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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Walden1839948493|title=In Focus: CitiesA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=45

|summary=The [[In Focus: 101 Close Upsthe interests of full disclosure, Cross-Sections and Cutaways by Libby Walden|first book in this series]] promised 101 close-upsI must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, cross sections I've never met one I didn't trust and/or cutways, but here weI're restricted to just tenve loved most of them. Why? Because I wish I felt the subject matters are so much bigger – one is home to 37 million people, of all thingssame about human beings. YesSo, weany book about dogs, I're talking cities, m going to sit down and while this book tries devour. Then I'm going to follow the previous – different artist every page, an exclusive inside look within the volume, go back and a self-deceiving page count – we are definitely in new territoryread it properly. WeAnd so it was with ''A World of Dogs''re seeking the trivial, the geographical and the cultural, all so that the inquisitive young student can find out the variety with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to be had in my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the worldaccidental owner of an American Dingo - she's metropoliseslearned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575912</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mojang AB1529507987|title= Minecraft Guide to Creative: An Official Minecraft The Repair Shop Craft Book From Mojang|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating= 34.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Minecraft isnI love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a hard day, there't just about surviving Creeper attacks or crafting enough torches 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 stop the Skeletons from spawning near your respawn pointpeople who own them and the memories they hold. Alongside No expense appears to be spared and the survival mode there experts spend as much time and effort as is also required to achieve the Creative sidedesired result. This book explores Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what you can do when you arenit is they't having to make everything from scratchre doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285982</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mojang AB024162343X|title= Minecraft Guide to Exploration: An official Minecraft book from MojangStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Ever wondered how I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on Earth those) in what came to get started with this be called 'the colonies'ere Minecraft malarkey? Look no further as this is want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the guide for you! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285974</amazonuk>maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Geraldo ValerioJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=My Book of BirdsFritz and Kurt

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=I never really caught 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 bird-watching habitneighbours, even with being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the opportunity of growing up lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But this is the time just before the edge Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a village national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the middle round-ups of nowhereJews. It was These in their turn leave the familyyounger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, toowhile Fritz and his father are, but I resigned myself unknown initially to never seeing much that was spectaculareach other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and once you've seen one blackbird you've seen them all, was my thinkingthe stone quarry there. If I'd had this book as a youngster, who knows – I may have come out of it differently, having been shown And us wondering how the diversity of titular event for the bird world in snippets adult variant of text, and some quite unusual illustrations…all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1526360004</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robert Hansen1913750353|title= Cool Coding: filled with fantastic facts for kids Britannica's Word of all agesthe Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating= 35|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= An introduction ''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to coding aimed at ages 10 Stretch Your Cranium and upwardsTickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. This book is filled It starts on January 1st with enthusiasm''Razzmatazz'', informationtells you how to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), fun and… unfortunately gives you a definition and then includes the word in a sentence so that you know how it just falls flat of its goalsshould be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653230</amazonuk> I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Farrell and Donna Bamford0711266204|title=The Movie Making BookSecret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45

|summary=In my youth we had to make do with I have recently discovered a camcorder that would fit great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a mini-tape that you recorded ontodaily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. This mini-tape would then slip into I've established which species feed from the ground, which pop to the feeders for a casing that could be watched on your VHS (imagine something like quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a DVD player, good munch but with awful fidelity)I wish I was more knowledgeable. In allIt would have been wonderful if, making as a film was a big old faffchild, but trying I'd had access to do anything fancy was almost impossiblea book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''. There So – what is no longer this excuse for kids today with their camera enabled smart devices, but just because they can do something does not mean they will be any good. A guide for movie making would certainly help! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0711238871</amazonuk>it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Hopgood0192779230|title=Doodle DogsVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: Best in ShowThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=4.5

|summary='Germs'Doodle Dogs'' introduces seems to have become a wide variety of artistic styles through catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. In the idea of first book in what looks to be a dog show! Tim Hopgood shows us different kinds of dogsvery promising new series, all OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the world of which germs. 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. The vocabulary can be created very easily, confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the trickiest concepts and you 'll soon find that doodling a dog can be a lot more detailedfamiliar with bacteria, fungi, protists and interesting, than you perhaps previously appreciated!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509820817</amazonuk>viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia Boldt and Eleanor Meredith1800464495|title=Think and Make Like an Artist100 Ways 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

|summary=Having been banned from ''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the Tate Modern by my partner for making too many snarky remarkswomb, 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 am not sure didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills.'' I didn't know this either! I ever want to think or make like an artist. My unartistic brain is unable to comprehend most artparents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the same way about maths, beyond counting? I see don't think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a rain dirty valley, but the artists sells you Brigadoonsimilar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial. }} A lot {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of what makes art great is knowing what it is meant to represent; even 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 swayed on occasion once completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I 've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. And there's also the fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been informedlauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. ThereforeBeing up early, working late has been praised and the ability to teach art appreciation survive on little sleep has almost become something to a young audience will hold them in good stead and could also be great funput on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500650985</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1849767343|title=Children's Illustrated ThesaurusCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary=One The title and format of the most valuable literary skills which children can learn is how this book might lead you to use reference books. As a child every question which I began with think that it''how do you spell...?'' would be answered with ''EXACTLY as s either about responsibility - or it says in the dictionary''. This was fine, but the family's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn't encourage exploration, not least because the font was small and difficult to read. Fortunately those times have now changed and reference a basic 1-2-3 book for children are now much more invitingthose just starting out on the numbers journey. Not every book comes with a set of instructions but It isn't: it's worth studying the ''How a hymn of praise tomaths... It'' section, not least because similar systems are used s about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in other reference bookseveryday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241286972</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorling Kindersley1849767009|title=First Science EncyclopediaIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine

|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=I wasnThis could have been one of those books which 't introduced preaches to the choir'science: the only people who' until I was eleven ll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and went on to senior school: I wasnthe ones who ''know'' that it't alone s shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in this, but it really was too latethe supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. Thankfully, times have changed and children at primary school are getting to grips with plants and animals, atoms and molecules and even outer space from But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a very young agebook about not wearing clothes. WhatIt's needed is a good, basic reference book which will introduce all the subjects celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and give a good groundingof every possible hue. It needs to be something which would sit proudly in the classroom library Bodies with disabilities and comfortably on a childmarkings. They's bookshelfre fine. The In fact, they''First Science Encyclopedia'' would do both wellre wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024118875X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The British Museum1776572858|title=Origami, Poems How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and PicturesDon Bartlett (translator)

|genre=CraftsHome and Family|summary=Sometimes you find a delight of 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 bookabout it. On an afternoon when it A couple of days later I was unseasonably cold handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and decidedly wet I discovered was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it 'Origami, Poems and Pictures'wasn't something which nice people talked about' and I was transported to Japan. As the title suggests we're looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: the ancient art of paper folding, haiku poetry and painting. I'll confess that it was the origami which caught my attention'knew'' more, but I was surprised by the extent to which the rest of the book caught my imaginationlittle ''wiser''. We begin with something very simple: a boat and in case you're worriedThankfully, all the entries times have a degree of difficulty (from 'simple' through to 'tricky') and this one is at the lowest levelchanged.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857639382</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Gibbons1526362759|title=The Beautiful Game|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Football is all about its colours. And even if I write in the season when one team in blue knocks another team in blue from the throne of English footballDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, it's common knowledge that red is the more successful colour to wear. But is that flame red? Blood red? The red of the Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in a tragedy – and that it had been one of their own making? And while we're on about colourGrow It, where were the people of colour in football in the olden days? There are so many darker sides to football's history it's enough to make a young lad question the whole game…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126917</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGive It|author=Matt Sewell|title=The Big Bird SpotRashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45

|summary=Recently I stood on What a viewing platform at the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs as a very helpful volunteer guided my sight line relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to one acquire more of the puffins whoit (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you'd arrived on the cliffs in the last few daysve managed to get hold of it. Finally, I found one, after visually sorting through Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all the other birds on the precipitous cliff faceneed it to some extent. It was great fun and very rewarding. The third double-page spread in wild-life author and artist Matt Sewell's first book for childrenYou might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''The Big Bird Spotinvestor'') and there might be something you really, shows some cliffs very like those at Bempton, but this time you're going 'really'' want to be looking for twenty three Little Auks, in amongst the guillemots, puffins, herring gulls and razorbillsbuy. Oh, and youThere're looking for a pair s also the possibility of binoculars too: our bird watcher is very careless, because you're going using to have to find them do good in every picturethe world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653265</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Bowsher178112938X|title=Lift-the-Flap Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Colour: OceanStefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=When you think about it, itIt's quite startling that oceans cover most of our planet and they're home to nearly half of all speciesfifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, apart from humans. We don't know a lot about but the oceans either - less than 5% story of that journey remains one of the area has been explored, but it is an area greatest survival stories of outstanding beautyall time. With Alice Bowsher's ''Lift-the-Flap and ColourSurvival in Space: OceanThe Apollo 13 Mission'' children as young as two have the opportunity to do a little exploration and to colour their own pictures. The flaps are a stroke of genius: when we look at the sea we see little more than the movement of the water, but how different it would be if you could see is a little brilliant retelling of what is going on underneath.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809294</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lisa Jane Gillespie and Yukai Du|title=100 Steps for Science|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Science is a far reaching subject that covers almost everything that exists in the Universe from the smallest specks to the largest space bound objectshappened. Point at anything and there will be some sort of scientist who has studied it. Trying to fit all of this into 100 hundred steps for children is ambitious and should be lorded, but if you are going to try and do this; at least make it readable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808050</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amanda Wood, Mike Jolley Kathleen Boucher and Frances CastleSara Chadwick|title=Spot the Mistake: Lands of Long AgoNine Ways to Empower Tweens

|summary=You'll like as not have seen a children's book before Brash and harangued it for containing errors. This book has at least two hundredelegant, sophisticated, controversial and thatvibrant, the 1889 World's not a problem. Yes, Fair in personifying Paris encompassed the idea of learning through your mistakesbest, we get ten large dioramas of historical activity, all containing twenty things that shouldn't be there. Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to try the worst and find them all. And the learning is also here, as we get text to tell us what the goofs were designed to show usbeautiful from many countries and cultures. Make no mistakeThe French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, this is a clever and absorbing read…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809634</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Matthew Clark Smith and Matt Tavares|title=Lighter than Air: Sophie Blanchardput on art shows, the First Woman Pilot|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=We're in Parisdance performances, food festivals and – not concerts to be too rude about things – we seem surrounded by idiotsstun the senses. For one, And towering above it seems they think the perfect place to experiment with manned hot air balloon flights is in the middle of the biggest city in the world. For anotherall, they think only men could suffer the slightly colder most popular and slightly thinner air experienced on such an adventure – women would never be able to cope. Meanwhile, a young girl is dreaming of flight, as so many are wont to do, completely unaware that she will soon marry one of the most famed balloonists. They will have joint journeys skyward, before his early demise – leaving the young woman, Sophie Blanchard, hated monument to go it alone French accomplishment and become daring – the first female pilotEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763677329</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Litton and Thomas Hegbrook1848576536|title=The Earth BookHumanatomy: A World of Exploration How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and WonderJem Maybank|rating=4.5

|summary=The Earth. I kind of quite like it, you know – it seems to serve my purpose. I don't think I've taken too much out of itGet under your own skin, all toldpick your brains, and if itgo inside your insides!'' That's divided up into 200 countries Iwhat ''Humanatomy''m getting close invites you to having visited a quarter of them. But way back when do and honestly, I just didndon't get on with studying itsee how you could resist. I didn't like geography – what with having This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the human body to curious children- from the skeletal system to draw mapsthe muscular system via circulation, oxbow lakes respiration and whatnot I think it was one of those subjects I was put off through digestion, right up to the pictorial element – and dropped it as soon as I couldDNA that makes who we are. But then, I didn't have the likes of this book to inspire me…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575246</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Barr, Steve Williams and Amy HusbandLangford_Emily|title=The Story of SpaceEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=4.5

|summary=I have no actual idea how I first got an interest in spaceEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Perhaps itObviously, you can count anything and there's there because I'm so old no limit to almost coincide with the last Apollo astronauts being on the moon (and that's pretty oldhow far you can go, it's been so long) but then Emily moved a step further and it kind of rubbed off on mebegan counting in twos. Perhaps in fact She knew all young children are interested about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in space anywaythrees: half of the list were even numbers, but the other half was odd and donit was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''t need any impetus or reason to look up in wonder. But if they do(Actually, this is confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the newest way odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of nudging the newer child towards a keenness for even numbers, but it all things celestial. And worked out well when I really thought about it's a pretty good way indeed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807488</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Davies and Emily SuttonBuckingham_Dawn|title= Lots – The Diversity Little Book of Life on Earththe Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary= How many What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the sounds of a dozen different kinds of living things are there birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on Earth? Lots…that's how many. Children will learn lots a cold and lots from this wonderful bookrather wet February morning. I learned lots from it toospent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and listening to their song. There are 100,000 different kinds of mushrooms. Who knew? Well Then - just because I certainly didn't. This is one of those special books with crosscould -over appeal. Tiny children will adore the illustrations, slightly older ones will learn fascinating facts I went back and did it all again and readers of any age will be moved by it was just as good the message that we need to take better care of our beautiful environmentsecond time around. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406360481</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kiki LjungPankhurst_Women|title=Build a ... ButterflyFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=4.5

|summary=I love butterflies: they're one A lot of the delights of my garden history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it's always a pleasure when feels almost as though there are children there and they see a butterfly close up, possibly for the first timewere no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as it rests on a flowerrole models. Kiki Ljung has given us the opportunity to learn about butterflies Of course, this isn't true and also to build a 3D model there are plenty of our ownwomen who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. The So here, in this wonderful picture book is primarily aimed at from Kate Pankhurst, are the five to eight year old age group, but I have to confess that I had a great deal stories of some of fun building my own painted ladythem. I learned quite a bit too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809154</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elena Favilli and Francesca CavalloIgnotofsky_Sport|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 Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to go…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014198600X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWin|author=Adam Hancher|title=Taking Flight: How the Wright Brothers Conquered the SkiesRachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5

|summary=Flight''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It happens all around uscelebrates a century and a half of the development of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, wherever we may beskating, and many are the young audience members for this book who have taken to the air alreadymuch more. But Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it was once something impossible to take for granted, and is probably in this book easily takes us back to those dayssomewhere. It presents us Each entry is a double-page spread with danger, determination, a brief biography and a certain pair of American brothers going all out to get both their names in the history books and their feet in the skies…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809286</amazonuk>striking portrait.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meurig Bowen, Rachel Bowen and Daniel FrostRooney_Dino|title=The School of MusicDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|rating=34

|summary=Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I have was a love/hate relationship with musicchild. I love it in that I own several large bookshelves full of CDs, and have seen and met quite a few noted performers, from Radiohead to Philip Glass, but I hate it in that as regards making it I can only hit things (and that only This one comes with my handssounds! Taking us layer by layer, never with my feet at the same time). Only in the last few years have people been at all appreciative through various different ages of my singingdinosaurs, for want we meet a variety of a better wordcreatures, and one some of those suggested closing my eyes to sound better (I think she also may have plugged her ears when whom are very familiar but some I wasn't looking). That from a kid who was lumbered with something big and brass to lumber about on the school bus withd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, dammit. But heylayer by layer, showing you what's the use of my own example being so off-puttingvarious dinosaurs are getting up to, when there is a world of pleasurewith background noises, mental roars and physical exercise and fun squawks to be had from being active in music? This accompany them! The book, dressed as the lesson programme of creates a full-ondinosaur experience, proper musical collegerather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, is only designed to encourage placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and informgiving us sounds too that spike your imagination. But does it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808603</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michaela DePrince and Elaine DePrinceMason_poo|title= Ballerina Dreams|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Africa is a place full of music and rhythm and joy of movement. It is not, however, always a place for the structured tuition and commitment required by ballet. Sometimes there are more pressing issues than whether your pointe shoes are darned or whether you have a pianist available or will have to dance to pre-recorded music. For Michaela, growing up in Sierra Leone, her concerns were more simple: where was her next meal coming from, and who was going to look after her now she had been left orphaned by the war.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057132973X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Poo That Animals Do|author=Katie Scott Paul Mason and Kathy Willis|title=Botanicum Activity BookTony de Saulles|rating=45

|summary=Children I know, I know, sometimes you really don't want to encourage your children's poo jokes, but this book is brilliant! I sat and adults who enjoyed [[Botanicum (Welcome To The Museum) read it by Katie Scott myself when the kids had gone to school and Kathy Willis]] are going to love the ''Botanicum Activity Book''. Donfound it fascinating! Who knew there was so much I didn't know about poo? The book manages to be misled by the suggestion that the book is aimed both funny (and silly) as well as being very interesting and educational. Using a mixture of facts and figures, photographs and funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a little at the seven-plus age group: there's plenty in here for anyone vulture who is still capable poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about different types of holding a pen or pencilpoo, why poos smell, and why wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783706791</amazonuk>