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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Haslam and Steve ParkerB0GFQ81YQK|title= A Journey Through How the Sky and the WeatherEarth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= We're BritishBefore people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. We LOVE Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to talk about tal to each other. First, the weatherearth created bodies. And then, the sky breathed life into them. But beyond These were the usual platitudes of ''Bit cold out isn't it'' or ''What a beautiful day''first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, especially how much do you actually know about what's happening up in they came to be. When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the earth and their life returned to the sky. And that is why the earth and the sky? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178493450X</amazonuk>are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to, and care for, both.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Adams and James Weston LewisB0GHPMNF6P|title=The Great Fire of LondonHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: 350th Anniversary of From the Great Fire Oral Stories of 1666Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5

|summary=While Before people came and joined the animals, there was only the average primary school child may not quite be able sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to fathom each other. First, the earth created bodies. And then, the importance sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and actual length of 350 yearsremembered, it is no reason not especially how they came to put a book out looking back that distance of time to major historical eventsbe. But it has When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to be a good book the earth and their life returned to justify the mental time travel that entailssky. And you have to hit on a remarkable subject, something that will open is why the young eyes to earth and the danger, tragedy and drama of our historysky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. Something like the Great Fire of London, as seen in this large hardback, which when it comes down And that is why people must pay attention to it, and care for many reasons, is a very good book indeedboth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750298200</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Young Rewired StateStephanie Zabriskie|title=Get Coding!How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: Learn HTML, CSS & JavaScript & build a website, app & gameFrom the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders

|summary=Learning ''How Maasai Women Spoke to codeCows is a children’s nonfiction book drawn from the oral traditions of Maasai elders in Ngorongoro, even heading into my seventh decade, changed my life and for todayTanzania.'s children it's important because it opens  The Maasai are a cattle-herding people and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to be so many doors. It might look complicated, Cattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but all it required is concentration and - eventually - imagination. I had a reasonable mastery of this doesn't tell the skills whole story of basic HTML in three days with the benefit of a personal tutorintimate and symbiotic connection its people, and especially its women, but where to go if you don't have that privilege or if you need some extra support? ''Get Coding!'' seems like with their cows and for the natural world. The oral tradition retelling the perfect answermany conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, does.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406366846</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Mills1839948493|title=Top Of The League A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=3.5

|summary=Football is known as In the beautiful game and when interests of full disclosure, I was younger must tell you that I kind of believed this'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I would spend my free time playing Heads 've never met one I didn't trust and Volleys with my mates and then go home to try and complete my Panini sticker albumI've loved most of them. There was even I wish I felt the halcyon days when Blackburn Rovers won the titlesame about human beings. As So, any book about dogs, I have grown older, my cynicism has grown too'm going to sit down and devour. Leicester may be champions, but the day Then I feel that a group 'm going to go back and read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of multimillionaires beating a group of slightly richer multimillionaires is a win for the everymanDogs'', will be a sad onewith ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Perhaps Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the love accidental owner of football still burns bright in the youth of today? an American Dingo - she''Top Of the League'' certainly hopes so as it is full of facts and figures all s learned quite a lot about the ball they call footdogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934577</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin Miles1529507987|title=Ultimate Mapping Guide for KidsThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=Ilove 've always been fascinated by maps: diverse features can be converted into symbols, drawn on a piece of paper and then passed 'The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to someone else programme when I want to interpretbe cheered up. Making or reading maps are skills which stay with you throughout life and learning After a hard day, there'how tos nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they' is relatively simple and great funre worth. Author Justin Miles had a car accident You see, the value is in 1999 and brain injuries meant that he had what these possessions are worth to learn to walk the people who own them and talk from scratchthe memories they hold. Whilst he was doing this he decided No expense appears to become a full be spared and the experts spend as much time explorer and effort as is required to support charities which inspire children to learnachieve the desired result. He raises funds by taking on daring challenges, which have included climbing mountains, exploring Regular viewers know the Arctic, crossing deserts experts and cutting his way through the jungle. If a man knows about maps, then they're all brilliant at explaining what itis they's Justin Milesre doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178493464X</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Imogen Greenberg and Isabel Greenberg024162343X|title=The Ancient EgyptiansStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=3.5

|summary=There I was more to the Ancient Egyptians than keeping bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the entrails existence of their dead in a jar, but that is a pretty cool fact anyway'god'. As a civilisation they knocked around for centuries until Cleopatra had a nasty incident with an AspWhere was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Cramming all Not too long after the information on one end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the most complex British army's successes (and intriguing peoples of all time is a big ask; making it assessable occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to children is even biggerapproach 'the problem' politely. Imogen Greenberg and Isabel Greenberg have attempted this in I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''The Ancient EgyptiansStolen History''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808255</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Imogen Greenberg Jeremy Dronfield and Isabel GreenbergDavid Ziggy Greene|title=The Roman EmpireFritz and Kurt

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=You may not think 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 from my writing, but I actually have 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 degree in historylight switch. Some of But this was on is the time just before the Roman EmpireAustrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, but even I struggle and instead of having a national vote to remember what happened when during keep the time periodNazis out, invite them in with open arms. The Republic and Empire spanned hundreds of years''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, so Alexander rocking up with his elephants as did not happen anywhere near all the rise round-ups of Julius CaesarJews. Modern youths would not think These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to shove Britain or the invention of US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the microchip in with same train to Buchenwald and the Napoleonic Wars, so why would you do this with Rome? stone quarry there. Kids need a simple book that tells them about And us wondering how the titular event for the Roman Empire, but also puts it adult variant of all in a context and timeline they can understand.this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847808565</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Kovecses1913750353|title=One Hundred Words: A first handwriting bookBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=45

|summary=Little Mouse is learning ''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 writeknow about this brilliant book. Actually It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you donhow to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''t just learn to write), gives you have to learn to hold a definition and use then includes the word in a pencil and to control it sentence so that the point goes where you want know how it toshould be used. Pencils - and particularly crayons - have a mind of their own, you know! So, we start of with the tripod grip You also get an engaging and some tips about what to do if you find that difficultfrequently amusing illustration too. Then weI don're straight into the action, starting with drawing a straight line from side to side and to see whatt think I's required we have a footballer kicking ve ever encountered a ball in word which uses the direction we're going to go. There are fifteen examples where you trace the line, just so you get the hang of it and then you get to have a go on your own.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808018</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kay Maguire and Danielle Kroll0711266204|title=Nature's Day: Out The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and AboutVivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45

|summary=I love books have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which encourage children to interact with nature - as opposed to visit our garden on a computer screendaily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I like 've established which species feed from the ground, which pop to see them getting outdoors, preferably getting the feeders for a bit dirty, being independent quick snatch of some food and getting excited about naturewho settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. A good teacher will inspire childrenIt would have been wonderful if, as a child, but I'd had access to a book such as 'Nature's Day: Out and AboutThe Secret Life of Birds'' provides support and encouragement in equal measures and might just be . So – what a child needs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780800X</amazonuk>is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danielle Kroll and Nghiem Ta0192779230|title=Pattern PlayVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: Cut, Fold and Make Your Own 3D Animal ModelsThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45

|summary=Here's Germs' seems to have become a neat idea for catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make youill. Provide pages with animal prints on one side - only by animal prints, I mean In the sort of colours and pattern which you see on animalsfirst book in what looks to be a very promising new series, not paw prints! Some are subtle OUP and others are rather more in-your-face. On the reverse of these printed pages provide Isabel Thomas have provided a cutting line so that you can cut clear and fold accessible introduction to the paper and it becomes a 3D model world of an animalgerms. Provide some stickers which replicate faces, tails or beaks - or whatever else you feel needs highlighting - We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and number these so that what they get into thought caused them and how the right placethinking has developed over time. All you need to add to the mix is The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a pair scientist' which explains some of scissorsthe trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, parental supervision if necessary for the cuttingfungi, a little imagination protists and viruses – and you have hours of funhow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807321</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Handford1800464495|title=Where's Wally100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: The Colouring BookSupport All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith|rating=4.5

|summary=Are you looking for something relaxing, easy to complete and which will allow your mind ''Babies seem to wander freely as you gently colour be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in a pleasing design? Do you want to indulge your imagination and use the colours which tempt you womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at the momentsix months old, 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?and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.''

SorryDid you know this? I didn't! How about: you ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills.'' I didn've got 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 wrong booksame 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406367303</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah Patterson1406395404|title=My Book The Awesome Power of StoriesSleep: Write How Sleep Super-Charges Your Own AdventuresTeenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan

|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=If you happen to 2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have two children, born five years apart, you can count on having brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to live through practically four full years of school holidays – be doing) and that doesn't include Bank Holidays or teacher trainingothers will worry unnecessarily. Weather permittingMost people, that's well over 1,400 days where from children to adults will have the impetus odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is on only likely to take them somewhere, or spend moneymake it worse. So what better and cheaper place to take them than their own imagination? And if you canthere't quite unlock s also the door fact that leads therefor far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, we can certainly suggest this bookworking late has been praised and the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356355</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Claybourne1849767343|title=50 Things You Should Know About: Wild WeatherCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5

|summary=Oh, The title and format of this takes me back. Out of all the things we learn at school and profess to never want book might lead you to need as an adult, the water cycle is one think that I had forgotten it's either about, until nowresponsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. It forms the basis of isn't: it's a lot hymn of our weather, after all – the way landmasses and seas warm the air above them differently, thus causing motion in the shape of winds and altering atmospheric pressure, that we call weatherpraise to maths. And from the gentlest high pressure, that someone somewhere will always deem too hot, to the most furious electrical storm, weather It's about why maths is certainly something a lot of people like to talk aboutso wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life. 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)1849767009|title=Outside: A Guide It Isn't Rude to Discovering Naturebe Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=IThis could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir'm on a mission: I want children 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 hot- adults too and- bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to spend bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a lot more time outsidebook about not wearing clothes. I want them to have the benefits It's a celebration of fresh air, increasing their levels of vitamin D bodies: bodies large and small and the knowledge of what nature can offer themevery possible hue. I'd like the television, computers, mobile phones, video games Bodies with disabilities and even books to be laid aside and attention given to what is available for free, but which - if we donmarkings. They't care for it - might not always be therere fine. Fortunately the authors of ''Outside: A Guide to discovering Nature'In fact, they' have the same ideasre wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807690</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington1776572858|title=The Nature Explorer's ScrapbookHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)

|genre=Animals Home and WildlifeFamily|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'An activity d get me a book, but not as you know it'' is what about 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 A couple of stickers and they're days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the sort of thing you pick up at the supermarket checkout basics, in clinical language which had never been used in the hope our house before) and I was told that it will buy you an hour or twowouldn's peace in the school holidays. t be discussed any further as it ''The Nature Explorerwasn's Handbookt something which nice people talked about'' is a different beast altogether. It I ''knew's part album in which you're going to collect and store your own findsmore, part explanation of the best practices of how you should go about this and part nature guide. Itbut was little ''wiser's a substantial hardback book with an elastic band to keep it shut - as it's really going to get quite bulky when your collection grows. Production values for the book are high - this really is something which will be treasured for yearsThankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190848926X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peggy Caravantes1526362759|title=Marooned in the ArcticDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande

|genre=BiographyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Misogynists are manmade. What a relief! And if anyone was in a position A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to hate men acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and the lot they put on their shoulders, what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it was Ava Blackjack. Her surname spoke of an abusive man she had a son by, but it was her time with four other men that made Your reasons for one of the last centurywanting money don's more remarkable storiest matter: we all need it to some extent. An Inuit nativeYou might want to go into business, but one brought up in be a city and with English lessonsclever shopper, she was invited on a saver (you might even become an excursion alongside many other 'Eskimo' investor'') and four intrepid Westernersthere might be something you really, ''really'' want to the uninhabited Wrangel Island, perched off the northern Siberian coastbuy. They were there just to stick a flag in it and call it British, even if they were pretty much fully American and Canadian, and There's also the chap whose ideas these all were bore an Icelandic name; she was along possibility of using to provide native expertise, especially waterproof fur clothing. And that was it – none of her kin joined her, leaving her in one tent and four men in another, do good in one of the world's most remote and inhospitable places. And that was just the start of her worries…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1613730985</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Pinnington and Caz Buckingham178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Little Book of Woodland Bird SongsApollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)

|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=Take a well-put-together board book (donIt't worry about it being a board book - no one is going to say that they’re a bit too old for a board book once they see it)s fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, add exquisite pictures but the story of a dozen birds - that journey remains one on each double-page spread - and then fill in the details. You'll need the name of the bird in English and Latin and a description of the bird in words which a child can understand but which won't patronise an adult. Then you'll need details greatest survival stories of where the bird is found, what it eats, where it nests, how many eggs it lays, how the male and female adults differ and their sizeall time. Then you need a 'Did you know?' fact and this needs to be something which will interest children, but which adults might not know either. Does it sound simple? Well it isn't, but 'Survival in Space: The Little Book of Woodland Bird SongsApollo 13 Mission' does it perfectly. And there's is a bonus, but I'll tell you about that in a momentbrilliant retelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908489286</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Serge BlochKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=3, 2, 1... Draw!Nine Ways to Empower Tweens

|summary=I canBrash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the 1889 World't draw. I've never been able to draw. A blank sheet of paper s Fair in Paris encompassed the best, the worst and the beautiful from many countries and a pencil frightens mecultures. I thought I was probably a little bit old to change my ways but then I discovered ''3The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, 2dance performances, 1... Draw!'' food festivals and there might have been a movement within concerts to stun the tectonic plates of my brainsenses. It's a drawing book which isn't about blank pages: And towering above it's about imagination and inspirationall, with the first encouraged most popular and the second delivered by most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – the barrow loadEiffel Tower. I've just had more fun than I thought possible with pencil and paper!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807240</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Juno Dawson1848576536|title=Mind Your HeadHumanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=5|genre=TeensChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!''The number of young people suffering from mental ill health is increasing year-on-year. Yet we still find it difficult That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to talk about. And mental health still hasndo and honestly, I don't achieved parity with physical health in terms of services and healthcare availablesee how you could resist. Enter Mind Your Head.This is informative book provides a frank and accessible overview of wonderful primer about the human body to curious children- from the issues facing young people with regards skeletal system to mental ill health. It covers the various types of illnessmuscular system via circulation, the treatments availablerespiration and digestion, how right up to manage them. It includes personal stories and exercises and is written in a chatty but serious way. Juno Dawson is the transgender author you might have known before as James DawsonDNA that makes who we are. She's brought in clinical psychologist Dr Olivia Hewitt to help her. And also illustrator Gemma Correll to avoid any appearance of dourness. Because Mind Your Head is about serious things but is an absolute pleasure to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405311</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Eng Gee FanLangford_Emily|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Frida KahloEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|genre=Emerging ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Frida Kahlo Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was born in Mexicowhat she loved best. When she was a young schoolgirl she contracted polio Obviously, you can count anything and was left with a leg which was ''skinny as a rake'there's no limit to how far you can go, but she bore the problem stoically then Emily moved a step further and began counting in some ways delighted in being differenttwos. Then one day Frida was in a bus which crashed into a car. She was badly injured knew all about odd and even when she was over the worst numbers. Then she still had to rest began counting in bed and filled threes: half of the time by drawing pictureslist were even numbers, including a self portrait. Eventually but the other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she showed her pictures to a famous artist - Diego Rivera - who liked the pictures, called ''andthreeven'' Frida. They married and Rivera encouraged Frida(Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they's painting. She exhibitedre a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of the even numbers, eventually in New York, to great acclaimbut it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807704</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Ana AlberoBuckingham_Dawn|title=The Little People, Big Dreams: Coco ChanelBook of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=45|genre=Emerging ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Gabrielle Chanel lived in an orphanage in What a French town and after the death of her mother she went treat! I really did mean to a strict convent school. The fact that she was just ''differentglance'' didnat 't make her life 'The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'easy'', but there were early indications that she the pull of the sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was going far too much to be resist on a seamstress. After she left school she sewed by day cold and sang by night and it was as she sang that she gained her nickname - ''Coco'' - which came from the soldiers in the audiencerather wet February morning. But her dream was designing clothes and I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the first step was designing birds and making hats: this led listening to her opening a hat shoptheir song. One evening, at a party she realised that a lot of the women weren't dancing: their corsets were so tight that they Then - just because I could hardly breathe - I went back and did it all again and it was this that prompted Coco to create a new stylejust as good the second time around. Her clothes were simpleSo, straight and comfortable to wear.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807712</amazonuk>what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jason Quinn and Naresh KumarPankhurst_Women|title=World War Two: Against the Rising Sun (Campfire Graphic Novels)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=World War Two – so often a lesson subject for our primary school children, even after all this time. Nazis, Soviets, Pearl Harbor – but wait. That last wasn't just the clarion call to the Americans to join in with the rest of our Allies – it was a mere episode in a fuller story – the half of the war that was never seen by those in Europe, beyond the fact the British Empire was certainly changed forever. The War in the Pacific is something I was certainly never taught much about in school, at any age. And here's a graphic novel version of the tale from a publisher in India that can serve at last as a salutary lesson.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9381182051</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Lewis Helfand and Lalit Kumar Sharma|title=World War Two: Under the Shadow of the Swastika (Campfire Graphic Novels)Kate Pankhurst|rating=45

|summary=One A lot of the most common subjects at primary schoolhistory is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, getting on for three generations since it happenedfeels almost as though there were no women in history at all, is of let alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. Of course World War Two. It has the impact that sixty million dead people deserve – but only if it, this isn's taught correctlyt true and there are plenty of women who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. One of the ways to present it is So here, in this wonderful picture book, which comes from a slightly surprising place – an Indian publisher completely new to me – but succeeds in being remarkably competentKate Pankhurst, complete and really quite readableare the stories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9381182140</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Packham and Jason CockroftIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Amazing Animal JourneysWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5

|summary=It's only relatively recently that man has actually moved home at certain points of the year 'Women in Sport'' is coming to take advantage of us just before the weather or the availability of food, but wild life has been doing it for much longer Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and every year billions a half of animals move from one part the development of the planet to another - thatwomen's birdssport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, mammalsfencing, reptilesriding, amphibiansskating, fish and insectsmuch more. This is known as migration - Think of a sport and it's a real pleasure to see pioneering woman succeeding at it used other than is probably in the context of sensationalist newspaper headlinesthis book somewhere. Wildlife expert Chris Packham has written this introduction to the subject Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and it's been beautifully illustrated by Jason Cockrofta striking portrait. (He's the man who did the cover artwork for the final three Harry Potter books!)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277459</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christina WilsdonRooney_Dino|title=Ultimate ReptileopediaDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|rating=4.5

|summary=Have you ever wanted to know more about reptiles? Scratch thatLift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. Have This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a variety of creatures, some of whom are very familiar but some I'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you ever wanted what the various dinosaurs are getting up to seemingly know everything that there ever was , with background noises, roars and squawks to know accompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about reptiles? If sodinosaurs it's very visual, you don't just need a normal encyclopaedia that will have a page or two on placing the subject, but a Reptileopedia dinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that has more information and images of reptiles in it than you could shake a snake atspike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1426321031</amazonuk>