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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {{newreview|author=Geraldo Valerio|title=My Book of Birds|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I never really caught the bird-watching habit, even with the opportunity of growing up on the edge of a village in the middle of nowhere. It was in the family, too, but I resigned myself to never seeing much that was spectacular, and once you've seen one blackbird you've seen them all, was my thinking. If I'd had this book as a youngster, who knows – I may have come out of it differently, having been shown the diversity of the bird world in snippets of text, and some quite unusual illustrations…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360004</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robert Hansen1839948493|title= Cool Coding: filled with fantastic facts for kids A World of all ages|rating= 3|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= An introduction to coding aimed at ages 10 and upwards. This book is filled with enthusiasm, information, fun and… unfortunately it just falls flat of its goals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653230</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDogs|author=Dan Farrell Carlie Sorosiak and Donna Bamford|title=The Movie Making BookLuisa Uribe|rating=45

|summary=In my youth we had to make do with a camcorder the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that would fit I'm a mini-tape that you recorded ontosucker for dogs. This mini-tape would then slip into a casing that could be watched on your VHS (imagine something like a DVD playerIn nearly eight decades, but with awful fidelity)I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. In allSo, making a film was a big old faffany book about dogs, but trying I'm going to sit down and devour. Then I'm going to do anything fancy was almost impossiblego back and read it properly. There is no longer this excuse for kids today And so it was with their camera enabled smart devices''A World of Dogs'', but just because they can do something does not mean they will be any goodwith ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. A guide for movie making would certainly help! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0711238871</amazonuk>Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Hopgood1529507987|title=Doodle Dogs: Best in ShowThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)

|summary=I love ''Doodle DogsThe Repair Shop'' introduces . It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a wide variety of artistic styles through 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 people who own them and the idea of a dog show! memories they hold. Tim Hopgood shows us different kinds of dogs, all of which can No expense appears to be created very easily, spared and the experts spend as much time and you soon find that doodling a dog can be a lot more detailed, effort as is required to achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and interesting, than you perhaps previously appreciated!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509820817</amazonuk>they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing. But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia Boldt and Eleanor Meredith024162343X|title=Think and Make Like an ArtistStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=4.5

|summary=Having been banned from I was the Tate Modern by my partner for making too many snarky remarks, bad company other people got into at school. I am not sure that was disruptive in religious education classes because I ever want to think or make like an artistdisputed the existence of a 'god'. My unartistic brain is unable to comprehend most artWhere was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, I see a rain dirty valleydidn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the artists sells you Brigadoonfirst place. A lot of what makes art great is knowing what it is meant to represent; even Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I have been swayed on occasion once regret that I have been informedlacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. Therefore, to teach art appreciation to a young audience will hold them in good stead and could also be great funI wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500650985</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=DKJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Children's Illustrated ThesaurusFritz and Kurt|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=One We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the most valuable literary skills which children can learn is how neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to use reference booksthe synagogue choir and at a vocational school. As a child every question which I began with Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours''how do you spell...?'' would be answered with ''EXACTLY each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as it says in the dictionary''a light switch. This was fine, but But this is the time just before the familyAustrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn't encourage explorationwill, not least because the font was small and difficult instead of having a national vote to readkeep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. Fortunately those times have now changed and reference book for children are now ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much more invitingas in Germany, as did all the round-ups of Jews. Not every book comes These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with a set his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of instructions but it's worth studying an evacuation to Britain or the ''How to...'' sectionUS, not least because similar systems while Fritz and his father are used in , unknown initially to each other reference books, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241286972</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorling Kindersley1913750353|title=First Science EncyclopediaBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy

|summary=I wasn't introduced 'Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'science' until I was eleven and went on which probably tells you all that you need to senior school: I wasn't alone in know about this, but it really was too latebrilliant book. Thankfully It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', times have changed and children at primary school are getting tells you how to grips with plants and animalspronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), atoms gives you a definition and molecules and even outer space from a very young age. What's needed is a good, basic reference book which will introduce all then includes the subjects and give word in a good groundingsentence so that you know how it should be used. It needs to be something which would sit proudly in the classroom library You also get an engaging and comfortably on a child's bookshelffrequently amusing illustration too. The I don't think I'First Science Encyclopedia'' would do both well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024118875X</amazonuk>ve ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0711266204|title=The British MuseumSecret Life of Birds|titleauthor=Origami, Poems Moira Butterfield and PicturesVivian Mineker (illustrator)

|summary=Recently I stood on have recently discovered a viewing platform at great pleasure: I sit and watch the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs as vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a very helpful volunteer guided daily basis. An hour can pass without my sight line noticing. I've established which species feed from the ground, which pop to one the feeders for a quick snatch of the puffins some food and who'd arrived on the cliffs settles in the last few daysfor a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. FinallyIt would have been wonderful if, as a child, I found one, after visually sorting through all the other birds on the precipitous cliff face. It was great fun and very rewarding. The third double-page spread in wild-life author and artist Matt Sewell's first d had access to a book for children, such as ''The Big Bird SpotSecret Life of Birds'', shows some cliffs very like those at Bempton, but this time you're going to be looking for twenty three Little Auks, in amongst the guillemots, puffins, herring gulls and razorbills. Oh, and you're looking for a pair of binoculars too: our bird watcher So – what is very careless, because you're going to have to find them in every picture.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653265</amazonuk>it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Bowsher0192779230|title=Lift-the-Flap and ColourVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: OceanThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45

|summary=When you think about it, it's quite startling that oceans cover most of our planet and theyGerms're home seems to nearly half of all species, apart from humans. We don't know have become a lot about the oceans either catch- less than 5% of all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the area has been explored, but it is an area of outstanding beautypotential to make you ill. With Alice Bowsher's ''Lift-In the-Flap first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and Colour: Ocean'' children as young as two Isabel Thomas have the opportunity to do provided a little exploration clear and accessible introduction to colour their own picturesthe world of germs. The flaps are a stroke of genius: when we We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the sea we see little more than the movement thinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the watertrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, but fungi, protists and viruses – and how different it would be if you could see a little of what is going on underneathwe should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809294</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Jane Gillespie and Yukai Du1800464495|title=100 Steps for ScienceWays in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith|rating=34.5

|summary=Science ''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a far reaching subject strong predictor of later achievement, double that covers almost everything of literacy skills.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that exists giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the Universe from the smallest specks to the largest space bound objectssame way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. Point at anything But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and there it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be some sort just as beneficial.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of scientist who Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=2020 has studied itbeen a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Trying to fit all Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this into 100 hundred steps for children is ambitious will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and should be lordedothers will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but if you are going worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to try and do this; at least make it readableworse. And there's also the fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue 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>1847808050</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amanda Wood, Mike Jolley and Frances Castle1849767343|title=Spot the Mistake: Lands of Long AgoCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary=YouThe title and format of this book might lead you to think that it'll like as not have seen a childrens either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book before and harangued it for containing errorsthose just starting out on the numbers journey. This book has at least two hundred, and thatIt isn't: it's not a problemhymn of praise to maths. Yes, in personifying the idea of learning through your mistakes, we get ten large dioramas of historical activity, all containing twenty things that shouldnIt't be there. Your task, should s about why maths is so wonderful and how you choose to accept meet it, is to try and find them allin everyday life. And the learning is also here, as we get text to tell us what the goofs were designed to show us. Make no mistake, this is a clever and absorbing read…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809634</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Clark Smith and Matt Tavares1849767009|title=Lighter than Air: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman PilotIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction For Sharing|summary=WeThis could have been one of those books which 're in Paris, and – not preaches to be too rude about things – we seem surrounded by idiots. For one, the choir': the only people who'll buy it seems they think are the perfect place to experiment with manned hot air balloon flights people who know that nudity is in OK and the middle of ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the biggest city hot-and-bothered person in the worldsupermarket who is coughing fit to bust. For another, they think only men could suffer the slightly colder and slightly thinner air experienced on such an adventure – women would never be able to copeBut... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. Meanwhile, It's a young girl is dreaming celebration of flight, as so many are wont to do, completely unaware that she will soon marry one bodies: bodies large and small and of the most famed balloonistsevery possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They will have joint journeys skyward're fine. In fact, before his early demise – leaving the young woman, Sophie Blanchard, to go it alone and become the first female pilotthey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763677329</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Litton and Thomas Hegbrook1776572858|title=The Earth Book: A World of Exploration How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and WonderDon Bartlett (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=The EarthIt'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 book about it. A couple of days later I kind of quite like itwas handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, you know – it seems to serve my purpose. in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I donwas told that it wouldn't think I've taken too much out of it, all told, and if be discussed any further as it's divided up into 200 countries I'm getting close to having visited a quarter of them. But way back when I just didnwasn't get on with studying itsomething which nice people talked about''. I didn't like geography – what with having to draw maps'knew'' more, oxbow lakes and whatnot I think it but was one of those subjects I was put off through the pictorial element – and dropped it as soon as I couldlittle ''wiser''. But thenThankfully, I didn't times have the likes of this book to inspire me…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575246</amazonuk>changed.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1526362759|title=Catherine BarrDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Steve Williams and Amy HusbandSpend It, Grow It, Give It|titleauthor=The Story of SpaceRashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=4.5

|summary=I have no actual idea how I first got an interest in space. What a relief! Perhaps A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it's there because I'm so old is, why it matters, how to almost coincide with the last Apollo astronauts being on the moon acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and that's pretty old, what you can do with itwhen you's been so long) and ve managed to get hold of it kind of rubbed off on me. Perhaps in fact all young children are interested in space anyway, and Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need any impetus or reason it to look up in wondersome extent. But if they doYou might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, this is the newest way of nudging the newer child towards a keenness for all things celestialsaver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy. And itThere's a pretty also the possibility of using to do good way indeedin the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807488</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton178112938X|title= Lots – Survival in Space: The Diversity of Life on EarthApollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)

|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary= How many different kinds of living things are there on Earth? Lots…thatIt's how many. Children will learn lots and lots fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from this wonderful book. I learned lots from it too. There are 100the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida,000 different kinds but the story of mushrooms. Who knew? Well I certainly didn't. This is that journey remains one of those special books with cross-over appeal. Tiny children will adore the illustrations, slightly older ones will learn fascinating facts and readers greatest survival stories of any age will be moved by the message that we need to take better care all time. ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a brilliant retelling of our beautiful environmentwhat happened. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406360481</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kiki LjungKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=Build a ... ButterflyNine Ways to Empower Tweens

|summary=I love butterflies: they're one of Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the delights of my garden and it1889 World's always a pleasure when there are children there and they see a butterfly close up, possibly for Fair in Paris encompassed the first timebest, as it rests on a flower. Kiki Ljung has given us the opportunity to learn about butterflies worst and also to build a 3D model of our own. The book is primarily aimed at the five to eight year old age group, but I have to confess that I had a great deal of fun building my own painted lady. I learned quite a bit too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809154</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Elena Favilli beautiful from many countries and Francesca Cavallo|title=Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls|rating=4cultures.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=It's been said very often that 'history is told by the winners'. WellThe French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, too often historyput on art shows, the news and even destinies are written by mendance performances, food festivals and concerts to stun the proof is between these coverssenses. I didn't know anything about this before reading And towering above itall, even if it has become the most richly-backed crowd-funded book ever. I'd never heard of popular and 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 most hated monument to be a chauvinist of sorts, but I think it is further evidence that 'the gaze is male' French accomplishment 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 daring – the chauvinist charge against meEiffel Tower. 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Hancher1848576536|title=Taking FlightHumanatomy: How the Wright Brothers Conquered the SkiesBody Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=4.5

|summary=Flight. It happens all around us''Get under your own skin, wherever we may bepick your brains, and many are go inside your insides!'' That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do and honestly, I don't see how you could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the young audience members for this book who have taken human body to curious children- from the air already. But it was once something impossible skeletal system to take for grantedthe muscular system via circulation, respiration and this book easily takes us back to those days. It presents us with dangerdigestion, determination, and a certain pair of American brothers going all out right up to get both their names in the history books and their feet in the skies…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809286</amazonuk>DNA that makes who we are.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meurig Bowen, Rachel Bowen and Daniel FrostLangford_Emily|title=The School of MusicEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=34

|summary=I have a love/hate relationship with musicEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. I love it in that I own several large bookshelves full of CDsObviously, you can count anything and have seen and met quite a few noted performers, from Radiohead there's no limit to Philip Glasshow far you can go, but I hate it then Emily moved a step further and began counting in that as regards making it I can only hit things (twos. She knew all about odd and that only with my hands, never with my feet at the same time)even numbers. Only Then she began counting in threes: half of the last few years have people been at all appreciative of my singing, for want of a better wordlist were even numbers, but the other half was odd and one it was this list of those suggested closing my eyes to sound better (I think odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she also may have plugged her ears when I wasncalled ''threeven''t looking). That from (Actually, this confused me a kid who was lumbered with something big and brass to lumber about on the school bus with, dammit. But hey, whatlittle bit at first as they's the use of my own example being so off-putting, when there is re a world subset of pleasure, mental and physical exercise and fun the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be had from being active in music? This book, dressed as a subset of the lesson programme of a full-oneven numbers, proper musical college, is only designed to encourage and informbut it all worked out well when I really thought about it. But does it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808603</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michaela DePrince and Elaine DePrinceBuckingham_Dawn|title= Ballerina DreamsThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Africa is What a place full treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of music and rhythm and joy the sounds of movement. It is not, however, always a place for the structured tuition dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and commitment required by balletrather wet February morning. Sometimes there are more pressing issues than whether your pointe shoes are darned I spent an indulgent hour or whether you have a pianist available or will have so reading all about the birds and listening to dance to pretheir song. Then - just because I could -recorded music. For Michaela, growing up in Sierra Leone, her concerns were more simple: where was her next meal coming from, I went back and did it all again and who it was going to look after her now she had been left orphaned by just as good the warsecond time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057132973X</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katie Scott and Kathy WillisPankhurst_Women|title=Botanicum Activity BookFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=45

|summary=Children A lot of history is about men. Kings and adults who enjoyed [[Botanicum (Welcome To The Museum) by Katie Scott generals and inventors and Kathy Willis]] are going politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to love the ''Botanicum Activity Book''read about or regard as role models. DonOf course, this isn't be misled by the suggestion that the book is aimed at the seven-plus age group: true and there's are plenty of women who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. So here, in here for anyone who is still capable this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the stories of some of holding a pen or pencilthem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783706791</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlotte Guillain and Yuval ZommerIgnotofsky_Sport|title=The Street Beneath My FeetWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky

|summary=It's one thing for a non-fiction book for the young 'Women in Sport'' is coming to show them something they themselves can explore – the pattern of the stars, perhaps, or us just before the life Winter Olympics in their back yard. But when it gets to things that are equally important to know about but are impossible to see South Korea in real life, why, then the game is changedFebruary 2018. The artistic imagination has to be key, in portraying the invisible, It celebrates a century and presenting what can only come from a half of the pages development of a book. And this example does it women's sport by looking at fifty of its besthighest achievers, covering sports as diverse as it delves into the layers of the soil below said back yardswimming, fencing, down and downriding, through all the different kinds of rockskating, until we reach the unattainable centre and much more. Think of the planeta sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book somewhere. And there's only one way to go from there – back out the other side, Each entry is a double-page spread with yet more for us to be shown. It's a fantastic journey, then – brief biography and a quite fantastic volumestriking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937312</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yuval ZommerRooney_Dino|title=The Big Book of Beasts (Big Books)Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|rating=4.5

|summary=One of Lift the many issues people flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. This one comes with the TV nature programme, such as [[Planet Earth II sounds! Taking us layer by Stephen Moss|Planet Earth II]]layer, is the obvious one through various different ages of all the blood and guts it features – yesdinosaurs, in amongst all the cutesywe meet a variety of creatures, comical animal life some of whom are creatures eating other creatures (normally the cutesyvery familiar but some I'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, comical oneslayer by layer, showing you what's worse). You'll be pleased the various dinosaurs are getting up to know, howeverwith background noises, that this roars and squawks to accompany them! The book is creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very light on death and destruction. Yesvisual, here are lions sharing some chunks of meat (while placing the females that caught and killed it sit and wait dinosaurs in their turn), here are salmon seemingly willingly flying towards brown bears, habitats 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 giving us sounds too that in a primary schoolspike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>050065106X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aino-Maija MetsolaMason_poo|title=My First The Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles|rating=45|genre=For SharingChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Get used to two simple words if I know, I know, sometimes you have a child, really don''Whatt want to encourage your children'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 – chairpoo jokes, hat, my sense of regret. Sometimes they will point at something that but this book is not too familiar. Here brilliant! I sat and read it by myself when the parental practise of making something up comes into play – kids had gone to school and found itfascinating! Who knew there was so much I didn's t know about poo? The book manages to be both funny (and silly) as well as being very interesting and educational. Using a bird type thing. Books that show images mixture of itemsfacts and figures, colours or animals may seem photographs and funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a little dull to an adult, at the vulture who poos on its own feet but to also knowing a toddler learning lot about the world they are a who's who different types of what's thatpoo, why poos smell, and why wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809677</amazonuk>