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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Bowsher1839948493|title=Lift-the-Flap A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Colour: OceanLuisa Uribe|rating=45

|summary=When In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you think about itthat I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, itI've never met one I didn't trust and I's quite startling that oceans cover ve loved most of our planet and theythem. I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I're home m going to nearly half of all species, apart from humanssit down and devour. We donThen I't know a lot about the oceans either - less than 5% of the area has been explored, but m going to go back and read it is an area of outstanding beautyproperly. With Alice BowsherAnd so it was with ''s A World of Dogs''Lift, with ninety-thesix pages devoted entirely to my four-Flap and Colour: Ocean'' children as young as two have the opportunity to do a little exploration and to colour their own pictureslegged friends. The flaps are a stroke of genius: when we look at the sea we see little more than Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the movement accidental owner of the water, but how different it would be if you could see an American Dingo - she's learned quite a little of what is going on underneathlot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809294</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Jane Gillespie and Yukai Du1529507987|title=100 Steps for ScienceThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=34.5

|summary=Science I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my 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're worth. You see, the value is a far reaching subject that covers almost everything that exists in the Universe from the smallest specks what these possessions are worth to the largest space bound objects. Point at anything people who own them and there will be some sort of scientist who has studied itthe memories they hold. Trying No expense appears to fit all of this into 100 hundred steps for children be spared and the experts spend as much time and effort as is ambitious and should be lorded, but if you are going required to try achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and do this; they're all brilliant at least make explaining what it readableis they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808050</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amanda Wood, Mike Jolley and Frances Castle024162343X|title=Spot the Mistake: Lands of Long AgoStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=4.5

|summary=YouI was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'll like as not have seen a childrengod's book before and harangued it for containing errors. This book has at least two hundredWhere was the proof? In history lessons, and that's not a problemit was probably worse still. Yes, in personifying Not too long after the idea end of learning through your mistakesWWII, we get ten large dioramas of historical activity, all containing twenty things that shouldnI didn't be there. Your task, should you choose so much want to accept itlearn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, is but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to try and find them all. And be called 'the learning is also here, colonies' as we get text want to tell us dispute what right the goofs were designed army had to show usbe there in the first place. Make no mistakeLooking back, this is a clever and absorbing read…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809634</amazonuk>I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matthew Clark Smith Jeremy Dronfield and Matt TavaresDavid Ziggy Greene|title=Lighter than Air: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman PilotFritz and Kurt|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=We're in Parisstart with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – not to be too rude about kicking things – we seem surrounded by idiots. For onearound the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it seems they think the perfect place comes to experiment with manned hot air balloon flights is in the middle of the biggest city in the worldsynagogue choir and at a vocational school. For another, they think only men could suffer Kurt has to make sure the slightly colder and slightly thinner air experienced lamps are turned on such an adventure at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – women would never be able to copethe Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. MeanwhileBut this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a young girl is dreaming of flightnational vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as so many are wont to doin Germany, completely unaware that she will soon marry one as did all the round-ups of the most famed balloonistsJews. They will have joint journeys skywardThese 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, before while Fritz and his early demise – leaving the young womanfather are, Sophie Blanchardunknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to go it alone Buchenwald and become the first female pilotstone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0763677329</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Litton and Thomas Hegbrook1913750353|title=The Earth Book: A World Britannica's Word of Exploration the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and WonderSue Macy|rating=4.5

|summary=The Earth. I kind ''Britannica's Word of quite like it, 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 – it seems to serve my purposeabout this brilliant book. I don It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz't think I've taken too much out of it, all told, and if tells you how to pronounce it(''raz-muh-TAZ's divided up into 200 countries I'm getting close to having visited ), gives you a definition and then includes the word in a quarter of themsentence so that you know how it should be used. But way back when I just didn't You also get on with studying itan engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. I didndon't like geography – what with having to draw maps, oxbow lakes and whatnot I think it was one of those subjects I was put off through the pictorial element – and dropped it as soon as I could. But then, I didn't have ve ever encountered a word which uses the likes of this book to inspire me…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575246</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Barr, Steve Williams and Amy Husband0711266204|title=The Story Secret Life of SpaceBirds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=I have no actual idea how recently discovered a great pleasure: I first got an interest in spacesit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. Perhaps it's there because I'm so old ve established which species feed from the ground, which pop to almost coincide with the last Apollo astronauts being on the moon (and that's pretty old, it's been so long) and it kind feeders for a quick snatch of rubbed off on me. Perhaps in fact all young children are interested in space anyway, some food and don't need any impetus or reason to look up who settles in wonderfor a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. But It would have been wonderful if they do, this is the newest way of nudging the newer as a child towards , I'd had access to a keenness for all things celestialbook such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''. And So – what is it's a pretty good way indeed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807488</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton0192779230|title= Lots – Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Diversity Invisible World of Life on EarthGerms|author=Isabel Thomas

|summary= How many different kinds of living things are there on Earth? Lots…that's how manyGerms' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. Children will learn lots In the first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and lots from this wonderful bookaccessible introduction to the world of germs. I learned lots from it too We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the thinking has developed over time. There are 100,000 different kinds The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of mushrooms. Who knew? Well I certainly didnthe trickiest concepts and you't. This is one of those special books ll soon be familiar with cross-over appeal. Tiny children will adore the illustrationsbacteria, fungi, slightly older ones will learn fascinating facts protists and viruses – and readers of any age will be moved by the message that how we need to take better care of our beautiful environmentshould protect ourselves. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406360481</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kiki Ljung1800464495|title=Build 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a ... ButterflyLove of Maths|author=Emma Smith

|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 love butterfliesdidn't! How about: they ''re one Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of the delights later achievement, double that of my garden and itliteracy skills.'' I didn's always a pleasure when there t know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children there and they see a butterfly close upgood start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, possibly for singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the first timesame way about maths, as 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 rests on follows that giving our children a flowersimilar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial. }} Kiki Ljung {{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 given us the opportunity to learn about butterflies and also to build been a 3D model strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our ownroutines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. The book is primarily aimed at the five Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to eight year old age groupbe doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but I have worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to confess make it worse. And there's also the fact that I had for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a great deal of fun building my own painted ladyvirtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. I learned quite a bit too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809154</amazonuk>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.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo1849767343|title=Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=It's been said very often that 'history is told by the winners'. Well, too often history, the news and even destinies are written by men, and the proof is between these covers. I didn't know anything about this before reading it, even if it has become the most richly-backed crowd-funded book ever. I'd never heard of the Hollow Flashlight, powered purely by body warmth – which is rich if you're old enough to remember the brou-ha-ha when a maverick British bloke did a wind-up radio. I'd never read about the Niger female who has successfully made a stand against forced, arranged marriage, rejecting a cousin for a fate she wishes to write for herself. My ignorance may, perhaps, show me up to be a chauvinist of sorts, but I think it is further evidence that 'the gaze is male' and that the media are phallocentric. I hope too that this book doesn't turn any of its readers into a feminist, for that would be as bad as the chauvinist charge against me. If anything it is designed to create equals, and that is as it should be, even if there is still a long way to go…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014198600X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCount on Me|author=Adam Hancher|title=Taking Flight: How the Wright Brothers Conquered the SkiesMiguel Tanco

|summary=Flight. It happens all around us, wherever we may be, The title and many are the young audience members for format of this book who have taken might lead you to the air already. But think that it's either about responsibility - or it was once something impossible to take 's a basic 1-2-3 book for granted, and this book easily takes us back to those daysjust starting out on the numbers journey. It presents us with danger, determination, and isn't: it's a certain pair hymn of American brothers going all out praise to get both their names in the history books maths. It's about why maths is so wonderful and their feet how you meet it in the skies…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809286</amazonuk>everyday life.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meurig Bowen, Rachel Bowen and Daniel Frost1849767009|title=The School of MusicIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=35|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=I This could have a love/hate relationship with music. I love it in that I own several large bookshelves full been one of CDs, and have seen and met quite a few noted performers, from Radiohead those books which 'preaches to Philip Glass, but I hate the choir': the only people who'll buy it in are the people who know that as regards making it I can only hit things (nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'' that only with my hands, never with my feet at it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the same time). Only hot-and-bothered person in the last few years have people been at all appreciative of my singing, for want of a better word, and one of those suggested closing my eyes supermarket who is coughing fit to sound better (I think she also may have plugged her ears when I wasn't looking)bust. That from But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a kid who was lumbered with something big and brass to lumber book about on the school bus with, dammitnot wearing clothes. But hey, whatIt's the use of my own example being so off-putting, when there is a world celebration of pleasure, mental bodies: bodies large and physical exercise small and fun to be had from being active in music? of every possible hue. This book, dressed as the lesson programme of a full-on, proper musical college, is only designed to encourage Bodies with disabilities and informmarkings. They're fine. But does it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808603</amazonuk>In fact, they're wonderful.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michaela DePrince and Elaine DePrince1776572858|title= Ballerina DreamsHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary= Africa is It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a place full book about it. A couple of music and rhythm and joy of movement. It is not, however, always days later I was handed a place for pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the structured tuition basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and commitment required by balletI was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. Sometimes there are I ''knew'' 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 but was her next meal coming fromlittle ''wiser''. Thankfully, and who was going to look after her now she had been left orphaned by the wartimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057132973X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katie Scott and Kathy Willis1526362759|title=Botanicum Activity BookDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45

|summary=Children What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and adults who enjoyed [[Botanicum what you can do with 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 clever shopper, a saver (Welcome To The Museumyou might even become an ''investor'') by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis]] are going to love the there might be something you really, ''Botanicum Activity Bookreally''want to buy. DonThere't be misled by s also the suggestion that the book is aimed at possibility of using to do good in the seven-plus age group: there's plenty in here for anyone who is still capable of holding a pen or pencilworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783706791</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlotte Guillain and Yuval Zommer178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Street Beneath My FeetApollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)

|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=It's one thing for a non-fiction book for fifty years since the young to show them something they themselves can explore – Apollo 13 mission was launched from the pattern of the starsKennedy Space Centre in Florida, perhaps, or but the life in their back yard. But when it gets to things story of that are equally important to know about but are impossible to see in real life, why, then the game is changed. The artistic imagination has to be key, in portraying the invisible, and presenting what can only come from the pages journey remains one of a book. And this example does it at its best, as it delves into the layers greatest survival stories of the soil below said back yard, down and down, through all the different kinds of rock, until we reach the unattainable centre of the planettime. And there's only one way to go from there – back out the other side, with yet more for us to be shown. It's Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a fantastic journey, then – and a quite fantastic volumebrilliant retelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937312</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yuval ZommerKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=The Big Book of Beasts (Big Books)Nine Ways to Empower Tweens

|summary=One of the many issues people have with the TV nature programmeBrash and elegant, such as [[Planet Earth II by Stephen Moss|Planet Earth II]]sophisticated, is the obvious one of all the blood controversial and guts it features – yesvibrant, the 1889 World's Fair in amongst all Paris encompassed the cutesybest, comical animal life are creatures eating other creatures (normally the cutesyworst and the beautiful from many countries and cultures. The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, comical ones, what's worse). You'll be pleased to knowput on art shows, howeverdance performances, that this book is very light on death food festivals and destructionconcerts to stun the senses. YesAnd towering above it all, here are lions sharing some chunks of meat (while the females that caught most popular and killed it sit and wait their turn), here are salmon seemingly willingly flying towards brown bears, the most hated monument to French accomplishment 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 daring – it will be perfect for the home shelf or that in a primary schoolEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>050065106X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aino-Maija Metsola1848576536|title=My First Animals Humanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=45 |genre=For SharingChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=''Get used to two simple words if you have a childunder your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!''What That's That?what ''Humanatomy'' You will hear it over invites you to do and over and over again. If you are lucky they are pointing at something that you actually know – chair, hathonestly, 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 – itI don's a bird type thingt see how you could resist. Books that show images of items, colours or animals may seem This informative book provides a little dull wonderful primer about the human body to an adultcurious children- from the skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, respiration and digestion, but right up to a toddler learning about the world they DNA that makes who we are a who's who of what's that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809677</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Beaty and David RobertsLangford_Emily|title=Rosie RevereEmily's Big Project Book for Bold EngineersNumbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=For a long time nowEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, people have worried about females taking up STEM subjects – the sciencesyou can count anything and there's no limit to how far you can go, engineering but then Emily moved a step further and suchlikebegan counting in twos. But I know of at least two sources of role models in that regardShe knew all about odd and even numbers. OneThen she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, most obviously, is ''Star Wars'' – let's face it, the latest main film had a girl who scavenged parts but could fly the other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''Millennium Falconthreeven'' with ease. (Actually, and the likes of [[Star Wars: Ahsoka by E K Johnston|Ahsoka]] is adept this confused me a little bit at mending some sort first as they're a subset of flying farming machines. If you don't wish the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to go too fantastical, or are seeking role models for be a subset of the younger audienceeven numbers, there is the output of [[:Category:Andrea Beaty and David Roberts|Andrea Beaty]]but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419719106</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKBuckingham_Dawn|title=What's Where on Earth? Atlas: The World as You've Never Seen It BeforeLittle Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I dread really did mean to think how old just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the atlas we used when I was sounds of a child dozen different birds singing their hearts out was, but at least we had one, and I didn't need far too much to go to school or resist on a library to check up on whatever bit of trivia I was seekingcold and rather wet February morning. I'm spent an indulgent hour or so old a lot of things reading all about it now would be most redundant, but if you choose the birds and listening to risk your arm their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and buy an atlas for the family shelves that did it all generations will benefit from, again and it was just as opposed to relying on electronic and updateable sources of information, then this is good the one to havesecond time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228379</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Graham and Stephen BiestyPankhurst_Women|title=Stephen Biesty's TrainsFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst

|genre=ArtChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Trains look imposing, but true fans (little boys, usually from A lot of history is about three years old men. Kings and generals and inventors and upwards) want to know what lies beneath the skin which you can seepoliticians. They want Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to know how it worksread about or regard as role models. Getting to grips with one in real life is quite a big askOf course, but the next best thing is this isn''Stephen Biesty's Trains'' which features trains from all over the world t true and spanning the early steam train (complete with cow catcher) right through to the trains there are plenty of women who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. So here, in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the future which can reach a speed stories of 430 kph and don't even run on rails. Once the train reaches a speed some of 150 kph the wheels are raised and the train is held up by magnetic forces alonethem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704241</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Ignotofsky_Sport|title=Women in ScienceSport: 50 Fifty Fearless Pioneers Athletes Who Changed the WorldPlayed to Win

|summary=''Women in ScienceSport'' takes fifty prominent women is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in STEM fields and February 2018. It celebrates their achievements. There are women from the ancient world and women working today. Each of them is given a double page spread including a stylised portrait and infoboxes with factoids on one side century and a page half of text with a brief biography and outline the development of her achievements. These intrepid women are inspirational for their work 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 America.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360519</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=DK|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 in it, then you're only going to be itching to go and explore the woods for yourself. It's for a very young audiencesport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, so always expects an adult hand to guide you – but provides a warm companion itself through several quick and easy taskscovering sports as diverse as swimming, and a few lessons. The balance between carrot and stickfencing, or duty and rewardriding, is great – but what exactly is the edutainment going to provideskating, and what will it demand of us?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273110</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=DK|title=Sharks and Other Sea Creatures|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Never before have I found much cause to point out the sort of lower-case, almost-a-subtitle wording on the front of a bookmore. I say that because very little Think of this is about sharks – so if you have a youngster intending to come here sport and learn all their bloodthirsty imagination can hold, then they may well be disappointed. If you take it on board that the 'other sea creatures' make up the bulk of the book, then all well and good. And even better, if you expect yourself to ''make'' the bulk of said creatures…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241274389</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Theo Guignard|title=Labyrinth|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Of all the books published for people's paper-based hobbies when I was a youngster, pioneering woman succeeding at it's remarkable that all of them have been revisited and revamped. I say is probably in this because they certainly weren't exactly brilliant fun back then. No, we didn't have quite the modern style of colouring-in books, but they were available, if you'd gone beyond 'join the dots'. I read only recently that origami is allegedly coming back – 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 in paperEach entry is a double-based fun back then was the use-once format of the maze bookpage spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait. 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 LozanoRooney_Dino|title=Life on Earth: Farm: With 100 Questions Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and 70 Lift-flaps!Suzanne Carpenter

|summary=I'm sure I was full of questions when Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a nipper – which means I was too full of questionschild. Parents just don't need to be deflecting questions all the timeThis one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, do they? Living on the edge through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a village in the middle variety of creatures, some of nowhere as whom are very familiar but some I did'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, I knew quite a lot about farms and farming – that different animals gave different resultslayer by layer, that different vehicles meant different things and that showing you what the crops behind our house changed. But for the inner city childvarious dinosaurs are getting up to, with background noises, there is roars and squawks to accompany them! The book creates a chance they have never met a cow or seen a silo. This colourful bookdinosaur experience, bright in both senses of the wordrather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, will allow placing the very young reader the opportunity of dinosaurs in their own fantasy trip to the working countrysidehabitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808999</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres LozanoMason_poo|title=Life on Earth: Human Body: With 100 Questions The Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and 70 Lift-flaps!Tony de Saulles

|summary= If I know, I know, sometimes you ever have the misfortune to stumble across some as yet undiscovered dinosaur I offer this piece of advice; really don't take want to encourage your finger children's poo jokes, but this book is brilliant! I sat and track their spine, don't put read it in their mouth by myself when the kids had gone to school and donfound it fascinating! Who knew there was so much I didn't go following them know about poo? The book manages to their parentbe both funny (and silly) as well as being very interesting and educational. InsteadUsing a mixture of facts and figures, photographs and funny cartoons, run. Run faster than you have ever run before in come away having sniggered a little at the opposite direction. The unfortunate thing is that anyone with vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a toddler knowslot about different types of poo, why poos smell, 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 vicariouslywhy wombats do square poos. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273129</amazonuk>