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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meurig Bowen, Rachel Bowen and Daniel Frost1839948493|title=The School A World of MusicDogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=35

|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I have 'm a love/hate relationship with musicsucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I love it in that 've never met one I didn't trust and I own several large bookshelves full 've loved most of CDs, and have seen and met quite a few noted performers, from Radiohead to Philip Glass, but them. I hate it in that as regards making it wish I can only hit things (and that only with my hands, never with my feet at felt the same time)about human beings. Only in the last few years have people been at all appreciative of my singingSo, for want of a better wordany book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and one of those suggested closing my eyes to sound better (I think she also may have plugged her ears when devour. Then I wasn't looking)m going to go back and read it properly. That from a kid who And so it was lumbered with something big and brass to lumber about on the school bus with, dammit. But hey, what's the use 'A World of Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my own example being so offfour-putting, when there is a world of pleasure, mental and physical exercise and fun to be had from being active in music? legged friends. This book, dressed as Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the lesson programme accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a full-on, proper musical college, is only designed to encourage and informlot about dogs since then. But does it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808603</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michaela DePrince and Elaine DePrince1529507987|title= Ballerina Dreams|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Africa is a place full of music and rhythm and joy of movement. It is not, however, always a place for the structured tuition and commitment required by ballet. Sometimes there are more pressing issues than whether your pointe shoes are darned or whether you have a pianist available or will have to dance to pre-recorded music. For Michaela, growing up in Sierra Leone, her concerns were more simple: where was her next meal coming from, and who was going to look after her now she had been left orphaned by the war.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057132973X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Katie Scott Walker Books and Kathy Willis|title=Botanicum Activity BookSonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=Children and adults who enjoyed [[Botanicum (Welcome To The Museum) by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis]] are going to I love the ''Botanicum Activity BookThe Repair Shop''. DonIt't s my go-to programme when I want to be misled by cheered up. After a hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You see, the value is in what these possessions are worth to the suggestion that people who own them and the book memories they hold. No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend as much time and effort as is aimed at required to achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the seven-plus age group: thereexperts and they's plenty in here for anyone who re all brilliant at explaining what it is still capable of holding a pen or pencilthey're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783706791</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlotte Guillain and Yuval Zommer024162343X|title=The Street Beneath My FeetStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|summary=It's one thing for a non-fiction book for I was the young to show them something they themselves can explore – the pattern of the stars, perhaps, or the life in their back yardbad company other people got into at school. But when it gets to things that are equally important to know about but are impossible to see I was disruptive in real life, why, then religious education classes because I disputed the game is changedexistence of a 'god'. The artistic imagination has to be key, in portraying Where was the invisibleproof? In history lessons, and presenting what can only come from the pages of a bookit was probably worse still. And this example does it at its best, as it delves into Not too long after the layers end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the soil below said back yard, down British army's successes (and downoccasional failures, through all but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the different kinds of rock, until we reach colonies' as want to dispute what right the unattainable centre of army had to be there in the planetfirst place. And there's only one way to go from there – Looking back out , I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the other side, with yet more for us maturity to be shownapproach 'the problem' politely. ItI wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's a fantastic journey, then – and a quite fantastic volume''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937312</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yuval ZommerJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=The Big Book of Beasts (Big Books)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=One of the many issues people have with the TV nature programme, such as [[Planet Earth II by Stephen Moss|Planet Earth II]], is the obvious one of all the blood and guts it features – yes, in amongst all the cutesy, comical animal life are creatures eating other creatures (normally the cutesy, comical ones, what's worse). You'll be pleased to know, however, that this book is very light on death and destruction. Yes, here are lions sharing some chunks of meat (while the females that caught and killed it sit and wait their turn), here are salmon seemingly willingly flying towards brown bears, Fritz and here is a red fox stashing a dead mouse while in a time of plenty, but there is so little to make this even a PG book – it will be perfect for the home shelf or that in a primary school.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>050065106X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Aino-Maija Metsola|title=My First Animals Kurt

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Get used We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to two simple words if you have a childdo – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, ''What's That?'' You will hear being dutiful when it over comes to the synagogue choir and over and over againat a vocational school. If you Kurt has to make sure the lamps are lucky they are pointing turned on at something that you actually know their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – chair, hat, my sense of regretthe Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. Sometimes they But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will point at something that is not too familiar, and instead of having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. Here ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the parental practise round-ups of making something up comes into play – it's a bird type thingJews. Books that show images These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of itemsan evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, colours or animals may seem a little dull unknown initially to an adulteach other, but packed off on the same train to a toddler learning about Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the world they are a who's who adult variant of what's that.all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847809677</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Beaty and David Roberts1913750353|title=Rosie RevereBritannica's Big Project Book for Bold EngineersWord of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=45

|summary=For ''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a long time now, people have worried about females taking up STEM subjects – the sciences, engineering sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and suchlike. But I Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know of at least two sources of role models in that regardabout this brilliant book. One, most obviously, is It starts on January 1st with ''Star WarsRazzmatazz'' – let's face , tells you how to pronounce it, the latest main film had a girl who scavenged parts but could fly the (''Millennium Falconraz-muh-TAZ'' with ease), gives you a definition and then includes the likes of [[Star Wars: Ahsoka by E K Johnston|Ahsoka]] is adept at mending some sort of flying farming machinesword in a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. If you I don't wish to go too fantastical, or are seeking role models for think I've ever encountered a word which uses the younger audience, there is the output of [[:Category:Andrea Beaty and David Roberts|Andrea Beaty]].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419719106</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK0711266204|title=What's Where on Earth? Atlas: The World as You've Never Seen It Before|rating=4.5|genre=Reference|summary=I dread to think how old the atlas we used when I was a child was, but at least we had one, and I didn't need to go to school or a library to check up on whatever bit of trivia I was seeking. I'm so old a lot of things about it now would be most redundant, but if you choose to risk your arm and buy an atlas for the family shelves that all generations will benefit from, as opposed to relying on electronic and updateable sources Secret Life of information, then this is the one to have.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228379</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBirds|author=Ian Graham Moira Butterfield and Stephen Biesty|title=Stephen Biesty's TrainsVivian Mineker (illustrator)

|genre=ArtChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Trains look imposing, but true fans (little boys, usually from about three years old I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and upwards) want to know what lies beneath watch the skin vast numbers of birds which you can seevisit our garden on a daily basis. They want to know how it worksAn hour can pass without my noticing. Getting to grips with one in real life is quite a big ask, but the next best thing is ''Stephen Biesty's Trains'I' ve established which features trains species feed from all over the world and spanning the early steam train (complete with cow catcher) right through ground, which pop to the trains of the future which can reach feeders for a speed quick snatch of 430 kph some food and don't even run on railswho settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. Once the train reaches It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I'd had access to a speed book such as ''The Secret Life of 150 kph the wheels are raised and the train Birds''. So – what is held up by magnetic forces alone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704241</amazonuk>it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192779230|title=Women in ScienceVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the The Invisible Worldof Germs|author=Rachel IgnotofskyIsabel Thomas

|summary='Germs'Women seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. In the first book in Science'' takes fifty prominent women in STEM fields what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and celebrates their achievements. There are women from accessible introduction to the ancient world of germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and women working todayhow the thinking has developed over time. Each of them is given The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a double page spread including regular box headed 'speak like a stylised portrait scientist' which explains some of the trickiest concepts and infoboxes with factoids on one side and a page of text you'll soon be familiar with a brief biography bacteria, fungi, protists and outline of her achievements. These intrepid women are inspirational for their work viruses – and their discoveries but also for 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 Americahow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360519</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1800464495|title=Forest Life and Woodland Creatures|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=This book knows that if you're going to learn about forest life and the animals, plants and trees 100 Ways in it, then you're only going 100 Days to be itching to go and explore the woods for yourself. It's for Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a very young audience, so always expects an adult hand to guide you – but provides a warm companion itself through several quick and easy tasks, and a few lessons. The balance between carrot and stick, or duty and reward, is great – but what exactly is the edutainment going to provide, and what will it demand Love of us?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273110</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMaths|author=DK|title=Sharks and Other Sea CreaturesEmma Smith|rating=4.5

|summary=Never before have ''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 found much cause didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to point out the sort school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of lowerliteracy skills.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy -casereading stories, teaching pen grips, almostsinging rhymes -gives children a-subtitle wording on solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the front 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 it follows that giving our children a booksimilar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial. }} {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=2020 has been a strange year: I say doubt anyone would argue with that because very little statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this is will have brought about sharks – so if you have a youngster intending sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to come here be doing) and learn all their bloodthirsty imagination can holdothers will worry unnecessarily. Most people, then they may well be disappointedfrom children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. If you take it on board that the And there'other sea creatures' make up s also the bulk fact that for far too long, lack of the book, then all well sleep has been lauded as a virtue and goodsleep made to seem like laziness. And even betterBeing up early, if you expect yourself working late has been praised and the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to ''make'' the bulk of said creatures…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241274389</amazonuk>put on your CV.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Theo Guignard1849767343|title=LabyrinthCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary=Of all the books published for peopleThe title and format of this book might lead you to think that it's papereither about responsibility -based hobbies when I was a youngster, or it's remarkable that all of them have been revisited and revampeda basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. I say this because they certainly werenIt isn't exactly brilliant fun back then. No, we didn: it't have quite the modern style s a hymn of colouring-in books, but they were available, if you'd gone beyond 'join the dots'praise to maths. I read only recently that origami It's about why maths is allegedly coming back – so wonderful and I remember how every church book sale for years had ''Origami'', ''Origami 2'' or ''Origami 3'' paperbacks somewhere for ten pence. But the ultimate you meet it in paper-based fun back then was the use-once format of the maze bookeveryday life. This is the modern equivalent – but boy, hasn't the idea grown up since then…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809987</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano1849767009|title=Life on Earth: Farm: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=I'm sure I was full This could have been one of questions when I was a nipper – those books which means I was too full of questions. Parents just don't need preaches to be deflecting questions all the time, do they? Living on choir': the edge of a village in only people who'll buy it are the middle of nowhere as I did, I knew quite a lot about farms people who know that nudity is OK and farming – the ones who ''know'' that different animals gave different results, that different vehicles meant different things it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and that -bothered person in the crops behind our house changedsupermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But for the inner city child, there is ... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a chance they have never met book about not wearing clothes. It's a cow or seen a silocelebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. This colourful bookIn fact, bright in both senses of the word, will allow the very young reader the opportunity of their own fantasy trip to the working countrysidethey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808999</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano1776572858|title=Life on Earth: Human Body: With 100 Questions How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and 70 Lift-flaps!Don Bartlett (translator)

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Home and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I wonder asked how much time babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a book about it. A couple of days later I've saved in not being was handed a parent – and therefore not having had to answer such pesky questions as why is pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the sky blue, where did I come from, where does my wee come from, what is earwaxbasics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and why do I have a spleen? was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. Still, apart from the first two, those questions and the answers to them and I ''knew'' more are in this book, which is a lovely primer for biologybut was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, and a great source of quick facts for the very young, all presented with an addictive lift-the-flap approachtimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809006</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare Hibbert1526362759|title=Moments in History that Changed the WorldDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45

|summary=One of the problems with presenting humankind's history as a timeline is that not What a lot happened at perfectly identified times. relief! Of course we can pinpoint when the US Declaration A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of Independence was signedwhat it is, or when Poland was invaded in September 1939why it matters, but when how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and even why) the Maya cities died out? what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. We Your reasons for wanting money don't knowmatter: we all need it to some extent. How do you pin a date You might want to the Renaissancego into business, or the invention of the modern city? This book may aim to be a portrayal of key moments in timeclever shopper, but a saver (you might even it admits become an ''investor'') and there might be something you have really, ''really'' want to be vague in itemising the specific days and datesbuy. Get over that, and There's also the possibility of using to do good in the pages are packed with informationworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356703</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK178112938X|title=Baby Dinosaurs Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (Follow the Trailillustrator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary= If you ever have It's fifty years since the misfortune to stumble across some as yet undiscovered dinosaur I offer this piece of advice; don't take your finger and track their spine, don't put it Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in their mouth and don't go following them to their parent. InsteadFlorida, runbut the story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. Run faster than you have ever run before ''Survival in the opposite direction. Space: The unfortunate thing Apollo 13 Mission'' is that anyone with a toddler knows, they love to grab and poke anything – including terrible lizards if they got the chance. Better play safe than sorry and just get them a book that allows them to get their dinosaur touching thrills vicariouslybrilliant retelling of what happened. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273129</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris Packham Kathleen Boucher and Jason CockcroftSara Chadwick|title=Amazing Animal BabiesNine Ways to Empower Tweens|rating=34.5|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=Many children love animals''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book for tweens, but they love baby animals even moresetting out to show them vital #lifeskills. Would you rather watch Don't groan! I know there is a dog or watch a puppy? A cat or a kitten? A meerkat or a smaller meerkat? The answer market glut of such books for we grown-ups and for young adults too, but there is a no brainer needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to most younger and younger children who enjoy the wide-eyed stumbling of youth that is not dissimilar to their ownfor material for tweens too. However, someone needs to give them the facts about baby animals and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405277467</amazonuk>0228818826}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Jenkins and Stephen Biesty1609809173|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo to the Mars Rover and BeyondEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I take it as read that you know some of the history of space explorationBrash and elegant, even if the young person you buy books for doesn't know it all. So I won't go into the extremes reached by the ''Voyager'' space craftsophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the processes we needed to be expert 1889 World's Fair in before we could launch anything. You probably have some inkling of how we learnt that we're not Paris encompassed the centre of everything – best, the gradual discovery of how curved worst and the planet was, beautiful from many countries and how other things orbited other things in turn proving we are not that around which everything revolvescultures. What you might not be so genned up on is the history of books conveying The French Republic laid out model villages from all this to a young audience. When I was a nipper they were stately textstheir colonies, with a few accurate diagrams – if you were lucky. For a long time nowput on art shows, howeverdance performances, they've been anything but statelyfood festivals and concerts to stun the senses. And towering above it all, the most popular and the most hated monument to French accomplishment and often aren't worried about accuracy as such in their visual design. They certainly long ago shod daring – the boring, plain white pageEiffel Tower. Until now…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406360082</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie1848576536|title= Pairs Underwater|rating= 4|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Following on from [[Pairs in the Garden by Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie]], comes the aquatic themed ''Pairs Underwater''. It's a lift-the-flap book with Humanatomy: How the added twist of a game of ''Memory'' thrown in, as you try to match the pairs across each double page spread.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808824</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBody Works|author=Isabel Sanchez Vegara Nicola Edwards and Frau Isa|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Marie CurieJem Maybank|rating=45

|summary=Some little girls want to be princesses''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, but the girl who would become Marie Curie wanted to be a scientist. She was from a poor family in Warsaw but she was determined and go inside your insides!'' That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do well and won honestly, I don't see how you could resist. This informative book provides a gold medal for her studies. In Poland, in wonderful primer about the middle of human body to curious children- from the nineteenth century, only men were allowed skeletal system to go to Universitythe muscular system via circulation, so Marie moved to Paris where she had to study in an unfamiliar language, but was soon the best maths respiration and science student. It was here that she met and married Pierre Curiedigestion, 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 right up to receive the honourDNA that makes who we are. 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Elisa MunsoLangford_Emily|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Agatha ChristieEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=As a child Agatha Christie and her mother would read a book together every afternoonEmily found words ''useful'', but there were early signs of counting was what the future novelist would become: she always had loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there's no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a better idea about how the story should endstep further and began counting in twos. She would read in bed at night knew all about odd and detective novels were always her favouriteseven numbers. In Then she began counting in threes: half of the First World War Agathalist were even numbers, who but the other half was odd and it was then this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in her early twentiesthrees which she called ''threeven''. (Actually, nursed wounded soldiers in hospitals: her experiences with poisons and toxic potions would be put to good use when her this confused me a little bit at first detective novels were published just after as they're a subset of the end odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset 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 theatreseven numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809596</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna ScobieBuckingham_Dawn|title= Pairs in The Little Book of the GardenDawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating= 45|genre= Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'Pairs in ' at ''The Little Book of the gardenDawn Chorus'' is but the pull of the sounds of a fun book/game hybrid for little fingers into creepy crawliesdozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. It's a lift- I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the-flap book with a difference, because not only do you get birds and listening to see what's underneath, you then must see if you can find a matching pairtheir song. But beware! You cannot Then - just use process of elimination because there are 7 flaps on each page, but only 3 pairs to find. One poor creature is I could - I went back and did it all alone with no partneragain and it was just as good the second time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808832</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marc MartinPankhurst_Women|title=LotsFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=35

|summary=The children's encyclopaedia A lot of history is not the same genre about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as those used by adultsrole models. Whilst the older generation had to make do with giant tomes filled with information Of course, this isn't true and perhapsthere are plenty of women who, throughout history, if you are luckyhave achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, a small black and white picture every now and again; the kids get full colour books with more images than factsor created something never seen before. ''Lots'' by Marc Martin takes So here, in this even further by reducing wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the facts even further and bombarding your eyeballs with illustrationsstories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704659</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Krystyna Mihulka and Krystyna Poray GodduIgnotofsky_Sport|title=KrysiaWomen in Sport: A Polish Girl's Stolen Childhood During World War IIFifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5

|summary=Most of us would think of Polish children suffering ''Women in World War Two because of the Nazi death camps – they and their families suffering through countless round-ups, ghettoization, and transport to the end of the line, where they might by hint or dint survive Sport'' is coming to tell the horrid tale. But most of us would think of such Polish children as Jewish victims of just before the HolocaustWinter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. This book opens the eyes up in It celebrates a century and a most vivid fashion to those who were not Jewish. They did not get resettled in half of the Nazi ''Lebensraum'', but were sent miles away to the East. Krysiadevelopment of women's family were split upsport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, partly due to her father being a Polish reservist when the Nazis invadedcovering sports as diverse as swimming, and then courtesy of Stalinfencing, who had [[The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalinriding, 1939-1941 by Roger Moorhouse|signed a pact]] with Hitler dividing the country between the two statesskating, before they turned bitter enemiesand much more. Krysia's family, living in the eastern city Think of Lwow, were packed up a sport and sent – a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in the stereotypical cattle train – eastthis book somewhere. And east, and east – right the way across the continent to rural Kazakhstan, Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a communal farm in the middle of anonymous desert, deep in Communist Soviet landsstriking portrait. 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 RogersRooney_Dino|title= Infographics: TechnologyDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|rating= 54|genre= ReferenceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=As parentsLift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we can often be bombarded meet a variety of creatures, some of whom are very familiar but some I'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the various dinosaurs are getting up to, with questions as our children start background noises, roars and squawks to discover the world. These questions soon become increasingly complexaccompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, especially with the latest technological advances. How do computers work? Whatrather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's inside a smartphone? How can earth communicate with spacecraft? Thankfully we now have a handyvery visual, illustrated guide to help placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and giving us: ''Infographics: Technology''sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704489</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ben Handicott and Kenard PakMason_poo|title= The Hello AtlasPoo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles|rating= 45|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I know, I know, sometimes you really don't want to encourage your children'Sannus poo jokes, but this book is brilliant! Kina lafiyaI sat and read it by myself when the kids had gone to school and found it fascinating! Who knew there was so much I didn't know about poo?'' That's how Azumi greets us in this The bookmanages to be both funny (and silly) as well as being very interesting and educational. He's from AfricaUsing a mixture of facts and figures, photographs and he speaks Hausa. Do you? Don't worry if notfunny cartoons, because you're come away having sniggered a little at the vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about to learndifferent types of poo, why poos smell, and why wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808492</amazonuk>