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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1839948493|title=A World of Dogs|author=Adam HancherCarlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|titlerating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Taking Flight: How In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the Wright Brothers Conquered same about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and devour. Then I'm going to go back and read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the Skiesaccidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529507987|title=The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)

|summary=FlightI love ''The Repair Shop''. It happens all around us's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a hard day, wherever we may bethere's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You see, and many the value is in what these possessions are worth to the young audience members for this book people who have taken to own them and the air alreadymemories they hold. But it was once something impossible No expense appears to take for granted, be spared and the experts spend as much time and this book easily takes us back effort as is required to those daysachieve the desired result. It presents us with danger, determination, Regular viewers know the experts and a certain pair of American brothers going they're all out to get both their names in the history books and their feet in the skies…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809286</amazonuk>brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing. But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meurig Bowen, Rachel Bowen and Daniel Frost024162343X|title=The School of MusicStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=35

|summary=I have a love/hate relationship with musicwas the bad company other people got into at school. I love it was disruptive in that religious education classes because I own several large bookshelves full disputed the existence of CDs, and have seen and met quite a few noted performers, from Radiohead to Philip Glass'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, but I hate it in that as regards making it I can only hit things (and that only with my hands, never with my feet at the same time)was probably worse still. Only in Not too long after the last few years have people been at all appreciative end of my singingWWII, for I didn't so much want of a better word, and one of those suggested closing my eyes to sound better learn about the British army's successes (I think she also may have plugged her ears when I wasnand occasional failures, but we didn't lookingdwell on those). That from a kid who was lumbered with something big and brass in what came to lumber about on be called 'the school bus with, dammit. But hey, colonies' as want to dispute what's right the use of my own example being so off-putting, when there is a world of pleasure, mental and physical exercise and fun army had to be had from being active there in music? the first place. This bookLooking back, dressed as I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the lesson programme of a full-on, proper musical college, is only designed maturity to encourage and informapproach 'the problem' politely. But does it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808603</amazonuk>I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michaela DePrince Jeremy Dronfield and Elaine DePrinceDavid Ziggy Greene|title= Ballerina DreamsFritz and Kurt|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary= Africa is a place full We start with the pair of music brothers Fritz and rhythm Kurt, and joy of movement. It is nottheir muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, howeverhelping the neighbours, always a place for being dutiful when it comes to the structured tuition synagogue choir and commitment required by balletat a vocational school. Sometimes there Kurt has to make sure the lamps are more pressing issues than whether your pointe shoes are darned or whether you have turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a pianist available or light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will have , and instead of having a national vote to dance to prekeep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-recorded musicups of Jews. For Michaela These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, growing up in Sierra Leonewhile Fritz and his father are, her concerns were more simple: where was her next meal coming fromunknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and who was going to look after her now she had been left orphaned by the warstone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057132973X</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913750353|title=Britannica's Word of the Day|author=Katie Scott Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Kathy WillisSue Macy|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you how to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a definition and then includes the word in a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Botanicum Activity Book0711266204|title=The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45

|summary=Children and adults who enjoyed [[Botanicum (Welcome To The Museum) by Katie Scott I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and Kathy Willis]] are going to love watch the ''Botanicum Activity Book''vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. DonI't be misled by ve established which species feed from the suggestion that ground, which pop to the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I'd had access to a book is aimed at the seven-plus age group: theresuch as ''s plenty in here for anyone who is still capable The Secret Life of holding a pen or pencilBirds''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783706791</amazonuk> So – what is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlotte Guillain and Yuval Zommer0192779230|title=Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Street Beneath My FeetInvisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas

|summary=It's one thing for Germs' seems to have become a noncatch-fiction book for all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the young potential to show them something they themselves can explore – the pattern of the stars, perhaps, or the life in their back yardmake you ill. But when it gets to things that are equally important to know about but are impossible to see In the first book in real life, why, then the game is changed. The artistic imagination has what looks to be key, in portraying the invisiblea very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and presenting what can only come from accessible introduction to the pages world of a bookgerms. And this example does it We get an informed look at its best, as it delves into the layers of the soil below said back yard, down how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and down, through all how the different kinds of rock, until we reach the unattainable centre of the planetthinking has developed over time. And thereThe vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist's only one way to go from there – back out which explains some of the other sidetrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, with yet more for us to be shown. It's a fantastic journeyfungi, then protists and viruses – and a quite fantastic volumehow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937312</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yuval Zommer1800464495|title=The Big Book 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Beasts (Big Books)Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith

|summary=One of the many issues people have ''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the TV nature programmewomb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, such as [[Planet Earth II by Stephen Moss|Planet Earth II]]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 the obvious one a strong predictor of all the blood and guts it features – yeslater 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 amongst all the cutesyliteracy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, comical animal life are creatures eating other creatures (normally singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the cutesysame way about maths, comical onesbeyond counting? I don't think we do, what's worse)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 similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial. }} You'll be pleased to know, however, {{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 doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this book is very light on death and destructionwill have brought about sleep problems. Yes, here are lions sharing some chunks of meat Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant (while the females that caught and killed it sit and wait their turn'who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing), here are salmon seemingly willingly flying towards brown bears, and here is a red fox stashing a dead mouse while in a time of plentyothers will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but there worrying about your lack of sleep is so little only likely to make this even a PG book – it will be perfect for worse. And there's also the home shelf or fact that in for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a primary schoolvirtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, working late has been praised and the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>050065106X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aino-Maija Metsola1849767343|title=My First Animals |rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Get used to two simple words if you have a child, ''What's That?'' You will hear it over and over and over again. If you are lucky they are pointing at something that you actually know – chair, hat, my sense of regret. Sometimes they will point at something that is not too familiar. Here the parental practise of making something up comes into play – it's a bird type thing. Books that show images of items, colours or animals may seem a little dull to an adult, but to a toddler learning about the world they are a who's who of what's that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809677</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCount on Me|author=Andrea Beaty and David Roberts|title=Rosie Revere's Big Project Book for Bold EngineersMiguel Tanco|rating=4.5

|summary=For a long time now, people have worried about females taking up STEM subjects – the sciences, engineering The title and suchlike. But I know format of at least two sources of role models in this book might lead you to think that regard. One, most obviously, is it''Star Wars'' – lets either about responsibility - or it's face it, the latest main film had a girl who scavenged parts but could fly basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. It isn't: it'Millennium Falcon'' with ease, and the likes s a hymn of [[Star Wars: Ahsoka by E K Johnston|Ahsoka]] is adept at mending some sort of flying farming machinespraise to maths. If you donIt't wish to go too fantastical, or are seeking role models for the younger audience, there s about why maths is the output of [[:Category:Andrea Beaty so wonderful and David Roberts|Andrea Beaty]]how you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419719106</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1849767009|title=WhatIt Isn's Where on Earth? Atlas: The World as You've Never Seen It Beforet Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceFor Sharing|summary=I dread This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to think how old the atlas we used when I was a child was, but at least we had one, choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and I didnthe ones who ''know'' that it't need s shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to go to school or bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a library to check up on whatever bit of trivia I was seekingbook about not wearing clothes. IIt'm so old s a lot celebration of things about it now would be most redundant, but if you choose to risk your arm bodies: bodies large and buy an atlas for the family shelves that all generations will benefit from, as opposed to relying on electronic small and updateable sources of informationevery possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, then this is the one to havethey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228379</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Graham and Stephen Biesty1776572858|title=Stephen Biesty's TrainsHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)

|genre=ArtHome and Family|summary=Trains look imposing, but true fans (little boys, usually from about three It's more than sixty years old since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and upwards) want to know what lies beneath told me that she'd get me a book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the skin basics, in clinical language which you can see. had never been used in our house before) They want to know how and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it works''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. Getting to grips with one in real life is quite a big askI ''knew'' more, but the next best thing is was little ''Stephen Biestywiser's Trains'' which features trains from all over the world and spanning the early steam train (complete with cow catcher) right through to the trains of the future which can reach a speed of 430 kph and don't even run on rails. Once the train reaches a speed of 150 kph the wheels are raised and the train is held up by magnetic forces aloneThankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704241</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1526362759|title=Women in ScienceDosh: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the WorldHow to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rachel IgnotofskyRashmi Sirdeshpande

|summary=''Women in Science'' takes fifty prominent women in STEM fields and celebrates their achievements. There are women from the ancient world and women working today. Each What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of them it (nope - robbing banks is given a double page spread including a stylised portrait out) and infoboxes what you can do with factoids on one side and it when you've managed to get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, be a page of text with clever shopper, a brief biography saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and outline of her achievementsthere might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy. These intrepid women are inspirational for their work and their discoveries but There's also for the barriers they overcame - barred from classes or employment because they were women or even barred from employment because they were black possibility of using to do good in racially segregated Americathe world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360519</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK178112938X|title=Forest Life Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Woodland CreaturesStefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Dyslexia Friendly|summary=This book knows that if youIt're going to learn about forest life and s fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the animals, plants and trees Kennedy Space Centre in itFlorida, then you're only going to be itching to go and explore but the story of that journey remains one of the woods for yourselfgreatest survival stories of all time. It's for 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. 'Survival in Space: The balance between carrot and stick, or duty and reward, Apollo 13 Mission'' is great – but a brilliant retelling of what exactly is the edutainment going to provide, and what will it demand of us?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273110</amazonuk>happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=DKKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=Sharks Nine Ways to Empower Tweens|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book for tweens, setting out to show them vital #lifeskills. Don't groan! I know there is a market glut of 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 Other Sea Creaturesyounger children for material for tweens too. |isbn= 0228818826}}  {{Frontpage|isbn=1609809173|title=Eiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=45

|summary=Never before have I found much cause to point out Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the sort of lower-casebest, almost-a-subtitle wording on the front of a bookworst and the beautiful from many countries and cultures. I say that because very little of this is about sharks – so if you have a youngster intending to come here and learn The French Republic laid out model villages from all their bloodthirsty imagination can holdcolonies, then they may well be disappointed. If you take it put on board that the 'other sea creatures' make up the bulk of the bookart shows, dance performances, then all well food festivals and goodconcerts to stun the senses. And even bettertowering above it all, if you expect yourself the most popular and the most hated monument to ''make'' French accomplishment and daring – the bulk of said creatures…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241274389</amazonuk>Eiffel Tower.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Theo Guignard1848576536|title=LabyrinthHumanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=4.5

|summary=Of all the books published for people's paper-based hobbies when I was a youngster, it's remarkable that all of them have been revisited and revamped. I say this because they certainly weren't exactly brilliant fun back then. No, we didn't have quite the modern style of colouring-in booksGet under your own skin, but they were availablepick your brains, if youand go inside your insides!'d gone beyond 'join the dots That'. I read only recently that origami is allegedly coming back – and I remember how every church book sale for years had s what ''OrigamiHumanatomy''invites you to do and honestly, I don''Origami 2'' or ''Origami 3'' paperbacks somewhere for ten pencet see how you could resist. But This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the ultimate in paperhuman body to curious children-based fun back then was from the use-once format of skeletal system to the maze book. This is the modern equivalent – but boymuscular system via circulation, respiration and digestion, hasn't right up to the idea grown up since then…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809987</amazonuk>DNA that makes who we are.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres LozanoLangford_Emily|title=Life on Earth: Farm: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!Emily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=IEmily found words ''useful''m sure I was full of questions when I , but counting was a nipper – which means I was too full of questionswhat she loved best. Parents just donObviously, you can count anything and there't need s no limit to be deflecting questions all the timehow far you can go, do they? Living on the edge of but then Emily moved a village step further and began counting in the middle of nowhere as I did, I twos. She knew quite a lot all about farms odd and farming – that different animals gave different resultseven numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, that different vehicles meant different things but the other half was odd and that the crops behind our house changedit was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. But for the inner city child(Actually, there is this confused me a chance little bit at first as they have never met 're a cow or seen subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a silo. This colourful book, bright in both senses subset of the wordeven numbers, will allow the very young reader the opportunity of their own fantasy trip to the working countrysidebut it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808999</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres LozanoBuckingham_Dawn|title=Life on Earth: Human Body: With 100 Questions The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and 70 Lift-flaps!Andrea Pinnington

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Animals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I wonder how much time Ireally did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus''ve saved in not being but the pull of the sounds of a parent – and therefore not having had dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to answer such pesky questions as why is the sky blue, where did I come from, where does my wee come from, what is earwax, resist on a cold and why do rather wet February morning. I have a spleen? Still, apart from spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the first two, those questions birds and the answers listening to them their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and more are in this book, which is a lovely primer for biology, did it all again and a great source of quick facts for it was just as good the very youngsecond time around. So, all presented with an addictive lift-the-flap approach.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809006</amazonuk>what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare HibbertPankhurst_Women|title=Moments in Fantastically Great Women Who Made History that Changed the World|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=45

|summary=One A lot of the problems with presenting humankind's history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as a timeline is that not a lot happened though there were no women in history at perfectly identified timesall, let alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. Of course we can pinpoint when the US Declaration , this isn't true and there are plenty of Independence was signedwomen who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or when Poland was invaded in September 1939shown incredible bravery, but when (and even why) the Maya cities died out? We don't knowor created something never seen before. How do you pin a date to the RenaissanceSo here, in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, or are the invention stories of the modern city? This book may aim to be a portrayal some of key moments in time, but even it admits you have to be vague in itemising the specific days and dates. Get over that, and the pages are packed with informationthem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356703</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Baby Dinosaurs (Follow the Trail)|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary= If you ever have 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 Women in their mouth and don't go following them to their parent. Instead, run. Run faster than you have ever run before in the opposite direction. The unfortunate thing 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 Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to get their dinosaur touching thrills vicariously. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273129</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWin|author=Chris Packham and Jason Cockcroft|title=Amazing Animal Babies|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Many children love animals, but they love baby animals even more. Would you rather watch a dog or watch a puppy? A cat or a kitten? A meerkat or a smaller meerkat? The answer is a no brainer to most children who enjoy the wide-eyed stumbling of youth that is not dissimilar to their own. However, someone needs to give them the facts about baby animals and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277467</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Martin Jenkins and Stephen Biesty|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo to the Mars Rover and BeyondRachel Ignotofsky

|summary=Some little girls want ''Women in Sport'' is coming to be princesses, but us just before the girl who would become Marie Curie wanted to be a scientistWinter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. She was from It celebrates a poor family in Warsaw but she was determined to do well century and won a gold medal for her studies. In Poland, in half of the middle development of women's sport by looking at fifty of the nineteenth centuryits highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, only men were allowed to go to Universityriding, so Marie moved to Paris where she had to study in an unfamiliar languageskating, but was soon the best maths and science studentmuch more. It was here that she met Think of a sport 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 a pioneering woman to receive the honour. Pierre was killed succeeding at it is probably in a road accident, but Marie went on to win a second Nobel Prize, this time for Chemistrybook somewhere. Her work Each entry is still benefiting people todaya double-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Elisa MunsoRooney_Dino|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Agatha ChristieDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter

|summary=As Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child Agatha Christie and her mother would read . This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a book together every afternoonvariety of creatures, some of whom are very familiar but there were early signs some I'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what 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 the First World War Agathavarious dinosaurs are getting up to, who was then in her early twentieswith background noises, nursed wounded soldiers in hospitals: her experiences with poisons roars and toxic potions would be put squawks to good use when her first detective novels were published accompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just after the end of the war. Most people have heard of her first and most famous detective - Hercule Poirot - or of Miss Marple. Mrs Christiebeing facts about dinosaurs it's novels were widely read and her plays were very popular visual, placing the dinosaurs in theatrestheir habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809596</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna ScobieMason_poo|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 to find. One poor creature is all alone with no partner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808832</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Poo That Animals Do|author=Marc Martin|title=LotsPaul Mason and Tony de Saulles|rating=35

|summary=The I know, I know, sometimes you really don't want to encourage your children's encyclopaedia poo jokes, but this book is not the same genre as those used brilliant! I sat and read it by adults. Whilst myself when the older generation kids had gone to make do with giant tomes filled with information school 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. found it fascinating! Who knew there was so much I didn''Lots'' by Marc Martin takes this even further by reducing the facts even further t know about poo? The book manages to be both funny (and bombarding your eyeballs with illustrations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704659</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Krystyna Mihulka silly) as well as being very interesting and Krystyna Poray Goddu|title=Krysia: A Polish Girl's Stolen Childhood During World War II|rating=4educational.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Most Using a mixture of us would think of Polish children suffering in World War Two because of the Nazi death camps – they facts and their families suffering through countless round-ups, ghettoizationfigures, photographs and transport to the end of the linefunny cartoons, 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 in the Nazi ''Lebensraum'', but were sent miles you come away to the East. Krysia's family were split up, partly due to her father being having sniggered a Polish reservist when little at the Nazis invaded, and then courtesy of Stalin, vulture who had [[The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941 by Roger Moorhouse|signed poos on its own feet but also knowing a pact]] with Hitler dividing the country between the two states, before they turned bitter enemies. Krysia's family, living in the eastern city lot about different types of Lwowpoo, were packed up and sent – in the stereotypical cattle train – east. And east, and east – right the way across the continent to rural Kazakhstanwhy poos smell, and a communal farm in the middle of anonymous desert, deep in Communist Soviet lands. Proof, if proof were needed, that that horrendous war still carries narratives that will be new to us…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1613734417</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Simon Rogers|title= Infographics: Technology|rating= 5|genre= Reference|summary=As parents, we can often be bombarded with questions as our children start to discover the world. These questions soon become increasingly complex, especially with the latest technological advances. How why wombats 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''square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704489</amazonuk>