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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Graham and Stephen Biesty1839948493|title=Stephen Biesty's TrainsA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe
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|genre=ArtChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Trains look imposingIn the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, but true fans (little boysI've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, usually from any book about three years old dogs, I'm going to sit down and upwards) want to know what lies beneath the skin which you can seedevour. They want Then I'm going to know how go back and read it worksproperly. Getting And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to grips with one in real life is my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a big ask, but the next best thing is lot about dogs since then.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529507987|title=The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I love ''The Repair Shop'Stephen Biesty'. It's Trainsmy go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they' which features trains from all over re worth. You see, the value is in what these possessions are worth to the world people who own them and spanning the early steam train (complete with cow catcher) right through memories they hold. No expense appears to be spared and the trains of experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the future which can reach a speed of 430 kph and don't even run on railsdesired result. Once Regular viewers know the train reaches a speed of 150 kph the wheels are raised experts and the train they're all brilliant at explaining what it is held up by magnetic forces alonethey're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704241</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the WorldStolen History|author=Rachel IgnotofskySathnam Sanghera
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''Women I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in Sciencereligious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god' takes fifty prominent women in STEM fields and celebrates their achievements. There are women from Where was the ancient world and women working todayproof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Each Not too long after the end of them is given a double page spread including a stylised portrait WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and infoboxes with factoids occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on one side and a page of text with a brief biography and outline of her achievementsthose) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. These intrepid women are inspirational for their work and their discoveries Looking back, I still believe I was right - but also for I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the barriers they overcame - barred from classes or employment because they were women or even barred from employment because they were black in racially segregated Americaproblem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360519</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=DKJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Forest Life Fritz and Woodland CreaturesKurt
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=This book knows that if you're going to learn about forest life We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and the animalsKurt, plants and trees their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it, then you're only going comes to be itching the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to go and explore make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the woods Sabbath preventing them for yourselfusing anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. ItBut this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's for will, and instead of having a very young audiencenational vote to keep the Nazis out, so always expects an adult hand to guide you – but provides a warm companion itself through several quick and easy tasksinvite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, and a few lessonsas did all the round-ups of Jews. The balance between carrot These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sticksisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, or duty while Fritz and rewardhis father are, unknown initially to each other, is great – but what exactly is packed off on the edutainment going same train to provide, Buchenwald and what will it demand the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of us?all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241273110</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1913750353|title=Sharks Britannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Other Sea CreaturesSue Macy|rating=45
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|summary=Never before have I found much cause to point out ''Britannica's Word of the sort of lower-case, almost-Day'' has asub-subtitle wording on the front of a book. I say title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that because very little of this is about sharks – so if you have a youngster intending need to come here and learn all their bloodthirsty imagination can holdknow about this brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', then they may well be disappointed. If tells you take how to pronounce it on board that the (''raz-muh-TAZ'other sea creatures' make up the bulk of the book), gives you a definition and then all well includes the word in a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and goodfrequently amusing illustration too. And even better, if you expect yourself to ''makeI don't think I' ve ever encountered a word which uses the bulk of said creatures…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241274389</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Theo Guignard0711266204|title=LabyrinthThe Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Of all the books published for people's paper-based hobbies when I was have recently discovered a youngster, it's remarkable that all great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of them have been revisited and revampedbirds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I say this because they certainly weren't exactly brilliant fun back then. Nove established which species feed from the ground, we didn't have quite which pop to the modern style feeders for a quick snatch of colouring-some food and who settles in booksfor a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if, but they were availableas a child, if youI'd gone beyond 'join the dots'. I read only recently that origami is allegedly coming back – and I remember how every church had access to a book sale for years had such as ''Origami'', ''Origami 2'' or ''Origami 3The Secret Life of Birds'' paperbacks somewhere for ten pence. But the ultimate in paper-based fun back then was the use-once format of the maze book. This So – what is the modern equivalent – but boy, hasn't the idea grown up since then…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809987</amazonuk>it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano0192779230|title=Life on EarthVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: Farm: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45
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|summary=I'm sure I was full of questions when I was Germs' seems to have become a nipper – catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which means I was too full of questionshas the potential to make you ill. Parents just don't need In the first book in what looks to be deflecting questions all the timea very promising new series, do they? Living on the edge of OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a village in clear and accessible introduction to the middle world of nowhere as I did, I knew quite a lot germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about farms diseases and farming – that different animals gave different results, that different vehicles meant different things what they thought caused them and that how the crops behind our house changedthinking has developed over time. But for the inner city child, there is The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a chance they have never met regular box headed 'speak like a cow or seen a silo. This colourful book, bright in both senses scientist' which explains some of the wordtrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, will allow the very young reader the opportunity of their own fantasy trip to the working countrysideprotists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808999</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800464495|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Heather Alexander Emma Smith|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the same way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and Andres Lozanoit follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=Life on EarthThe Awesome Power of Sleep: Human Body: With 100 Questions and 70 LiftHow Sleep Super-flaps!Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Teens|summary=2020 has been a strange year: I wonder how much time doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've saved in not being a parent – got loads to be doing) and therefore not having had others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to answer such pesky questions as why is adults will have the sky blue, where did I come from, where does my wee come from, what odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is earwax, and why do I have a spleen? only likely to make it worse. Still, apart from And there's also the first twofact that for far too long, those questions lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and the answers sleep made to them and more are in this book, which is a lovely primer for biologyseem like laziness. Being up early, working late has been praised and a great source of quick facts for the very young, all presented with an addictive lift-the-flap approachability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809006</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare Hibbert1849767343|title=Moments in History that Changed the WorldCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=One The title and format of the problems with presenting humankindthis book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's history as a timeline is that not a lot happened at perfectly identified timesbasic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. Of course we can pinpoint when the US Declaration of Independence was signed, or when Poland was invaded in September 1939, but when (and even why) the Maya cities died out? We donIt isn't know. How do you pin a date to the Renaissance, or the invention of the modern city? This book may aim to be : it's a portrayal hymn of key moments in time, but even it admits you have praise to be vague in itemising the specific days and datesmaths. Get over that, It's about why maths is so wonderful and the pages are packed with informationhow you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356703</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1849767009|title=Baby Dinosaurs (Follow the Trail)It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary= If you ever This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the misfortune to stumble across some as yet undiscovered dinosaur I offer this piece of advice; dononly people who't take your finger ll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and track their spine, donthe ones who ''know'' that it't put s shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in their mouth and don't go following them the supermarket who is coughing fit to their parentbust. Instead, runBut... Run faster Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than you have ever run before in the opposite directiona book about not wearing clothes. The unfortunate thing is that anyone with It's a toddler knows, they love to grab celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and poke anything – including terrible lizards if they got the chanceof every possible hue. Better play safe than sorry Bodies with disabilities and just get them a book that allows them to get their dinosaur touching thrills vicariouslymarkings. They're fine. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273129</amazonuk>In fact, they're wonderful.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Packham and Jason Cockcroft1776572858|title=Amazing Animal BabiesHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging ReadersHome and Family|summary=Many children love animals, but they love baby animals even It's morethan sixty years since I asked how babies were made. Would you rather watch My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a dog or watch a puppy? book about it. A cat or couple of days later I was handed a kitten? pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) A meerkat or a smaller meerkat? and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. The answer is a no brainer to most children who enjoy the wide-eyed stumbling of youth that is not dissimilar to their ownI ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. HoweverThankfully, someone needs to give them the facts about baby animals and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277467</amazonuk>times have changed.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Jenkins and Stephen Biesty1526362759|title=Exploring SpaceDosh: From Galileo How to the Mars Rover and BeyondEarn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Some little girls want to be princesses, but the girl who would become Marie Curie wanted to be What a scientist. relief! She was from a poor family in Warsaw but she was determined to do well and won a gold medal A book about money, for her studies. In Polandchildren, in the middle with clear explanations of the nineteenth centurywhat it is, only men were allowed to go to Universitywhy it matters, so Marie moved how to Paris where she had acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to study in an unfamiliar language, but was soon the best maths and science studentget hold of it. It was here that she met and married Pierre Curie, another scientist and they jointly discovered radium and poloniumYour reasons for wanting money don't matter: they would eventually win the Nobel Prize for Physics for this workwe all need it to some extent. Marie was the first woman You might want to receive the honour. Pierre was killed in go into business, be a road accidentclever shopper, but Marie went on to win a second Nobel Prizesaver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, this time for Chemistry''really'' want to buy. Her work is still benefiting people todayThere's also the possibility of using to do good in the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809618</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Elisa Munso178112938X|title=Little People, Big DreamsSurvival in Space: Agatha ChristieThe Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=As a child Agatha Christie and her mother would read a book together every afternoon, but there were early signs of what It's fifty years since the future novelist would become: she always had a better idea about how the story should end. She would read in bed at night and detective novels were always her favourites. In Apollo 13 mission was launched from the First World War Agatha, who was then Kennedy Space Centre in her early twentiesFlorida, 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 but the end story of that journey remains one of the wargreatest survival stories of all time. 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 'Survival in theatresSpace: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a brilliant retelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809596</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Smriti Prasadam-Halls Kathleen Boucher and Lorna ScobieSara Chadwick|title= Pairs in the Garden|rating= 4|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Pairs in the garden'' is a fun book/game hybrid 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 of elimination because there are 7 flaps on each page, but only 3 pairs Nine Ways to find. One poor creature is all alone with no partner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808832</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Marc Martin|title=Lots|rating=3|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The children's encyclopaedia is not the same genre as those used by adults. Whilst the older generation had to make do with giant tomes filled with information and perhaps, if you are lucky, a small black and white picture every now and again; the kids get full colour books with more images than facts. ''Lots'' by Marc Martin takes this even further by reducing the facts even further and bombarding your eyeballs with illustrations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704659</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Krystyna Mihulka and Krystyna Poray Goddu|title=Krysia: A Polish Girl's Stolen Childhood During World War IIEmpower Tweens
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book for tweens, setting out to show them vital #lifeskills. Don't groan! I know there is a market glut of such books for we grown-ups and for young adults too, but there is a needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for tweens too.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1609809173
|title=Eiffel's Tower for Young People
|author=Jill Jonnes
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Most of us would think of Polish children suffering in World War Two because of the Nazi death camps – they Brash and their families suffering through countless round-upselegant, ghettoizationsophisticated, controversial and transport to the end of the linevibrant, 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 Holocaust. This book opens the eyes up in a most vivid fashion to those who were not Jewish. They did not get resettled 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the Nazi ''Lebensraum''best, but were sent miles away to the East. Krysia's family were split up, partly due to her father being a Polish reservist when worst and the Nazis invaded, beautiful from many countries and then courtesy of Stalin, who had [[cultures. The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941 by Roger Moorhouse|signed a pact]] with Hitler dividing the country between the two statesFrench Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, before they turned bitter enemies. Krysia's familyput on art shows, living in the eastern city of Lwowdance performances, were packed up food festivals and sent – in concerts to stun the stereotypical cattle train – eastsenses. And easttowering above it all, the most popular and east – right the way across the continent most hated monument to rural Kazakhstan, French accomplishment and a communal farm in daring – the middle of anonymous desert, deep in Communist Soviet landsEiffel Tower. Proof, if proof were needed, that that horrendous war still carries narratives that will be new to us…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1613734417</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Simon Rogers1848576536|title= InfographicsHumanatomy: 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 How 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>}}{{newreviewBody Works|author= Ben Handicott Nicola Edwards 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!Jem Maybank|rating=4.5
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|summary=The encyclopedia may be an informative type of book''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, but itand go inside your insides!'' That's not always what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do and honestly, I don't see how you could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the most interesting. A series of dry facts plastered all over human body to curious children- from the page with nary an image in sight. This dry type of learning is never going skeletal system to work with some of our modern youththe muscular system via circulation, more used to spending time looking for imaginary animals on their phonesrespiration and digestion, than researching real ones in a book. If you want right up to capture their attention, you must first draw their eyes. DK have attempted this in one of the most colourful and vibrant encyclopedias you DNA that makes who we are likely to see.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228417</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne-Sophie Baumann, Olivier Latyk and Robb Booker (translator)Langford_Emily|title=The Ultimate Book of SpaceEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=SpaceEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. For all the hugeObviously, empty expanse of it, ityou can count anything and there's no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a full step further and very fiddly thing to experiencebegan counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. The National Space Centre, Then she began counting in threes: half of the hotbed of cosmology and space science that is Leicesterlist were even numbers, is chock full of things to touch, grip, pull but the other half was odd and move around – and so is it was this booklist of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. It(Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they's re a right gallimaufry of things that pop up out subset of the page, with things odd numbers but sound as though they ought to turn and pull, and even an astronaut on the end of be a curtain wire. Within minutes subset 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 telescopeeven numbers, and swung a Soyuz supply module around so but it all worked out well when I really thought about it could dock at the International Space Station. Educational fun like that can only be a good thing for the budding young scientist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01AGIOSQ2</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody RevensonBuckingham_Dawn|title=Incredibuilds: Buckbeak: Deluxe Model The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Book Set (Harry Potter)Andrea Pinnington|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=The general perception is that to become What a leading British actor, you need the fillip of Eton or somesuch education. treat! But you donI really did mean to just 't have to be an actor to make a great film. 'glance'Gravity'at ' for instance has extended scenes where the only thing natural is the performers' faces – everything else, even their bodies, was made in Britain by people using computers. The eight Little Book of the Dawn Chorus''Harry Potter'' films, also made in but the pull of the UK, needed a lot sounds of computing power as well, but also a lot of craftsmen with dozen different birds singing their hands hearts out was far too much to resist on tools a cold and a keen eyerather wet February morning. What better way I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and listening to start training their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it was just as good the young reader into that side of thingssecond time around. So, than with tasking them with making a, er, hippogriffwhat do you get?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707232</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody RevensonPankhurst_Women|title=Incredibuilds: Aragog: Deluxe Model and Book Set (Harry Potter)Fantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Aragog the giant spiderA lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, don't you knowit feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, took six man years just let alone ones young girls might like to buildread about or regard as role models. Of course, this isn't true and weighed a ton. After countless trial models and pieces there are plenty of visual design workwomen who, he could finally be constructedthroughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, and he stretched across eighteen feet of the studio flooror created something never seen before. OrSo here, conversely, he is about seven inches long and seven wide, and you put him together in a day or twothis wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, for are the cost stories of this book-and-gift set and some craft paintsof them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707240</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody RevensonIgnotofsky_Sport|title=IncredibuildsWomen in Sport: House-Elves: Deluxe Book and Model Set (Harry Potter)Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5
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|summary=How do you create a house-elf like Dobby? Well, you have a tennis ball on a string, and point actors so they look at it, and say their lines to a pretty-much empty space. You then film Toby Jones doing the elf's lines, and use that sound file and his facial expressions as basis for your CGI creation – the first major character 'Women in Sport'' is coming to come from us just before the digital realm Winter Olympics in South Korea in the ''Harry Potter'' filmsFebruary 2018. You can throw in It celebrates a few puppets, and now century and again a gifted small person, particularly half of the development of women's sport by looking at the end fifty of film #7… Orits highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, of courseriding, you can get this gift setskating, and press the wooden parts out, muckle them together – much more. Think of a sport and lo a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and behold, a six inch tall Dobby for your windowsillstriking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707070</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Long and Kerry HyndmanRooney_Dino|title=Survivors: Extraordinary Tales from the Wild Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and BeyondSuzanne Carpenter
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=There can be few people who are not captivated Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by stories of survival - those people who by chancelayer, through knowledge but mostly because of their strength various different ages of willdinosaurs, survive against all the odds. ''Survivors'' is we meet a collection of such stories variety of peoplecreatures, some of whom knew that what they were doing was dangerous, but many are those who found themselves in situations which seemed impossible, very familiar but who didnsome I't give d never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the various dinosaurs are getting up. to, with background noises, roars and squawks to accompany them! The result is book creates a wonderful mixture of the scariness of the peril and the glorious uplift of survival. Itdinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's insightfulvery visual, inspirational placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and all absolutely truegiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571316018</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Hawkins and Alice LetherlandMason_poo|title=Atlas of Miniature Adventures: A pocket-sized collection of small-scale wondersThe Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
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