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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Packham and Jason Cockcroft1839948493|title=Amazing Animal Babies|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Many children love animals, but they love baby animals even more. Would you rather watch a dog or watch a puppy? A cat or a kitten? A meerkat or a smaller meerkat? The answer is a no brainer to most children who enjoy the wide-eyed stumbling World of youth that is not dissimilar to their own. However, someone needs to give them the facts about baby animals and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277467</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDogs|author=Martin Jenkins and Stephen Biesty|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo to the Mars Rover Carlie Sorosiak and BeyondLuisa Uribe

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I take it as read that you know some of In the history interests of space explorationfull disclosure, even if the young person I must tell you buy books that I'm a sucker for doesn't know it alldogs. So In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I wondidn't go into the extremes reached by the trust and I''Voyager'' space craft, and ve loved most of them. I wish I felt the processes we needed to be expert in before we could launch anythingsame about human beings. You probably have some inkling of how we learnt that weSo, any book about dogs, I're not the centre of everything – the gradual discovery of how curved the planet was, m going to sit down and how other things orbited other things in turn proving we are not that around which everything revolvesdevour. What you might not be so genned up on is the history of books conveying all this Then I'm going to a young audiencego back and read it properly. When I And so it was a nipper they were stately textswith ''A World of Dogs'', with a few accurate diagrams – if you were luckyninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. For Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a long time now, however, they've been anything but stately, and often aren't worried lot about accuracy as such in their visual designdogs since then. They certainly long ago shod the boring, plain white page. Until now…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406360082</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie1529507987|title= Pairs UnderwaterThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Following on from [[Pairs in the Garden by Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie]], comes the aquatic themed I love ''Pairs UnderwaterThe Repair Shop''. It's a liftmy go-the-flap book with the added twist of to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a game of hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they'Memory'' thrown re worth. You see, the value is in, what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and the memories they hold. No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend as much time and effort as you try is required to match achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the pairs across each double page spreadexperts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808824</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Frau Isa024162343X|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Marie CurieStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=45

|summary=Some little girls want to be princesses, but I was the girl who would become Marie Curie wanted to be a scientistbad company other people got into at school. She I was from a poor family disruptive in Warsaw but she was determined to do well and won religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a gold medal for her studies'god'. Where was the proof? In Polandhistory lessons, in it was probably worse still. Not too long after the middle end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the nineteenth centuryBritish army's successes (and occasional failures, only men were allowed but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to go be called 'the colonies' as want to University, so Marie moved to Paris where she dispute what right the army had to study be there in an unfamiliar language, but was soon the best maths and science studentfirst place. It Looking back, I still believe I was here right - but I regret that she met and married Pierre Curie, another scientist and they jointly discovered radium and polonium: they would eventually win the Nobel Prize for Physics for this work. Marie was I lacked the first woman maturity to receive approach 'the honourproblem' politely. Pierre was killed in a road accident, but Marie went on to win a second Nobel Prize, this time for Chemistry. Her work is still benefiting people todayI wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Isabel Sanchez Vegara Jeremy Dronfield and Elisa MunsoDavid Ziggy Greene|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Agatha ChristieFritz and Kurt

|summary=As ''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a child Agatha Christie sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and her mother would read a Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book together every afternoon. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you how to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), but there were early signs of what gives you a definition and then includes the future novelist would become: she always had word in a better idea about sentence so that you know how the story it should endbe used. She would read in bed at night You also get an engaging and detective novels were always her favouritesfrequently amusing illustration too. In the First World War Agatha, who was then in her early twenties, nursed wounded soldiers in hospitals: her experiences with poisons and toxic potions would be put to good use when her first detective novels were published just after I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the end of the war. Most people have heard of her first and most famous detective - Hercule Poirot - or of Miss Marple. Mrs Christie's novels were widely read and her plays were very popular in theatres.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809596</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie0711266204|title= Pairs in the GardenThe Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating= 45|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Pairs in I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our gardenon a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I'' is ve established which species feed from the ground, which pop to the feeders for a fun book/game hybrid quick snatch of some food and who settles in for little fingers into creepy crawliesa good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. Itwould have been wonderful if, as a child, I's d had access to a lift-the-flap book with a difference, because not only do you get to see whatsuch as ''s underneath, you then must see if you can find a matching pair. But beware! You cannot just use process The Secret Life of elimination because there are 7 flaps on each page, but only 3 pairs to findBirds''. One poor creature So – what is all alone with no partner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808832</amazonuk>it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marc Martin0192779230|title=LotsVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=35

|summary=The children's encyclopaedia is not Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the same genre as those used by adultspotential to make you ill. Whilst In the older generation had first book in what looks to make do with giant tomes filled with information be a very promising new series, OUP and perhaps, if you are lucky, Isabel Thomas have provided a small black clear and white picture every now accessible introduction to the world of germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and again; what they thought caused them and how the kids get full colour books with more images than factsthinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist'Lots'' by Marc Martin takes this even further by reducing which explains some of the facts even further trickiest concepts and bombarding your eyeballs you'll soon be familiar with illustrationsbacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704659</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Krystyna Mihulka and Krystyna Poray Goddu1800464495|title=Krysia100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: A Polish Girl's Stolen Childhood During World War IISupport All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith

|summary=Most of us would think of Polish children suffering ''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in World War Two because the womb, being aware of the Nazi death camps – they and their families suffering through countless round-upsquantities at seven hours old, ghettoizationassessing probability at six months old, and transport comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to the end school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of the lineliteracy skills.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, where singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they might by hint or dint survive to tell start school. But do we think the horrid talesame way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But most why are we? Most of us would think of such Polish use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as Jewish victims beneficial.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of the HolocaustSleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. This book opens the eyes up in a most vivid fashion to those who were not JewishLots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. They did not get resettled in the Nazi Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I'Lebensraum'', but were sent miles away ve got loads to the Eastbe doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Krysia's family were split upMost people, partly due from children to her father being a Polish reservist when adults will have the Nazis invaded, and then courtesy odd bad night but worrying about your lack of Stalin, who had [[The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941 by Roger Moorhouse|signed a pact]] with Hitler dividing the country between the two states, before they turned bitter enemiessleep is only likely to make it worse. KrysiaAnd there's familyalso the fact that for far too long, living in the eastern city lack of Lwow, were packed up sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sent – in the stereotypical cattle train – eastsleep made to seem like laziness. And eastBeing up early, working late has been praised and east – right the way across the continent ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to rural Kazakhstan, and a communal farm in the middle of anonymous desert, deep in Communist Soviet landsput on your CV. Proof, if proof were needed, that that horrendous war still carries narratives that will be new to us…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1613734417</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Simon Rogers1849767343|title= Infographics: Technology|rating= 5|genre= Reference|summary=As parents, we can often be bombarded with questions as our children start to discover the world. These questions soon become increasingly complex, especially with the latest technological advances. How do computers work? What's inside a smartphone? How can earth communicate with spacecraft? Thankfully we now have a handy, illustrated guide to help us: ''Infographics: Technology''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704489</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCount on Me|author= Ben Handicott and Kenard Pak|title= The Hello Atlas|rating= 4|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Sannu! Kina lafiya?'' That's how Azumi greets us in this book. He's from Africa, and he speaks Hausa. Do you? Don't worry if not, because you're about to learn.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808492</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=DK|title=Knowledge Encyclopedia: Animal!Miguel Tanco

|summary=The encyclopedia may be an informative type title and format of this book, but might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's not always a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the most interestingnumbers journey. A series It isn't: it's a hymn of dry facts plastered all over the page with nary an image praise to maths. It's about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in sighteveryday life. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1849767009|title=It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This dry type could have been one of learning those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is never going coughing fit to work with some of our modern youth, bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more used to spending time looking for imaginary animals on their phones, than researching real ones in a bookabout not wearing clothes. If you want to capture their attention, you must first draw their eyesIt's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. DK have attempted this in one of the most colourful Bodies with disabilities and vibrant encyclopedias you are likely to seemarkings. They're fine. In fact, they're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228417</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anne-Sophie Baumann, Olivier Latyk Anna Fiske and Robb Booker Don Bartlett (translator)|title=The Ultimate Book of Space|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=Space. For all the huge, empty expanse of it, itIt's a full and very fiddly thing to experiencemore than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. The National Space Centre, in the hotbed of cosmology My mother was deeply embarrassed and space science told me that is Leicester, is chock full of things to touch, grip, pull and move around – and so is this she'd get me a bookabout it. It's A couple of days later I was handed a right gallimaufry of things that pop up out of pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the pagebasics, with things to turn in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and pull, and even an astronaut on the end of a curtain wireI was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. Within minutes of opening this book I had undressed an astronaut to find what ''knew'' more, but 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 Stationlittle ''wiser''. Educational fun like that can only be a good thing for the budding young scientistThankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01AGIOSQ2</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody Revenson1526362759|title=IncredibuildsDosh: Buckbeak: Deluxe Model and Book Set (Harry Potter)How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=4.5

|summary=The general perception What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is that , why it matters, how to become a leading British actor, acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you need the fillip 've managed to get hold of Eton or somesuch educationit. But you Your reasons for wanting money don't have matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an actor to make a great film. ''Gravityinvestor'' for instance has extended scenes where the only thing natural is the performers) and there might be something you really, ' faces – everything else, even their bodies, was made in Britain by people using computers. The eight 'really'Harry Potter'want to buy. There' films, s also made in the UK, needed a lot possibility of computing power as well, but also a lot of craftsmen with their hands on tools and a keen eye. What better way using to start training do good in the young reader into that side of things, than with tasking them with making a, er, hippogriff?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707232</amazonuk>world.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody Revenson178112938X|title=IncredibuildsSurvival in Space: Aragog: Deluxe Model The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Book Set Stefano Tambellini (Harry Potterillustrator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=Aragog the giant spider, donIt't you know, took six man s fifty years just to buildsince the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, and weighed a ton. After countless trial models and pieces but the story of visual design work, he could finally be constructed, and he stretched across eighteen feet that journey remains one of the studio floorgreatest survival stories of all time. Or, conversely, he ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is about seven inches long and seven wide, and you put him together in a day or two, for the cost brilliant retelling of this book-and-gift set and some craft paintswhat happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707240</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jody RevensonKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=Incredibuilds: House-Elves: Deluxe Book and Model Set (Harry Potter)Nine Ways to Empower Tweens

|summary=How do you create a house-elf like Dobby? WellBrash and elegant, you have a tennis ball on a stringsophisticated, controversial and point actors so they look at itvibrant, and say their lines to a pretty-much empty space. You then film Toby Jones doing the elf1889 World's linesFair in Paris encompassed the best, the worst and use that sound file and his facial expressions as basis for your CGI creation – the first major character to come beautiful from the digital realm in the ''Harry Potter'' filmsmany countries and cultures. You can throw in a few puppetsThe French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, and now and again a gifted small personput on art shows, particularly at the end of film #7… Or, of course, you can get this gift setdance performances, food festivals and press concerts to stun the wooden parts outsenses. And towering above it all, muckle them together – the most popular and lo the most hated monument to French accomplishment and behold, a six inch tall Dobby for your windowsilldaring – the Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707070</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Long and Kerry Hyndman1848576536|title=SurvivorsHumanatomy: Extraordinary Tales from How the Wild Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and BeyondJem Maybank|rating=45

|summary=There can be few people who are not captivated by stories of survival - those people who by chance''Get under your own skin, through knowledge but mostly because of their strength of willpick your brains, survive against all the odds. and go inside your insides!'' That's what ''SurvivorsHumanatomy'' is a collection of such stories of people, some of whom knew that what they were doing was dangerous, but many are those who found themselves in situations which seemed impossibleinvites you to do and honestly, but who didnI don't give upsee how you could resist. The result is This informative book provides a wonderful mixture of primer about the scariness of human body to curious children- from the peril and skeletal system to the glorious uplift of survival. It's insightfulmuscular system via circulation, inspirational respiration and all absolutely truedigestion, right up to the DNA that makes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571316018</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Hawkins and Alice LetherlandLangford_Emily|title=Atlas of Miniature Adventures: A pocket-sized collection of small-scale wonders|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I've hardly ever had a trouser pocket big enough to cram a whole 'pocket-sized' book in, and while the book under concern here won't comply either, it's not far off. But it's an atlas – you know, one of those books that are usually clunky and huge, fitting awkwardly on the bottom shelf and taken out whenever some project or quirk of trivial life inspires a browse. But this is a special kind of atlas – itEmily's a compendium of details, and very small details at that, of all the tiny things on our large planet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780909X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Martin Brown|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 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>}}{{newreviewNumbers|author= Rachel Williams and Carnovsky|title=IlluminatureJoss Langford

|summary=Like HalleyEmily found words ''useful''s Comet, I am allowed out once every 70 years, or so, for the nightbut counting was what she loved best. On one such trip Obviously, you can count anything and there's no limit to the trendier side of London I was supping an ale in another Hipster Barhow far you can go, but this one had then Emily moved a differencestep further and began counting in twos. The walls She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the list were covered in overlapping paintings even numbers, but the other half was odd and it was this list of animals odd numbers which occurred when you counted in different coloursthrees which she called ''threeven''. So what? The trick was revealing said animals. The lights in the pub changed colour every few minutes revealing (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a different set subset of creatures that reacted the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to that colour. It was cool after be a few shandiessubset of the even numbers, but now you can enjoy this process sober in a new book it all worked out well when I really thought about using coloured lenses to find hidden animalsit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808867</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Donaldson and Axel SchefflerBuckingham_Dawn|title=Gruffalo Crumble The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Other RecipesAndrea Pinnington|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=It is hard What a treat! I really did mean to imagine, just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the original Gruffalo book came pull of the sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out almost twenty years ago. This is was far too much to resist on a franchise that just keeps rolling oncold and rather wet February morning. Certainly, you can buy the book I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the sequel, but if you visit a shop you will find Gruffalo toys, cards, even egg cupsbirds and listening to their song. Each year brings with Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it a new idea of how to push was just as good the Gruf and palssecond time around. 2016 is the year of the recipe bookSo, but will it live up to the quality of the originalwhat do you get?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509804749</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Baker, Zanna Davidson and Page TsouPankhurst_Women|title=Highest Mountain, Deepest OceanFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=3.5

|summary=The greatest thing a good library can do A lot of history is lie in wait, holding the weight of the entire world on its shelvesabout men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Let alone all the imaginative fiction it can take guardianship ofSometimes, it can also store a huge gamut of factsfeels almost as though there were no women in history at all, opinions and true tales, transporting a reader when they choose let alone ones young girls might like to take a book down and read it wherever they want to goabout or regard as role models. This book is one Of course, this isn't true and there are plenty of those that can take you placeswomen who, too – 3.6 metres down into the earththroughout history, where a Nile crocodile might have dug itself to lay out a drought, its heart beating twice a minute; achieved amazing things or to the hottest or driestshown incredible bravery, or most rained-on placecreated something never seen before. It can take you back to prehistory and size you up against the biggest raptors and other dinosaursSo here, in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, or to are the centre stories of some of the very earth itselfthem. There the pressure is akin to having the entire Empire State Building sat on your forehead – now that's weight indeed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704845</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Baker and Eleanor TaylorIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Secrets of the SeaWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=3.5

|summary=When the young are urged ''Women in Sport'' is coming to explore us just before the world around them, we adults never state it, but there's Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a huge section half of the world they are quite unlikely to go investigating in. And for obvious reasons – it can be slightly dangerous even to enter it, and while itdevelopment of women's huge it's not on every doorstep. I'm talking about the oceansport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, of course – which is where books such covering sports as diverse as this come in to explain swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and illustrate the topicmuch more. With so much Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it to be researched and encountered, you never know – is probably in this book might well inspire somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a pioneering discovery some time in the futurestriking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704349</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Zoe IngramRooney_Dino|title=Press Out Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Colour: BirdsSuzanne Carpenter

|summary=Pity Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child these days who never reads fairy tales. The irony in thatThis one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, howeverthrough various different ages of dinosaurs, is that they may well be too busy watching ''Frozen'' on repeat to read fairy tales. But read them they shouldwe meet a variety of creatures, in some form or another, and of one era or another. They donwhom are very familiar but some I't all have to go back to the oldest collectionsd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, especially as they will like as not be more gory than showing you whatthe various dinosaurs are getting up to, saywith background noises, Disney or Ladybird Books put out in our youth. They can read a fairy tale from any age, then – roars and when they're done, they can easily turn squawks to this accompany them! The bookcreates a dinosaur experience, which provides more rather than enough impetus for you to write your own. Fairy tales do, as just being facts about dinosaurs it happens's very visual, have placing the ability to last for centuries – but there's nothing quite like dinosaurs in their habitats and giving them a little tweak to get them up-to-date…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356428</amazonuk>us sounds too that spike your imagination.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Harriet RussellMason_poo|title= This Book Thinks You're a ScientistThe Poo That Animals Do|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summaryauthor= ''This Book Thinks You're a Scientist'' takes children through a whole world of scientific areas: forces Paul Mason 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>}}{{newreview|author=Deborah Patterson|title=My Book of Stories: Write Your Own MythsTony de Saulles|rating=45

|summary=I don't know about you, but as a young child I was always looking aheadknow, not backwards. Musically, I could bear a few of my older brothersometimes you really don't want to encourage your children's recordspoo jokes, but wanted to know what was released next week, never what was in the charts of my parent's era. this book is brilliant! I think sat and read it by myself when the same would have been said about my reading, kids had gone to school and my interests – although that's only to a certain extent. found it fascinating! Who knew there was so much I dondidn't think I'd have thanked you for pointing to my dinosaur books, right next to my space and science fiction shelves, and I think I'd have preferred you to see the latest novel, rather than those books of myths I also enjoyed. Mythsknow about poo? They're, like, old. But they don't need much embellishment The book manages to be seen both funny (and silly) as well as great funbeing very interesting and educational. The next stepUsing a mixture of facts and figures, howeverphotographs and funny cartoons, to see them as something you yourself could writecome away having sniggered a little at the vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about different types of poo, well – that's a bit greater. But it's one taken by this bookwhy poos smell, neverthelessand why wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356436</amazonuk>