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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=CoderDojo1839948493|title=Build Your Own Website: Create with CodeA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe

|summary=The Nanonauts want In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a website sucker for their banddogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and who better to build it for I've loved most of them than . I wish I felt the CoderDojo network of free computing clubs for young people? same about human beings. In this handbookSo, created in conjunction with the CoderDojo Foundationany book about dogs, children of seven plus will learn how I'm going to build a website using HTML, CSS sit down and Javascriptdevour. Don't worry too much if some of those words donThen I't mean anything m going to you - all will be made clear as you go back and read through the bookit properly. ThereAnd so it was with ''A World of Dogs''s also information about how to start a CoderDojo Nano club , with friends ninety- which has great benefits in terms of harnessing creativity, learning how six pages devoted entirely to code my four- and legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the benefits accidental owner of teamworkan American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405278730</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Bright1529507987|title=See Inside Dinosaurs The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=34.5

|summary=What would you do if the doorbell rang and I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when you opened the door you saw I want to be cheered up. After a giant Trojan-Horse waiting for you? hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. I for one would not drag You see, the thing value is in; it would what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and the memories they hold. No expense appears to be too big spared and the experts spend as much time and could be full of angry Greekseffort as is required to achieve the desired result. The same could be said of Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they'See inside Dinosaurs'' by Michael Brightre doing. You may think that you are buying one thing, but instead you are getting an impressive triceratops skeleton, or a T-Rex model, or maybe even a book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934739</amazonuk>But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Parker024162343X|title=100 Facts Butterflies & MothsStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|summary=Damn those beesI was the bad company other people got into at school. TheyI was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god're not . Where was the only flying creatures vanishing from our world at alarming ratesproof? In history lessons, and it was probably worse still. Not too long after the othersend of WWII, like butterflies I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and mothsoccasional failures, are actually runners-up 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 Mr Bumble and his mysteriously dying ilk be there in pollinating plants. Plus they're more visually attractivethe first place. But even though this book has two nudges and a thanks given to the Butterfly Conservation bodyLooking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret thatI lacked the maturity to approach 's certainly not the more notable feature of these pagesproblem' politely. What stands out is the superlative contentI wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786170116</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= National Geographic KidsJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title= Angry Birds Playground: Atlas (Angry Birds Playgrounds)Fritz and Kurt|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary=''Angry Birds Playground'' is 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 new educational book series based 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 geographical themelight switch. Rovio- But this is the team responsible for time just before the popular game- have teamed up with National Geographic Kids Austrian leader is going to cave to create Hitler's will, and instead of having a stunning set 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 books that perfectly blend Jews. These in their turn leave the cheeky humour from the game younger Kurt at home with informative text his mother and breathtaking real-world photography. The series will appeal sisters anxious to young fans hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the game US, while Fritz and anyone who has an interest in his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the wonders of same train to Buchenwald and the natural worldstone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1426324596</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Archer and Caroline Craig1913750353|title=The Kew Gardens ChildrenBritannica's Cookbook: PlantWord of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Cook, EatRenee Kelly and Sue Macy

|summary=I grew up in ''Britannica's Word of the immediate post war period. Growing your own vegetables had been Day'' has a necessity in the war sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and it was still a habit for those who had a bit of garden, so Tickle Your Humerus''The Kew Gardens Childrenwhich probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''s CookbookRazzmatazz'' was a real pleasure for me, as well as a touch of nostalgia. The principle is very simple: show children tells you how to grow their own vegetables pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a definition and then includes the word in a sentence so that you know how to transform them into delicious foodit should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. It sounds simple, doesnI don't it? Well, it might come as think I've ever encountered a surprise, but it isword which uses the letter Z four times before!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750298197</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Haslam and Steve Parker0711266204|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 pigeons, the American racoon, the Australian possum and the South American Marmoset. I learnt 3 things from those first two pages, including what Kits are, how long babies live with the possum mothers and the pregnancy traits The Secret Life of the monkeys. We were off to a good start.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934496</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBirds|author=Aleksandra Mizielinski, Daniel Mizielinski Moira Butterfield and Antonia Lloyd-Jones Vivian Mineker (translatorillustrator)|title=Under Earth, Under Water

|summary=One of I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the major remits vast numbers of childrenbirds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I's non-fiction books is ve established which species feed from the ground, which pop to get them to look around them the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and gain who settles in for a better understanding of what they're seeinggood munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. After It would have been wonderful if, as a volume such as thischild, the obvious response is I'd had access to see that a book such as an incredibly narrow focus. For this book will take the reader and show them exactly what they can't see – from microscopic things living in soil even seasoned Scrabble players haven't heard The Secret Life of, right down to the fish swimming their way towards the Mariana Trench, the deepest section of sea on earthBirds''. Make no bones about it, this book is entirely focused on So – what is beneath our feet and sea levels, and – no pie in the sky response this – it is a winner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783703644</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Haslam and Steve Parker0192779230|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 Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of ''Bit cold out isn't it'' or ''What a beautiful day'', how much do you actually know about what's happening up in the sky? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178493450X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGerms|author=Emma Adams and James Weston Lewis|title=The Great Fire of London: 350th Anniversary of the Great Fire of 1666Isabel Thomas

|summary=While the average primary school child may not quite be able 'Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to fathom cover anything unpleasant which has the importance and actual length of 350 years, it is no reason not potential to put a book out looking back that distance of time to major historical eventsmake you ill. But it has In the first book in what looks to be a good book very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to justify the mental time travel that entailsworld of germs. And you have to hit on a remarkable subject, something that will open We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the young eyes to the danger, tragedy and drama of our historythinking has developed over time. Something The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the Great Fire of Londontrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, as seen in this large hardback, which when it comes down to itfungi, protists and viruses – and for many reasons, is a very good book indeedhow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750298200</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800464495|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Young Rewired StateEmma Smith|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|titlesummary=Get Coding''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? I didn't!How about: Learn HTML ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills.'' 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, CSS & JavaScript & build singing rhymes - gives children a websitesolid foundation when they start school. But do we think the same way about maths, app & gamebeyond 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.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan

|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=Learning to code, even heading into my seventh decade, changed my life 2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for todaysome teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('s children itwho needs sleep? - I's important because it opens so many doorsve got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. It might look complicatedMost people, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but all worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it required is concentration and - eventually - imaginationworse. I had a reasonable mastery of And there's also the skills of basic HTML in three days with the benefit fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a personal tutor, but where virtue and sleep made to go if you don't have that privilege or if you need some extra support? seem like laziness. ''Get Coding!'' seems like Being up early, working late has been praised and the perfect answerability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406366846</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Mills1849767343|title=Top Of The League Count on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=34.5

|summary=Football is known as the beautiful game The title and when I was younger I kind format of believed this. I would spend my free time playing Heads and Volleys with my mates and then go home book might lead you to try and complete my Panini sticker album. There was even the halcyon days when Blackburn Rovers won the title. As I have grown older, my cynicism has grown too. Leicester may be champions, but the day I feel think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a group of multimillionaires beating a group of slightly richer multimillionaires is a win basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the everyman, will be a sad onenumbers journey. Perhaps the love It isn't: it's a hymn of football still burns bright in the youth of today? praise to maths. It''Top Of the League'' certainly hopes s about why maths is so as wonderful and how you meet it is full of facts and figures all about the ball they call footin everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934577</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin Miles1849767009|title=Ultimate Mapping Guide for KidsIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=I've always This could have been fascinated by maps: diverse features can be converted into symbols, drawn on a piece one of paper and then passed those books which 'preaches to someone else to interpret. Making or reading maps the choir': the only people who'll buy it are skills which stay with you throughout life the people who know that nudity is OK and learning the ones who ''know''how tothat it' s shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is relatively simple and great funcoughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. Author Justin Miles had It's a car accident in 1999 celebration of bodies: bodies large and brain injuries meant that he had to learn to walk small and talk from scratchof every possible hue. Whilst he was doing this he decided to become a full time explorer Bodies with disabilities and to support charities which inspire children to learnmarkings. He raises funds by taking on daring challenges, which have included climbing mountains, exploring the Arctic, crossing deserts and cutting his way through the jungleThey're fine. If a man knows about mapsIn fact, then itthey's Justin Milesre wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178493464X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Imogen Greenberg and Isabel Greenberg1776572858|title=The Ancient EgyptiansHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=There was It's more to the Ancient Egyptians than keeping the entrails of their dead in a jar, but sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that is she'd get me a pretty cool fact anywaybook about it. As A couple of days later I was handed a civilisation they knocked around for centuries until Cleopatra pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had a nasty incident with an Asp. never been used in our house before) Cramming all the information on one of the most complex and intriguing peoples of all time is a big ask; making I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it assessable to children is even bigger''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. Imogen Greenberg and Isabel Greenberg have attempted this in I ''knew'' more, but was little ''The Ancient Egyptianswiser''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808255</amazonuk> Thankfully, times have changed.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Imogen Greenberg and Isabel Greenberg1526362759|title=The Roman EmpireDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45

|summary=You may not think it from my writing, but I actually have What a degree in history. relief! Some A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of this was on the Roman Empirewhat it is, why it matters, but even I struggle how to remember acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what happened you can do with it when during the time periodyou've managed to get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. The Republic You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and Empire spanned hundreds of yearsthere might be something you really, so Alexander rocking up with his elephants did not happen anywhere near the rise of Julius Caesar''really'' want to buy. Modern youths would not think to shove There's also the invention possibility of the microchip using to do good in with the Napoleonic Wars, so why would you do this with Rome? Kids need a simple book that tells them about the Roman Empire, but also puts it all in a context and timeline they can understandworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808565</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Kovecses178112938X|title=One Hundred WordsSurvival in Space: A first handwriting bookThe Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=Little Mouse is learning to write. Actually, you donIt't just learn to writes fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, you have to learn to hold and use a pencil and to control it so that but the point goes where you want it to. Pencils - and particularly crayons - have a mind story of their own, you know! So, we start that journey remains one of with the tripod grip and some tips about what to do if you find that difficultgreatest survival stories of all time. Then we're straight into the action, starting with drawing a straight line from side to side and to see what's required we have a footballer kicking a ball Survival in the direction weSpace: The Apollo 13 Mission''re going to go. There are fifteen examples where you trace the line, just so you get the hang is a brilliant retelling of it and then you get to have a go on your ownwhat happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808018</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kay Maguire Kathleen Boucher and Danielle KrollSara Chadwick|title=Nature's Day: Out and AboutNine Ways to Empower Tweens|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=I love books which encourage children to interact with nature - as opposed to a computer screen. I like to see them getting outdoors, preferably getting a bit dirty, being independent and getting excited about nature. A good teacher will inspire children, but ''Nature9 Ways to Empower Tweens's Day: Out and About'' provides support and encouragement in equal measures and might just be what is a child needs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780800X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Danielle Kroll and Nghiem Ta|title=Pattern Play: Cut, Fold and Make Your Own 3D Animal Models|rating=4|genre=Children's Nonself-Fiction|summary=Here's a neat idea help book for youtweens, setting out to show them vital #lifeskills. Provide pages with animal prints on one side - only by animal prints, Don't groan! I mean the sort of colours and pattern which you see on animals, not paw prints! Some are subtle and others are rather more in-your-face. On the reverse of these printed pages provide know there is a cutting line so that you can cut and fold the paper and it becomes a 3D model market glut of an animal. Provide some stickers which replicate faces, tails or beaks - or whatever else you feel needs highlighting such books for we grown- ups and number these so that they get into the right place. All you need to add to the mix is a pair of scissors, parental supervision if necessary for the cuttingyoung adults too, but there is a little imagination needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to younger and you have hours of funyounger children for material for tweens too. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847807321</amazonuk>0228818826}}{{newreview|author=Martin Handford|title=Where's Wally: The Colouring Book|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Are you looking for something relaxing, easy to complete and which will allow your mind to wander freely as you gently colour in a pleasing design? Do you want to indulge your imagination and use the colours which tempt you at the moment, content that it will not affect the finished creation? Would you like large spaces which you can shade in large swoops as it pleases you? Are you aiming for a soothing finished product which is easy on the eye?

Sorry: you've got the wrong book.{{Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406367303</amazonuk>}}{{newreview1609809173|authortitle=Deborah PattersonEiffel's Tower for Young People|titleauthor=My Book of Stories: Write Your Own AdventuresJill Jonnes

|summary=If you happen to have two childrenBrash and elegant, born five years apartsophisticated, you can count on having to live through practically four full years of school holidays – controversial and that doesn't include Bank Holidays or teacher training. Weather permittingvibrant, thatthe 1889 World's well over 1Fair in Paris encompassed the best,400 days where the impetus is worst and the beautiful from many countries and cultures. The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, food festivals and concerts to take them somewherestun the senses. And towering above it all, or spend money. So what better the most popular and cheaper place the most hated monument to take them than their own imagination? And if you can't quite unlock French accomplishment and daring – the door that leads there, we can certainly suggest this bookEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356355</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Claybourne1848576536|title=50 Things You Should Know AboutHumanatomy: Wild WeatherHow the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=45

|summary=Oh''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, this takes me back. Out of all the things we learn at school and profess go inside your insides!'' That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to never want to need as an adultdo and honestly, the water cycle is one that I had forgotten don't see how you could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about, until now. It forms the basis of a lot of our weather, after all – human body to curious children- from the way landmasses and seas warm skeletal system to the air above them differentlymuscular system via circulation, thus causing motion in the shape of winds respiration and altering atmospheric pressuredigestion, right up to the DNA that makes who we call weatherare. And from the gentlest high pressure, that someone somewhere will always deem too hot, to the most furious electrical storm, weather is certainly something a lot of people like to talk about. Is this book the ideal place to learn the basics of such a thing?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178493304X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maria Ana Peixe Dias, Ines Teixeira do Rosario, Bernardo P Carvalho and Lucy Greaves (translator)Langford_Emily|title=Outside: A Guide to Discovering NatureEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=IEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there'm on a mission: I want children - adults too - s no limit to spend how far you can go, but then Emily moved a lot more time outsidestep further and began counting in twos. I want them to have the benefits of fresh air, increasing their levels of vitamin D She knew all about odd and the knowledge of what nature can offer themeven numbers. I'd like Then she began counting in threes: half of the television, computers, mobile phones, video games and list were even books to be laid aside and attention given to what is available for freenumbers, but the other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which - if we donoccurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''t care for it - might not always be there. Fortunately (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the authors odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of ''Outside: A Guide to discovering Nature'' have the same ideaseven numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807690</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus

|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''An activity book, but not as you know itglance'' is what it says on the back cover - and I have to agree. Here at Bookbag we tend to avoid 'activity books' as they usually have soft covers, lots The Little Book of stickers and theythe Dawn Chorus''re but the sort pull of thing you pick up at the supermarket checkout in the hope that it will buy you sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or two's peace in so reading all about the school holidaysbirds and listening to their song. ''The Nature Explorer's Handbook'' is a different beast altogether. It's part album in which you're going to collect Then - just because I could - I went back and store your own finds, part explanation of the best practices of how you should go about this did it all again and part nature guide. It's a substantial hardback book with an elastic band to keep it shut - was just as it's really going to get quite bulky when your collection growsgood the second time around. Production values for the book are high - this really is something which will be treasured for years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190848926X</amazonuk>So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peggy CaravantesPankhurst_Women|title=Marooned in the ArcticFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst

|genre=BiographyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Misogynists are manmadeA lot of history is about men. And if anyone was in a position to hate men Kings and generals and inventors and the lot they put on their shoulderspoliticians. Sometimes, it was Ava Blackjack. Her surname spoke of an abusive man she had a son byfeels almost as though there were no women in history at all, but it was her time with four other men that made for one of the last century's more remarkable storieslet alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. An Inuit nativeOf course, but one brought up in a city and with English lessons, she was invited on an excursion alongside many other 'Eskimothis isn' t true and four intrepid Westerners, to the uninhabited Wrangel Island, perched off the northern Siberian coast. They were there just to stick a flag in it and call it Britishare plenty of women who, even if they were pretty much fully American and Canadianthroughout history, and the chap whose ideas these all were bore an Icelandic name; she was along to provide native expertisehave achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, especially waterproof fur clothingor created something never seen before. And that was it – none of her kin joined herSo here, leaving her in one tent and four men in anotherthis wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, in one are the stories of some of the world's most remote and inhospitable placesthem. And that was just the start of her worries…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1613730985</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Pinnington and Caz BuckinghamIgnotofsky_Sport|title=The Little Book of Woodland Bird SongsWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky

|summary=Take a well-put-together board book (don't worry about it being a board book - no one 'Women in Sport'' is going coming to say that they’re us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a bit too old for century and a board book once they see it)half of the development of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, add exquisite pictures and much more. Think of a dozen birds - one on each sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread - with a brief biography and then fill in the detailsa striking portrait. You}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Rooney_Dino|title=Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|rating=4|genre=Children'll need s Non-Fiction|summary=Lift the name flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of the bird in English and Latin and dinosaurs, we meet a description variety of the bird in words which a child can understand creatures, some of whom are very familiar but which won't patronise an adult. Then yousome I'll need details d never heard of where the bird is foundbefore! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what it eatsthe various dinosaurs are getting up to, where it nestswith background noises, how many eggs it lays, how the male roars and female adults differ and their size. Then you need squawks to accompany them! The book creates a 'Did you know?' fact and this needs to be something which will interest childrendinosaur experience, but which adults might not know either. Does rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it sound simple? Well it isn't, but 'The Little Book of Woodland Bird Songs' does it perfectly. And there's a bonusvery visual, but I'll tell you about placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that in a momentspike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908489286</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Serge BlochMason_poo|title=3, 2, 1... Draw!The Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles|rating=4.5

|summary=I canknow, I know, sometimes you really don't draw. 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 school and found it fascinating! Who knew there was so much Ididn've never been able t know about poo? The book manages to drawbe both funny (and silly) as well as being very interesting and educational. A blank sheet Using a mixture of paper facts and a pencil frightens me. I thought I was probably a little bit old to change my ways but then I discovered ''3figures, 2photographs and funny cartoons, 1... Draw!'' and there might have been you come away having sniggered a movement within little at the tectonic plates of my brain. It's vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a drawing book which isn't lot about blank pages: it's about imagination and inspirationdifferent types of poo, why poos smell, with the first encouraged and the second delivered by the barrow loadwhy wombats do square poos. I've just had more fun than I thought possible with pencil and paper!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807240</amazonuk>