drawings and paintings, Alborozo sets out to demonstrate sentence so that you know how art can it should be funused. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743361327</amazonuk> I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0711266204|title=Secrets The Secret Life of the Apple TreeBirds|author=Carron Brown Moira Butterfield and Alyssa NassnerVivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=On I have recently discovered a cold winter night, long after bedtime, what could be more inviting than curling up under great pleasure: I sit and watch the blankets with vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a book daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I've established which species feed from the ground, which pop to read by torch light? What surprises might your torch reveal? In the case feeders for a quick snatch of ‘Secrets some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I'd had access to a book such as ''The Secret Life of the Apple Tree’ you may get more than you bargained for…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400680</amazonuk>Birds''. So – what is it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192779230|title=Eye BendersVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Science Invisible World of Seeing and BelievingGerms|author=Clive Gifford and Professor Anil SethIsabel Thomas
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=My husband doesn't usually do booksGerms' seems to have 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, but when this arrived in OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the post it was a good two hours before anyone could get it out world of his handsgerms. The whole family ended up joining in We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and commenting on each illustration or illusionhow the thinking has developed over time. On The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the surfacetrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, it just seems like some light-hearted funfungi, protists and this book certainly is fun. But in addition to being great fun, this is an incredibly educational book as wellviruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400842</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey Kelly1800464495|title=A Day That Changed History100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: The Assassination Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of John F KennedyMaths|author=Emma Smith|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I have a vivid memory of hearing about ''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the assassination womb, being aware of John F Kennedy. He was youngquantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, charismatic and a hope for the future after the comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old guard who seemed to have been in power for ever - and then he was gone. Books on JFK are easy to find - you'll find our favourites [[Top Ten Books on President John F Kennedy|here]], but it's rather more difficult to find a book which puts Kennedy and what happened into context, so I was delighted to receive a copy of 'A Day That Changed History: The Assassination of John F Kennedy'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445123576</amazonuk>}}
I didn't know this either! I think 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. But do we think the same way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=Bones RockThe Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Peter L Larson and Kristin DonnanNicola Morgan
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=Most children go through 2020 has been a dinosaur phase, but there are always a few children who are strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely captivated by dinosaurs - dismantled and everything that goes with them. This is the most detailed palaeontology book for children I some teenagers this will have ever foundbrought about sleep problems. This book is written for older children, even Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who may wish needs sleep? - I've got loads to seriously consider palaeontology as a career choicebe doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. The book begins, not with dinosaurs Most people, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but with scienceworrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. The book explains how science works. It presents science And there's also the fact that for far too long, not lack of sleep has been lauded as a set of facts, but of theories virtue and ideas that are subject sleep made to changeseem like laziness. Science becomes a living Being up early, working late has been praised and fluid thing rather than a stuffy set facts the ability to memorise. Reading this book, I can survive on little sleep has almost forget how much I hated science as a childbecome something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>193122935X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1849767343|title=Alan Turing (Real Lives)Count on Me|author=Jim EldridgeMiguel Tanco|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Alan Turing was one The title and format of Britainthis book might lead you to think that it's greatest thinkers of either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the last centurynumbers journey. He did pioneering work on computing and artificial intelligence. He was also It isn't: it's a hero hymn of World War II, working in the famous code-breaking community at Bletchley Park, cracking German naval codes used praise to lethal effect organising U-boat attacksmaths. Turing was the man who beat the Enigma machine It's about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472900103</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1849767009|title=How the Meteorite Got It Isn't Rude to the Museumbe Nude|author=Jessie HartlandRosie Haine|rating=45
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=This is a cumulative tale in which could have been one small event sets off a chain of other events those books which are repeated throughout 'preaches to the story. If your child loves books like choir': the only people who'This ll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the House That Jack Builtones who '', this may prove know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a very useful addition to you home library, but this is book about not wearing clothes. It's a type celebration of story telling which I have found some children really take tobodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, and others do notthey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609052528</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=Discover the Savage WorldHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Simon AdamsAnna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, Camilla de la Bedoyerein clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, Ian Grahambut was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, Steve Parkertimes have changed.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1526362759|title=Dosh: How to Earn It, Phil SteeleSave It, Clint Twist and Amanda AskewSpend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The range What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of subjects covered in ''Discover the Savage World'' what it is astonishing. The first three chapters are science related topics. The first section ''Earth's Power'' covers the birth of the universe, earthquakeswhy it matters, volcanoes how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and other natural disasters. '' Deadly Nature'what you can do with it when you' brings new meaning ve managed to the phrase get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don''acting like animals'', as t matter: we see the darker side of nature, from venomous creatures, deadly carnivores and a real surprise about a very common and well known birdall need it to some extent. ''Wild Science'' has a mixed bag of topics with dangerous elements, explosions You might want to go into business, fireworks and exactly how be a bullet worksclever shopper, as well as the birth of a star. saver (you might even become an ''Tough Machinesinvestor'' dips into technology ) and innovation with an incredible variety of mechanical subjects with everything from massive transport vehicles and diggers, to robots, military vehicles, ice breaking ships, rocketsthere might be something you really, and flood control systems. The focus turns to geography with ''Harsh Landsreally'' show a myriad of cultures and lifestyles in inhospitable locations. Life is difficult in some regions due want to nature, but man made hazards like Chernobyl and land mines occur as wellbuy. Finally we close with history and There''Brutal Battles''. This covers ancient warfare with events such as s also the Battle possibility of Marathon and the Siege of Masada right up using to do good in the Somme, the Battle Of Stalingrad with a heavy focus on snipers and the Battle of Kurskworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848109180</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=Professor Astro Cat's Frontiers of Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=Dominic Walliman David Long and Ben NewmanStefano Tambellini (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=The first thing I noticed about this book was It's fifty years since the illustrations. There is a strong nostalgic feel to this that makes me think of space race era film clips and early Flash Gordon comics. Perhaps it Apollo 13 mission was launched from the wonderfully fun illustrations that made me assume (incorrectly) that this would be less academic than most of the books Kennedy Space Centre in our space collection. I was expecting this to be a fun light read. It was certainly fun, the whole family loved this bookFlorida, but it was anything but a light read. We spent three days reading this book, researching topics online after reading about them, engaging the entire family in debates on space, conducting experiments inspired by our research etc... We had to rearrange our entire school week - and we still haven't finished - we have a number story of new projects inspired by this book planned for next week as well. This book is, without any doubt that journey remains one of the most educational books we have ever read, greatest survival stories of all the while not only holding the childrentime. ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission''s interest, but completely captivating themis a brilliant retelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263079</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Book Of Space: All About Stars, Planets Kathleen Boucher and Rockets!Sara Chadwick|authortitle=Clive GiffordNine Ways to Empower Tweens
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=There's always a danger in putting a definitive article in the name of '9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a children's nonself-fiction help book titlefor tweens, setting out to show them vital #lifeskills. Luckily enough this volume does go almost as far as making itself definitive, with Don't groan! I know there is a lot market glut of numbers such books for we grown-ups and factsfor young adults too, yet but there is a delivery that makes all of those and the theories and terminology it uses all palatable to the browser, and still manages to throw needful space in the redundant unfunny cartoons at the side. In using an intelligent system of going through all the subjects under the broad subject of space, with none of the tables, box-outs increasingly technological world accessible to younger and so on other editors choose, this proves one of the more sober, measured and successful books of its kindyounger children for material for tweens too. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780551398</amazonuk>0228818826}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1609809173|title=RipleyEiffel's Believe It or Not! 2014Tower for Young People|author=Robert Leroy RipleyJill Jonnes
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I donBrash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the 1889 World't normally do annualss Fair in Paris encompassed the best, the worst and the beautiful from many countries and cultures. I'm afraid too many of the silly cartoon variety The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put me off on art shows, dance performances, food festivals and concerts to stun the genre, but this is something completely differentsenses. It seems a shame to even call And towering above it an annual. Instead I would call this an interactive encyclopaedia of all, the bizarre, unusual, twisted most popular and absolutely delightful facts that challenge you the most hated monument to 'Believe it or not!'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847947166</amazonuk>French accomplishment and daring – the Eiffel Tower.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1848576536
|title=Humanatomy: How the Body Works
|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Langford_Emily|title=Dork Diaries OMG: All About Me Diary!Emily's Numbers|author=Rachel Renee RussellJoss Langford
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I feel Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there's no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a pattern formingstep further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. After three books Then she began counting in threes: half of the [[:Category:Rachel Renee Russell|Dork Diaries series]] came a throw-awaylist were even numbers, [[Dork Diaries: How to Dork Your Diary by Rachel Renee Russell|tie-in volume]] that offered a bit of a story to it but the other half was not full-on plot odd and action like the routine booksit was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. After six real novels comes (Actually, this, where for the confused me a little bit at first time the star as they're a subset of the book really is not Nikki Maxwell, odd numbers but whoever buys it (or gets it bought for them). This is where the franchise branches away from fiction, sound as though they ought to cover the purchaser or fan be a subset of the serieseven numbers, and gives her the chance to spill but it all worked out well when I really thought about herself, her school life, and her BFFsit. I think this is where I'm supposed to go ''SQUEEEEEEE!!!!!!''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471117731</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=100 PeopleThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Masayuki SebeCaz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=If What a treat! I told you this 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 book in which every double page spread features exactly 100 people, cold and rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and there’s no real story listening to go with their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and itwas just as good the second time around. So, you might be underwhelmed. You might wonder what the point would be. But I can tell do you in one word: fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579866</amazonuk>get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Pankhurst_Women|title=Top 10 For Boys 2014Fantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Paul TerryKate Pankhurst|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=OKA lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, I'll admit – sometimes it feels almost as though there comes a time when it would appear terribly easy were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to post a review of a bookread about or regard as role models. Of course, when something so self-explanatory pops up that a description of it hardly seems necessary. And you can judge the contents of this book similarly easily too – it takes the isn''Top Ten t true and there are plenty of Everything'' format developed by the late Russell Ashwomen who, and makes it funkierthroughout history, smallerhave achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, more brashly colourfulor created something never seen before. So here, and apparentlyin this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, suitable for boys. There are unofficial, opinionated lists, and bits where kids can scribble their own content and ratings. But despite how easy it is to get a handle on the book, I do hereby solemnly swear etc that I read almost every word, and just as I should, even no longer being a boy I learned a lotstories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0600623459</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Ignotofsky_Sport|title=Make a MobileWomen in Sport: 12 Cool Designs Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Press Out and HangWin|author=Lydia CrookRachel Ignotofsky
|rating=5
|genre=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=''Make a MobileWomen in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a delightful crafting book crammed full century and a half of the development of women's sport by looking at fifty of projects for parents its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and children to sharemuch more. The Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book contains 12 unique designs that fit together beautifully and are surprisingly easy to makesomewhere. The perforated pages allow the components of each mobile to be simply pushed out from the Each entry is a double-page without the need for nimble scissor skillsspread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005807</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Rooney_Dino|title=Space in 30 SecondsDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Clive Gifford Anne Rooney and Dr Mike GoldsmithSuzanne Carpenter|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Back when Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a lad, and reading books on space science from my school library, they were nothing like thischild. There was little that was as colourfulThis one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, no recap for every pagethrough various different ages of dinosaurs, no homework suggestionswe meet a variety of creatures, and certainly there was nothing as up-to-date as exoplanets or the latest dimensions some of the International Space Station. Many whom are very familiar but some I'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the changes various dinosaurs are valuablegetting up to, with background noises, roars and make this volume quite squawks to accompany them! The book creates a successdinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005734</amazonuk>
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