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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Zoe Ingram1839948493|title=Press Out and Colour: Birds|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Ten beautiful birds which start life as detailed line illustrations by Zoe Ingram are then coloured in by anyone of any age who is capable of having reasonable control of a felt-tip pen or a crayon. You've got to remember to do both the back and the front and whilst it would be nice if they matched it's in no way essential. If you're skillful, so much the better, but the designs are decorated with foil which catches the light and gives that sheen which you see on the edges A World of birds' feathers. When you've finished colouring you gently press the pieces out from the page. I experimented with pressing them out first and then colouring, but the pieces were easier to colour actually in the page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637673</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDogs|author=Katie Scott Carlie Sorosiak and Kathy Willis|title=Botanicum (Welcome To The Museum)Luisa Uribe|rating=3.5|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=''Welcome to In the Museum'' it says on the front cover and interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'll admit that m a sucker for the moment I was confused as dogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never associated museums with living plants, but as soon as met one I didn't trust and I stepped inside the covers, 've loved most of them. I knew where wish I wasfelt the same about human beings. One of the authorsSo, Professor Kathy Willis is the Director of Science at Kew Gardens: she's undoubtedly based her thoughts on Kewany book about dogs, but for me I was back in the glasshouses at the [http://www.rbge.org.uk/ Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh] - the glorious 'Botanics'm going to sit down and devour. Then I'm not certain why we're supposed going to be in a museum, unless go back and read it properly. And so itwas with ''A World of Dogs''s that it allows us , with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to refer to author Kathy Willis and illustrator Katie Scott as curatorsmy four-legged friends. Still itAuthor Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a contrivance which doesn't affect the contentlot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783703946</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah Patterson1529507987|title=My The Repair Shop Craft Book of Stories: Write Your Own Fairy Tales|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)

|summary=Pity the child these days who never reads fairy tales. I love ''The irony in that, however, is that they may well be too busy watching Repair Shop''Frozen. It'' on repeat s my go-to programme when I want to read fairy talesbe cheered up. But read them After a hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they should're worth. You see, the value is in some form or another, what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and of one era or anotherthe memories they hold. They don't all have to go back No expense appears to be spared and the oldest collections, especially experts spend as they will like much time and effort as not be more gory than what, say, Disney or Ladybird Books put out in our youthis required to achieve the desired result. They can read a fairy tale from any age, then – Regular viewers know the experts and when they're done, all brilliant at explaining what it is they can easily turn to this book, which provides more than enough impetus for you to write your own're doing. Fairy tales do, as it happens, have the ability to last for centuries – but there's nothing quite like giving them a little tweak to get them up-to-date…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356428</amazonuk>But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Harriet Russell024162343X|title= This Book Thinks You're a ScientistStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= ''This Book Thinks You're I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a Scientist'god' takes children through a whole world of scientific areas: forces and motions. Where was the proof? In history lessons, light, matter, sound, electricity and magnetismit was probably worse still. It encourages children Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to looklearn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, ask questions and a have a gobut 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. This scienceLooking back, I still believe I was right -based activity book, published in association with but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the Science Museum, will stimulate and inspire young mindsproblem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500650810</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Deborah PattersonJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=My Book of Stories: Write Your Own MythsFritz and Kurt

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=I don't know about you, but as a young child I was always looking ahead, not backwards. Musically, I could bear a few We start with the pair of my older brother's recordsbrothers Fritz and Kurt, but wanted to know what was released next weekand their muckers, never what was doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the charts of my parent's era. I think empty market place, helping the same would have been said about my readingneighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and my interests – although that's only to at a certain extentvocational school. I donKurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours't think I'd have thanked you each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for pointing using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to my dinosaur books, right next cave to my space and science fiction shelvesHitler's will, and I think I'd have preferred you instead of having a national vote to see keep the latest novelNazis out, rather than those books of myths I also enjoyedinvite them in with open arms. Myths? They're, like, old. But they don't need Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much embellishment to be seen as great funin Germany, as did all the round-ups of Jews. The next stepThese 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, howeverwhile Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to see them as something you yourself could writeeach other, well – that's a bit greaterpacked off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. But it's one taken by And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this book, nevertheless.could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0712356436</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Camilla Hallinan1913750353|title=The Ultimate Peter Rabbit: A Visual Guide to Britannica's Word of the World of Beatrix PotterDay|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=45

|summary=I had ''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a deprived childhoodsub-title: I never knew Peter Rabbit''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. He It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz''d have been at about his half century by the time I could have been reading him, but books at home didntells you how to pronounce it (''t go beyond Enid Blyton. Peter was drawing his old age pension by the time that I discovered him when my daughter fell in love with him and raz- in her turn muh- read them to her own children thirty years later. HeTAZ's well past his century now and still delighting children of all ages: he's accessible ), gives you a definition and relatable then includes the word in a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. I candon't recollect think I've ever meeting encountered a child who didn't have a soft spot for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241289653</amazonuk>word which uses the letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK0711266204|title=My Encyclopedia The Secret Life of Very Important ThingsBirds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45

|summary= Depending on I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the curiosity level vast numbers of your child, you may start to hate the word whybirds which visit our garden on a daily basis. Why is the sky blue? Why do some elephants have bigger ears than others? Why, why, why, why! I An hour can suggest to most parents that they make something up that sounds vaguely intelligentpass without my noticing. The problem is that kids are canny little things. SoI've established which species feed from the ground, rather than trying which pop to download the entirety feeders for a quick snatch of the internet into your headsome food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if, get your as a child their own first encyclopaedia, something like I'd had access to a book such as 'My Encyclopedia 'The Secret Life of Very Important ThingsBirds''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241224934</amazonuk> So – what is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Mariadiamantes0192779230|title=Little People, Big DreamsVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: Amelia EarhartThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=3.5

|summary=Amelia Earhart was born just before the end of the nineteenth century but she would 'Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the most famous female pilot of potential to make you ill. In the twentieth, having first become interested book in planes when she went what looks to an airshow when she was just nineteen. Shortly afterwards be a pilot gave her a ride in very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a biplane clear and from that moment on she knew that she had accessible introduction to flythe world of germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the thinking has developed over time. There had been precursors to this obsession though: when she was The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a little girl she regular box headed 'speak like to imagine that she could stretch her wings a scientist' which explains some of the trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and fly like a birdhow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808859</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Bate1800464495|title=Peter 100 Ways in Peril100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith|rating=34.5

|summary=Meet Peter''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. He hasn'' Did you know this? I didn't got ! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a brilliant lifestrong predictor of later achievement, by modern standards – always getting into troubledouble 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, and playing some form of football with coat buttonsteaching pen grips, but with singing rhymes - gives children a loving nanny solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the same way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and parentsit follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial. }} {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The trouble is 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 he is living in Budapest, statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and while Peter understands nothing for some teenagers this will have brought about the outside world's sleep problems . Some teens will dismiss this as yetirrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, he from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is about only likely to see what happens when the Nazis take controlmake it worse. Andthere's also the fact that for far too long, in these graphic novel-styled pageslack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, so are we…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191095957X</amazonuk>working late has been praised and the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Raman Prinja1849767343|title=50 Things You Should Know About SpaceCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=34.5

|summary=Space is a cold The title and desolate place, but learning format of this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it does not need to be. Nothing else quite captures the immensity that is Space – all 's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the stars and planets out there that could contain alien lifenumbers journey. How can you capture this majesty and put It isn't: it onto 's a page so that you inspire the youth hymn of today praise to be the astronauts and astronomers of tomorrow? maths. A series of dry fact It's about why maths is perhaps not the best option, unless they happen to be a very specific type of childso wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934720</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clive Gifford1849767009|title=This is Not a Science Book: A Smart Art Activity BookIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'This ll buy it are the people who know that nudity is Not a Science BookOK and the ones who ''know'' explores that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the oftenhot-overlooked link between science and creativity. This interactive book encourages readers to get cutting, glueing, twisting, colouring and shading -bothered person in order the supermarket who is coughing fit to create a variety of at-home experiments that are as entertaining as they are educationalbust. But... The activities are also perfect for Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a rainy day; making this book about not wearing clothes. It's a welcome resource during the long (celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and often wet) school holidaysmarkings. They're fine. In fact, they're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782403973</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Laura Barwick1776572858|title=Animal Babies|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Let's face it: with How Do You Make a fluffy lion cub on the cover, inviting readers to take a peek inside, only the most hard-hearted 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>}}{{newreviewBaby?|author=Nikalas Catlow Anna Fiske and David Sinden|title=The Arty BookDon Bartlett (translator)|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=Arty is your creative friendIt's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. He is the star of this art activity book from Nikalas Catlow My mother was deeply embarrassed and David Sinden. Hetold me that she's d get me a bit brusque on the first pagebook about it. This is Arty announces A couple of days later I was handed a bigpamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, black arrowin clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. And Arty commands I ''knew'' more, Colour me inbut was little ''wiser''. Who could resist? Because Arty is a winsome little figure with nutty Thankfully, curly hair and great big red glassestimes have changed. On the cover, those red glasses spell book and they look unruly and exciting, don't you think?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408870665</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=CoderDojo1526362759|title=Build Your Own WebsiteDosh: Create with CodeHow to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande

|summary=The Nanonauts want What a website relief! A book about money, for their bandchildren, and who better to build with clear explanations of what it for them than the CoderDojo network of free computing clubs for young people? In this handbookis, created in conjunction with the CoderDojo Foundationwhy it matters, children of seven plus will learn how to build a website using HTML, CSS acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and Javascriptwhat you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. DonYour reasons for wanting money don't worry too much if matter: we all need it to some of those words don't mean anything extent. You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you - all will might even become an ''investor'') and there might be made clear as something you read through the bookreally, ''really'' want to buy. There's also information about how the possibility of using to start a CoderDojo Nano club with friends - which has great benefits do good in terms of harnessing creativity, learning how to code - and the benefits of teamworkworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405278730</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Walden178112938X|title=In FocusSurvival in Space: 101 Close Ups, Cross-Sections The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and CutawaysStefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=Only recently I've had reason to applaud a childrenIt's non-fiction book for concentrating on showing its audience what they have no hope to see – in that case, fifty years since the underground and underwater worlds, Apollo 13 mission was launched from the shallowest plant roots to the deepest oceanic explorations and everything Kennedy Space Centre in between. Other unseen worlds are all around usFlorida, however – they're what goes on on but the inside story of things – inside a pocket watch (remember them?), inside a yurt, a space shuttle, a volcano, a toilet… This pleasant square block that journey remains one of book not only gives us the outside image and greatest survival stories of all time. ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a caption, but the full story brilliant retelling of the innards, meaning the young reader is certainly going where they've never been before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184857505X</amazonuk>what happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=CoderDojoKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=Build Your Own Website: Create with CodeNine 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

|summary=The Nanonauts want a website for their bandBrash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and who better to build it for them than vibrant, the 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the CoderDojo network of free computing clubs for young people? In this handbookbest, created in conjunction with the CoderDojo Foundationworst and the beautiful from many countries and cultures. The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, children of seven plus will learn how to build a website using HTMLput on art shows, dance performances, CSS food festivals and Javascript. Don't worry too much if some of those words don't mean anything concerts to you - all will be made clear as you read through stun the booksenses. There's also information about how to start a CoderDojo Nano club with friends - which has great benefits in terms of harnessing creativityAnd towering above it all, learning how the most popular and the most hated monument to code - French accomplishment and daring – the benefits of teamworkEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405278730</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Bright1848576536|title=See Inside Dinosaurs Humanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=3.5

|summary=What would you do if the doorbell rang ''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and when you opened the door you saw a giant Trojan-Horse waiting for you? I for one would not drag the thing in; it would be too big and could be full of angry Greeks. The same could be said of go inside your insides!'' That's what ''See inside DinosaursHumanatomy'' by Michael Bright. You may think that invites you are buying one thingto do and honestly, but instead I don't see how you are getting an impressive triceratops skeleton, or could resist. This informative book provides a Twonderful primer about the human body to curious children-Rex modelfrom the skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, respiration and digestion, or maybe even a bookright up to the DNA that makes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934739</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve ParkerLangford_Emily|title=100 Facts Butterflies & MothsEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=54

|summary=Damn those beesEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. TheyObviously, you can count anything and there're not the only flying creatures vanishing from our world at alarming ratess no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the otherslist were even numbers, like butterflies but the other half was odd and moths, are actually runners-up to Mr Bumble and his mysteriously dying ilk it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in pollinating plantsthrees which she called ''threeven''. Plus (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're more visually attractive. But even a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though this book has two nudges and they ought to be a thanks given to subset of the Butterfly Conservation bodyeven numbers, that's certainly not the more notable feature of these pages. What stands but it all worked out is the superlative contentwell when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786170116</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= National Geographic KidsBuckingham_Dawn|title= Angry Birds Playground: Atlas (Angry Birds Playgrounds)The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating= 5|genre= Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''Angry Birds Playgroundglance'' is at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the sounds of a new educational book series based dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a geographical themecold and rather wet February morning. Rovio I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and listening to their song. Then -the team responsible for the popular gamejust because I could - have teamed up with National Geographic Kids to create a stunning set of books that perfectly blend the cheeky humour from the game with informative text I went back and breathtaking real-world photography. The series will appeal to young fans of the game did it all again and anyone who has an interest in the wonders of it was just as good the natural worldsecond time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1426324596</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Archer and Caroline CraigPankhurst_Women|title=The Kew Gardens Children's Cookbook: Plant, Cook, EatFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst

|summary=I grew up in the immediate post war periodA lot of history is about men. Growing your own vegetables had been a necessity in the war Kings and generals and it was still a habit for those who had a bit of garden, so ''The Kew Gardens Children's Cookbook'' was a real pleasure for me, as well as a touch of nostalgia. The principle is very simple: show children how to grow their own vegetables inventors and then how to transform them into delicious foodpoliticians. It sounds simpleSometimes, doesn't it? Wellfeels almost as though there were no women in history at all, it let alone ones young girls might come like to read about or regard as a surprise, but it is!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750298197</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Haslam and Steve Parker|title= A Journey Through Nature|rating= 4role models.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Beautifully presentedOf course, this is a book that takes a worldwide look at the natural world, in both urban isn't true and rural locations. We start off in the citythere are plenty of women who, looking at pigeonsthroughout history, the American racoonhave achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, the Australian possum and the South American Marmosetor created something never seen before. I learnt 3 things So here, in this wonderful picture book from those first two pagesKate Pankhurst, including what Kits are, how long babies live with the possum mothers and the pregnancy traits stories of some of the monkeys. We were off to a good startthem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934496</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aleksandra Mizielinski, Daniel Mizielinski and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)Ignotofsky_Sport|title=Under Earth, Under WaterWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky

|summary=One of the major remits of children's non-fiction books 'Women in Sport'' is coming to get them to look around them us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and gain a better understanding half of what they're seeing. After a volume such as this, the obvious response is to see that as an incredibly narrow focus. For this book will take the reader and show them exactly what they candevelopment of women't see – from microscopic things living in soil even seasoned Scrabble players haven't heard s sport by looking at fifty ofits highest achievers, right down to the fish covering sports as diverse as swimming their way towards the Mariana Trench, the deepest section fencing, riding, skating, and much more. Think of sea on earth. Make no bones about a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it, is probably in this book somewhere. Each entry is entirely focused on what is beneath our feet a double-page spread with a brief biography and sea levels, and – no pie in the sky response this – it is a winnerstriking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783703644</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Haslam and Steve ParkerRooney_Dino|title= A Journey Through the Weather|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= We're British. We LOVE to talk about the weather. But beyond the usual platitudes of ''Bit cold out isn't it'' or ''What a beautiful day'', how much do you actually know about what's happening up in the sky? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178493450X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Emma Adams Anne Rooney and James Weston Lewis|title=The Great Fire of London: 350th Anniversary of the Great Fire of 1666Suzanne Carpenter|rating=54

|summary=While Lift the average primary school flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child may not quite be able to fathom the importance and actual length . This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of 350 yearsdinosaurs, it is no reason not to put we meet a book out looking back that distance variety of time to major historical events. But it has to be a good book to justify the mental time travel that entails. And you have to hit on a remarkable subjectcreatures, something that will some of whom are very familiar but some I'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open , layer by layer, showing you what the young eyes various dinosaurs are getting up to the danger, tragedy with background noises, roars and drama of our history. Something like the Great Fire of Londonsquawks to accompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, as seen in this large hardback, which when it comes down to rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and for many reasons, is a very good book indeedgiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750298200</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Young Rewired StateMason_poo|title=Get Coding!: Learn HTML, CSS & JavaScript & build a website, app & gameThe Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles

|summary=Learning to codeI know, even heading into my seventh decadeI know, changed my life and for todaysometimes you really don's t want to encourage your children it's important because it opens so many doors. It might look complicatedpoo jokes, but all it required this book is concentration brilliant! I sat and - eventually - imagination. I read it by myself when the kids had a reasonable mastery of the skills of basic HTML in three days with the benefit of a personal tutor, but where gone to go if you donschool and found it fascinating! Who knew there was so much I didn't have that privilege or if you need some extra supportknow about poo? ''Get Coding!'' seems like the perfect answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406366846</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Andrea Mills|title=Top Of The League |rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Football is known book manages to be both funny (and silly) as well as the beautiful game being very interesting and when I was younger I kind educational. Using a mixture of believed this. I would spend my free time playing Heads facts and Volleys with my mates figures, photographs and then go home to try and complete my Panini sticker album. There was even funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a little at the halcyon days when Blackburn Rovers won the title. As I have grown older, my cynicism has grown too. Leicester may be champions, vulture who poos on its own feet but the day I feel that also knowing a group lot about different types of multimillionaires beating a group of slightly richer multimillionaires is a win for the everymanpoo, why poos smell, will be a sad one. Perhaps the love of football still burns bright in the youth of today? ''Top Of the League'' certainly hopes so as it is full of facts and figures all about the ball they call footwhy wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934577</amazonuk>