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

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Dinosaurs… farm machinery… science fiction… trains… carsI love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I can't think of many other subjects that inspired the young me want to have be cheered up. After a full non-fiction book about them on my juvenile shelveshard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. Most of course I lost interest You see, the value is in with maturitywhat these possessions are worth to the people who own them and the memories they hold. But No expense appears to be spared and the young child these days won't be experts spend as much different, for good or bad, time and so they will like effort as not want a book about broom-brooms for is required to achieve the shelfdesired result. And this Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is pretty much the go-to volume for such an interestthey're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360268</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Walden024162343X|title=In Focus: CitiesStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=45

|summary=The [[In Focus: 101 Close Ups, Cross-Sections and Cutaways by Libby Walden|first book I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in this series]] promised 101 close-ups, cross sections and/or cutways, but here wereligious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god're restricted to just ten. WhyWhere was the proof? Because the subject matters are so much bigger – one is home to 37 million peopleIn history lessons, of all thingsit was probably worse still. YesNot too long after the end of WWII, weI didn're talking cities, and while this book tries t so much want to follow learn about the previous – different artist every pageBritish army's successes (and occasional failures, an exclusive inside look within the volume, and a self-deceiving page count – but we are definitely didn't dwell on those) in new territory. Wewhat came to be called 're seeking the trivial, colonies' as want to dispute what right the geographical and army had to be there in the culturalfirst place. Looking back, all so I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the inquisitive young student can find out maturity to approach 'the variety to be problem' politely. I wish I'd had in the worldSathnam Sanghera's metropolises''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575912</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mojang ABJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title= Minecraft Guide to Creative: An Official Minecraft Book From Mojang|rating= 3.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Minecraft isn't just about surviving Creeper attacks or crafting enough torches to stop the Skeletons from spawning near your respawn point. Alongside the survival mode there is also the Creative side. This book explores what you can do when you aren't having to make everything from scratch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285982</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mojang AB|title= Minecraft Guide to Exploration: An official Minecraft book from Mojang|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Ever wondered how on Earth to get started with this 'ere Minecraft malarkey? Look no further as this is the guide for you! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285974</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Geraldo Valerio|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 is 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 a little brilliant retelling of what is going on underneathhappened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809294</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa Jane Gillespie Kathleen Boucher and Yukai DuSara Chadwick|title=100 Steps Nine Ways to Empower Tweens|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book for tweens, setting out to show them vital #lifeskills. Don't groan! I know there is a market glut of such books for we grown-ups and for young adults too, but there is a needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for tweens too. |isbn= 0228818826}}  {{Frontpage|isbn=1609809173|title=Eiffel's Tower for ScienceYoung People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=3.5

|summary=Science is a far reaching subject that covers almost everything that exists Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the best, the worst and the Universe beautiful from the smallest specks many countries and cultures. The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, food festivals and concerts to stun the largest space bound objectssenses. Point at anything and there will be some sort of scientist who has studied And towering above it. Trying to fit all of this into 100 hundred steps for children is ambitious , the most popular and should be lorded, but if you are going the most hated monument to try French accomplishment and do this; at least make it readabledaring – the Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808050</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amanda Wood, Mike Jolley and Frances Castle1848576536|title=Spot Humanatomy: How the Mistake: Lands of Long AgoBody Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=4.5

|summary=You'll like as not have seen a children's book before and harangued it for containing errors. This book has at least two hundredGet under your own skin, pick your brains, and thatgo inside your insides!'' That's not a problem. Yes, in personifying the idea of learning through your mistakes, we get ten large dioramas of historical activitywhat ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do and honestly, all containing twenty things that shouldnI don't be theresee how you could resist. Your task, should you choose This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the human body to curious children- from the skeletal system to accept itthe muscular system via circulation, is to try respiration and find them all. And the learning is also heredigestion, as we get text right up to tell us what the goofs were designed to show usDNA that makes who we are. Make no mistake, this is a clever and absorbing read…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809634</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Clark Smith and Matt TavaresLangford_Emily|title=Lighter than Air: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman Pilot|rating=4.5|genre=ChildrenEmily's Non-Fiction |summary=We're in Paris, and – not to be too rude about things – we seem surrounded by idiots. For one, 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 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 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, to go it alone and become the first female pilot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763677329</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNumbers|author=Jonathan Litton and Thomas Hegbrook|title=The Earth Book: A World of Exploration and WonderJoss Langford|rating=4.5

|summary=The EarthEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. I kind of quite like itObviously, you know – it seems to serve my purpose. I don't think I've taken too much out of it, all told, can count anything and if itthere's divided up into 200 countries I'm getting close no limit to having visited how far you can go, but then Emily moved a quarter of themstep further and began counting in twos. But way back when I just didn't get on with studying itShe knew all about odd and even numbers. I didn't like geography – what with having to draw mapsThen she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, oxbow lakes but the other half was odd and whatnot I think it was one this list of those subjects I was put off through the pictorial element – and dropped it as soon as I couldodd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. But then(Actually, I didnthis confused me a little bit at first as they't have re a subset of the likes odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of this book to inspire me…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575246</amazonuk>the even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Barr, Steve Williams and Amy HusbandBuckingham_Dawn|title=The Story Little Book of Spacethe Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I have no actual idea how I first got an interest in space. Perhaps itreally did mean to just ''glance'' at 's there because I'm so old to almost coincide with The Little Book of the last Apollo astronauts being on the moon (and thatDawn Chorus's pretty old, it's been so long) and it kind but the pull of the sounds of rubbed off a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on mea cold and rather wet February morning. Perhaps in fact I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all young children are interested in space anyway, about the birds and don't need any impetus or reason listening to look up in wondertheir song. But if they do, this is the newest way of nudging the newer child towards a keenness for Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all things celestial. And again and it's a pretty was just as good way indeedthe second time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807488</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Davies and Emily SuttonPankhurst_Women|title= Lots – The Diversity of Life on EarthFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst

|summary= How many different kinds A lot of living things are there on Earth? Lots…that's how manyhistory is about men. Children will learn lots Kings and lots from this wonderful bookgenerals and inventors and politicians. I learned lots from Sometimes, it toofeels almost as though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. There are 100Of course,000 different kinds of mushrooms. Who knew? Well I certainly didnthis isn't. This is one true and there are plenty of those special books with cross-over appealwomen who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. Tiny children will adore So here, in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the illustrations, slightly older ones will learn fascinating facts and readers stories of any age will be moved by the message that we need to take better care some of our beautiful environmentthem. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406360481</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kiki LjungIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Build a ... ButterflyWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5

|summary=I love butterflies: they're one 'Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a half of the delights development of my garden and itwomen's always a pleasure when there are children there and they see a butterfly close upsport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, possibly for the first timeskating, as it rests on and much more. Think of a flower. Kiki Ljung has given us the opportunity to learn about butterflies sport and also to build a 3D model of our ownpioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book somewhere. The book Each entry 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 ladydouble-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait. I learned quite a bit too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809154</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elena Favilli and Francesca CavalloRooney_Dino|title=Good Night Stories for Rebel GirlsDiscovering Dinosaurs|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summaryauthor=It's been said very often that 'history is told by the winners'. Well, too often history, the news Anne Rooney 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>}}{{newreview|author=Adam Hancher|title=Taking Flight: How the Wright Brothers Conquered the SkiesSuzanne Carpenter|rating=4.5

|summary=FlightLift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. It happens all around This one comes with sounds! Taking uslayer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, wherever we may bemeet a variety of creatures, and many some of whom are very familiar but some I'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the young audience members for this book who have taken various dinosaurs are getting up to the air already. But it was once something impossible to take for granted, with background noises, roars and this squawks to accompany them! The book easily takes us back to those days. It presents us with dangercreates a dinosaur experience, determinationrather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, and a certain pair of American brothers going all out to get both placing the dinosaurs in their names in the history books habitats and their feet in the skies…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809286</amazonuk>giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meurig Bowen, Rachel Bowen and Daniel FrostMason_poo|title=The School of MusicPoo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles|rating=35

|summary=I have a love/hate relationship with music. know, I love it in that I own several large bookshelves full of CDsknow, and have seen and met quite a few noted performers, from Radiohead sometimes you really don't want to Philip Glassencourage your children's poo jokes, but this book is brilliant! I hate sat and read it in that as regards making it I can only hit things (and that only with my hands, never with my feet at by myself when the same time). Only in the last few years have people been at all appreciative of my singing, for want of a better word, kids had gone to school and one of those suggested closing my eyes to sound better (found it fascinating! Who knew there was so much I think she also may have plugged her ears when I wasndidn't looking). That from a kid who was lumbered with something big and brass to lumber know about on the school bus with, dammit. But hey, what's the use of my own example being so off-putting, when there is a world of pleasure, mental and physical exercise and fun to be had from being active in musicpoo? This The book, dressed as the lesson programme of a full-on, proper musical college, is only designed manages to encourage be both funny (and inform. But does it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808603</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michaela DePrince silly) as well as being very interesting and Elaine DePrince|title= Ballerina Dreams|rating= 4educational.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Africa is Using a place full mixture of music facts and rhythm figures, photographs and joy of movement. It is notfunny cartoons, however, always you come away having sniggered a place for little at 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 vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a pianist available or will have to dance to pre-recorded music. For Michaelalot about different types of poo, growing up in Sierra Leone, her concerns were more simple: where was her next meal coming fromwhy poos smell, and who was going to look after her now she had been left orphaned by the warwhy wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057132973X</amazonuk>