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|summary= If In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you ever have the misfortune to stumble across some as yet undiscovered dinosaur that I offer this piece of advice; don't take your finger and track their spinem a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, donI've never met one I didn't put it in their mouth trust and donI't go following ve loved most of them to their parent. InsteadI wish I felt the same about human beings. So, any book about dogs, runI'm going to sit down and devour. Run faster than you have ever run before in the opposite directionThen I'm going to go back and read it properly. The unfortunate thing is that anyone And so it was with a toddler knows''A World of Dogs'', they love with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to grab and poke anything – including terrible lizards if they got my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the chance. Better play safe than sorry and just get them accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a book that allows them to get their dinosaur touching thrills vicariouslylot about dogs since then. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273129</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Packham and Jason Cockcroft1529507987|title=Amazing Animal BabiesThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=34.5|genre=Emerging ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Many children I love animals, but they love baby animals even more''The Repair Shop''. Would you rather watch a dog or watch a puppy? It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. A cat or After a kitten? hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. A meerkat or a smaller meerkat? The answer You see, the value is a no brainer in what these possessions are worth to most children the people who enjoy own them and the memories they hold. No expense appears to be spared and the wide-eyed stumbling of youth that experts spend as much time and effort as is not dissimilar required to their ownachieve the desired result. However, someone needs to give them Regular viewers know the facts about baby animals experts and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packhamthey're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing. But how did they start?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277467</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Jenkins and Stephen Biesty024162343X|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo to the Mars Rover and BeyondStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I take it as read that you know some was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god'. Where was the proof? In history of space explorationlessons, even if the young person you buy books for doesn't know it allwas probably worse still. So Not too long after the end of WWII, I wondidn't go into the extremes reached by so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn'Voyagert dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' space craft, and as want to dispute what right the processes we needed army had to be expert there in before we could launch anythingthe first place. You probably have some inkling of how we learnt that we're not the centre of everything – the gradual discovery of how curved the planet Looking back, I still believe I was, and how other things orbited other things in turn proving we are not right - but I regret that around which everything revolves. What you might not be so genned up on is I lacked the history of books conveying all this maturity to a young audienceapproach 'the problem' politely. When I was a nipper they were stately texts, with a few accurate diagrams – if you were lucky. For a long time now, however, theywish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History've been anything but stately, and often aren't worried about accuracy as such in their visual design. They certainly long ago shod the boring, plain white page. Until now…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406360082</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Smriti Prasadam-Halls Jeremy Dronfield and Lorna ScobieDavid Ziggy Greene|title= Pairs UnderwaterFritz and Kurt|rating= 4|genre= Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary= Following on from [[Pairs We start with the pair of brothers 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 Garden by Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie]]neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the aquatic themed ''Pairs Underwater'synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours'each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. It But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a lift-national vote to keep the-flap book Nazis out, invite them in with the added twist of a game of open arms. ''MemoryKristallnacht'' thrown happened inVienna just as much as in Germany, as you try did all the round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to match Britain or the pairs across US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each double page spreadother, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847808824</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Frau Isa1913750353|title=Little PeopleBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Big Dreams: Marie CurieRenee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=45

|summary=Some little girls want to be princesses, but ''Britannica's Word of the girl who would become Marie Curie wanted to be Day'' has a scientist. She was from a poor family in Warsaw but she was determined sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to do well Stretch Your Cranium and won a gold medal for her studiesTickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. In Poland, in the middle of the nineteenth century It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', only men were allowed to go tells you how to Universitypronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a definition and then includes the word in a sentence so Marie moved to Paris where she had to study in that you know how it should be used. You also get an unfamiliar language, but was soon the best maths engaging and science studentfrequently amusing illustration too. It was here 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 the first woman to receive I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the honour. 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 today.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809618</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Elisa Munso0711266204|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Agatha ChristieThe Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45

|summary=As I have recently discovered a child Agatha Christie great pleasure: I sit and her mother would read a book together every afternoon, but there were early signs watch the vast numbers of what the future novelist would become: she always had birds which visit our garden on a better idea about how the story should enddaily basis. She would read in bed at night and detective novels were always her favouritesAn hour can pass without my noticing. In I've established which species feed from the First World War Agathaground, which pop to the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who was then settles in her early twenties, nursed wounded soldiers in hospitals: her experiences with poisons and toxic potions would be put to for a good use when her first detective novels were published just after the end of the warmunch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. Most people It would have heard been wonderful if, as a child, I'd had access to a book such as ''The Secret Life of her first and most famous detective - Hercule Poirot - or of Miss Marple. Mrs ChristieBirds''s novels were widely read and her plays were very popular in theatres.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809596</amazonuk> So – what is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie0192779230|title= Pairs in the Garden|rating= 4|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Pairs in the garden'' is a fun book/game hybrid Very Short Introductions for little fingers into creepy crawlies. It's a lift-the-flap book with a difference, because not only do you get to see what's underneath, you then must see if you can find a matching pair. But beware! You cannot just use process Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of elimination because there are 7 flaps on each page, but only 3 pairs to find. One poor creature is all alone with no partner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808832</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGerms|author=Marc Martin|title=LotsIsabel 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 to the end of the line, where they might by hint or dint survive to tell the horrid tale. But most of us would think of such Polish children as Jewish victims of the Holocaustcomprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old. This book opens the eyes up in a most vivid fashion to those who were not Jewish. They did not get resettled in the Nazi ''Lebensraum Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ', but were sent miles away to the East. Krysia's family were split up, partly due Maths ability on entry to her father being school is a Polish reservist when the Nazis invadedstrong predictor of later achievement, and then courtesy double that of Stalin, who had [[The Devilsliteracy skills.'' Alliance: Hitler I didn's Pact with Stalint know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, 1939singing rhymes -1941 by Roger Moorhouse|signed gives children a pact]] with Hitler dividing solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the country between the two statessame way about maths, before they turned bitter enemies. Krysiabeyond counting? I don's familyt think we do, living in the eastern city part because so many of us are afraid of Lwow, were packed up and sent – in the stereotypical cattle train – eastmaths. And east, and east – right the way across the continent to rural Kazakhstan, and a communal farm in the middle But why are we? Most of anonymous desert, deep us use maths in Communist Soviet lands. Proof, if proof were needed, that that horrendous war still carries narratives daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be new to us…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1613734417</amazonuk>just as beneficial.}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Simon Rogers1406395404|title= InfographicsThe Awesome Power of Sleep: TechnologyHow Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating= 5|genre= ReferenceTeens|summary=As parents, we can often be bombarded 2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with questions that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as our children start irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to discover the worldbe doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. These questions soon become increasingly complex Most people, especially with from children to adults will have the latest technological advancesodd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. How do computers work? What And there's inside also the fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a smartphone? How can earth communicate with spacecraft? Thankfully we now have a handy, illustrated guide virtue and sleep made to help us: ''Infographics: Technology''seem like laziness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704489</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|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 AfricaBeing up early, working late has been praised and he speaks Hausa. Do you? Don't worry if not, because you're about the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to learnput on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808492</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1849767343|title=Knowledge Encyclopedia: Animal!Count on Me|author=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, through knowledge but mostly because of their strength of will, survive against all the odds. ''Survivors'' is a collection of such stories of peopleGet under your own skin, some of whom knew that what they were doing was dangerouspick your brains, but many are those who found themselves in situations which seemed impossible, but who didnand go inside your insides!'t give up. The result is a wonderful mixture of the scariness of the peril and the glorious uplift of survival. It's insightful, inspirational and all absolutely true.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571316018</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Emily Hawkins and Alice Letherland|title=Atlas of Miniature Adventures: A pocket-sized collection of small-scale wonders|rating=3.5|genre=ChildrenThat's Non-Fiction|summary=Iwhat ''ve hardly ever had a trouser pocket big enough to cram a whole Humanatomy'pocket-sized' book ininvites you to do and honestly, and while the book under concern here wonI don't comply either, it's not far off. But it's an atlas – see how 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 browsecould resist. But this is This informative book provides a special kind of atlas – it's a compendium of details, and very small details at that, of all wonderful primer about 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 human body to see and read about? 'Animal Books' are packed with cute pictures of tigers, elephants, monkeys and zebras, but what about their lessercurious children-known neglected cousins? Don't they deserve a minute in from the skeletal system to the spotlight? Numbatmuscular system via circulation, Solenodonrespiration and digestion, Zorilla, Onager and Linsang: Now is your time right up to shine!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200530</amazonuk>the DNA that makes who we are.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rachel Williams and CarnovskyLangford_Emily|title=IlluminatureEmily's Numbers|author=Joss 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

|genre=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Ten beautiful birds which start life as detailed line illustrations Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by Zoe Ingram are then coloured in by anyone layer, through various different ages of any age who is capable dinosaurs, we meet a variety of having reasonable control creatures, some of a felt-tip pen or a crayon. Youwhom are very familiar but some I've got to remember to do both the back and the front and whilst it would be nice if they matched it's in no way essential. If you're skillfuld never heard of before! Each scene peels open, so much the betterlayer by layer, but showing you what the designs various dinosaurs are decorated getting up to, with foil which catches the light background noises, roars and gives that sheen which you see on the edges of birdssquawks to accompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it' feathers. When you've finished colouring you gently press the pieces out from the page. I experimented with pressing them out first and then colourings very visual, but placing the pieces were easier to colour actually dinosaurs in the pagetheir habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637673</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katie Scott and Kathy WillisMason_poo|title=Botanicum (Welcome To The Museum)Poo That Animals Do|ratingauthor=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=''Welcome to the Museum'' it says on the front cover and I'll admit that for the moment I was confused as I'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 'Botanics'. I'm not certain why we're supposed to be in a museum, unless it's that it allows us to refer to author Kathy Willis Paul Mason and illustrator Katie Scott as curators. Still it's a contrivance which doesn't affect the content.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783703946</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Deborah Patterson|title=My Book of Stories: Write Your Own Fairy TalesTony de Saulles|rating=4.5

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