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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne-Sophie Baumann, Olivier Latyk and Robb Booker (translator)1839948493|title=The Ultimate Book A World of SpaceDogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=45

|summary=Space. For all In the huge, empty expanse interests of itfull disclosure, itI must tell you that I's m a full and very fiddly thing to experiencesucker for dogs. The National Space CentreIn nearly eight decades, in the hotbed of cosmology I've never met one I didn't trust and space science that is Leicester, is chock full I've loved most of things to touchthem. I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, gripany book about dogs, pull I'm going to sit down and move around – devour. Then I'm going to go back and so is this bookread it properly. ItAnd so it was with 's a right gallimaufry 'A World of things that pop up out of the pageDogs'', with things ninety-six pages devoted entirely to turn and pull, and even an astronaut on the end of a curtain wiremy four-legged friends. Within minutes Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of opening this book I had undressed an astronaut to find what was under his spacesuit, dropped the dome on an observatory to open up the telescope, and swung a Soyuz supply module around so it could dock at the International Space Station. Educational fun like that can only be American Dingo - she's learned quite a good thing for the budding young scientistlot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01AGIOSQ2</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody Revenson1529507987|title=Incredibuilds: Buckbeak: Deluxe Model The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Book Set Sonia Albert (Harry PotterIllustrator)

|summary=I love ''The general perception is that to become a leading British actor, you need the fillip of Eton or somesuch educationRepair Shop''. But you donIt't have s my go-to programme when I want to be an actor to make a great filmcheered up. After a hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they'Gravity'' for instance has extended scenes where re worth. You see, the only thing natural value is in what these possessions are worth to the performers' faces – everything else, even their bodies, was made in Britain by people using computerswho own them and the memories they hold. The eight ''Harry Potter'' films, also made in No expense appears to be spared and the UK, needed a lot of computing power experts spend as much time and effort as well, but also a lot of craftsmen with their hands on tools is required to achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and a keen eyethey're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing. What better way to But how did they start training the young reader into that side of things, than with tasking them with making a, er, hippogriff?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707232</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody Revenson024162343X|title=Incredibuilds: Aragog: Deluxe Model and Book Set (Harry Potter)|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Aragog the giant spider, don't you know, took six man years just to build, and weighed a ton. After countless trial models and pieces of visual design work, he could finally be constructed, and he stretched across eighteen feet of the studio floor. Or, conversely, he is about seven inches long and seven wide, and you put him together in a day or two, for the cost of this book-and-gift set and some craft paints.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707240</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewStolen History|author=Jody Revenson|title=Incredibuilds: House-Elves: Deluxe Book and Model Set (Harry Potter)Sathnam Sanghera|rating=4.5

|summary=How do you create 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 house-elf like Dobby'god'. Where was the proof? WellIn history lessons, you have a tennis ball on a stringit was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, and point actors I didn't so they look at it, and say their lines much want to a pretty-much empty space. You then film Toby Jones doing learn about the elfBritish army's linessuccesses (and occasional failures, and use that sound file and his facial expressions but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as basis for your CGI creation – want to dispute what right the first major character army had to come from the digital realm be there in the ''Harry Potter'' filmsfirst place. You can throw in a few puppetsLooking back, and now and again a gifted small person, particularly at I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the end of film #7… problem' politely. Or, of course, you can get this gift set, and press the wooden parts out, muckle them together – and lo and behold, a six inch tall Dobby for your windowsillI wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707070</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeremy Dronfield and David Long and Kerry HyndmanZiggy Greene|title=Survivors: Extraordinary Tales from the Wild Fritz and BeyondKurt

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=There can be few people who are not captivated by stories We start with the pair of survival - those people who by chancebrothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, through knowledge but mostly because of being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their strength of very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, survive against all and instead of having a national vote to keep the oddsNazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''SurvivorsKristallnacht'' is a collection of such stories of peoplehappened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, some as did all the round-ups of whom knew that what they were doing was dangerous, but many are those who found themselves in situations which seemed impossible, but who didn't give upJews. The result is a wonderful mixture These 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 scariness of US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the peril same train to Buchenwald and the glorious uplift of survivalstone quarry there. It's insightful, inspirational and And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all absolutely true.this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571316018</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Hawkins and Alice Letherland1913750353|title=Atlas Britannica's Word of Miniature Adventures: A pocket-sized collection of small-scale wondersthe Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=3.5

|summary=I've hardly ever had 'Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a trouser pocket big enough sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to cram a whole Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'pocket-sized' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book in, and while the book under concern here won. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz''t comply either, tells you how to pronounce it(''raz-muh-TAZ's not far off. But it's an atlas – ), gives you know, one of those books that are usually clunky a definition and huge, fitting awkwardly on then includes the bottom shelf word in a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and taken out whenever some project or quirk of trivial life inspires a browsefrequently amusing illustration too. But this is a special kind of atlas – itI don't think I's ve ever encountered a compendium of details, and very small details at that, of all word which uses the tiny things on our large planet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780909X</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin Brown0711266204|title= Lesser Spotted Animals|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=There may be as many as 5,500 different species of mammal on our planet, but how many of those do we actually get to see and read about? 'Animal Books' are packed with cute pictures The Secret Life of tigers, elephants, monkeys and zebras, but what about their lesser-known neglected cousins? Don't they deserve a minute in the spotlight? Numbat, Solenodon, Zorilla, Onager and Linsang: Now is your time to shine!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200530</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBirds|author= Rachel Williams Moira Butterfield and Carnovsky|title=IlluminatureVivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45

|summary=Like Halley's Comet, I am allowed out once every 70 years, or so, for have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the night. On one such trip to the trendier side vast numbers of London I was supping an ale in another Hipster Bar, but this one had birds which visit our garden on a differencedaily basis. The walls were covered in overlapping paintings of animals in different coloursAn hour can pass without my noticing. So what? The trick was revealing said animals. The lights in I've established which species feed from the ground, which pop to the pub changed colour every few minutes revealing feeders for a different set quick snatch of creatures that reacted to that coloursome food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It was cool after would have been wonderful if, as a few shandieschild, but now you can enjoy this process sober in I'd had access to a new book all about using coloured lenses to find hidden animalssuch as ''The Secret Life of Birds''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808867</amazonuk> So – what is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler0192779230|title=Gruffalo Crumble and Other RecipesVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45

|summary=It is hard 'Germs' seems to imagine, but have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the original Gruffalo book came out almost twenty years ago. This is a franchise that just keeps rolling onpotential to make you ill. Certainly, you can buy In the first book or the sequelin what looks to be a very promising new series, but if you visit OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a shop you will find Gruffalo toys, cards, even egg cupsclear and accessible introduction to the world of germs. Each year brings with it a new idea of We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how to push the Gruf and palsthinking has developed over time. 2016 is the year The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the recipe booktrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, but will it live up to the quality of the original?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509804749</amazonuk>protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Baker, Zanna Davidson and Page Tsou1800464495|title=Highest Mountain, Deepest Ocean100 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=34.5

|summary=The greatest thing a good library can do is lie ''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in waitthe womb, holding the weight being aware of the entire world quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on its shelves. Let alone all the imaginative fiction it can take guardianship entry to school is a strong predictor oflater achievement, it can also store double that of literacy skills.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a huge gamut of factsgood start in literacy - reading stories, opinions and true talesteaching pen grips, transporting singing rhymes - gives children a reader solid foundation when they choose to take a book down 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 read it wherever they want to gofollows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial. }} This book is one {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of those 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 can take you places, too – 3statement.6 metres down into the earth, where a Nile crocodile might Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have dug itself brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to lay out a droughtbe doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, its heart beating twice a minute; or from children to adults will have the hottest or driest, or most rained-on placeodd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. It can take you back to prehistory and size you up against And there's also the biggest raptors fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and other dinosaurs, or sleep made to the centre of the very earth itselfseem like laziness. There Being up early, working late has been praised and the pressure is akin ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to having the entire Empire State Building sat put on your forehead – now that's weight indeed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704845</amazonuk>CV.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Baker and Eleanor Taylor1849767343|title=Secrets of the SeaCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=34.5

|summary=When the young are urged The title and format of this book might lead you to explore the world around them, we adults never state think that it's either about responsibility - or it, but there's a huge section of basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the world they are quite unlikely to go investigating innumbers journey. And for obvious reasons – it can be slightly dangerous even to enter it, and while itIt isn's huge t: it's not on every doorstepa hymn of praise to maths. IIt'm talking s about the ocean, of course – which why maths is where books such as this come in to explain and illustrate the topic. With so much of it to be researched wonderful and encountered, how you never know – this book might well inspire a pioneering discovery some time meet it in the futureeveryday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704349</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Zoe Ingram1849767009|title=Press Out and Colour: BirdsIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=45|genre=CraftsFor Sharing|summary=Ten beautiful birds This could have been one of those books which start life as detailed line illustrations by Zoe Ingram 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are then coloured in by anyone of any age the people who know that nudity is capable of having reasonable control of a felt-tip pen or a crayon. You've got to remember to do both the back OK and the front and whilst it would be nice if they matched ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in no way essentialthe supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. If you're skillful, But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much the better, but the designs are decorated more than a book about not wearing clothes. It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with foil which catches the light disabilities and gives that sheen which you see on the edges of birds' feathersmarkings. When youThey've finished colouring you gently press the pieces out from the pagere fine. I experimented with pressing them out first and then colouringIn fact, but the pieces were easier to colour actually in the pagethey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637673</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katie Scott and Kathy Willis1776572858|title=Botanicum How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (Welcome To The Museumtranslator)|rating=3.5|genre=Popular ScienceHome and Family|summary=It''Welcome to the Museum'' it says on the front cover s more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and I'll admit told me that for the moment I was confused as Ishe've never associated museums with living plants, but as soon as I stepped inside the covers, I knew where I wasd get me a book about it. One A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the authorsbasics, Professor Kathy Willis is the Director of Science at Kew Gardens: she's undoubtedly based her thoughts on Kew, but for me in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was back in the glasshouses at the [http://www.rbge.org.uk/ Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh] - the glorious told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about'Botanics'. I'm not certain why we're supposed to be in a museumknew'' more, unless itbut was little ''wiser''s that it allows us to refer to author Kathy Willis and illustrator Katie Scott as curators. Still it's a contrivance which doesn't affect the contentThankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783703946</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah Patterson1526362759|title=My Book of StoriesDosh: Write Your Own Fairy TalesHow to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=4.5

|summary=Pity the child these days who never reads fairy tales. What a relief! The irony in thatA book about money, howeverfor children, with clear explanations of what it is that they may well be too busy watching ''Frozen'' on repeat to read fairy tales. But read them they should, in some form or anotherwhy it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of one era or anotherit. They Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all have need it to some extent. You might want to go back to the oldest collectionsinto business, especially as they will like as not be more gory than whata clever shopper, say, Disney or Ladybird Books put out in our youth. They can read a fairy tale from any agesaver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, then – and when they're done, they can easily turn to this book, which provides more than enough impetus for you 'really'' want to write your ownbuy. Fairy tales do, as it happens, have the ability to last for centuries – but thereThere's nothing quite like giving them a little tweak also the possibility of using to get them up-to-date…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356428</amazonuk>do good in the world.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Harriet Russell178112938X|title= This Book Thinks You're a ScientistSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary= It's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. 'This Book Thinks You're a ScientistSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' takes children through is a whole world brilliant retelling of scientific areas: forces and motions, light, matter, sound, electricity and magnetism. It encourages children to look, ask questions and a have a gowhat happened. This science-based activity book, published in association with the Science Museum, will stimulate and inspire young minds.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500650810</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Deborah PattersonKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=My Book Nine 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 Stories: Write Your Own Mythssuch 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=45

|summary=I don't know about youBrash and elegant, but as a young child I was always looking aheadsophisticated, not backwards. Musicallycontroversial and vibrant, I could bear a few of my older brotherthe 1889 World's recordsFair in Paris encompassed the best, but wanted to know what was released next week, never what was in the charts of my parent's era. I think worst and the same would have been said about my reading, beautiful from many countries and my interests – although that's only to a certain extentcultures. I don't think I'd have thanked you for pointing to my dinosaur booksThe French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, right next to my space and science fiction shelvesdance performances, food festivals and I think I'd have preferred you concerts to see stun the latest novel, rather than those books of myths I also enjoyedsenses. Myths? They'reAnd towering above it all, like, old. But they don't need much embellishment the most popular and the most hated monument to be seen as great fun. The next step, however, to see them as something you yourself could write, well French accomplishment and daring – that's a bit greater. But it's one taken by this book, neverthelessthe Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356436</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Camilla Hallinan1848576536|title=The Ultimate Peter RabbitHumanatomy: A Visual Guide to How the World of Beatrix PotterBody Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=45

|summary=I had a deprived childhood: I never knew Peter Rabbit. He'd have been at about his half century by the time I could have been reading him'Get under your own skin, pick your brains, but books at home didnand go inside your insides!'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 - in her turn - read them to her own children thirty years later. He' That's well past his century now and still delighting children of all ages: hewhat ''Humanatomy''s accessible and relatable invites you to do and honestly, I candon't recollect ever meeting see how you could resist. This informative book provides a child wonderful primer about the human body to curious children- from the skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, respiration and digestion, right up to the DNA that makes who didn't have a soft spot for himwe are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241289653</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKLangford_Emily|title=My Encyclopedia of Very Important ThingsEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary= Depending on the curiosity level of your childEmily found words ''useful'', you may start to hate the word whybut counting was what she loved best. Why is the sky blue? Why do some elephants have bigger ears than others? WhyObviously, why, why, why! I you can suggest count anything and there's no limit to most parents that they make something up that sounds vaguely intelligenthow far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. The problem is that kids are canny little thingsShe knew all about odd and even numbers. SoThen she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, rather than trying to download but the entirety other half was odd and it was this list of the internet into your headodd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. (Actually, get your child their own this confused me a little bit at first encyclopaedia, something like as they''My Encyclopedia re a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of Very Important Things''the even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241224934</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Isabel Sanchez Vegara Caz Buckingham and MariadiamantesAndrea Pinnington|titlerating=5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little PeopleBook of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and listening to their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it was just as good the second time around. So, Big Dreams: Amelia Earhartwhat do you get?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Pankhurst_Women|title=Fantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=3.5

|summary=Amelia Earhart was born just before the end A lot of the nineteenth century but she would become the most famous female pilot of the twentiethhistory is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, having first become interested it feels almost as though there were no women in planes when she went history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to an airshow when she was just nineteenread about or regard as role models. Shortly afterwards a pilot gave her a ride in a biplane Of course, this isn't true and from that moment on she knew that she had to flythere are plenty of women who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. There had been precursors to So here, in this obsession though: when she was a little girl she like to imagine that she could stretch her wings and fly like a birdwonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the stories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808859</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen BateIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Peter Women in PerilSport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=3.5

|summary=Meet Peter''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. He hasnIt celebrates a century and a half of the development of women't got a brilliant lifes sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, by modern standards – always getting into troubleskating, and playing some form much more. Think of football with coat buttons, but with a loving nanny sport and parentsa pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book somewhere. The trouble Each entry is that he is living in Budapest, a double-page spread with a brief biography and while Peter understands nothing about the outside world's problems as yet, he is about to see what happens when the Nazis take controla striking portrait. And, in these graphic novel-styled pages, so are we…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191095957X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Raman PrinjaRooney_Dino|title=50 Things You Should Know About SpaceDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|rating=3.54

|summary=Space is Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a cold and desolate placechild. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, but learning about it does not need to be. Nothing else quite captures the immensity that is Space – all the stars and planets out there that could contain alien life. How can you capture this majesty and put it onto we meet a page so that you inspire the youth variety of today to be the astronauts and astronomers creatures, some of tomorrow? A series whom are very familiar but some I'd never heard of dry fact is perhaps not before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the best optionvarious dinosaurs are getting up to, with background noises, unless they happen roars and squawks to be accompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very specific type of childvisual, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934720</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clive GiffordMason_poo|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>}}{{newreviewPoo That Animals Do|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 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>}}{{newreview|author=Nikalas Catlow Paul Mason 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 and they look unruly and exciting, don't you think?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408870665</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=CoderDojo|title=Build Your Own Website: Create with CodeTony de Saulles

|summary=The Nanonauts want a website for their bandI know, and who better to build it for them than the CoderDojo network of free computing clubs for young people? In this handbookI know, 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 sometimes you really don't mean anything want to you - all will be made clear as you read through the book. Thereencourage your children's also information about how to start a CoderDojo Nano club with friends - which has great benefits in terms of harnessing creativitypoo jokes, learning how to code - but this book is brilliant! I sat and read it by myself when the benefits of teamwork.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405278730</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Libby Walden|title=In Focus: 101 Close Ups, Cross-Sections kids had gone to school and Cutaways|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Only recently found it fascinating! Who knew there was so much Ididn've had reason to applaud a children's non-fiction t know about poo? The book for concentrating on showing its audience what they have no hope manages to see – in that case, the underground be both funny (and underwater worlds, from the shallowest plant roots to the deepest oceanic explorations silly) as well as being very interesting and everything in betweeneducational. Other unseen worlds are all around us, however – they're what goes on on the inside Using a mixture of things – inside a pocket watch (remember them?)facts and figures, inside a yurtphotographs and funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a space shuttle, little at the vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a volcano, a toilet… This pleasant square block lot about different types of book not only gives us the outside image and a captionpoo, but the full story of the innardswhy poos smell, meaning the young reader is certainly going where they've never been before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184857505X</amazonuk>and why wombats do square poos.