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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clive Gifford1839948493|title=This is Not a Science Book: A Smart Art Activity Book|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''This is Not a Science Book'' explores the often-overlooked link between science and creativity. This interactive book encourages readers to get cutting, glueing, twisting, colouring and shading in order to create a variety of at-home experiments that are as entertaining as they are educational. The activities are also perfect for a rainy day; making this book a welcome resource during the long (and often wet) school holidays.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782403973</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Laura Barwick|title=Animal Babies|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Let's face it: with a fluffy lion cub on the cover, inviting readers to take a peek inside, only the most hard-hearted World of individuals could resist the temptation to pick up ''Animal Babies'' to explore the further delights within its pages. Once hooked, the reader is rewarded with a visual feast of adorable baby creatures, each page seemingly cuter than the last.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785941003</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDogs|author=Nikalas Catlow and David Sinden|title=The Arty Book|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Arty is your creative friend. He is the star of this art activity book from Nikalas Catlow and David Sinden. He's a bit brusque on the first page. This is Arty announces a big, black arrow. And Arty commands, Colour me in. Who could resist? Because Arty is a winsome little figure with nutty, curly hair and great big red glasses. On the cover, those red glasses spell book Carlie Sorosiak and they look unruly and exciting, don't you think?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408870665</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=CoderDojo|title=Build Your Own Website: Create with CodeLuisa 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=Libby Walden1529507987|title=In Focus: 101 Close Ups, Cross-Sections The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and CutawaysSonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=Only recently Ilove 've had reason 'The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to applaud programme when I want to be cheered up. After a childrenhard day, there's non-fiction book for concentrating on showing its audience nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they have no hope to 're worth. You see – , the value is in that case, what these possessions are worth to the underground people who own them and underwater worlds, from the shallowest plant roots memories they hold. No expense appears to be spared and the deepest oceanic explorations experts spend as much time and everything in betweeneffort as is required to achieve the desired result. Other unseen worlds are all around us, however – Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what goes on on the inside of things – inside a pocket watch (remember them?), inside a yurt, a space shuttle, a volcano, a toilet… This pleasant square block of book not only gives us the outside image and a caption, but the full story of the innards, meaning the young reader it is certainly going where they've never been before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184857505X</amazonuk>re doing. But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=CoderDojo024162343X|title=Build Your Own Website: Create with CodeStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|summary=The Nanonauts want a website for their band, and who better to build it for them than I was the CoderDojo network of free computing clubs for young bad company other people? got into at school. In this handbook, created I was disruptive in conjunction with religious education classes because I disputed the CoderDojo Foundation, children existence of seven plus will learn how to build a website using HTML'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, CSS and Javascriptit was probably worse still. DonNot too long after the end of WWII, I didn't worry too so much if some of those words donwant to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't mean anything dwell on those) in what came to you - all will be made clear called 'the colonies' as you read through want to dispute what right the bookarmy had to be there in the first place. There's also information about how to start a CoderDojo Nano club with friends Looking back, I still believe I was right - which has great benefits in terms of harnessing creativity, learning how but I regret that I lacked the maturity to code - and approach 'the benefits of teamworkproblem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405278730</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael BrightJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=See Inside Dinosaurs Fritz and Kurt|rating=3.54|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=What We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would you want to do if – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the doorbell rang and neighbours, being dutiful when you opened it comes to the door you saw synagogue choir and at a giant Trojan-Horse waiting 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 you? using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. I for one would not drag But this is the time just before the thing in; it would be too big Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and could be full instead of angry Greekshaving a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. The same could be said of ''See inside DinosaursKristallnacht'' by Michael Brighthappened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups of Jews. You may think that you are buying one thingThese 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, but instead you while Fritz and his father are getting an impressive triceratops skeleton, or a T-Rex modelunknown initially to each other, or maybe even a bookpacked off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784934739</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Parker1913750353|title=100 Facts Butterflies & MothsBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy

|summary=Damn those bees. They're not 'Britannica's Word of the only flying creatures vanishing from our world at alarming rates, and the others, like butterflies and moths, are actually runnersDay'' has a sub-up title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Mr Bumble Stretch Your Cranium and his mysteriously dying ilk in pollinating plants. Plus theyTickle Your Humerus''re more visually attractive. But even though which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book has two nudges and a thanks given . It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you how to the Butterfly Conservation body, that's certainly not the more notable feature of these pages. What stands out is the superlative content.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786170116</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= National Geographic Kids|title= Angry Birds Playground: Atlas pronounce it (Angry Birds Playgrounds)|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=''Angry Birds Playgroundraz-muh-TAZ'' is ), gives you a new educational book series based on a geographical theme. Rovio-definition and then includes the team responsible for the popular game- have teamed up with National Geographic Kids to create word in a stunning set of books sentence so that perfectly blend the cheeky humour from the game with informative text you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and breathtaking real-world photographyfrequently amusing illustration too. The series will appeal to young fans of I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the game and anyone who has an interest in the wonders of the natural world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1426324596</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Archer and Caroline Craig0711266204|title=The Kew Gardens Children's Cookbook: Plant, Cook, EatSecret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)

|summary=I grew up in have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the immediate post war periodvast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. Growing your own vegetables had been a necessity in I've established which species feed from the ground, which pop to the war and it was still a habit feeders for those who had a bit quick snatch of garden, so ''The Kew Gardens Children's Cookbook'' was a real pleasure some food and who settles in for me, as well as a touch of nostalgia. The principle is very simple: show children how to grow their own vegetables and then how to transform them into delicious foodgood munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It sounds simple, doesn't it? Wellwould have been wonderful if, it might come as a surprisechild, but it is!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750298197</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Haslam and Steve Parker|title= A Journey Through Nature|rating= 4.5|genre= ChildrenI's Non-Fiction|summary= Beautifully presented, this is d had access to a book that takes a worldwide look at the natural world, in both urban and rural locationssuch as ''The Secret Life of Birds''. 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 So – what Kits are, how long babies live with the possum mothers and the pregnancy traits of the monkeys. We were off to a good start.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934496</amazonuk>is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aleksandra Mizielinski, Daniel Mizielinski and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)0192779230|title=Under Earth, Under WaterVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas

|summary=One of the major remits of children's nonGerms' seems to have become a catch-fiction books is all word to get them cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to look around them and gain a better understanding of what they're seeingmake you ill. After In the first book in what looks to be a volume such as thisvery promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the obvious response is to see that as an incredibly narrow focusworld of germs. For this book will take the reader We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and show them exactly what they thought caused them and how the thinking has developed over time. The vocabulary canbe confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 't see – from microscopic things living in soil even seasoned Scrabble players havenspeak like a scientist't heard which explains some of, right down to the fish swimming their way towards the Mariana Trench, the deepest section of sea on earth. Make no bones about ittrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, this book is entirely focused on what is beneath our feet and sea levelsfungi, protists and viruses – no pie in the sky response this – it is a winnerand how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783703644</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Haslam and Steve Parker1800464495|title= A Journey Through the Weather100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= We're British. We LOVE 'Babies seem to talk about be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the weatherwomb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old. But beyond the usual platitudes of ''Bit cold out isn Did you know this? I didn't it! How about: '' or Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills.''What  I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a beautiful day''good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, how much singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do you actually know we think the same way about whatmaths, beyond counting? I don's happening up t think we do, in the skypart 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|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178493450X</amazonuk>1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=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 brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. And there's also the fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, working late has been praised and the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Adams and James Weston Lewis1849767343|title=The Great Fire of London: 350th Anniversary of the Great Fire of 1666Count on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5

|summary=While the average primary school child may not quite be able to fathom the importance The title and actual length format of 350 years, this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it is no reason not to put 's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out looking back that distance of time to major historical eventson the numbers journey. But It isn't: it has to be 's a good book hymn of praise to justify the mental time travel that entailsmaths. And It's about why maths is so wonderful and how you have to hit on a remarkable subject, something that will open the young eyes to the danger, tragedy and drama of our history. Something like the Great Fire of London, as seen meet it in this large hardback, which when it comes down to it, and for many reasons, is a very good book indeedeveryday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750298200</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Young Rewired State1849767009|title=Get Coding!: Learn HTML, CSS & JavaScript & build a website, app & gameIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine

|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=Learning This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to code, even heading into my seventh decade, changed my life the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and for todaythe ones who 's children 'know'' that it's important because shameful will avoid it opens so many doorslike they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. It might look complicated, but all But... Rosie Haines makes it required is concentration and - eventually - imaginationinto something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. I had It's a reasonable mastery celebration of the skills bodies: bodies large and small and of basic HTML in three days every possible hue. Bodies with the benefit of a personal tutor, but where to go if you dondisabilities and markings. They't have that privilege or if you need some extra support? re fine. In fact, they''Get Coding!'' seems like the perfect answerre wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406366846</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Mills1776572858|title=Top Of The League How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=Football is known as the beautiful game and when I was younger It's more than sixty years since I kind of believed thisasked how babies were made. I would spend my free time playing Heads My mother was deeply embarrassed and Volleys with my mates and then go home to try and complete my Panini sticker albumtold me that she'd get me a book about it. There A couple of days later I was even the halcyon days when Blackburn Rovers won handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the title. As I have grown olderbasics, my cynicism has grown too. in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) Leicester may be champions, but the day and I feel was told that a group of multimillionaires beating a group of slightly richer multimillionaires is a win for the everyman, will it wouldn't be a sad onediscussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. Perhaps the love of football still burns bright in the youth of today? I ''knew'' more, but was little ''Top Of the Leaguewiser'' certainly hopes so as it is full of facts and figures all about the ball they call foot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934577</amazonuk> Thankfully, times have changed.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin Miles1526362759|title=Ultimate Mapping Guide for KidsDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45

|summary=I've always been fascinated by maps: diverse features can be converted into symbolsWhat a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, drawn on a piece how to acquire more of paper it (nope - robbing banks is out) and then passed to someone else to interpret. Making or reading maps are skills which stay what you can do with it when you throughout life and learning 'how ve managed to' is relatively simple and great funget hold of it. Author Justin Miles had a car accident in 1999 and brain injuries meant that he had to learn Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to walk and talk from scratchsome extent. Whilst he was doing this he decided You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become a full time explorer an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to support charities which inspire children to learnbuy. He raises funds by taking on daring challenges, which have included climbing mountains, exploring There's also the Arctic, crossing deserts and cutting his way through possibility of using to do good in the jungle. If a man knows about maps, then it's Justin Milesworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178493464X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Imogen Greenberg and Isabel Greenberg178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Ancient EgyptiansApollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=There It's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was more to launched from the Ancient Egyptians than keeping the entrails of their dead Kennedy Space Centre in a jarFlorida, but the story of that is a pretty cool fact anyway. As a civilisation they knocked around for centuries until Cleopatra had a nasty incident with an Asp. Cramming all the information on journey remains one of the most complex and intriguing peoples greatest survival stories of all time is a big ask; making it assessable to children is even bigger. Imogen Greenberg and Isabel Greenberg have attempted this in ''Survival in Space: The Ancient EgyptiansApollo 13 Mission''is a brilliant retelling of what happened. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808255</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Imogen Greenberg Kathleen Boucher and Isabel GreenbergSara Chadwick|title=The Roman EmpireNine Ways to Empower Tweens|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book for tweens, setting out to show them vital #lifeskills. Don't groan! I know there is a market glut of such books for we grown-ups and for young adults too, but there is a needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for tweens too. |isbn= 0228818826}}  {{Frontpage|isbn=1609809173|title=Eiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=5

|summary=You may not think it from my writingBrash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, but I actually have a degree the 1889 World's Fair in history. Some of this was on Paris encompassed the Roman Empirebest, but even I struggle to remember what happened when during the time periodworst 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 Empire spanned hundreds of years, so Alexander rocking up with his elephants did not happen anywhere near concerts to stun the rise of Julius Caesarsenses. Modern youths would not think to shove And towering above it all, the invention of most popular and the microchip in with most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – 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 understandEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808565</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Kovecses1848576536|title=One Hundred WordsHumanatomy: A first handwriting bookHow the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=45

|summary=Little Mouse is learning ''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!'' That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to write. Actuallydo and honestly, you I don't just learn to write, see how you have to learn to hold and use could resist. This informative book provides a pencil and to control it so that wonderful primer about the point goes where you want it human body to. Pencils curious children- and particularly crayons - have a mind of their own, you know! So, we start of with from the tripod grip and some tips about what skeletal system to do if you find that difficult. Then we're straight into the actionmuscular system via circulation, starting with drawing a straight line from side to side respiration and digestion, right up to see what's required we have a footballer kicking a ball in the direction DNA that makes who 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kay Maguire and Danielle KrollLangford_Emily|title=NatureEmily's Day: Out and AboutNumbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=I love books which encourage children to interact with nature - as opposed to a computer screenEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. I like Obviously, you can count anything and there's no limit to see them getting outdoorshow far you can go, preferably getting but then Emily moved a bit dirty, being independent step further and getting excited began counting in twos. She knew all about natureodd and even numbers. A good teacher will inspire childrenThen she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, but the other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''Naturethreeven's Day: Out and About'. (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they' provides support and encouragement in equal measures and might just re a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be what a child needssubset of the even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780800X</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danielle Kroll and Nghiem TaBuckingham_Dawn|title=Pattern Play: Cut, Fold The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Make Your Own 3D Animal ModelsAndrea Pinnington|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Here's What a neat idea for you. treat! Provide pages with animal prints on one side - only by animal prints, I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the sort sounds of colours and pattern which you see a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on animals, not paw prints! Some are subtle a cold and others are rather more in-your-facewet February morning. On the reverse of these printed pages provide a cutting line I spent an indulgent hour or so that you can cut and fold reading all about the paper birds and it becomes a 3D model of an animallistening to their song. Provide some stickers which replicate faces, tails or beaks Then - or whatever else you feel needs highlighting just because I could - I went back and number these so that they get into did it all again and it was just as good the right placesecond time around. All you need to add to the mix is a pair of scissors, parental supervision if necessary for the cuttingSo, a little imagination and what do you have hours of fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807321</amazonuk>get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin HandfordPankhurst_Women|title=Where's Wally: The Colouring BookFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst

|summary=Are you looking for something relaxingA lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, easy to complete and which will allow your mind to wander freely it feels almost as you gently colour though there were no women in a pleasing design? Do you want to indulge your imagination and use the colours which tempt you history at the momentall, content that it will not affect the finished creation? Would you let alone ones young girls might like large spaces which you can shade in large swoops to read about or regard as it pleases you? Are you aiming for a soothing finished product which is easy on the eye? Sorry: yourole models. Of course, this isn've got t true and there are plenty of women who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. So here, in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the wrong bookstories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406367303</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah PattersonIgnotofsky_Sport|title=My Book of StoriesWomen in Sport: Write Your Own AdventuresFifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky

|summary=If you happen ''Women in Sport'' is coming to have two childrenus just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a half of the development of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, born five years apartcovering sports as diverse as swimming, you can count on having to live through practically four full years of school holidays – and that doesn't include Bank Holidays or teacher training. Weather permittingfencing, that's well over 1riding,400 days where the impetus is on to take them somewhereskating, or spend moneyand much more. So what better Think of a sport and cheaper place to take them than their own imagination? And if you can't quite unlock the door that leads there, we can certainly suggest a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this booksomewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356355</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna ClaybourneRooney_Dino|title=50 Things You Should Know About: Wild WeatherDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter

|summary=Oh, this takes me backLift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. Out of all the things we learn at school and profess to never want to need as an adult, the water cycle is This one that I had forgotten aboutcomes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, until now. It forms the basis through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a lot variety of our weathercreatures, after all – the way landmasses and seas warm the air above them differentlysome of whom are very familiar but some I'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, thus causing motion in the shape of winds and altering atmospheric pressurelayer by layer, that we call weather. And from showing you what the gentlest high pressurevarious dinosaurs are getting up to, that someone somewhere will always deem too hotwith background noises, roars and squawks to the most furious electrical stormaccompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, weather is certainly something a lot of people like to talk rather than just being facts aboutdinosaurs it's very visual, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination. 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)Mason_poo|title=Outside: A Guide to Discovering NatureThe Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles|rating=45

|summary=Iknow, I know, sometimes you really don'm on a mission: I t want to encourage your children - adults too - 's poo jokes, but this book is brilliant! I sat and read it by myself when the kids had gone to spend a lot more time outside. school and found it fascinating! Who knew there was so much I want them didn't know about poo? The book manages to have the benefits be both funny (and silly) as well as being very interesting and educational. Using a mixture of fresh airfacts and figures, increasing their levels of vitamin D photographs and funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a little at the knowledge vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about different types of what nature can offer them. I'd like the television, computerspoo, mobile phoneswhy poos smell, video games and even books to be laid aside and attention given to what is available for free, but which - if we don't care for it - might not always be there. Fortunately the authors of ''Outside: A Guide to discovering Nature'' have the same ideaswhy wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807690</amazonuk>