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|summary=It is hard to imagineIn the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, but the original Gruffalo book came out almost twenty years agoI've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. This is a franchise that just keeps rolling onI wish I felt the same about human beings. CertainlySo, you can buy the any book or the sequelabout dogs, but if you visit a shop you will find Gruffalo toys, cards, even egg cupsI'm going to sit down and devour. Each year brings with it a new idea of how Then I'm going to push the Gruf go back and palsread it properly. 2016 is the year And so it was with ''A World of the recipe bookDogs'', but will it live up with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the quality accidental owner of the original?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509804749</amazonuk>an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Baker, Zanna Davidson and Page Tsou1529507987|title=Highest Mountain, Deepest OceanThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=34.5

|summary=I love ''The greatest thing a good library can do is lie in wait, holding the weight of the entire world on its shelvesRepair Shop''. Let alone all the imaginative fiction it can take guardianship of, it can also store a huge gamut of facts, opinions and true tales, transporting a reader It's my go-to programme when they choose I want to take be cheered up. After a book down and read it wherever hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they want to go're worth. This book is one of those that can take you placesYou see, too – 3.6 metres down into the earth, where a Nile crocodile might have dug itself to lay out a drought, its heart beating twice a minute; or value is in what these possessions are worth to the hottest or driest, or most rained-on placepeople who own them and the memories they hold. It can take you back No expense appears to prehistory be spared and size you up against the biggest raptors experts spend as much time and other dinosaurs, or effort as is required to achieve the centre of the very earth itselfdesired result. There Regular viewers know the pressure experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is akin to having the entire Empire State Building sat on your forehead – now thatthey's weight indeed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704845</amazonuk>re doing. But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Baker and Eleanor Taylor024162343X|title=Secrets of the SeaStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=3.5

|summary=When I was the young are urged to explore bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the world around them, we adults never state it, but thereexistence of a 'god's a huge section of . Where was the world they are quite unlikely to go investigating in. proof? And for obvious reasons – it can be slightly dangerous even to enter itIn history lessons, and while it's huge it's not on every doorstepwas probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, Ididn'm talking t so much want to learn about the oceanBritish army's successes (and occasional failures, of course – which is where books such but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as this come want to dispute what right the army had to be there in to explain and illustrate the topicfirst place. With so much of it Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to be researched and encountered, you never know – this book might well inspire a pioneering discovery some time in approach 'the futureproblem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704349</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Zoe IngramJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Press Out Fritz and Colour: BirdsKurt

|genre=CraftsConfident Readers|summary=Ten beautiful birds which We start life as detailed line illustrations by Zoe Ingram are then coloured in by anyone with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any age who is capable of having reasonable control of 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 felt-tip pen or a crayonvocational school. YouKurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours've got to remember to do both each Friday night – the back Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But this is the front and whilst it would be nice if they matched ittime just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in no way essentialwith open arms. If you're skillful, so 'Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much the betteras in Germany, but as did all the designs are decorated with foil which catches the light and gives that sheen which you see on the edges round-ups of birds' feathersJews. When you've finished colouring you gently press These in their turn leave the pieces out from younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the page. I experimented with pressing them out first US, while Fritz and then colouringhis father are, but unknown initially to each other, packed off on the pieces were easier same train to colour actually in Buchenwald and the pagestone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857637673</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katie Scott and Kathy Willis1913750353|title=Botanicum (Welcome To The Museum)Britannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=3.5|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=''Welcome to Britannica's Word of the MuseumDay'' it says on the front cover has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and ITickle Your Humerus''ll admit which probably tells you all that for the moment I was confused as Iyou need to know about this brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz've never associated museums with living plants, but as soon as I stepped inside the covers, I knew where I was. One of the authors, Professor Kathy Willis is the Director of Science at Kew Gardens: she's undoubtedly based her thoughts on Kew, but for me I was back in the glasshouses at the [http://www.rbge.org.uk/ Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh] - the glorious tells you how to pronounce it ('Botanics'. Iraz-muh-TAZ'm not certain why we're supposed to be ), gives you a definition and then includes the word in a museum, unless it's sentence so that you know how it allows us to refer to author Kathy Willis should be used. You also get an engaging and illustrator Katie Scott as curatorsfrequently amusing illustration too. Still itI don't think I's ve ever encountered a contrivance word which doesn't affect uses the content.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783703946</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah Patterson0711266204|title=My Book The Secret Life of Stories: Write Your Own Fairy TalesBirds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=Pity I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the child these days who never reads fairy talesvast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. The irony in that, however, is that they may well be too busy watching ''Frozen'' on repeat to read fairy talesAn hour can pass without my noticing. But read them they shouldI've established which species feed from the ground, in which pop to the feeders for a quick snatch of some form or another, food and of one era or anotherwho settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. They don't all It would have to go back to the oldest collectionsbeen wonderful if, especially as they will like as not be more gory than what, say, Disney or Ladybird Books put out in our youth. They can read a fairy tale from any agechild, then – and when theyI're done, they can easily turn d had access to this a book, which provides more than enough impetus for you to write your ownsuch as ''The Secret Life of Birds''. Fairy tales do, as So – what is 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>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Harriet Russell0192779230|title= This Book Thinks You're a Scientist|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= ''This Book Thinks You're a Scientist'' takes children through a whole world Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of scientific areas: forces and motions, light, matter, sound, electricity and magnetism. It encourages children to look, ask questions and a have a go. This science-based activity book, published in association with the Science Museum, will stimulate and inspire young minds.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500650810</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGerms|author=Deborah Patterson|title=My Book of Stories: Write Your Own MythsIsabel Thomas|rating=45

|summary=I don't know about you, but as a young child I was always looking ahead, not backwards. Musically, I could bear Germs' seems to have become a few of my older brother's records, but wanted catch-all word to know what was released next week, never what was in cover anything unpleasant which has the charts of my parent's erapotential to make you ill. I think In the same would have been said about my reading, and my interests – although that's only first book in what looks to be a certain extent. I don't think I'd have thanked you for pointing to my dinosaur booksvery promising new series, right next to my space OUP and science fiction shelves, Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and I think I'd have preferred you accessible introduction to see the latest novel, rather than those books world of myths I also enjoyedgerms. Myths? 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. TheyThe vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 're, speak like, old. But they dona scientist' which explains some of the trickiest concepts and you't need much embellishment to ll soon be seen as great fun. The next stepfamiliar with bacteria, howeverfungi, to see them as something you yourself could write, well protists and viruses – that's a bit greater. But it's one taken by this book, neverthelessand how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356436</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Camilla Hallinan1800464495|title=The Ultimate Peter Rabbit100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: A Visual Guide to the World Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Beatrix PotterMaths|author=Emma Smith|rating=4.5

|summary=''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 had didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a deprived childhood: I never knew Peter Rabbitstrong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills. He'd have been at about his half century by the time ' I could have been reading him, but books at home didn't go beyond Enid Blytonknow this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. Peter was drawing his old age pension by But do we think the time that same way about maths, beyond counting? I discovered him when my daughter fell 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 love with him daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a similar pre- in her turn school grounding will be just as beneficial.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super- read them to her own children thirty years laterCharges 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. HeSome teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('s well past his century now who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and still delighting others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of all ages: hesleep is only likely to make it worse. And there's accessible also the fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and relatable sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, working late has been praised and I can't recollect ever meeting a child who didn't have a soft spot for himthe ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241289653</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1849767343|title=My Encyclopedia of Very Important ThingsCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5

|summary= Depending on the curiosity level The title and format of your child, this book might lead you may start to hate think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the word whynumbers journey. Why is the sky blue? Why do some elephants have bigger ears than others? Why, why, why, why! I can suggest It isn't: it's a hymn of praise to most parents that they make something up that sounds vaguely intelligentmaths. The problem It's about why maths is that kids are canny little things. So, rather than trying to download the entirety of the internet into your head, get your child their own first encyclopaedia, something like ''My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things''so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241224934</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Mariadiamantes1849767009|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Amelia EarhartIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=Amelia Earhart was born just before This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the end of choir': the only people who'll buy it are the nineteenth century but she would become people who know that nudity is OK and the most famous female pilot of ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the twentieth, having first become interested hot-and-bothered person in planes when she went the supermarket who is coughing fit to an airshow when she was just nineteenbust. Shortly afterwards But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a pilot gave her book about not wearing clothes. It's a ride in a biplane celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and from that moment on she knew that she had to flyof every possible hue. There had been precursors to this obsession though: when she was a little girl she like to imagine that she could stretch her wings Bodies with disabilities and fly like a birdmarkings. They're fine. In fact, they're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808859</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Bate1776572858|title=Peter in PerilHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=Meet PeterIt's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. He hasnMy mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she't got d get me a brilliant life, by modern standards – always getting into trouble, and playing some form book about it. A couple of football with coat buttonsdays later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, but with a loving nanny in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and parents. The trouble is I was told that he is living in Budapest, and while Peter understands nothing about the outside worldit wouldn's problems t be discussed any further as yet, he is it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about to see what happens when the Nazis take control''. AndI ''knew'' more, in these graphic novel-styled pagesbut was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, so are we…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191095957X</amazonuk>times have changed.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Raman Prinja1526362759|title=50 Things You Should Know About SpaceDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=3.5

|summary=Space What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is a cold out) and desolate place, but learning about what you can do with it does not need when you've managed to beget hold of it. Nothing else quite captures the immensity that is Space – Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all the stars and planets out there that could contain alien lifeneed it to some extent. How can You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you capture this majesty might even become an ''investor'') and put it onto a page so that there might be something you inspire really, ''really'' want to buy. There's also the youth possibility of today using to be do good in the astronauts and astronomers of tomorrow? A series of dry fact is perhaps not the best option, unless they happen to be a very specific type of childworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934720</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clive Gifford178112938X|title=This is Not a Science BookSurvival in Space: A Smart Art Activity BookThe Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=It''This is Not a Science Book'' explores s fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the often-overlooked link between science and creativity. This interactive book encourages readers to get cuttingKennedy Space Centre in Florida, glueing, twisting, colouring and shading in order to create a variety but the story of at-home experiments that are as entertaining as they are educationaljourney remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. ''Survival in Space: The activities are also perfect for Apollo 13 Mission'' is a rainy day; making this book a welcome resource during the long (and often wet) school holidaysbrilliant retelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782403973</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Laura BarwickKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=Animal BabiesNine Ways to Empower Tweens|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Let's face it: with '9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a fluffy lion cub on the coverself-help book for tweens, inviting readers setting out to take show them vital #lifeskills. Don't groan! I know there is a peek insidemarket glut of such books for we grown-ups and for young adults too, only the most hard-hearted of individuals could resist the temptation but there is a needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to pick up 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|genre=Children'Animal Babies's Non-Fiction|summary=Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the 1889 World' s Fair in Paris encompassed the best, the 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 explore stun the further delights within its pagessenses. Once hookedAnd towering above it all, the reader is rewarded with a visual feast of adorable baby creatures, each page seemingly cuter than most popular and the most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – the lastEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785941003</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nikalas Catlow and David Sinden1848576536|title=The Arty Book|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Arty is your creative friend. He is Humanatomy: How 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 and they look unruly and exciting, don't you think?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408870665</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBody Works|author=CoderDojo|title=Build Your Own Website: Create with CodeNicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=5

|summary=The Nanonauts want a website for their band''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and who better go inside your insides!'' That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to build it for them than the CoderDojo network of free computing clubs for young people? In this handbookdo and honestly, created in conjunction with the CoderDojo Foundation, children of seven plus will learn how to build a website using HTML, CSS and Javascript. Don't worry too much if some of those words I don't mean anything to see how you - all will be made clear as you read through the could resist. This informative book. There's also information provides a wonderful primer about how the human body to start a CoderDojo Nano club with friends curious children- which has great benefits in terms of harnessing creativityfrom the skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, learning how respiration and digestion, right up to code - and the benefits of teamworkDNA that makes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405278730</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby WaldenLangford_Emily|title=In Focus: 101 Close Ups, Cross-Sections and CutawaysEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=Only recently IEmily found words ''useful''ve had reason to applaud a children, but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there's non-fiction book for concentrating on showing its audience what they have no hope limit to see – how far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in that case, twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the underground and underwater worldslist were even numbers, from the shallowest plant roots to but the deepest oceanic explorations other half was odd and everything it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in betweenthrees which she called ''threeven''. Other unseen worlds are all around us(Actually, however – this confused me a little bit at first as they're 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 subset of book not only gives us the outside image and odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a caption, but the full story subset of the innardseven numbers, meaning the young reader is certainly going where they've never been before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184857505X</amazonuk>but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=CoderDojoBuckingham_Dawn|title=Build Your Own Website: Create with CodeThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=The Nanonauts want What a website for their band, and who better treat! I really did mean to build it for them than just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the CoderDojo network pull of free computing clubs for young people? In this handbook, created in conjunction with the CoderDojo Foundation, children sounds of seven plus will learn how a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to build resist on a website using HTML, CSS cold and Javascriptrather wet February morning. Don't worry too much if some of those words don't mean anything to you - I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all will be made clear as you read through about the bookbirds and listening to their song. There's also information about how to start a CoderDojo Nano club with friends Then - which has great benefits in terms of harnessing creativity, learning how to code just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it was just as good the benefits of teamworksecond time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405278730</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael BrightPankhurst_Women|title=See Inside Dinosaurs Fantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=3.5

|summary=What would you do if the doorbell rang A lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and when you opened the door you saw a giant Trojan-Horse waiting for you? I for one would not drag the thing politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in; it would be too big and could be full of angry Greekshistory at all, let alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. The same could be said of Of course, this isn''See inside Dinosaurs'' by Michael Bright. You may think that you t true and there are buying one thingplenty of women who, but instead you are getting an impressive triceratops skeletonthroughout history, have achieved amazing things or a T-Rex modelshown incredible bravery, or maybe even a created something never seen before. So here, in this wonderful picture bookfrom Kate Pankhurst, are the stories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934739</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve ParkerIgnotofsky_Sport|title=100 Facts Butterflies & MothsWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky

|summary=Damn those bees''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. TheyIt celebrates a century and a half of the development of women're not the only flying creatures vanishing from our world s sport by looking at alarming ratesfifty of its highest achievers, and the otherscovering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, like butterflies and mothsskating, are actually runners-up to Mr Bumble and his mysteriously dying ilk in pollinating plants. Plus they're much more visually attractive. But even though Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book has two nudges somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a thanks given to the Butterfly Conservation body, that's certainly not the more notable feature of these pages. What stands out is the superlative contentstriking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786170116</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= National Geographic KidsRooney_Dino|title= Angry Birds Playground: Atlas (Angry Birds Playgrounds)|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=''Angry Birds Playground'' is a new educational book series based on a geographical theme. Rovio-the team responsible for the popular game- 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 and breathtaking real-world photography. The series will appeal to young fans of the game and anyone who has an interest in the wonders of the natural world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1426324596</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Joe Archer Anne Rooney and Caroline Craig|title=The Kew Gardens Children's Cookbook: Plant, Cook, EatSuzanne Carpenter|rating=54

|summary=Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I grew up in the immediate post war period. Growing your own vegetables had been a necessity in the war and it was still a habit for those who had a bit child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of gardendinosaurs, so ''The Kew Gardens Children's Cookbook'' was we meet a real pleasure for mevariety of creatures, as well as a touch some of nostalgia. The principle is whom are very simple: show children how familiar but some I'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the various dinosaurs are getting up to grow their own vegetables , with background noises, roars and then how squawks to transform accompany them into delicious food. It sounds simple, doesn't it? Well, it might come as ! The book creates a surprisedinosaur experience, but rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it is!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750298197</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Haslam and Steve Parker|title= A Journey Through Nature|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Beautifully presentedvery visual, this is a book that takes a worldwide look at placing the natural world, dinosaurs in both urban their habitats 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 of the monkeys. We were off to a good startgiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934496</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aleksandra Mizielinski, Daniel Mizielinski and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)Mason_poo|title=Under Earth, Under WaterThe Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles

|summary=One of the major remits of I know, I know, sometimes you really don't want to encourage your children's non-fiction books poo jokes, but this book is brilliant! I sat and read it by myself when the kids had gone to get them school and found it fascinating! Who knew there was so much I didn't know about poo? The book manages to look around them be both funny (and gain a better understanding of what they're seeing. After a volume such silly) as this, the obvious response is to see that well as an incredibly narrow focusbeing very interesting and educational. For this book will take the reader Using a mixture of facts and show them exactly what they can't see – from microscopic things living in soil even seasoned Scrabble players haven't heard offigures, right down to the fish swimming their way towards the Mariana Trenchphotographs and funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a little at the deepest section of sea vulture who poos on earth. Make no bones about it, this book is entirely focused on what is beneath our its own feet and sea levels, and – no pie in the sky response this – it is but also knowing a winner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783703644</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Haslam and Steve Parker|title= A Journey Through the Weather|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= We're British. We LOVE to talk lot about the weather. But beyond the usual platitudes different types of ''Bit cold out isn't it'' or ''What a beautiful day''poo, why poos smell, how much and why wombats do you actually know about what's happening up in the sky? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178493450X</amazonuk>square poos.